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Biden to Name First Cabinet Members on Tuesday

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to name the first
   members of his Cabinet on Tuesday, a key aide said Sunday, even as
   President Donald Trump urged on Republicans to help him in his longshot
   legal effort to overturn his re-election defeat.

   Ron Klain, Biden's incoming White House chief of staff, declined in an
   interview on ABC's "This Week" show to say which agency heads Biden
   would name. But the president-elect said last week he had settled on a
   new Treasury secretary and that his selection would appeal to "all
   elements of the Democratic Party... progressive to the moderate
   coalitions."

   While Biden is transitioning to become the country's 46th president at
   his inauguration on January 20, Trump has refused to concede. On
   Sunday, the outgoing U.S. leader told his followers on Twitter, "We
   will find massive numbers of fraudulent ballots... Fight hard
   Republicans."

     It's all about the signatures on the envelopes. Why are the
     Democrats fighting so hard to hide them. We will find massive
     numbers of fraudulent ballots. The signatures won't match. Fight
     hard Republicans. Don't let them destroy the evidence!
     [1]https://t.co/qN2jHGeWEN
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [2]November 22, 2020

   But Trump's legal fight has been fruitless so far, with his campaign
   losing or withdrawing 34 lawsuits claiming vote and vote-counting fraud
   in key battleground states Biden was projected to win to claim a
   four-year term in the White House.

   Trump has not upended the vote count in any state, leaving intact
   Biden's unofficial 306-232 majority vote in the Electoral College. It
   determines U.S. presidential elections, not the national popular vote,
   although Biden leads there, too, by more than 6 million votes.

   Trump's latest legal defeat contesting the election came late Saturday
   in Pennsylvania, whose 20 electoral votes Biden won by an 81,000-vote
   margin after Trump won the state over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016
   en route to the presidency.

   U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann declared that the Trump campaign had
   presented "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative
   accusations" in its effort to throw out millions of votes and hand the
   state's electoral votes to Trump.

   "In the United States of America, this cannot justify the
   disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its
   sixth most populated state," Brann wrote.

   After Brann's decision was announced, a key Republican Trump supporter
   in the state, Senator Pat Toomey, urged Trump to accept his election
   loss.

References

   1. https://t.co/qN2jHGeWEN
   2. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1330487246236028935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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