Welcome to The Hill’s Campaign Report, your daily rundown on all the latest news in the 2020 presidential, Senate and House races. Did someone forward …
Welcome to The Hill’s Campaign Report, your daily rundown on all the latest news in the 2020 presidential, Senate and House races. Did someone forward this to you? Click here to subscribe. We’re Julia Manchester, Max Greenwood and Jonathan Easley. Here’s what we’re watching today on the campaign trail: PROGRAMMING NOTE: It’s been a pleasure for us to provide readers with the latest campaign news of the day during the 2020 cycle. However, we’re announcing that the newsletter will begin to wind down starting today, with future issues scheduled for this Thursday, Nov.12, and Wednesday, Nov.18. LEADING THE DAY: Election Night was a week ago, and the transition process is in limbo as President Trump refuses to concede the race and as President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team moves forward. Biden called Trump’s refusal to concede “an embarrassment” during a press conference on Tuesday. “The only thing that — how can I say this tactfully — I think it will not help the president’s legacy,” Biden said. The president-elect also commented on Republican lawmakers publicly supporting the president’s move to not concede. “I think that the whole Republican Party has been put in a position with a few notable exceptions of being mildly intimidated by the sitting president. But there is only one president at a time. He is president,” he said. Biden said that he has not yet spoken with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell but said he expects to “in the not too distant future.” Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is pressing on with a number of legal challenges in multiple states. On top of that, several government agencies have signaled they will not begin working with Biden’s transition team until the General Services Administration certifies him as the president-elect. Additionally, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not acknowledge a future concession in a press briefing on Tuesday, saying there will be “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.
