US Election: Biden Unfolds Transition Plan, Launches Covid-19 Task Force

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US Election: Biden unfolds transition plan, launches Covid-19 task force

…Ex-President Bush, world leaders congratulate President-elect
…Republican lawmakers support Trump’s legal war
A day after clinching the U.S. presidency, Democrat Joe Biden and his advisers have started work on how to address the nation’s coronavirus crisis while reinforcing his intention to bridge America’s gaping political divisions.
The president-elect at weekend made clear that tackling the pandemic was a top priority just as former President George Bush and world leaders congratulated him on his victory.
While Biden forge ahead with his transition plans, some key Republican lawyers have expressed their support for Trump’s plethora of law suit challenging the outcome of the election.
Disclosing Biden immediate plans to begin work after his victory, Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield said the incoming president will launch a Coronavirus task force on Monday (today) to plot the way forward, led by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and former Food and Drug Administration commissioner David Kessler.
More than 237,000 Americans have died of coronavirus and cases have spiked to record numbers in recent days.
In addressing the pandemic, Biden has promised to improve access to testing and, unlike Trump, to heed the advice of leading public health officials and scientists.
Some 10 million Americans thrown out of work during coronavirus lockdowns remain idled as federal relief programs have expired.
Bedingfield also disclosed Biden and his advisers will also move forward with the work of choosing officials to serve in his administration.
“The work starts right away,” Bedingfield said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. “He’s going to … begin transition work in earnest this week. He’ll be making calls. He’ll be making announcements to the American people about how he’s going to make good on these campaign promises.”
Bedingfield added that Biden will “address a mandate to bring the country together – to unify, to lower the temperature, to set aside the harsh rhetoric of
Election was fundamentally fair — Ex-President Bush
Former President George W. Bush congratulated Biden  in a phone call Sunday and said that, while President Trump has the right to pursue legal challenges and recounts, the 2020 race was “fundamentally fair” and “its outcome is clear.”
The gesture by Bush, the only living former Republican president, was a break from his party’s outgoing president, Trump, who has so far refused to concede the race.
In the statement, Bush said he had called Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Sunday.
“Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country,” Bush said. “The President-elect reiterated that while he ran as a Democrat, he will govern for all Americans. I offered him the same thing I offered Presidents Trump and Obama: my prayers for his success, and my pledge to help in any way I can.”
Bush also offered congratulations in the statement to Trump “on a hard-fought campaign,” nodding to his “extraordinary political achievement” of winning the votes of more than 70 million Americans, the second-most in history behind Biden. “They have spoken, and their voices will continue to be heard through elected Republicans at every level of government,” Bush said.
World leaders congratulate Biden.

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