Biden, first presidential candidate in history to get 80 million votes

The number of voter turnout by Cook's Political Report reported that the Democrat candidate has so far received approximately 51 per cent of the popular vote against Donald Trump, or more than 73.8m votes.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he has paved the way for President-elect Joe Biden, guiding the administrator of the US federal agency that is in charge of this process, that “do what must be done”, though it will continue with legal challenges.

The Government Services Administration (GSA) officially opened the green light for the presidential transition, shortly after Michigan state certified the Benden Democrat's victory.

With recent developments, President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the outcome of the 3 November elections, which had suffered several setbacks, appear to be approaching completion.

President Trump wrote in Tateter that GSA administrator Emily Murphy and her team need “to do what needs to be done about the initial protocols and have told my team to do the same”.

Giving GSA authorisation means that the Beden team will now have federal funds and an office to carry out the transition over the next two months.

This also enables Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to receive regular national security reports that Trump receives as well.

A statement by the Biden transition team said the meetings would begin with federal officials regarding Washington's response to the coronary pandemic, along with discussions on national security issues.

I take this role seriously and, due to recent developments involving legal challenges and confirmations of the election results, I am sending this letter today to make those resources and services available to you,” wrote in the letter to elected President Biden, GSA administrator Murphy.

Although in Titter, President Trump wrote that he had recommended Mrs. Murphy to begin the transition, she herself wrote in a letter to her agency, that the decision was “alone her”.

Earlier, GSA had said that Mrs. Murphy, an appointed by Trump in 2017, would have “confirmed” or formally approved, the transition when the winner was clear.

“against media reports and suggestions, my decision was not made by fear or favourivity”, Mrs. Murphy wrote.

Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that he won the race and has spent weeks offering groundless claims of widespread voter fraud, which have repeatedly been rejected by the courts.

The Presidential Act on Transition of 1963 does not provide for any short deadline within which the GSA should operate, but the agency has acted historically after media organisations predict the winner, which happened on November 7th.

Beden is expected to take office on January 20th after winning elections with enough electoral votes to ensure the election college's victory. The Democrat leads in the popular vote with more than 6 million votes. Other republics have gradually distanced from President Trump in recent days and had urged the start of the transition process.

On Monday earlier, Senator from Tennessee Lamar Alexander, who is at the end of the mandate and has repeatedly called for the start of the transition, issued a new statement saying Trump needed “to put the country first of all” and help the Biden administration succeed.

“When you have a public life, people remember the last action you take”, he said.

Senator Republican Rob Poortman of Ohio urged the General Services Administrator on Monday to make available the money and personnel needed for the transition. Senator Poortman, one of the main members of the Commission for National Security and Government Issues in the Senate, also said that Biden should receive high-level information on national security and the vaccine distribution plan for Coronavirus.

Senators Alexander and Poortman, both of whom supported Trump, joined a growing number of republican officials who had recently asked President Trump to start the transition immediately.

Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia also called for a calm transition, saying in a statement Monday that “at a certain moment, the 2020 elections should end. ”

Meanwhile, more than 100 former Republican national security officials -- including former National Security Director Tom Ridge, former CIA Director Michael Hayden and former National Intelligence Director John Negroponte -- said in a statement that Trump's refusal to accept and allow a regular transition” -- pose a serious threat to the democratic process of America. Officials who signed the letter have served four republican presidents, including Trump.

The statement called on former Republican leaders, especially those in Congress, to publicly demand that President Trump cease his anti-democratic attack on the integrity of presidential elections. ”