Overview: Trump blasts GOP governors, Biden to introduce economic team
With all six states where Trump has contested election results now having certified Biden’s win -- with the battlegrounds of Arizona and Wisconsin making it official Monday, Trump is lashing out at Republican governors for certifying the votes in his ongoing effort to undermine the election.
Trump has targeted GOP Govs. Doug Ducey of Arizona and Brian Kemp of Georgia for meeting the deadlines to certify votes in their states, but as he publicly questions the credibility of the Republican Party and its leaders -- ahead of runoffs in Georgia that will determine control of the Senate -- some Republicans worry he is also undermining the GOP’s majority in the upper chamber.
Trump called on Kemp Tuesday morning in a tweet to "call off election," adding "it won't be needed," if Kemp allows his state to be "scammed" without checking signatures against ballots -- which the state already does. (Signatures were already matched twice in Georgia: first when a voter applies for a ballot and then again when the voter returned their absentee ballot. Once the signature accompanying the returned ballot is verified, the ballots are separated from the envelopes and there is no way to re-match them under the Georgia state Constitution.)

Near the end of an all-day unofficial "hearing" GOP lawmakers held at a hotel in Phoenix Monday, the president phoned in and called the election the "greatest scam ever perpetrated upon our country,” despite elected officials across the country praising the 2020 election as the most secure in American history.
"We're taking it all the way," Trump said, vowing his team would file additional legal action in Wisconsin -- where a recount netted Biden 87 more votes -- and Georgia -- where the Trump campaign has paid for votes to be counted for a third time.
Despite Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the electoral process, Biden is pressing forward with his transition with 50 days until the inauguration. He’s slated to introduce his incoming economic team Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in Wilmington, Delaware, which includes former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary nominee who, if confirmed, would be the first woman in the position.

While Yellen has drawn bipartisan support in initial reactions on Capitol Hill, Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Budget and Management, Neera Tanden, who would be the first woman of color and first South Asian American in the role, has drawn the ire of Senate Republicans with Texas Sen. John Cornyn calling her “radioactive.” Democrats have rallied to Tanden's defense.
Tuesday also brings the first time Biden will publicly appear in a walking boot after fracturing bones in his right foot over the weekend, and the second day he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive the latest intelligence in the President's Daily Brief, following a 16-day standoff with the Trump administration.




