Planned presidential transition of Joe Biden

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The presidential transition of Joe Biden is the planned presidential transition of Joe Biden. In April 2020, he became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States, and he formally accepted the nomination in August 2020. Biden's transition team, led by Ted Kaufman, was announced on June 20, 2020. The 2020 presidential election was scheduled for November 3, 2020, but all votes have yet to be counted and no major news agency has called the race for either candidate yet. The Electoral College will meet on December 14, 2020 and formally elect the president and vice president, and the results will then be certified by a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.

If Biden turns out to have lost the election, his presidential transition will be suspended and the transition team abolished. If Biden turns out to have won the election, he will become president-elect. In that case, his transition will end when he is inaugurated at 12:00 p.m. EST on January 20, 2021, at which point his presidency will begin.

Transition procedures

Main article: United States presidential transition

In accordance with the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010, potential presidential transition teams are provided office space by the General Services Administration (GSA). They are also eligible for government funding for staff; spending on Mitt Romney's transition team in 2012 was $8.9 million, all funds appropriated by the U.S. government. Under existing federal law and custom, Biden became eligible to receive classified national security briefings when his nomination was formalized at the party's national convention in August 2020.

Key responsibilities of a presidential transition include the identification and vetting of candidates for approximately 4,000 non-civil service positions in the U.S. government whose serve at the pleasure of the president; arranging the occupancy of executive residences including the White House, One Observatory Circle, and Camp David; liaising with the United States Strategic Command for receipt of the Gold Codes; and briefing senior personnel about a new administration's policy priorities.

Pre-election developments

A law enacted by Congress in 2019 amending the Presidential Transition Act requires the incumbent president to establish "transition councils" by June of an election year to facilitate the possible handover of power.

Biden appointed a transition staff in May 2020 chaired by Former Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman. Further staff were announced in September. The campaign has estimated a budget of $7-10 million and plans to have a staff of 300 people by early December 2020. Several working groups were set up in late September and early October.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the work was done over Zoom.

Biden launched his transition website at approximately 6:30 p.m. EST on November 4, before the final election results were in.

Involvement in potential disputed election

Main article: 2020 United States presidential election § Potential rejection of election results

As early as the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump has called into question the legitimacy of the election, saying that the increase of mail-in voting in the 2020 election compared to previous elections will lead to a "rigged election". For this reason, many pundits and editorial writers have insisted that his opponent Joe Biden needs to win by a landslide to prevent Trump from challenging the result. President Trump's preemptive accusations of fraud have caused some people to consider what would happen if the President should lose by a margin less than a landslide. At various points, President Trump have called for his attorney general William Barr to investigate Biden and his son Hunter, with Trump at times suggesting that his opponent should be in prison.

Rosa Brooks, who worked in the Department of Defense during the Obama administration, co-founded the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which in June 2020 ran a series of "war gaming" exercises to explore potential election and transition scenarios. In August 2020, TIP released a widely discussed report that outlined four 2020 election crisis scenario planning exercises for the 2020 United States presidential election. The scenarios examined by TIP included a decisive Biden win, a decisive Trump win, a narrow Biden win, and a period of extended uncertainty after the election.. Other academics, such as Lawrence Douglas in his book Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020 have also discussed the posibility of Trump refusing to concede if he loses.

Electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress, 2017

Per the 20th Amendment, the Vice President must count the electoral votes in front of a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021. This is governed by the Electoral Count Act of 1887, passed to prevent crises such as that in 1876-77, and while provisions have been used, the act has never been truly put to the test.

Should a crisis last more than a few days, it is possible that no one will have been declared the victor prior to January 20, though this has never happened before. In that case, the Speaker of the House (currently Nancy Pelosi) would become acting president and would be inaugurated. There may be several inaugurations and several different people possibly taking the oath of office. These include:

• Mike Pence or Kamala Harris taking the oath as acting president
• Dueling inaugurations of of all four nominees in their respective postions.

The Biden legal team has prepared for this, drafting boilerplate responses to each of the possible litigations gamed out by the TIP and others.

Timeline

Pre-election

Meetings between the transition team and the administration began with the formation of two councils in May of 2020, around the time the former Vice President had clinched the Democratic nomination.

• April 8, 2020: Biden becomes the presumptive nominee after Bernie Sanders withdraws.
• June 20, 2020: Initial transition team announced.
• August 2020: Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris are nominated at the Democratic Convention.
• September 5, 2020: full transition team is made public.
• November 1, 2020: Deadline for transition materials to be completed.
• November 3, 2020: Election Day

Post-election

• November 4; The.transition website, builbackbetter.com, [1], goes live.
• Early-to-mid-November: Election called
• November-December: Litigation.
• December 8 – Safe harbor deadline
• December 14 – Electoral College meets
• January 6, 2021 – Congress counts Electoral College votes
• January 20, 2021: Inaguration day

See also

• Presidential transition of Barack Obama (2008-2009)
• Planned presidential transition of Mitt Romney (2012)
• Presidential transition of Donald Trump (2016-2017)

External links

• Official website

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