It has been almost three weeks since President Donald Trump stepped to a lectern in the White House in the early hours of November 4 to declare that the election was being stolen from him. It was a fabrication designed to turn President-elect Joe Biden into an illegitimate president and has continued apace ever since. It will not stop with Biden's swearing-in on January 20.
Trump has thrown up immediate obstacles to the Biden transition. Without an official ascertainment from Emily Murphy, head of the General Services Administration, Biden and his team have been denied necessary transition funding and access to the government departments and agencies they will soon inherit.
Biden also hasn't yet been able to get classified intelligence briefings, and even a number of Republicans say it's time he did. But it is not as though Biden doesn't know the world, its hot spots and many of its leaders. Decades of experience give him a foundation that someone without that background - say Donald Trump four years ago - would not have. Not having these briefings isn't ideal but, for the time, not a major setback.
The difference between having a 50-50 split, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris there to break any ties, and a Republican majority is enormous. One former Obama administration official called it"the difference between having a transformational presidency versus having to negotiate everything with a Republican Senate." Biden must prepare for either outcome.
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