Republicans urge Trump admin to let Biden receive briefings amid stalled transition

Several Republican lawmakers on vember 12 said that Trump ministration should allow 46th President-elect Joe Biden to receive intelligence briefings. Taking part in briefings is one of first rights of presidential candidate after winning election, however, most Republicans and lawmakers have publicly supported Trump’s effort to overturn election result and have refused to recognise Biden as president-elect. uncertainty is being posed by US President, who has t only refused to concede to Biden but has also mounted legal challenges overvotes being ‘stolen’.

But a handful of Republican senators urged Trump ministration to allow president-elect to receive briefing, implicitly ackwledging he could eventually occupy White House even as y refused to recognise his win. Republicans, including John Cornyn, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham, urged Trump ministration to allow Biden access to presidential daily intelligence briefings. 

While speaking to reporters, Cornyn said, “I don’t see it as a high-risk proposition. I just think it’s part of transition. And, if in fact he does win in end, I think y need to be able to hit ground running”. 

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Trump should le ‘peaceful transition’ 

Ohio’s Goverr Mike DeWine, who is a Republican who endorsed Trump, also told CNN that officials “need to consider” former vice president as president-elect. Furr, Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is owned by major Republican dor Sheldon elson, also mean an editorial ting that re was evidence of fraud and Trump “seeks to delay inevitable”. White House deputy chief of staff to Republican former President George W Bush, Karl Rove also wrote in Wall Street Journal that once Trump’s day in court is over, president should do his part to “unite country” by leing a peaceful transition and letting grievance go. 

Moreover, Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford has also said that he will intervene if Trump ministration continues to restrict Biden’s access to presidential daily intelligence briefings by end of this week. Lankford stressed that it “needs to occur” irrespective of what happens in upcoming months. Oklahoma Senator said that “This needs to occur so that regardless of outcome of election, whichever way that it goes, people can be rey for that actual task.” 

Meanwhile, as US politics continues to grow more chaotic after Joe Biden was called for winner of presidential elections, US President Donald Trump ministration is w preventing president-elect from accessing stack of messs sitting at State Department. US Department of Homeland Security, on or hand, has also found election to be incredibly secure. Amid chaos that Biden has termed as ‘embarrassment’, reportedly re are dozens of messs that have been left unrelieved. 

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