{"id":1730,"date":"2020-11-09T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:00:36","slug":"president-elect-biden-outlining-priorities-as-ballot-counting-continues-in-remaining-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"President-elect Biden outlining priorities as ballot counting continues in remaining states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President-elect Biden is already said to be outlining priorities for when he takes office, with tackling the COVID-19 pandemic at the top of his list. Sources familiar with his plans say he\u2019s also discussing signing a flurry of executive orders once he takes office to reverse some of President Trump\u2019s policies over the past four years. There have been discussions about rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and the World Health Organization, as well as repealing the travel ban, sources said, emphasizing that executive action is only one vehicle to implement Biden\u2019s agenda and the priority will be to work with Congress.

President Trump’s weekend tweets signal he won\u2019t concede the election without a fight, including an all-caps tweet in which he declared, “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” Most Republican lawmakers haven\u2019t publicly acknowledged the election results, or Biden\u2019s apparent win.\u00a0

With 98% of the expected Arizona vote is in, Biden\u2019s lead there is now up to 16,952 votes, with only half a percentage point separating him and Trump: 49.5% to Trump’s 49.0%. \u00a0Biden still leads in Georgia, where about 10,000 votes \u2013 under half a percent — separate him and Trump. \u00a0Georgia has already announced they intend to do a recount; the Trump campaign has announced that Rep. Doug Collins will lead their recount effort in that state.

Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election Saturday when Pennsylvania was moved into his column.\u00a0 He currently has 279 electoral votes, nine more than the number required to win the presidency, compared to Trump\u2019s 214.

Check ABCNews.com<\/a> for the latest vote counts and other election updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Biden is already said to be outlining priorities for when he takes office, with tackling the COVID-19 pandemic at the top of his list. Sources familiar with his plans say he\u2019s also discussing signing a flurry of executive orders once he takes office to reverse some of President Trump\u2019s policies over the past four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ballot-counting-mgn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}