Presidential Transitions with David Marchick
The Lawfare Podcast
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The President's Decision to Ascertain a Presidential Election
The legal standard is that the head of the General Service Administration should quote ascertain the outcome of the election. But it became a political decision and she refused to ascertain the outcome even though Biden was the clear winner by the Saturday after the election when a few states had counted their votes. Here you had a head of an agency who I think is a good person who was put in a terrible position by her president. There was this delay at a time of crisis, at a time when Americans were dying,. At a time when our national security was at risk. And every day in a transition counts," he said.
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