According to Fox “News,” outgoing President Donald Trump, the first incumbent to lose reelection in 28 years, “under some conditions … would consider an appropriate transfer of power.”

Under the Constitution, however, there are no conditions a losing incumbent can impose to vacant an office another candidate had won in an election.  It’s unclear what conditions Trump would attempt to put in place to try to delay his ejection from office.

Trump has claimed that the votes against him in various states are illegal and fraudulent, while those in states that he thinks favor him must be counted.  Numerous lawsuits the Trump campaign have filed to either stop counting or eliminate certain votes have failed.

White House spokesbot Kayleigh (don’t call her Kelly) McEnany apparently doesn’t like people celebrating the fact that she’ll be out of a job in 74 days.  She’s bitter.  Very, very bitter.

Where is @JoeBiden calling on the massive Super Spreader events held in his name to end❓ ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/8JaofpgMge

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) November 7, 2020

Kelly failed to update the public on the cure and vaccine her soon-to-be-former boss promised by Election Day.

President-elect Joe Biden learned that a cascade of media outlets had called the race for him from his grandchildren, who rushed to their grandfather excitedly to tell him the news on Saturday morning.  His granddaughter caught the moment on camera.

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— Naomi Biden (@NaomiBiden) November 7, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will address the nation Saturday at 8 p.m. ET with a post-election message of unity in a nation that has been cleaved in two–not just during the reign of the Trump administration, but going back at least 28 years to the Clinton administration.

Biden and Harris face an uphill battle to achieve that unity, and while I agree with the goal of having Americans again rally as one, I do not support the notion that we, as victors, should have empathy for the people who supported Trump who feel lost with the defeat of their candidate.

The reason is simple:  they did not just support Trump.  By voting for Trump, they endorsed Trumpism, which is a fetid mix of hatred, bigotry, conspiracy theories and greed.  Trumpism undermines faith in our democracy and the rule of law.  Trumpism puts an idol above our Constitution.

THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020

Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump’s attempt to reject the U.S. election outcome was largely met by silence from Republican leaders in Congress, hours after Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner. In the immediate aftermath of television networks and the Associated Press calling the election for Biden, top party officials in Washington, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, had not responded to the results, even as some GOP-aligned outside groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce offered congratulations to the president-elect. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, tweeted on Friday that every legal vote must be counted, and that the courts are available to resolve disputes. But his office had no reaction to the race being called when contacted on Saturday.”

“Despite his loss to Biden, Trump continues to exert a tight hold on Republican voters that some in the GOP say will endure past his time in the White House — adding risk to any member of the party who extends an olive branch to the Democratic winner. Many also credit the president with helping to pull vulnerable Republican Senate incumbents to re-election in South Carolina, Iowa and other states. Now, control of the Senate will be decided by two January runoffs in Georgia, and Republican leaders will be wary of alienating the party base with any quick congratulations for Biden before a concession from Trump.”

President Trump returns to the White House after news media declared Joe Biden to be the winner of the election. More live #election2020 updates: https://t.co/vQstbspKw7 📷 @ReutersBarria pic.twitter.com/vt4cpX0jq2

— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) November 7, 2020

A 34-year-old woman became the first woman to free-climb the face of the 3,000 El Capitan granite wall in Yosemite National Park, taking more than 21 hours to complete the quest, ABC News reports.

Rock climber Emily Harrington became just the fourth person to accomplish the feat in one day.  She has climbed the rock face many times in the past, but this was the first time she did it in under 24 hours.

In other news, a woman was elected vice president for the first time in American history.

“Trump and his allies can cause a ruckus, and they can inflict damage to Americans’ faith in institutions on their way out, but the many lawsuits the campaign is filing will just pile up more losses. Trump must know it, too, as his tone during Thursday’s remarks showed. The president seemed exhausted and deflated, reading flatly from prepared remarks and then slumping away from the lectern without taking questions. The thin bravado of Wednesday had dissolved entirely.”

“He is a loser because, ultimately, he is just not that good at politics. An air of invincibility gathered around Trump as he plowed through the 2016 Republican field, reputed to be one of the strongest ever, and then came from behind to beat the heavy favorite, Hillary Clinton, in the general election. But there were warning signs all along. Trump barely managed to close out the primary, and he nearly had to fight for the nomination at the Republican National Convention. He beat Clinton handily in the Electoral College but trailed her by nearly 3 million votes in the popular vote. In many places, he ran behind Republican candidates for House and Senate. Trump never stopped talking about that election. He kept holding the rallies he loves so much, traveling to his first less than a month after his inauguration. He kept talking about 2016, even after his party was whipped in the midterms. Even in the closing weeks of the 2020 campaign, he and his allies were talking about Clinton’s emails, reliving past glories. He didn’t recognize that most of the country had moved on” – The Atlantic.

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— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) November 7, 2020

As crowds gather in the streets in cities across the nation to celebrate the call that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the United States, investors also voiced happiness that Biden will be in the White House, Reuters reports.

“Biden is good news for the markets,” Christopher Stanton, chief investment officer at Sunrise Capital Partners, said on Saturday. “We’re all so tired of the whipsaw that came with the Trump tweets.”

While the Trump campaign and republicans plan on filing frivolous lawsuits to try to stop the inevitable, investors believe the election is over and they can plan financial strategies based on a Biden presidency. 

Politico: “Brad Parscale was on the phone with President Donald Trump and top White House officials in mid-February when someone on the line asked the campaign manager what worried him the most. Parscale, speaking from his Arlington, Va. apartment, had just told the president how good his internal poll numbers looked. But now he had an urgent message: The coronavirus was a big problem – and it could cost him reelection. Trump was perplexed. The economy was strong. The president had built an enormous political infrastructure and was raking in hundreds of millions of dollars. That month, Trump’s campaign conducted a $1.1 million polling project showing him leading prospective Democratic challengers even in blue states such as Colorado, New Mexico, and New Hampshire. ‘Sir, regardless, this is coming. It’s the only thing that could take down your presidency,’ Parscale told the president. Trump snapped.”

“‘This fucking virus,’ Trump asked dismissively, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange, ‘what does it have to do with me getting reelected?’ That was exactly the attitude Joe Biden expected from the president. And Biden saw his task as unambiguous.”

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1325118992785223682

Outgoing president Donald J. Trump, the loser of the 2020 presidential election, released a statement from his Virginia golf course denying that Joe Biden won the election and saying that the votes aren’t valid.

A bitter Trump, who at this point, may be down to a 1-iron and a putter in his golf bag, claimed that Biden falsely claims victory, even as a multitude of news outlets declared Biden’s victory.

“Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor,” Trump claimed.

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We did it, @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/oCgeylsjB4

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 7, 2020

With the latest bucket of votes released, the New York Times has called Nevada for President-elect Joe Biden.

Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the United States.