Election 2020 live updates: Joe Biden continues transition process as Trump, Pence take part in Veterans Day event

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USA TODAY’S coverage of the 2020 election continues this week after Joe Biden won a bitterly fought presidential election and states work to finish counting their remaining ballots.

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USA TODAY will have live election information from across the country.

Trump and Pence to take part in Veterans Day event while Biden meets with transition advisors    

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will appear together at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington for a Veterans Day event on Wednesday as the pair refuses to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden. 

The two will appear together publicly after President-elect Biden was projected as the winner of the presidential election over the weekend. The president has refused to concede and his allies are challenging election results in key swing states, claiming fraud, despite there being no evidence of widespread wrong.

Biden will meet with transition advisors Wednesday as he continues to chart out his transition ahead of Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. On Tuesday, he said Trump’s unwillingness to concede isn’t slowing down his transition.

“I just think it’s an embarrassment, quite frankly,” Biden said of Trump. “How can I say this tactfully? I think it will not help the president’s legacy.”

– Sean Rossman

Pennsylvania Secretary of State says only 10,000 ballots received after Election Day

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State said Tuesday that around 10,000 ballots arrived after Election Day but by Nov. 6.

This is significant as a lawsuit from the Trump campaign criticizes the three-day extension of the deadline for receiving absentee and mail votes, from Election Day until Nov. 6.

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That change, recommended by the secretary of state’s office and upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, is now the subject of a state GOP request for an emergency injunction by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Even if those approximately 10,000 ballots were all rejected, Biden would still win Pennsylvania. He is currently leading in the state by more than 47,000 votes.

– Savannah Behrmann

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President-elect Joe Biden, joined by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, answers a reporter’s question at The Queen theater on Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware.

 (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP) Coons: GOP senators asking him to congratulate Biden for them since they can’t publicly do so

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Tuesday his GOP colleagues are privately asking him to congratulate Biden on winning the election, because they can’t publicly do so.

Coons told CNN it’s “past time for Republican leaders to stand up and say, ‘We should accept the results of this election.’ “

“They call me to say, you know, ‘Congratulations, please convey my well wishes to the President-elect, but I can’t say that publicly yet,'” Coons said of his Republican colleagues, though he didn’t cite any Republicans by name.

Despite passing the 270 electoral votes needed to become the 46th president of the United States, most GOP senators are refusing to publicly acknowledge Biden as the President-Elect.

– Savannah Behrmann

Bill Barr: Attorney General William Barr’s election fraud memo brings new storm to Justice Department

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says “there will be a smooth transition to the second Trump administration” when asked about Biden transition. Associated Press

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