Here is how the transition is unfolding. All times Eastern.
Nov 28, 2020, 12:21 PM EST
Pennsylvania lawmakers introduce resolution to dispute election results
On Friday, more than 20 Republicans in the Pennsylvania House legislature introduced a resolution that disputes the statewide 2020 election results.
With the Pennsylvania legislative session ending Monday, the move is likely to be vetoed by Democratic Gov Tom Wolf even if it were to move quickly through the state government.
The resolution would also put the state’s Republican majority in jeopardy as it would threaten to invalidate the outcome of several GOP victories.
Saturday morning, Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano -- who Trump has taken to retweeting recently -- added to the state Republican voices attempting to challenge the outcome of the election in a series of tweets. Without citing any proof, Mastriano claimed, “there is mounting evidence that the PA presidential election was compromised.”
“If this is the case, under Article II, Section 1.2 of the US Constitution, the state legislature has the sole authority to direct the manner of selecting delegates to the Electoral College,” he said in one of his tweets.
“Therefore, we are introducing a Resolution to exercise our obligation and authority to appoint delegates to the Electoral College,” he said.
Twitter has stamped his tweets with, “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”
-ABC News’ Alisa Wiersema
Nov 28, 2020, 11:46 AM EST
Trump legal team announces hearing in Arizona
As President Trump’s legal team continues to look to state legislatures to overturn election results, Trump Campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis tweeted on Friday an event invitation to a Monday hearing with members of the Arizona Legislature on election integrity.
Ellis announced that she and Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani will be “present from DC,” along with members of the Arizona Legislature.
“Arizona State Legislature to hold hearing on election integrity Monday, November 30. Mayor @RudyGiuliani and I will be present on behalf of President @realDonaldTrump,” she tweeted
The hearing is being held from a Phoenix Hyatt Hotel rather than from the state capitol.
The event description falsely claims, “...State Legislatures have the sole authority to select their representatives to the Electoral College.”
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican members of the state legislature have publicly shot down those claims.
Trump’s legal team held a similar hearing with Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, after the Trump campaign touted upcoming state legislature public hearings in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan. The president phoned in to baselessly say he believes the outcome of the 2020 election should be overturned and that he was “cheated” out of a victory.
At Wednesday’s hearing, Giulianipresented a series of witnesses with claims of what they believed to be election irregularities in Pennsylvania.
A spokesperson for Pennsylvania’s secretary of state called the claims “tired conspiracy theories” that have been “debunked and dismissed by the courts.”
Shortly after the Trump Campaign announced a similar hearing in Michigan, Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield told ABC News the House Oversight Committee would not meet for a hearing on the election.
-ABC News’ Will Steakin, Olivia Rubin, Meg Cunningham, Matthew Mosk and Alex Hosenball
Nov 27, 2020, 8:34 PM EST
Biden gains 132-vote margin in Milwaukee County recount
Milwaukee County's weeklong recount of the presidential election wrapped Friday evening, with Biden increasing his wide margin of victory by 132 votes.
The recount added 257 votes to Biden's total (now 317,527) and 125 votes to Trump's total (now 134,482), according to the Milwaukee County Election Commission. Biden captured 69.07% of the county's votes.
Milwaukee is one of two Wisconsin counties conducting a recount right now. The other, Dane County, is expected to finish on Sunday, County Clerk Scott McDonell said on Twitter.
--Soo Rin Kim and Cheyenne Haslett
Nov 27, 2020, 1:23 PM EST
New lawsuit by conspiracy minded Trump ally Sidney Powell seeks to nix Georgia election results
Sidney Powell, the attorney recently removed from the president's legal team, filed a lawsuit in Georgia this week alleging, without evidence, a vast conspiracy against Trump built on unproven claims of numerous instances of voter fraud in the state.
The 104-page suit, filed in the U.S District Court in Atlanta on behalf of Trump electors and Republican officials, among others, is demanding numerous longshot remedies, including decertifying the state's election results, preventing the results from being transmitted to the electoral college and disqualifying Biden's electors in favor of Trump's electors.
"While the bedrock of American elections has been transparency, almost every crucial aspect of Georgia’s November 3, 2020, General Election was shrouded in secrecy, rife with 'errors,' and permeated with anomalies so egregious as to render the results incapable of certification," the suit states. "Accordingly, the results for President and Congress in the November 3, 2020 election must be set aside. The results are infected with Constitutional violations."
Sidney Powell participates in a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2020.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters, FILE
Biden won the state of Georgia by more than 12,000 votes, a victory confirmed by a hand tally last week. State elections officials also began a machine recount at the request of Trump’s team, permitted because he lost by less than 0.5 percentage points.
Like many suits before it, Powell’s case relies on affidavits from various poll watchers, audit watchers and self-described experts who claim, without documentation or supporting evidence, that they witnessed a wide range of fraudulent activity, including switching votes from Biden to Trump, counting illegal votes and shutting observers out of the process.
The suit rests heavily on a debunked conspiracy theory that has been trafficked widely on the internet which blames the Dominion Voting Systems for secretly flipping thousands of votes from Trump to Biden. Veteran elections officials from both parties have refuted the claim, as did the Trump administration’s own cybersecurity expert.
Dominion released a lengthy statement Friday rebutting the claims in the lawsuit – calling it "a bizarre election fraud conspiracy that—were it possible—would necessarily require the collaboration of thousands of participants… This quite simply did not occur."
"Sidney Powell's wild and reckless allegations are not only demonstrably false, but they have also led to stalking, harassment, and death threats to Dominion employees," the Dominion statement says. "We intend to hold Ms. Powell, and those aiding and abetting her fraudulent actions, accountable for any harm that may occur as a result."
Other conspiracy theories cited in the lawsuit as "evidence" include an affidavit from a man who claims he went undercover in Antifa and overheard a top Dominion official talking about rigging the election. The lawsuit also claims, with no evidence, that a water pipe burst on election night, which briefly delayed the counting of ballots, was part of a conspiracy to prevent Trump poll watchers from seeing them process ballots.
