New Law Makes Dueling Presidential Transitions Possible

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump also eventually posted on social media that his administration would cooperate.
55% : "Even today, though, Trump continues to falsely claim he won in 2020 and only says he'll accept this November's results if they are fair, making it easy to imagine him doing so only if he wins -- and potentially putting the new law to the test.
55% : Trump will bring in a new team, but he built an entirely new administration in 2017 and can do it again.
25% : That could lead to both Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump potentially assembling dueling, governments-in-waiting for weeks.
25% : "Here's a look at how changes meant to fix the problems of four years ago may not solve coming issues this time, and where the coming transition stands in the meantime:The Trump-appointed head of the General Services Administration, Emily Murphy, consulted the transition law dating to 1963 and determined that she had no legal standing to determine a winner -- and start funding and cooperating with a transition to a Biden administration -- because Trump was still challenging the results in court.
17% : Trump said he may tap former independent presidential hopeful and anti-vaccination activist Robert Kennedy Jr. on health issues and make South African-born Elon Musk a secretary of federal "cost-cutting.

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