Trump rebuffs election defeat even as Biden presents cabinet lineup

US President Donald Trump shows no sign of dropping his long-shot efforts to overturn the November 3 election even as Democratic rival Joe Biden presses ahead with plans to form his cabinet.

Trump took Biden to task on Sunday as he moved ahead with his plans to announce his cabinet line-up, saying the Democratic rival was moving “too quickly” in forming the next administration.

The opprobrium came in addition to a barrage of lawsuits the US president has filed over the past week to prevent states from certifying vote totals over allegations of electoral fraud.

"Fight hard Republicans," Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday morning as he pressed his unsubstantiated narrative of irregularities in the recent presidential election.

The former vice president is set to roll out several top cabinet picks next week as Trump keeps disputing the election results.

Biden has reportedly made his choice for secretary of state

US President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly made a decision on his pick for the secretary of state although President Donald Trump has not conceded yet.

Republican Trump has refused to concede defeat in the November 3 election and mounted multiple legal challenges to reverse the results in several key states. His Democratic rival was declared the projected winner.

Biden won the state-by-state Electoral College votes, which decide who takes the White House, by 306 to 232, according to media reports.

The Electoral College is set to formally vote on December 14, with certifications to occur beforehand.

The incumbent’s attempts to thwart certification of vote tallies have so far failed in courts in Georgia, Michigan and Arizona.

Moreover, US District Judge Matthew Brann dismissed a similar effort in Pennsylvania, ruling that the case presented by Trump's lawyers claiming voter fraud amounted to "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations."

Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign Pennsylvania lawsuit

A US federal judge has dealt a new blow to President Trump’s long-shot bid to reverse the results of the disputed presidential election held on November 3.

Election officials in Wisconsin have also accused Trump’s observers of obstructing a recount of the votes in the state’s largest counties of Milwaukee and Dane.

In the face of the setbacks, the Trump campaign’s new strategy seems to be reaching out to Republican-controlled legislatures in swings states won by Biden to set aside the results and declare Trump the winner, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the plan.

The effort failed in Michigan and Pennsylvania, but even if Trump was to be declared the winner in both those states, he would still be short of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the election.

Several US states have over the past two weeks been the scene of rival protests on a daily basis, which has led to the further deepening of a political chasm among American politicians long defending the US election system and polarizing the chaos-ridden US society.

US states gripped by post-election chaos; Washington rally turns violent

Several states in the United States have been gripped by post-election protests as tensions grow over the results of a highly controversial vote that was due to elect the next occupant of the White House.

Legal experts argue the Trump's lawsuits stand little chance of changing the outcome of the 2020 US election.

Critics have said Trump's refusal to concede would have serious implications for the US national security and in impeding the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed the lives of about 256,000 Americans.

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