Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org Biden transition gets govt OK after Trump out of options November 24, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election on Monday, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. He relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with baseless claims of fraud.