Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org How the presidential transition between Trump and Biden will work November 9, 2020 Now that the 2020 campaign is over and President-elect Joe Biden has secured enough electoral college votes to become the next president of the United States, the hard work of forming a government begins. In the short sprint from Election Day to Inauguration Day, there is a mountain of work to be done in order to transition from one president to the next.