Biden gambles he’ll win by letting Trump hold limelight during transition

Published December 2, 2020 2:28pm ET



President Trump isn’t going away quietly, and his successor as of Jan. 20, President-elect Joe Biden, is fine with that.

While Biden has made plenty of public pronouncements, including naming Cabinet picks and getting interviewed by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Trump still commands much of the post-Election Day spotlight. That includes musings about late-term pardons and bromides at elections officials in Georgia and elsewhere, he claims — falsely — cost him reelection.

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