Incumbent refuses to concede defeat, blocks transition

Despite Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden having officially been declared the winner of the US 2020 presidential elections the incumbent, President Donald J Trump asserts the election has been fraudulent and refuses to accept defeat. With a record breaking turn out for the 2020 US presidential election, surpassing that of 2016, despite the pandemic, election results were dragged out over several days with no clear winner in sight. Eventually, four nerve wracking days after the polls closed, all major networks called the election in favour of Joe Biden after he won the state of Pennsylvania. This resulted in more than the 270 electoral votes required to secure the presidency. US electoral...