Are you genuine dumb or didn't you read the last link I posted it explains a few things.
DEFINING THE PRESIDENT-ELECT
The social media posts claim Biden is not the president-elect. This claim is more complex.
As projected by Edison Research and officially reported by Reuters and major U.S. television networks including Fox News, Biden beat Trump by a 306-232 Electoral College margin and is trying to press forward with the transition (equal to the 306 votes that Trump won to defeat Hillary Clinton in a 2016 victory he called a “landslide”, here , here ).
President Trump has refused to concede the election, claiming without evidence that he was cheated by election fraud ( here ) and persevering with legal challenges filed in key states where he lost ( here ). Trump is also blocking the transition of power, preventing Biden from receiving classified intelligence briefings and from speaking with government experts on COVID-19 ( here ).
The winner of the presidential election is determined not by a national vote but through the Electoral College. States face a Dec. 8 deadline to certify their elections and choose electors for the Electoral College, which then officially selects the new president on Dec. 14. Those votes will officially be tallied by Congress three weeks later and the president is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021. Electors can go rogue: in 2016, seven of the 538 electors cast ballots for someone other than their state’s popular vote winner, an unusually high number ( here ).
Weiner says there are two legal contexts where the term “President elect” is used. One is in the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which refers to a “President elect” who takes office at noon on Jan. 20 following an election ( here ).
Weiner told Reuters that whether the term “President elect” should be used in this context can be debatable due to the Electoral College: "You could argue that we don’t technically have a ‘President-elect’ for this purpose until after the Electoral College votes. Although, most states ( here ) have laws ‘binding’ their presidential electors to vote for the winner of the popular vote in the state, so even in this context it’s arguably appropriate to use the term as soon as the winner is clear.”
Weiner explains that the second legal context where the term “President-elect” is used is the 1963 Presidential Transition Act ( here ), a federal law that governs presidential transitions. The act uses the term “President-elect” to refer to the “apparent” winner of the election. However, the act states that the winner is determined by the administrator of the GSA, which still has not recognized Biden’s victory this year ( here ). The Biden campaign has called the delay unjustified and said their victory has been clear ( here ).
Weiner says that the current situation, with the GSA – headed by a Trump appointee - refusing to recognize Biden has “never happened before” aside from in 2000, when the presidential election came down to less than 1,000 votes in one state – Florida - and there was a “genuine dispute as to the outcome”, so we are in “somewhat unchartered territory (now).”
He added that “aside from any legal formalities, we have a decades-long tradition in the United States of election winners, (with) the media, public officials and others using terms like ‘President-Elect’ as soon as the outcome of the election is clear.”
To remain in office, Trump would need to overturn results in at least three states, in unprecedented fashion, to reach the winning threshold of 270 electoral votes. The outcome of the election is unlikely to change, however, as judges having rejected most of the Trump administration’s lawsuits filed so far ( here ).
Congress is scheduled to count the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, which is normally a formality. But Trump supporters in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives could object to the results in a final, long-shot attempt to deprive Biden of 270 electoral votes and turn the final decision over to the House ( here ) .
VERDICT
False. Both the Trump and Obama administrations have used the “Office of the President Elect” branding in the past, and a GSA order states that the term can be used to refer to the incoming administration. The GSA has not yet recognized Biden’s projected victory, but Trump’s litigation campaign to discredit Biden’s victory is highly unlikely to change the outcome of the election.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .