President-elect Joe Biden on Monday warned that the biggest threat to the country and to his transition posed by President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 race is that “more people may die.”
Biden made the stark warning during remarks about the economy from Wilmington, Delaware, during which he was asked by NBC News’s Geoff Bennett about the dangers created by Trump’s delay in the transfer of power to Biden.
“More people may die, if we don't coordinate,” Biden replied.
Biden added that getting a Covid-19 vaccine to over 300 million Americans is a “huge, huge, huge undertaking” that would be further complicated by a delay by the White House to initiate the presidential transition.
“If we have to wait until Jan. 20 to start that planning, it puts us behind over a month, month and a half. And so it's important that it be done, that there be coordination now. Now or as rapidly as we can get that done,” Biden said.
White House spokesman Judd Deere pushed back on Biden's assertion that the delays could lead to deaths, calling them "irresponsible and not based on fact" and adding that the CDC’s vaccine distribution playbook is publicly available.
More than nine days after media outlets projected that Biden had defeated Trump to win the White House, Trump's General Services Administration hasn’t actually officially declared Biden the victor in the 2020 race. That process, known as "ascertainment,” has been a mostly uncontroversial process since the passage of the Presidential Transition Act nearly 60 years ago.
“I am hopeful that the president will be mildly more enlightened before we get to Jan. 20,” Biden said, referring to the lack of transition cooperation from the White House.
Biden's warning came just hours after Dr. Anthony Fauci stressed his concern that the Trump administration has not yet greenlighted the formal transition to the incoming Biden administration, which the infectious disease expert said is key to the quick distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine.
In an interview on NBC's "TODAY" show, host Savannah Guthrie asked Fauci whether he's concerned that the Trump administration has not signed off on the formal transition period for the Biden team.

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