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Is this a coup, or just another Trump con?

“The Pentagon purges are most troubling because there are two months remaining,” William Antholis, the director of the Miller Center, at the University of Virginia, who has studied Presidential transitions and their national-security risks, said.

William Antholis

How A Record Number Of Republican Women Got Elected To Congress

In that light, University of Virginia political science professor Jennifer Lawless explained why she thinks GOP women’s success this year is important. “It’s a big deal in that the Republicans have demonstrated that when they make some effort to recruit female candidates, they see an increase in women’s representation,” Lawless said. “But we haven’t not known that. Since the 1980s, when women run for office, whether as Democrats or Republicans, we know that they’re as likely as men to win elections.”

Jennifer Lawless

A Presidential Transition Delayed

By refusing to concede, President Trump is not only disrupting the peaceful transfer of power, a cornerstone of American democracy, but he’s delaying the Biden administration access to pertinent information. The formal transition process we know today came to exist after the 9/11 Commission Report found that the delay in installing President George W. Bush hurt his administration. Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and senior research director at the White House Transition Project, describes the impact of a truncated presidential transition.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Two secretaries of Homeland Security outline the risks of a disrupted transition

In addition to Napolitano and Chertoff, Friday’s webinar included David Marchick, director of the nonpartisan Center for Presidential Transition at the Partnership for Public Service, and moderator William Antholis, director and CEO of UVA’s Miller Center for Public Affairs. It was sponsored by the UVA Institute for Democracy, the Center for Presidential Transition, and Citizens for a Strong Democracy, a nonpartisan organization that Napolitano and Chertoff founded with two other former secretaries of homeland security.

William Antholis

Trump Campaign Drops Lawsuit in Arizona Asking for Review of Ballots

William Antholis, director of the non-partisan Miller Center which is advising the incoming government on presidential transitions, told Newsweek this week that the transition of power to Biden's team could be the most difficult since the Civil War.

William Antholis

Governance

Blocking the transition is risking American lives

Biden needs to be able to begin planning, especially during a crisis.

Melody Barnes and Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

The Washington Post