Trump Transition Live Updates: President-Elect Visits Biden and Republican Senators Pick a Leader

The New York Times ^ | 11/13/2024 | Catie Edmondson, Karoun Demirjian and Michael D. Shear

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Senator John Thune of South Dakota will succeed Mitch McConnell as the party’s leader in the chamber. Mr. Biden hosted his successor at the White House, a courtesy Mr. Trump did not extend to him after losing in 2020.

Trump takes a victory lap in Washington.

President-elect Donald J. Trump met in the Oval Office with President Biden on Wednesday, a triumphant return to the seat of American power that he grudgingly left four years ago.

The meeting came at the invitation of Mr. Biden, who honored the decades-old tradition in which the outgoing president hosts the incoming one — a display of respect that Mr. Trump did not extend to Mr. Biden while denying that he had lost in 2020.

Republican Senators Elect Thune as Next Majority Leader

Republicans on Wednesday elected Senator John Thune of South Dakota, their No. 2 in the chamber, to serve as majority leader in the next Congress, choosing a G.O.P. institutionalist to replace Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate’s longest-serving leader.

In elevating Mr. Thune, 63, G.O.P. senators turned to a traditional Republican in the mold of Mr. McConnell, and rejected a challenger more aligned with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.

After Senator Thune's victory, Cornyn moved to make the vote unanimous, according to a person familiar with the discussion in the room.

[Jim W N]

Mr. Trump did not extend to him after losing in 2020

Normally, you don't honor the guy that just stole from you.

[HYPOCRACY]

Unless it’s a Poe story.

[jerod]

Watching Karine Jean-Pierre squirm with every question at the White House press briefing.

[teeman8r]

trump: here’s whats going down joe. come clean to the 20/20 steal and i’ll pardon you and your no good son, but everyone else will fry.

biden: sounds good. let’s have some ice cream.

[ABStrauss]

Loony Thune

[Ronald77]

Thune just another anti Trump rino. Don’t expect much in Trumps second with this guy.

[Pollard]

Marco Rubio for SoS is official now - https://x.com/kleavittnh/status/1856788177031201207

[Thommas]

Normally, you don't honor the guy that just stole from you.

Bingo!

[The Great RJ]

Thune is a major Rino and swamp creature. Too bad he comes from good people in South Dakota. I knew his uncle and went to high school with his cousins.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Trump is making the same mistakes he made the first time, surrounding himself with a cabinet of backstabbers.

[Savage Beast]

What a tableau: the greatest President in US history and the worst.