Boy, talk about narcissism, arrogance and egotism, the self-important media is just so full of itself. They apparently believe that because they have “called” the recent election for Joe Biden, that that somehow triggers a whole host of required official federal obligations to the anointed winner, such as office space, funding and access to departments and otherwise confidential information. They also seem to believe that just because they “called” the election the loser has some obligation to “concede.”
Untrue that is, as Yoda would say. The press is NOT in charge of elections. They might think about actually reading the Constitution sometime since they obviously haven’t (apart from the First Amendment, which covers them for just about every idiotic and wrong thing they say). Under the Constitution, only the Electoral College can “call” the election for President, which this year will happen on December 14. There is no legal requirement that a Presidential transition jumps into action just because one or another media outlet “called” the election or because the incumbent did or did not “concede”. The press is quite mistaken if it thinks it has some official role in anything relating to a Presidential election (or any other election for that matter).
That is, it is tradition only from which these alleged requirements spring, and the exigencies of reality and practicality. It may be that in the past the GSA head permitted a transition to commence, and ordinarily the winner is usually pretty clear-cut. Here, well, like it or not the President has the legal right to contest the ballots and has the legal right to not concede, ever, if he wants. While there are strong common sense reasons to get a transition underway (even if it turns out to be useless in the end), there is no legal requirement that that happen now, in spite of all the criticism and media suggestions otherwise. If there was, Biden would have been in court by now.
But the point here is that these media characters act like they are God and have the right to anoint the next President, and have every right to start prattling and whining when someone challenges their view. This is cancel culture come to the election process. Anyone who disagrees with them, or just suggests that they lack the power they think they have, is subject to vilification and smearing. This unwarranted arrogation of political power is nothing more than the media attempting to mount its own coup d’etat and making decisions that properly belong to the voters and the Constitutional process that has been in place for over 200 years.
It’s the arrogance that gets us, like the rest of us are too stupid to recognize a pure but baseless power play when we see one. Think what you want about Trump and his actions regarding the vote, and perhaps a baseless power play is also what he’s up to. Just don’t tell us that it is the press alone who can dictate what happens after a Presidential election and possible transition, and that all this blather about conceding and cooperating with a transition is legally required just because the media says so. It ain’t so.