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Trump election attack falters as Biden pushes ahead on transition

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump falsely insisted again Friday that he won the election even as President-elect Joe Biden met with top Democrats in Congress and pressed forward with his transition, a split screen without parallel in American history.

Biden met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., as his team expressed confidence that Trump's efforts to overturn the election results with unsubstantiated claims of fraud would not succeed.

Trump's efforts suffered a major setback as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, certified his

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