Election 2020 Today: Biden picks key advisers, Senate silent

‘AMERICA IS BACK’: President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers.

BIDEN’S TEAM: Biden’s first wave of Cabinet picks and choices for his White House staff have prized staying power over star power, with a premium placed on government experience and proficiency as he looks to rebuild a depleted and demoralized federal bureaucracy.

Senate Republicans will hold great sway in confirming or denying Biden’s Cabinet nominees, regardless of which party controls the narrowly split Senate after runoff elections in Georgia.

TRUMP VENTS: President Donald Trump insists that he is not giving up his fight to overturn the election results, but across the federal government preparations are beginning in earnest to support Biden’s incoming administration.

Trump picked Rex Tillerson because he thought he looked like a secretary of state.” — Steve Rattner, a former Obama economic adviser, after Biden introduced his national security team?