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. The campaign issued a statement that it planned to pursue legal challenges to election results in certain states.
In early November, another issue, COVID-19, dominated the news in America. The number of daily cases in the United States exceeded 100,000, a record, on election day. And on November 8, global confirmed COVID cases surpassed 50 million, with twenty percent of them in the United States. Trump, his wife Melania and son Barron had already come down with COVID, and in the week of the election, White House staffers started to be infected with the virus. First was Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who tested positive days after the election. The former North Carolina lawmaker was President Trump's top advisor who regularly accompanied him on the campaign and other trips.
Then the man who was leading the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the election, David Bossie, tested positive, removing him from the decision-making circle as he too was banned from the White House and campaign headquarters. Most important, Meadows and Bossie lost face-to-face contact with the president, the most effective way to keep his attention., who together with Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor from Texas, became the proselytizers of election fraud.
U.S. intelligence saw attempted election meddling by China, Russia and Iran. This photo taken on August 4, 2020 shows Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance, using his computer at an office in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong province.
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