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It is the first known contact between the elected members of the outgoing and incoming administrations.
President Donald Trump has not reached out to president-elect Joe Biden or invited him to the White House, and has instead spent the weeks since he lost the November 3 election holed up at the White House, trying to undermine the legitimacy of Mr Biden’s win with baseless claims of mass voter fraud that culminated in last week’s violent storming of the Capitol building.
Mr Pence, who did not speak with Mr Trump for days after the siege, has become an unexpected albeit late defender of Mr Biden’s win.
Mr Biden is elevating the position of science adviser to cabinet level, a White House first.
He said that Eric Lander, a pioneer in mapping the human genome who is in line to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, is “one of the most brilliant guys I know”.
Prof Lander said Mr Biden has tasked his advisers and “the whole scientific community and the American public” to “rise to this moment”.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (AP)
Vice president-elect Kamala Harris used the rollout of the science team to recall her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a cancer researcher whom she credited with teaching her to think critically.
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Pence s outreach to his successor is just the latest example of how the vice president has taken on many of the duties the president would typically carry out in his final days in office.
The vice president attended a briefing on inauguration security on Thursday before greeting National Guard members stationed at the Capitol after last week s riot there.
Pence also flew to the funeral of the late pilot Chuck Yeager on Friday, and he will deliver addresses on Saturday and Sunday in California and New York, respectively, to tout the administration s military achievements.
The vice president will attend Biden s inauguration on Wednesday, while Trump is expected to depart Washington, D.C., earlier that morning.
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