Biden fractures foot after fall, will likely be in walking boot 'for several weeks'

The president-elect fell while playing with his dog.

President Donald Trump is slated to hand over control of the White House to President-elect Joe Biden in 52 days.


Biden fractures foot, will require walking boot 'for several weeks'

After initial X-rays were "reassuring," a follow-up CT scan showed that President-elect Joe Biden has hairline fractures in his foot following a fall this weekend, his doctor said.

Biden will likely need to wear a walking boot "for several weeks," Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the director of executive medicine at GW Medical Faculty Associates, said in a statement.

“Initial X-rays did not show any obvious fracture, but his clinical exam warranted more detailed imaging," O'Connor said in a statement. "Follow-up CT scan confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden’s lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot."

Biden fell over the weekend while playing with his dog.


Biden sprains foot, X-rays 'reassuring'

President-elect Joe Biden suffered a sprained foot Saturday after slipping while playing with his dog, according to his doctor.

"Initial X-rays are reassuring that there is no obvious fracture and he will be getting an additional CT for more detailed imaging," Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a statement Sunday following the examination at the Delaware Imaging Network facility at the Omega Professional Center in Newark.

Biden slipped while playing with his dog, Major, and twisted his ankle.


Biden, Harris announce all-female White House communications staff

Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced on Sunday seven top members of the White House senior communications staff, all of whom are female.

Jen Psaki, who served as communications director during the Obama administration and has been working as a spokeswoman for the transition, will be the White House press secretary

Kate Bedingfield, who served as the Biden campaign's communications director, will assume the same title in the White House.

Karine Jean-Pierre, who was a senior advisor to Biden's campaign, will serve as the principal deputy press secretary.

Pili Tobar, who was the Biden campaign's communications director for coalitions, will be the deputy White House communications director.

Other hires announced Sunday include Symone Sanders, a senior campaign adviser, who will be the chief spokeswoman for Harris, Ashley Etienne who will be Harris' communications director, and Elizabeth Alexander, who will be first lady Jill Biden's communications director.

-ABC News' John Verhovek



Biden twisted ankle while playing with his dog

Biden slipped while playing with his dog Major, and twisted his ankle on Saturday. Out of an abundance of caution, he will be examined this afternoon by an orthopedist.

-ABC News' John Verhovek


Wisconsin finishes its partial recount

The Wisconsin partial recount of the state’s most heavily Democratic counties, Dane and Milwaukee Counties, has concluded. Milwaukee finished up on Friday while Dane finished up this morning.

Trump received a net gain of 45 votes in Dane County, as Biden lost 91 votes from the original count, while Trump lost 46. The new total from Dane County is 260,094 for Biden and 78,754 for Trump, according to a tweet of the recount paperwork from the Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.

In total, the results changed by 87 votes in Biden’s favor. That’s less than the margin that the results changed in the 2016 recount -- which was 130 votes -- but about in line, since only two counties were recounted this time.

As Trump said himself in a tweet on Saturday, though, the GOP goal here was not to find missing votes in the recount, but to set up lawsuits they’ll launch against votes cast early and votes cast by “indefinitely confined” voters.

“The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday. We have found many illegal votes. Stay tuned!,” Trump tweeted yesterday.

-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett and Soorin Kim