Trump-Biden transition updates: Trump pushes voter conspiracies at Ga. rally

With 50 days until the inauguration, Biden is debuting a slew of nominees to key economic policy posts at a press conference Tuesday afternoon, but before Biden entered The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, for the announcement, he also debuted his new walking boot to reporters. 

After Biden sustained hairline fractures to his right foot while playing with his dog, Major, over the weekend, asked how his foot felt Tuesday, Biden replied, “Good. Thank you for asking!” and pointed to the accessory he's expected to sport for several weeks.

Biden’s economic announcement comes as he readies his first stimulus push to salvage the economy damaged from the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden nominated former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who would be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department if confirmed. 

For deputy treasury secretary, Biden nominated Wally Adeyemo, a former Obama administration official on economic and national security concerns, who would be the first African American in the position if confirmed.

For director of the Office of Budget and Management, Biden nominated Neera Tanden, currently the head of the Center for American Progress, who, if confirmed, would be the first woman of color and first South Asian American to oversee the OMB.

To serve as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Biden nominated Cecilia Rouse, an economist and current dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, who would be the first woman of color to lead the CEA if confirmed.

To serve as members on the council with Rouse, Biden has nominated Jared Bernstein, who worked as Biden’s chief economist in the first years of the Obama administration, and Heather Boushey, president and co-founder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle

Senate Minority Leader Schumer defended Neera Tanden, Biden's pick to head the Office of Budget and Management Tuesday, ahead of her formal introduction with Biden in the afternoon and following some Senate Republicans criticizing her nomination.

"Spare me the hyperbole," Schumer said in a Senate floor speech. "After spending four years pretending they didn’t see the latest insane tweet from President Trump, Senate Republicans seem to have found a newfound interest in the Twitter feeds of Biden’s Cabinet selections." 

Tanden, a former policy director for the first Obama-Biden campaign, serves as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank, a role in which she has frequently clashed with Republicans, though she evidently has attempted to clean up her Twitter account in recent weeks -- deleting hundreds of tweets, a point which Republicans like Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn have seized on.

Schumer slammed what he has called hypocrisy among Republicans for objecting to Tanden but "lining up" to approve a nominee like Trump’s current OMB head, Russell Vought -- whom Schumer called "a partisan warrior."

Vought served for seven years as a top official at the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation. Schumer reminded GOP senators of Vought’s highly controversial writings disparaging Muslims which nearly derailed his nomination.

-ABC News' Trish Turner and John Parkinson

With nearly 50 of the Georgia's 159 counties having finished the third count of votes in the presidential race, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a news conference Tuesday morning criticized the state's largest county, Fulton, for what he said is a mistake made by one election worker that required them to rescan more than 300,000 ballots. 

In a statement issued Monday, Fulton County said that a Dominion server, that was "operated in accordance with the Secretary of State's published guidelines" crashed, which "delayed work" over the weekend. 

However, Raffensperger said the county "only told part of the story," and that the "real issue" was one employee making "several compounding errors," including not following established protocol. The secretary said the employee backed up the election project on the server instead of on an external backup, which he said then led to the county being unable to "upload hundreds of thousands of scanned ballots."

"Processes and procedures exist for a reason. The reason is to take into account the unexpected," Raffensperger told reporters. 

"I think us in our office, and I think really the rest of the state is getting a little tired of always having to wait on Fulton County, and having to put up with their dysfunction," Gabriel Sterling, the voting system implementation manager, later added.

Officials still defended the general election as the most secure in Georgia's history.

While noting there will have been instances of illegal voting, as they've acknowledged before, Sterling said, "The problem is there hasn't been direct evidence of a conspiracy. There's no evidence of some cabal over the top of this trying to switch the elections up." 

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

Trump allies have asked the United States Supreme Court to reconsider a case the Pennsylvania high court rejected and reverse the state’s certification of the 2020 presidential election.

The case, brought by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican, along with another GOP candidate for Congress, alleges that the state legislature did not legally pass the measure allowing for universal mail-in voting. The plaintiffs initially asked the courts to cancel all mail-in ballots or, if not, to empower the state legislature to appoint new electors.

The filing asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the case comes just days after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the GOP cannot bring it back.

"Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof," Justice David N. Wecht wrote in a concurring opinion. "Petitioners cannot carry their enormous burden. They have failed to allege that even a single mail-in ballot was fraudulently cast or counted."

The justices have still yet to respond to the president's earlier request to join a long-pending Pennsylvania Republican challenge to that state’s tabulation of late-arriving mail ballots. The High Court has also not said if they would formally consider an earlier petition asking the court to toss the late-arriving ballots.

-ABC News' Matthew Mosk and Devin Dwyer