New Delhi, July 20 -- WASHINGTON - Jay Clayton, Donald Trump's nominee to lead the nation's intelligence community, declined Sunday to state directly that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election at his Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing, saying instead that Biden had been "certified" as the winner - a formulation that drew a line the nominee was not willing to cross and that cost him a vote he might otherwise have held.

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced after the hearing that he would not support Clayton's confirmation despite a long personal relationship with the nominee, ABC News reported. "I've known Jay for a long time. I like him, but after his ...