US President Joe Biden speaks on the Gila River Crossing Faculty within the Gila River Indian Neighborhood, in Laveen Village, close to Phoenix, Arizona on October 25, 2024. (Agence France-Presse)
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden will make a painful handle to the nation Thursday, vowing a peaceable switch of energy to Donald Trump after his political nemesis scored a crushing election win over Kamala Harris.
In what guarantees to be an agonizing second for Biden, he’ll communicate within the Rose Backyard of the White Home at 11:00 am (1600 GMT) to “focus on the election outcomes and the transition” to Trump’s second time period.
The 81-year-old dropped out of the race in opposition to Trump in July and handed the Democratic nomination to vp Harris -— however is now more likely to see his legacy dismantled by the Republican’s gorgeous comeback.
Biden is nevertheless apparently decided to attract a stark distinction with Trump, whose refusal to simply accept his personal 2020 election defeat by Biden culminated within the violent January 6, 2021 assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol.
Falsely claiming voter fraud, Trump additionally refused to attend Biden’s inauguration and didn’t enable a correct transition.
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The White Home stated Biden spoke with Trump on Wednesday and “expressed his dedication to making sure a clean transition and emphasised the significance of working to deliver the nation collectively.”
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Biden is hanging a presidential tone by calling Trump and welcoming him to fulfill on the White Home, regardless of their lengthy historical past of bitter animosity.
Trump marketing campaign spokesman Steven Cheung stated Trump “appears to be like ahead to the assembly, which is able to happen shortly, and really a lot appreciated the decision.”
It will be the primary time they’d met since Biden’s disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to Trump in June that pressured him out of the race.
Trump 2.0
America and the world face a radically remodeled political panorama after Trump’s overwhelming victory.
US voters backed Trump’s hardline right-wing insurance policies and rejected Biden and Harris’s document, particularly on the financial system and inflation, exit polls confirmed.
World leaders swiftly pledged to work with Trump, regardless of issues in a lot of the globe about his nationalist “America First” strategy and pledges to slap enormous tariffs on overseas imports.
Chinese language President Xi Jinping stated Beijing and Washington should discover a approach to “get alongside” in a message to Trump, calling for “steady” bilateral ties.
Trump’s decisions for his personal White Home workforce can be within the highlight, with the world’s richest man Elon Musk and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. each in line for roles.
The Trump marketing campaign’s transition workforce stated Wednesday that “within the days and weeks forward” Trump could be in search of the “finest individuals.”
Armed with a sweeping mandate, Trump 2.0 guarantees to be extra untrammeled than his first chaotic presidency — and will dismantle enormous chunks of Biden’s legacy.
Trump might begin by halting the incumbent’s billions of {dollars} in army assist for Ukraine’s combat in opposition to Russia’s 2022 invasion.
He has repeatedly urged he would finish the warfare by pressuring Kyiv to make territorial concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a person Trump has repeatedly praised.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him and urge a “simply peace.”
Trump may even return to the White Home as a local weather change denier, poised to take aside Biden’s inexperienced insurance policies along with his pledge to “drill, child, drill” for oil.
In the end Biden’s legacy was alleged to be a Harris victory that may maintain Trump out of energy — however many Democrats really feel he waited too lengthy to step apart for his vp.
He paid tribute to Harris after her concession speech on Wednesday, saying that “what America noticed right this moment was the Kamala Harris I do know and deeply admire.”
One factor Biden and Trump do have in frequent nevertheless is age.
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Already 78, Trump is heading in the right direction to interrupt Biden’s document because the oldest-ever sitting president throughout his four-year time period. He’ll surpass Biden, who is about to step down in January on the age of 82.
