The current President of the United States, Joe Biden, declared Thursday that “the people of the United States deserve a peaceful transition” of power, after Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s elections against the Democratic candidate and current vice-president. President, Kamala Harris.
Biden said in a brief speech at the White House that yesterday, Wednesday, he spoke with Trump to congratulate him on his victory and ensure this “peaceful transition,” and that he asked his administration to work to ensure that the transition takes place like this. .
The president appeared the day after Kamala Harris to accept the defeat at Howard University in Washington. More than 100 days after Biden resigned his candidacy under internal pressure from his party, the president reiterated in a statement yesterday that the choice of Harris was “the best decision” he made when he withdrawn from the presidential race. The phrase is the same statement he previously made in Chicago when he testified to his vice president.
From now on, the Democrats can only lick their wounds and analyze the causes of the debacle. Not only did Trump win the presidential election, but Republicans managed to take control of the Senate and are on track to take control of the House of Representatives as well. In her speech on Wednesday, Harris tried to talk about the future without regrets and without losing hope, aware of the dark times that await her, but also knowing that within the party accusing fingers will begin to rise in search of officials of the electoral vote. failure.
One of the first to be singled out was Biden, who was criticized for wanting to maintain his candidacy for too long, leaving him with a very narrow margin to build a more solid alternative. One of Harris’ problems is his lack of definition, critics say. After the debate against Trump, even though they emerged victorious and managed to corner his opponent, many voters who saw them face to face continued with the same feeling: that they didn’t know Harris well enough.
Although this lack of definition from Harris, rather than being attributed to the times, may also be a consequence of trying to present a candidacy attractive to conservative voters. “I am Kamala Harris, my pronoun is ‘she’, I am a woman,” she declared during a round table organized at the White House in 2022. Two years later, in the middle of the presidential race , Harris had set aside these positions to say that she owns a Glock and that the United States would have “the deadliest army in the world” if she were president.
In a statement, Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders put it this way: “We shouldn’t be too surprised that a Democratic Party that has abandoned the working class finds that the working class has abandoned it. As Democratic leaders defend status quothe American people are angry and want change.
Another thing the party needs to think about is vote splitting. Trump won in Arizona, but Proposition 139 also won in defense of abortion rights, and Democratic Sen. Rubén Gallego is on track to defeat Republican Kari Lake, who has devoted herself to imitating Trump’s rhetoric. The same thing happened in North Carolina: Trump won, but in the race for governor, Democratic candidate Josh Stein won.
