Incredible serenity. Shortly before noon on Thursday, November 7, two days after the presidential election in which he had resigned from participating in July, Joe Biden gave a speech in the Rose Garden of the White House. We had not seen him since Donald Trump’s victory, but his name was at the center of the left’s discussions about the reasons for Kamala Harris’ failure. Like his vice president the day before, Joe Biden shone in defeat. He promised “a peaceful and orderly transition”in obvious contrast to 2020 and the multifaceted coup attempt then led by Donald Trump, to overturn the result of the presidential elections.
“I have said it many times, you can not only love your country when you win, said joe biden. You cannot love your neighbor only when you both agree. » The president spoke by phone with his successor in the White House. He paid tribute to the “inspirational campaign” of Kamala Harris and highlighted her iron character. Joe Biden also took advantage of the circumstances to put aside conspiracy theories about electoral fraud, at the center of the Trump movement for four years. “I also hope that we can definitively put to rest the issue of the integrity of the American electoral system.said the president. It is honest, fair and transparent. And we can trust him, in case of victory or defeat. »
The most anticipated part of his speech concerned his own lessons from this election. Joe Biden wanted to send a message that was both optimistic and self-satisfied to the attention of Democratic activists. “Don’t forget everything we have achieved, said. This has been a historic presidency, not because I am president, but because of everything we have done. » Joe Biden had to recognize, implicitly, a gap between investments in the country’s future, which will materialize “over the next ten years,” and the immediate perception of the working classes. “We will see the completion of infrastructure works worth more than a trillion dollars, which will change the lives of rural communities, communities that are going through real difficulties”said the president. “You know, we are leaving behind the strongest economy in the world, he added. jI know people are suffering. But things are changing rapidly. » Not enough to win the 2024 elections.
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