The President of the United States, Joe Biden, acknowledged Thursday that the Democrats had lost the electoral “battle” on Tuesday against certain Republicans led by the tycoon. Donald Trumpto whom he promised an “orderly” transition so that he could take power without setbacks on January 20, a confidence from which he had precisely not benefited four years ago. Thus, he insisted that “We are not enemies, we are compatriotss. “We need to lower the political temperature.”
Trump, defeated in the 2020 elections against Biden, He refuses to recognize his rival’s victory. and encouraged an assault on the Capitol in the midst of the ratification of the results. “You can’t love your country only when you win. “We cannot love our neighbors only when we agree with them,” declared the outgoing president from the gardens of the White House.
Both have already had a first telephone contact on Wednesday and Biden wanted to make it clear in a speech to the nation that he would pass on command without criticism to his successor, because “this is what the American people deserve”. He even hopes that the elections will serve to “put an end to doubts about the integrity of the electoral system”, encouraged by Trump himself. The system, in Biden’s words, “is honest, fair and transparent.”
The president praised the figure of his vice-president and Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, in a moment that he described as “defeat”, but which can only be “accepted”. In this sense, he wanted to say he was “proud” of the work of the Administration in recent years, a “difficult” stage that he described as “historic”.
Likewise, he stressed that “there are 74 days left to complete the term” and that “every day counts”, in an apparent last political plea before the Republicans take control of the White House and, as could be expected, wait there, from the two rooms that compose it. Congress – they already have a majority in the Senate.
“Blows are inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable“, warned Biden, who cited his father to emphasize that what truly defines a person is “how quickly they get back up” in the face of adversity. “A defeat does not mean that we are defeated” , underlined the current tenant of the White House.
