Amazing serenity. Shortly before noon, Thursday, November 7, two days after the presidential election in which he had given up participating in July, Joe Biden delivered a speech in the Rose Garden of the White House. We hadn't seen him since Donald Trump's victory, but his name was at the heart of discussions on the left about the reasons for Kamala Harris's 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 election.
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“I've said it many times, you can't only love your country when you win, a dit Joe Biden. You can't love your neighbor only when you both agree. » The president spoke by telephone with his successor at the White House. He paid tribute to the “inspiring campaign” of Kamala Harris and highlighted her iron character. Joe Biden also took advantage of the circumstances to brush aside conspiracy theories about electoral fraud, at the heart of the Trumpist movement for four years. “I also hope that we can put a definitive end to the question about the integrity of the American electoral systemsaid the president. He is honest, he is fair, and he is transparent. And we can trust him, in the event 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 all that we have accomplished, he said. This has been a historic presidency, not because I'm president, because of everything we've done. » Joe Biden had to recognize, implicitly, a gap between investments in the future of the country, which will materialize “over the next ten years”, and the immediate perception of the working classes. “We will see the completion of infrastructure work worth more than a trillion dollars, changing the lives of rural communities, communities that are experiencing 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 quickly. » Not enough to win the elections in 2024.
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