Joe Biden pledged Thursday to ensure a “peaceful and orderly” transition with Donald Trump.
For his part, his predecessor and soon-to-be successor at the White House said he was “thinking” about speaking to Russian President Putin soon.
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Election D+2. Two days after Donald Trump's uncontested victory in the American presidential election, the current Democratic president, Joe Biden, pledged to ensure a “peaceful and orderly” transition with his predecessor and soon-to-be successor. “I hope that no matter who we vote for, we can see ourselves as fellow citizens and not as adversaries,” he said during this first speech since the Republican's resounding victory in the presidential election.
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Speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House, he tried to boost the morale of the ministers and advisers seated opposite him. “We lost this battle, but the America you dream of demands that you get back up,” said Joe Biden. The American president, who will go to the major G20 summit in Brazil and that of the Apec (Asia-Pacific) countries in Peru in the coming weeks, ends fifty years of political life with a global humiliation. He risks seeing his record, particularly diplomatic, unraveled by his successor.
In parallel, Donald Trump said “think” that he was going “talk” with Vladimir Putin, while Joe Biden, Ukraine's first supporter in the face of Russia's invasion, has broken all ties with his Russian counterpart. The head of the Kremlin, for his part, said “ready to reconnect” with the Republican president-elect, who will take charge by taking the oath of office on January 20.
