“You cannot love your country only when you win, you cannot love your neighbor only when you agree,” declared the outgoing Democratic president, who called his predecessor and successor on Wednesday to congratulate him and invite him to go to the White House.
Joe Biden pledged to ensure a “peaceful and orderly” transition with Donald Trump on Thursday during a short speech at the White House during which he called on Americans to “lower the temperature” after a bitter and bitter electoral campaign. tense. “You cannot love your country only when you win, you cannot love your neighbor only when you agree,” declared the outgoing Democratic president, who called his predecessor and successor on Wednesday to congratulate and invite him to go to the White House, on an undisclosed date.
He wanted “to see Americans consider themselves not as adversaries, but as compatriots, whatever their choice at the ballot box.” Joe Biden also hoped that the integrity of the United States electoral system, “honest, fair and transparent”, would cease to be called into question, an allusion to the denials of Donald Trump, who never acknowledged his defeat in the presidential election of 2020 by denouncing imaginary fraud.
The Democratic president, who welcomed the “historic” record of his mandate, also paid tribute to his vice-president Kamala Harris, soundly beaten in the presidential election, saying that she could be “proud” of her campaign. “Setbacks are inevitable, abandonment is unacceptable,” Joe Biden said again addressing White House staff. “We have lost this battle. The America of your dreams is calling on you to rise again,” he added.
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