Trump Says “Time Will Tell” Which Administration Will Be Ahead of America in the Future | 2020 U.S. elections

The brief comment represents a change of discourse, albeit timid and without mentioning his opponent, in relation to his until then ostensible refusal to admit that he lost.

“This administration will not go into a lockdown. I hope that whatever happens in the future, who knows what the administration will be, time will tell, but I can say: this administration will not go into a lockdown,” he said commenting on the impact that it would cause. an economy shutdown amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

Trump spoke in the White House’s Rose Garden about “Operation Warp Speed,” in which the government partnered with pharmaceutical companies to create and distribute a coronavirus vaccine.

The president said he expects a coronavirus vaccine to be available to the entire population of the country in April. He also said he awaited the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine “very soon.”

The big American television networks announced this Friday the projection of the final result of the elections: Democrat Biden obtained 306 votes in the Electoral College against 232 for the Republican president. Ironically, the number is the reverse of what Trump’s surprising victory over Hillary Clinton yielded in 2016.

Biden, who got almost 78 million votes nationwide, more than five million more than Trump, was declared the winner this Friday in Georgia, where the Democrats have not won since 1992 with Bill Clinton. The result consolidated his victory.

Trump won in North Carolina, but it was not enough to surpass Biden’s leadership of the 538-member Electoral College.

In the last ten days, the president has been absent from his usual presidential duties, without even commenting on the repercussions of the pandemic, which left more than 242,000 deaths and 10.5 million infections in the United States, and in recent days it has been extended with figures. records.

Closed at the White House, from where I went out to play golf on the weekend and attending a brief Veterans Day ceremony on Wednesday, Trump repeated on Twitter several times that he won re-election, while filing lawsuits to question the results without relevant evidence.

“This election has been rigged!” He tweeted on Friday, after announcing that he might “try to come say hi” to his supporters at their planned rally in Washington on Saturday to back up their fraud accusations.

However, election officials across the country said the elections were “the safest in US history,” noting that there is “no evidence” of lost or exchanged votes, or altered voting systems.

The horizon continued to darken for the Republican president after Biden received greetings not only from historic American allies, such as the United Kingdom, Israel and France, but also from China.

Thus, Trump and his environment seem to live in a parallel reality.

“The president will participate in his own inauguration,” Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told Fox News. “When all the legal votes are counted, President Trump will win.”

“We are working here in the White House under the assumption that there will be a second term from Trump,” Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro told Fox News.

Although Biden continues his preparations to take office on January 20, the issue worries his team.

Biden’s new chief of staff, Ron Klain, believes that blocking the new administration’s access to the current government’s confidential information meetings represents a growing danger.

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Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday night, Klain stressed the need to be aware of the Covid-19 vaccination plans between “February and March”, when Biden will already be in the Oval Office.

“The sooner we can get our transition specialists to meet with the people who are planning the vaccination campaign, the more relaxed it will be,” he said.

The Trump administration’s persistent delay in recognizing Biden’s victory represents “a serious risk to national security”, warned more than 150 former area officials in a letter Thursday, including some who worked with Trump.

Among the signatories, Democrats and Republicans, are former Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, Republican, and Michael Hayden, former chief of the National Security Agency (NSA) and, later, of the CIA during the Democratic and Republican presidencies.

The group urged the Director of the General Services Administration (GSA), Emily Murphy, to officially recognize Biden as president-elect.

Without confirmation from the GSA, Biden does not have access to transition funds and other resources, including intelligence reports.

While many in the Republican Party have been loyal to Trump, others believe that, for the good of the country, Biden should be able to access confidential information.