“We have already started the transition,” says Joe Biden despite Trump’s refusal to accept defeat in the elections | US elections 2016

Even after the agencies that have monitored the US election count for decades declared Biden elected, the government of Republican Donald Trump refuses to concede defeat. The agency that was supposed to start the transition procedures has not yet started working.

“The fact that they don’t want to acknowledge our victory at this point is not something that has a lot of implications for our planning,” Biden said.

When asked if he had anything to say to Trump, the Democrat replied with a smile: “I look forward to our conversation”. It is customary, in the United States, for the defeated candidate to call the winner shortly after the agencies monitoring the count declare the winner.

Trump claims, without providing proof, for the time being, that he won the election and that vote-counting fraud in key states like Pennsylvania. The Republican promised to go to court to reverse the electoral result, but, so far, nothing has been decided in favor of the defeated candidate.

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was ready to “begin the transition to a second Trump term.” Despite the statement by the head of US diplomacy, Biden has already received calls and messages from world leaders and allies such as Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Boris Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu and, most recently, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Biden commented on the calls to world leaders. “I’m telling you the United States is back”, said. “The welcome we have received from the world of our allies and friends has been real. And I feel confident in moving the United States to a place of respect, as it was before,” he added.

Biden and Harris ask for Obamacare maintenance

Biden also criticized the Supreme Court’s challenge to Obamacare by Republican Party politicians on Tuesday, supported by Donald Trump. For the democrat, the question about the program that gives access to health plans “does not have to be partisan.”

“For many Americans, this is a matter of life and death, literally,” Biden said.

“I am not naive about the fact that access to health care is an issue that has divided Americans in the past, but the truth is that the American people are more united than divided on this issue today,” said the Democrat.

Obamacare returned to Supreme Court debates this week after a lawsuit brought by states ruled by the Republican Party and supported by the Donald Trump administration’s Justice Department, which still refuses to accept defeat in the presidential election.

Most of the Supreme Court justices were elected by GOP presidents and are often opposed to measures like this. However, two conservative justices, John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, the latter selected by Donald Trump, have already given signs that they will not overthrow the program.

Vice President Kamala Harris called for the program to be maintained to ensure access to health care for Americans with pre-existing illnesses, conditions that worsen during this new coronavirus pandemic. The United States is currently experiencing the worst moment of the health crisis, with more than 100,000 cases a day.

“If the Supreme Court agrees with opponents of the law, the decision could deprive 20 million Americans of access to healthcare,” the vice president-elect warned.

Obamacare was designed for people who could not afford health insurance. The program was approved in 2010, is known as the Affordable Health Act (ACA) and is considered one of the most important policies of the Obama administration.

More than 20 million Americans are insured by law, including poor adults, young people 26 and younger who benefit from their parents’ insurance, and people whose pre-existing medical conditions have led to the rejection of a commercial health plan. .

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