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Donald Trump does not want to recognize Joe Biden’s electoral victory. But the Democrat begins to prepare to take over the government. The crown crisis is a top priority.
“Ready from day one” – that’s the promise of newly elected US President Joe Biden’s new website. And before officially taking office, the Democrat wants to bet: on Monday he wants to present an expert council to contain the corona pandemic. His goal is to launch an action plan to overcome the Corona crisis on the day of its inauguration on January 20. “I want everyone to know: we will put our plan to control the virus on our first day,” Biden said Saturday night (local time) in his victory speech in his hometown of Wilmington.
The expert council should have dual leadership, Biden’s spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said Sunday on NBC News. Therefore, it should be directed by Vivek Murthy and David Kessler. Murthy was the U.S. government’s chief health officer from 2014 to 2017, and Kessler previously led the FDA’s Food and Drug Administration. They have been advising on the pandemic since March, Bedingfield said.
The pandemic and the economic fallout from the Corona crisis are likely to be Biden’s biggest challenge at the beginning of his term. Biden has promised voters that they will listen to scientific recommendations to help contain the pandemic. Without defeating the virus, “we cannot fix the economy, regain momentum, or enjoy the best moments of life,” Biden said Saturday. All generations of a family should be able to meet again, birthday parties and weddings should be possible again, demanded Biden. “He will spare no effort or compromise,” Biden promised.
An average of about 100,000 new corona cases per day.
The pandemic remains completely out of control in the United States, a country of around 330 million people. Authorities recently reported an average of around 100,000 new infections per day. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there have been 9.9 million confirmed infections and more than 237,000 related deaths in the US since the pandemic began. Biden accuses Trump of a total failure in relation to the pandemic, blaming him for the deaths of thousands of Americans.
The US media reported that Biden’s team is already planning a series of rulings on other areas of policy that the president intends to sign immediately after his oath. Among other things, it is said that he wants to repeal some of Trump’s strict immigration rules and that he wants to achieve a return to the international climate protection agreement in Paris, as the “New York Times” reported.
Biden, 77, had been declared the winner of Tuesday’s election by the US media after a slow recount of the votes on Saturday. Current President Donald Trump will continue to rule until January 20. Republican Trump, however, opposes being removed from office after just one term and accuses Democrats of voter fraud, without providing any solid evidence. With the help of his lawyers, Trump hopes to avoid defeat. However, the chances of success are extremely low.
Many congratulations to the Democratic duo
Despite the dispute over the election outcome, many heads of state and government have already congratulated Biden, including Chancellor Angela Merkel and one of Trump’s closest allies to date, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. . The only surviving former Republican president, George W. Bush, also congratulated Biden.
Merkel wants to make a statement on the outcome of the US elections at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin on Monday (10.45 am). Merkel had already congratulated Biden at the weekend, but did not comment on the acting president’s behavior.
In the US, it is common for presidential elections to be decided based on the forecasts of the mainstream media, usually on election night. Official results sometimes come much later. Due to the corona pandemic, millions of Americans had voted by letter this year, so the vote count took longer. The president of the United States is only indirectly elected by the people. The votes of the electors decide the composition of the electoral college, which then elects the president in December.
Vote counting continued in several states. Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina, and Alaska have yet to see a winner. The first three states are likely to go relatively safe to Biden, the last to Trump.
