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The number of infections continues to rise, Biden and Harris leave no room for doubt: the fight against Covid will mark their beginning in office. An old friend should help them.
By Arthur Landwehr, ARD-Studio Washington
The promised plan remains valid for the beginning of the Biden presidency: a constant fight against the coronavirus and a return to a common climate policy with the rest of the world. Thus, the future US president Joe Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris in their first joint interview on the US station CNN.
Climate change, crown and the “dignity of government”
“Time is running out,” says Harris, referring to climate change. And when it comes to Corona, Biden wants to start very specifically: “I ask people to wear a mask for 100 days. Not forever, just 100 days.” One of the previous ones from Donald Trump’s team will advise him in the future: Anthony Fauci, as part of his Covid team. He himself will be publicly vaccinated as soon as the safety of the substance is approved.
Biden is also pushing for another aid package to help the unemployed and small businesses. It will be difficult to have to work with a likely Republican Senate, as with all the other issues that are important to him, Biden said.
“It will be difficult. But I am confident that we have room to maneuver when it comes to national security and for people to get back to work, to stimulate the economy.”
“The government of Twitter will end”
They wanted to restore the dignity and reliability of the government, the Ministry of Justice would once again be independent and not an instrument of policy. And governance with Twitter is over.
He wanted to team up with Harris, Biden said. Just as he experienced it with Obama. “He wants me to be the first and last in the room,” Harris said.
On foreign policy, Biden promises to work closely with partners in Europe and NATO again. When it comes to preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons or putting Russia in its place.
And it will take a tough stance towards China, refuse to accept the theft of intellectual property and insist on fair rules to deal with them.
The world is changing rapidly, the fourth industrial revolution is disturbing and the problems for the world of work, the preservation of a strong middle class are important. The United States would have to play a leadership role. “This is a bit like 1932. Something is fundamentally changing, not just in America, around the world,” Biden said.
Trump should be there when the job is delivered
When Biden and Harris are sworn in on January 20, Biden would like Donald Trump to be there. It is not about himself, but about the country. “We have to show that after the chaos it created there will be a peaceful transition of power,” Biden said.
And finally, the official name of Kamala Harris’ husband is now clear: Second Gentleman, not “Second Kind” as the moderator suggests, then “Second Kind.” But she, according to Harris, is attached to “Honey.”
