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November 7, 1972: Joe biden is elected senator. November 7, 2020: Former Obama MP is named President of the United States. 48 years later, Joe celebrates, along with Kamala harris, this historic day with a short and very clear speech that speaks to the heart of America. A seasoned politician with a very long career, Joe is also a leader used to being among the people: he knows that Trump has changed the United States and he also changes languages. Presidential, but also popular, colloquial in calling for the end of the era of demonization of the adversary, because those who do not think like us are not an enemy: we are all Americans. Biden proposes himself as the healer of the wounds that tear America apart – a huge task given the climate of recent years – and puts a first stitch of suture by avoiding assaulting the president, indirectly quoted only to say he understands his disappointment: it happened for me too: I twice unsuccessfully targeted the White House.
Human, empathetic, but still a seasoned leader Knowing the Administration machine in all its corners like few others, Biden is already working hard to build a team and a government program. Hoping to sound out the Republican leaders he will have to negotiate with, as they will likely retain control of the Senate. Already today to establish its working group on the coronavirus.
Big party, on eagle wings. On Wilmington night, amid fireworks and PC-controlled drone patrols drawing America and the flag in the sky, Biden celebrates his triumph. a huge popular drive-in party with people out of their cars, standing on hoods or perched on rooftops, that has been going on for hours. Many masks but of doubtful utility, since there are also many bottles of champagne that pass from mouth to mouth.
Perfect speech
Joe rushes to the podium and delivers, with unusual vigor, a speech that on Fox, the network close to President Karl Rove, George Bush’s electoral strategist, defines perfectly: what the United States wanted to hear, wait. of the potential reunification of the country. Reclaiming his origins, born and raised in working class Scranton, Biden presents himself as a man of the people who wants to rebuild the middle class and is determined to fight a battle for America’s soul, to restore trust where hatred prevails today. .
Biden calls himself a bridge to the future (a reference to her advanced age and a tribute to Kamala Harris, the first woman, a woman of color, to enter the United States Office) and heir to political traditions ranging from Abraham Lincoln to John Kennedy, to the Obama of Yes we can.
When he announces his battle against Covid, pays tribute to the 230,000 families who lost their loved ones in the epidemic and dedicates a religious hymn to them, Su Ali d’Aquila, loved by her son Beau: the beloved first-born who should have been their political heir and who, instead ,, died five years ago from cancer. Beau’s memory finally returns as Wilmington’s unusually warm night is lit up with fireworks as the speakers play You are the Best by Tina Turner and then Coldplay’s Sky Full of Stars, her missing son’s band of choice.
Biden and the Republicans
A great party, but Biden is already looking to the future. He knows that he has to run and that he will not have an easy life, as tight as on three fronts: a president who will sow traps during the two and a half months of the interregnum and then wage war on him from the opposition; a Senate that remained in Republican hands whose leader, Mitch McConnell, a former prominent Southern politician, will influence Biden both in the formation of the government and in its programs that, translated into laws, must be approved by the Houses; the radical left whose weight in the party has grown considerably in recent years and whose support, substantial, if not extraordinary, has allowed Biden to win in the industrial states lost in 2016 by Hillary Clinton.
Reunite the country: beautiful motto, great task. Obama also wanted to be a bipartisan leader – it was very different.
Biden He knows that with a Trump unleashed he runs the risk of having an even worse ending, but he did not say: Trump has changed the United States and has many followers, but he also has his weaknesses and in these 4 years he has done so, even on the right, countless enemies. Biden will seek common ground with the old Republican guard that, with the eclipse of Donald, could retell. Relations with McConnell are tough, but the two are pragmatic politicians – they could work together.
Diversity team
It took Bush a year to build his administration. Trump never created it. Biden will be ready from day one to put people he feels capable of in key roles, thanks to his vast experience. However, it will not be easy: 4000 appointments are owed, 1000 of which will have to be ratified by the Senate. Regarding the ministers, he will surely suffer a condition that will force him to renounce names that the Republicans do not like. Not necessarily that you don’t like it at all – it could help you contain pressure from the radical left that Elizabeth Warren would like to take over the Treasury (Joe, on the other hand, would think Fed economist Lael Brainard) and Bernie Sanders at work. The truth is that his government and that of Kamala will be the one with the greatest diversity of sex and race. The transition team led by Biden loyalists is studying many hypotheses: Ted Kaufman, Yohannes Abraham and Jeff Zients, who could become the White House chief of staff.
The government’s strategy
Biden will govern relying heavily on presidential executive orders like Trump did (he fights 24 in the first 100 days, Joe is preparing even more). The new president will revoke many measures of his predecessor, such as blocking immigration from Muslim countries, making the United States return to the Paris climate agreements and the World Health Organization.
America in the world
Biden will keep a hard line with China and will certainly not rule out the recent agreement between Israel and some Sunni countries, but he will also offer a hand to Iran in trying to revive the nuclear deal. For him it is a priority to strengthen relations with European allies, after the strong tensions fueled by Trump.
Catholic President
After John Kennedy, Biden will be the second Catholic in the White House. For Pope Francis, excellent news especially because Joe (last visit to the Vatican in 2016) is a progressive Catholic who wants to fight poverty in a world without barriers: the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José Gómez, yesterday welcomed his appointment. also because Joe’s positions are far from those of the more conservative Catholic currents that dialogue with American evangelicals and do not hide their hostility towards the Pontiff.
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