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More than three days after the closing of polling stations and the counting of all votes, both those cast in person and those cast by mail, the United States of America has a new president. It is Democrat Joe Biden, 78 years old in two weeks, who wins the White House with the largest popular vote in history. Joining him will be the first female vice president in US history, Kamala Harris.
The victory comes after the big chains awarded the states of Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona to the Democratic candidate. Making him reach and thus exceed the fateful threshold of 270 large voters. Biden’s first words as president immediately reveal his first goal: the unity of the entire country. The invitation is, in fact, to “put aside the anger and bitter rhetoric behind us and unite as a nation.” So much so that the appointment of a working group of twelve experts to fight and contain the spread of the coronavirus in the US as early as Monday. And it will be the first political act as president-elect, held even before announcing the transition team. But from here until his swearing-in as the 46th president of the United States scheduled for January 20, 2021, Biden will soon face a major hurdle. That’s the obstruction, to put it mildly, of the incumbent president and his election challenger, Donald Trump.
In addition to not granting victory to his competitor, Trump continues to write messages on Twitter in which he emphasizes that he has won and that only the irregularity of the vote says otherwise. And he promises a state-by-state legal battle: “Starting Monday – he said with his entourage – our campaign will begin to take the case to court to ensure that electoral laws are fully respected and the real winner is installed.” But that is not all. CNN reports that at the moment the mogul has no intention of inviting Biden to the White House in the next few days. Contrary to the institutional tradition that provides for a transfer between the outgoing president and the one elected in the Oval Office. A meeting that also took place in 2016 between Barack Obama and Trump himself, who had just emerged victorious from the presidential elections.
According to US media reports, Trump commented on Biden’s victory call: “We all know why Joe Biden is in a rush to show himself as the winner and why his media allies are trying to help him: they don’t want the truth to emerge. The simple reality is that these elections are far from closed. ”Thus, we are faced with an unprecedented situation because never before has a defeated president not bestowed victory on his opponent.
While waiting to understand what turn Trump’s “resistance” will take, Biden is already thinking about the government team. Deal with the left but also keep the doors open to the opposition, to become “everyone’s president” and have bipartisan support. In the American media, the Totonomino has long heralded the most progressive administration in history, with former Obamians and former primary rivals to ensure the unity and consensus of the left. But the scene is changing. If Republicans retain control of the Senate, as it appears, it will be difficult or impossible for overly progressive minister appointments to pass.
To avoid stagnation, Biden will be forced to negotiate with the leader of the Great Old Party in the Senate Mitch McConnell, with whom, however, he maintains an old friendship corroborated by the long common militancy in the upper house of Congress. The two will become the new powerful couple in America. But Biden will have to move his government to the center, risking a conflict with the left-wing Democrat.
The first names likely to be skipped are those of anti-Wall Street Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for the Treasury, and fellow Socialist Bernie Sanders, interested in Labor. Two profiles that would never happen with the Republicans.
Former primary rivals include former gay South Bend mayor and former war veteran Pete Buttigieg (ambassador to the UN or secretary for veterans affairs) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Justice). Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, one of the first to support Biden, is competing for transportation. Or the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, a department disputed with Deputy Karen Bass, among the finalists for the vice presidency and papable also for health. The name of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham also rebounds.
The squad also includes Jared Bernstein, as an economic adviser, and Tony Blinken, as a national security adviser, after being number two in the Obama administration. One of the most coveted boxes is, obviously, the Secretary of State: the list includes Samantha Power, former US representative to the United Nations; William Burns, former undersecretary of state; Tom Donilon, former national security adviser. Eligible candidates also include some other senators from the former vice president’s magic circle, such as Chris Coons and Chris Murphy, the latter very close to the progressive wing. Susan Rice, a former national security adviser hated by the Great Old Party, is unlikely to pass. Biden could include some moderate Republicans in the administration. The names of Senator Mitt Romney, former Governor John Kasich and Chuck Hakel are circulating, who could return to the Pentagon as in the Obama era.
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