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Ultimately, it was the votes in Pennsylvania that decided the presidential election. Joe Biden’s homeland, the state in the rust belt where he was born and always returns to when he talks about his driving force. With a working-class background from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden has painted himself as the opposite of Donald Trump from Park Avenue in Manhattan. The moral alternative to Trump, as he called himself.
Now it’s Joe Biden which will try to unite a divided United States, marked by the worst pandemic in a century, in the midst of an economic crisis that risks deepening, with nationwide protests against racism and a political climate where the gaps between the right and the left seem abysmal.
Biden will be the oldest incoming president in the United States to date, he will soon be 78, but also the most politically experienced. For 48 years, he has been at the political center of Washington, as a senator and later as Obama’s vice president. He has become known as an effective negotiator, used to compromising between parties. The question is how useful that capability is in today’s divided Washington, where the two sides’ portrayal of reality often seems completely different.
Even when it comes to the election result differs from the pictures. Biden has declared himself the winner, according to the predictions of all the major media outlets, but Donald Trump has not admitted defeat.
The legal aftermath can continue for weeks. But if the outcome of the current election is determined in Congress, Biden will take office, no matter what Trump says.
Donald Trump goes down in history as a president who has made himself a target for breaking rules and traditions. You may choose to quit in the same way. As the first outgoing president of the United States to refuse to admit a loss.
