Following Trump’s victory, Biden affirmed that “the American people deserve a peaceful transition”.

After Donald Trump won Tuesday’s election against the Democratic candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris, the still President of the United States, Joe Biden, declared this Thursday that “the people of the United States deserve a peaceful transition of power”.

Biden said in a brief speech at the White House that yesterday, on Wednesday, he spoke to Trump to congratulate him on his victory and guarantee a “peaceful transition”, and that he planned to work to ensure that his administration Instructed that the change should happen like this.

The president appeared in Washington to accept defeat from Howard University a day after Kamala Harris did so. More than 100 days after Biden resigned from the candidacy amid internal pressure from his party, the president recalled in a statement yesterday that choosing Harris was “the best decision” he made when he withdrew from the presidential race. This phrase is the same statement he made earlier in Chicago when he testified to his Vice President.

Now, Democrats can only lick their wounds and analyze the reasons for the debacle. Trump has not only won the presidential election, but Republicans have managed to gain control of the Senate and are on their way to gaining control of the House of Representatives as well. In her speech on Wednesday, Harris tried to point to a future without regrets and without losing hope, aware of dark times to come, but also aware that those within the party will be held to account for the election. Accusing fingers will start being raised. failure.

One of the first to be pointed to is Biden, who has been criticized for wanting to hold on to the candidacy for too long, leaving too little margin to make a more solid choice. According to critics, one of Harris’s burdens is her lack of definition. After the debate against Trump, despite emerging victorious and managing to corner her opponent, many voters who saw her face to face continued to have the same sentiment: that they did not know Harris well enough.

However, this lack of definition by Harris may also be the result of an effort to present a candidacy attractive to conservative voters, rather than due to timing. “I am Kamala Harris, my pronoun is ‘she’, I am a woman,” she said at a roundtable held at the White House in 2022. Two years later, in the midst of the presidential race, Harris sidelined him. She took the position of saying that she owns a Glock and that if she were president the United States would have “the deadliest military in the world.”

In a statement, Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders put it this way: “We should not be too surprised that a Democratic Party that has abandoned the working class finds that the working class has abandoned it. As Democratic leaders defend status quoThe American people are angry and want change.

Another element that the party will have to consider is the divided vote. Trump has won in Arizona, but Proposition 139 has also won to protect abortion rights, and Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego is on track to defeat Republican Kari Lake, who has criticized Trump for mimicking his rhetoric. Has dedicated himself. The same thing happened in North Carolina: Trump won, but the governor’s race was won by Democratic candidate Josh Stein.