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Donald Trump promises to step down if Joe Biden’s victory is confirmed

 

Donald Trump seems to make up his mind to step down from power. The American president in fact assured, Thursday, November 26, 2020, that he would leave “of course” the White House if the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election was officially confirmed, while repeating that he could not recognize his own defeat.

Asked whether he would leave the White House in the event of a vote by the College of Grand Voters confirming the Democrat’s victory, the Republican promised, “Of course I will. And you know it. But “if they do, they would be making a mistake,” adding: “It will be something very hard to accept,” he added.

” Third World countries “

This is the first time that Donald Trump has answered questions from journalists since the November 3 election. Since that date, he has insisted that the election had been rigged, and multiplied the legal proceedings in several states, all rejected. During his press briefing on Thursday, the Thanksgiving holiday, Donald Trump considered that the electoral infrastructure of the United States was “like that of a third world country”.

He also announced that he would travel to Georgia on December 5, where the election of two senators in January will determine the majority in the upper chamber. Joe Biden, former vice-president of Barack Obama, won 306 voters against 232 for Donald Trump. He built his victory by tearing up several old Democratic strongholds conquered in 2016 by Donald Trump, such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Start of transition

Already last Monday, Donald Trump was forced to give the green light to the launch of the transition process between his administration and that of the president-elect. Joe Biden now has access to files, funding and receives briefings from US intelligence services. The Democrat also has access to information regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and the progress of the various vaccine projects. The much-criticized management of the health crisis in the last months of a tumultuous presidency played a key role in Donald Trump’s electoral defeat. The pandemic has claimed more than 260,000 lives in the United States, the heaviest toll in the world.

Without delay, Joe Biden, 78, also began to prepare for his arrival at the White House, by announcing the first appointments of his future government. Several personalities who served under Barack Obama will be part of it, such as Antony Blinken, future head of diplomacy. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, 76, will also return to Washington as the President’s special climate envoy, a sign of the importance Joe Biden places on this issue. The president-elect is due to announce next week who will be part of his economic team. Janet Yellen, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, is expected to be appointed Secretary of the Treasury.

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