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Joe Biden announces the return of an America "ready to lead the world"

2020-11-25T19:34:27.747Z


On a large stage in his home town of Wilmington, the 78-year-old Democrat officially introduced the first six big names nominated to accompany him upon his arrival at the White House on January 20.


President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the

'return'

of an America ready to lead on the world stage after the Trump years, introducing the seasoned team he has chosen to lead diplomacy and security in his future government .

Trump loses his legal battles but persists

On a large stage in his home town of Wilmington, the 78-year-old Democrat had words for each of the first six big names nominated to accompany him upon his arrival at the White House on January 20.

With the return of multilateralism as a key message, the opposite of

“America First”

advocated by Donald Trump.

And his

"determination"

to fight against climate change.

“It's a team that reflects America's back, ready to lead the world,”

said Joe Biden, along with future vice president Kamala Harris.

This first round of appointments includes several seasoned personalities who served under Barack Obama, such as

Antony Blinken, future head of diplomacy

.

"We cannot solve the world's problems alone

,

"

said the former State Department number two.

"Multilateralism is back, diplomacy is back"

, added

the future American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield

.

Read also: United States: the face of the future Biden Administration becomes clearer

Signaling his commitment to tackling the

"climate crisis"

an

"existential threat"

, the future 46th President of the United States has created

a role of special envoy for John Kerry

.

This ex-chief of diplomacy had himself signed, on behalf of the United States, the climate agreement negotiated in 2015. The elected president promised to return from the first day of his mandate in the Paris agreement and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 in the United States.

Claiming to want to give a greater place to women and minorities, the former vice-president of Barack Obama appointed the first Hispanic

to head Internal Security, Alejandro Mayorkas

, and the first woman

to head the intelligence services, April Haines

.

The Democrat also plans, according to a source in his entourage, to appoint

former Central Bank President Janet Yellen to the Treasury

.

This is not Obama's third term.

President Trump has been a game-changer.

It became America first, it was America alone.

"

Joe biden

By choosing these qualified personalities and accustomed to power, Joe Biden signals a return to a more traditional policy than that of his predecessor Donald Trump, who arrived in Washington on the promise to break with the establishment.

However, the Democrat rejected the idea that he was only replaying a new Obama term with his team.

“We are facing a whole different world

,” he told NBC in his first interview since the election.

“President Trump was a game-changer.

It became America first, it was America alone. ”

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After two weeks of unprecedented denial in American history, the outgoing president finally gave the green light on Monday evening to initiate the process of transition to a Biden administration.

Without conceding his defeat in the presidential election of November 3.

The Republican billionaire, however, has a series of legal setbacks and snubbery in key states, the results of which he questioned.

After Michigan on Monday, Pennsylvania and Nevada in turn certified Joe Biden's victory on Tuesday.

Concretely, this green light releases funds for the Biden team and opens the door to the Trump administration to coordinate on hot topics, such as the upcoming Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

Joe Biden will also finally have access to classified information, perhaps as early as Wednesday, he said during his first interview as president-elect, granted to NBC.

In his interview, the president-elect said the transition had

"already started"

.

“There has been no resentment so far.

And I don't expect there to be, ”

he added.

The old politician has resumed his image of unifier:

"I want this country to be united"

.

And he recalled that he would seek from his first hundred days to pass an immigration reform to regularize some 11 million undocumented migrants living in the United States.

A difficult task if Congress remains divided between Democrats and Republicans in January.

Read also: The White House authorizes the transition

At the Pentagon, State Department or the Ministry of Health, officials of the Trump administration showed their cooperation on Tuesday.

Sometimes not without shooting a few arrows.

“No more multilateralism just to be able to spend time with their friends at cocktail parties?

It is not in the best interest of the United States, "

said US Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo, saying the Trump administration was focused on getting

" real results

.

"

Appearing more and more isolated in his attempt to deny defeat, Donald Trump did not have a word on Tuesday for the election in two public speeches.

The 45th American president welcomed the new record of the New York Stock Exchange and the progress towards a vaccine against Covid-19.

And he, in the gardens of the White House as on Twitter, hammered out his slogan:

"America first!"

.

Source: lefigaro

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