Biden's appeal: no more divisions, respect the outcome of the vote

"In America we have free elections and the result must be respected, it must be honored, because the Americans would accept nothing else".

Joe Biden's warning in his first speech to the nation as president-elect, in which he makes a solemn appeal for national unity in the face of an unprecedented health and economic crisis.

But while Biden speaks from his Wilmington, Donald Trump simultaneously freezes him with a phone call to his supporters in Pennsylvania during which he urges everyone to overturn the outcome of the vote.

    Thus, despite the transition for the transfer of power from one administration to another in these hours, Biden's warning and appeal return to clash with Trump's wall, more than ever determined not to concede victory and to give still battle.

"We need to overturn the elections," the tycoon told Republican Senators from Pennsylvania.

His voice from a mobile phone supported by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani: "These elections have been rigged," Trump reiterated, drawing inspiration again from several conspiracy theories that have so far not found any response.

    Meanwhile Biden hoped for "the end of this sad season of divisions", first of all to try to prevail over a devastating virus: "Fighting this pandemic is a duty of all of us as Americans, we need to redouble our efforts," Biden said, explaining how the federal government can do a lot, but also that all citizens must feel obliged to wear masks, respect social distancing and avoid crowds, even on holidays such as Thanksgiving.

    After all, despite repeated calls to stay at home, millions of people have moved from one part of the United States to another for the long Thanksgiving weekend which this year risks having a multiplier effect on infections: already two million in the last two weeks, an absolute record, with an impressive average of about two thousand deaths per day.

"From now on it will be Covid 24 hours a day, seven days a week," say the collaborators of the president-elect's anti-coronavirus task force, who are already working with the White House, with the federal health authorities of the CDC, with Anthony Fauci's Institute for Infectious Diseases and with the leaders of the Warp Speed ​​project for the distribution of vaccines, which Biden would like to be made available first of all to hospitals and schools.

    "We can and must overcome the current crisis together", his appeal, reaffirmed the commitment to go beyond the political controversy and to work against the pandemic and, in general, for the country in a climate as bipartisan as possible, also together with republicans.

To the point of not excluding the presence of personalities from the conservative world also within his government team.

This latter hypothesis was reiterated in the first TV interview released after the elections, and which risks creating the first friction with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Especially since Biden seems to be closing the doors of the government to names of the caliber of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: "Personalities so important it is better that they stay in Congress", he explained on Nbc.

    "Mine will not be a third Obama term," promised the president-elect, trying to shake off the bulky shadow of the former president with whom he has already shared eight years in the White House: after a term of Trump and the pandemic "the landscape has changed, today the United States faces a totally different world", he explained.

It is therefore necessary to reconstruct what for Biden were the serious damages of the doctrine of America First, "transformed - he said - into America Sola", an isolationism that must be broken.

The premises are there, given the welcome of Biden's victory by European leaders and after the openings to dialogue in the last few hours also from Beijing and Tehran, with Xi Jinping and Hassan Rohani who hoped for a return to relations before the it was Trump.

(HANDLE).