Donald Trump loses the American Election but Refuses to accept Defeat. By Donovan Reynolds Independent Writer.
Last Saturday, from Times Square to Timbuktu, the world
celebrated the end of Donald Trump's tumultuous reign as President of the
United States of America; the celebrations in the cities across the US looked
like the festivities following the dethroning of a South American dictator. There
was an overarching feeling of relief as it was felt by his critics that
President Trump was leading the US towards a hateful and tyrannical place. His
demonization of immigrants, Muslims, Blacks, LGBTQ, and disabled people over his
four years of President is well documented and has become a source of
embarrassment for many Americans.
In a live broadcast, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice
President-elect Kamala Harris made victory speeches to the nation in Biden’s hometown
of Wilmington, Delaware. They both spoke before enthusiastic Democratic Party
supporters. The President elect's overarching theme was a call for unity as the
outcome of the bruising election has left a sharply-divided nation.
Meanwhile, his Vice President-elect created history by
becoming the first woman and first woman of colour to be elected vice president
in the USA. The daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants paved homage to her
mother and the generations of women - Black,
Asian, white, Latina, Native American - who throughout our nation's history paved
the way for her historic victory. kingstonmouth.com believe that when Kamala Harris takes the
oath of office on January 20, 2021, more than one glass ceiling will shatter:
America will have its first female vice president, as well as its first Black
and South Asian-American vice president. She will be second in line for the
most powerful office in the world. Young ethnic female minorities in the US
looking on will see a president in the second-highest office in the US looking
like themselves. For women, her ascendancy to the role of Vice President is the
greatest quantum leap of progress since women won the right to vote in the US
100 years ago.
Although Joe Biden has secured enough votes to become President-elect
of the United States, Donald Trump is
accusing the Democrats of colluding with the mainstream press to steal the
election; he won’t accept the outcome of the election result as fair. Trump
also has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. In fact, he appeared
before the press in the early hours of last Wednesday morning making baseless claim
he had won the election, then re-appeared on US television on Thursday night, looking
out of touch and rather ridiculous, to rant again about stolen ballots.
Earlier on Saturday, before the official announcement was made by CNN, a belligerent and stubborn
President Trump was at his golf course in Virginia. He later returned to the
White House, which was ringed with celebrating demonstrators. The President has
largely been peddling unfound claims of voter fraud and is refusing to accept
defeat and suffered a big blow when Fox News, a US conservative cable network
that has been supportive of his presidency, also called the race for Mr. Biden.
President Trump was
dealt a further blow on Sunday when former Republican President George W. Bush
congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on winning the White House. Sending a message to GOP about the election’s
outcome the former President remarked, “though we have political differences, I
know Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify
our country.” Additionally, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, an ardent Trump supporter,
advised the President to “accept defeat” and further insisted that the concession
should come, with “grace and composure”.
The expectation is that when Joe Biden begins his Presidency
in January of next year as President of the United States, he will reshape US
relationship with countries around the world. At home in the US, he will have to
use his executive Presidential order to re-join the World Health Organisation and
the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation agreement.
On the domestic
front, President-elect Biden and his new cabinet will preside over a government
with a slightly reduced number in Congress. The Senate will be still controlled
by the Republicans, at least until the US mid-term elections early next year;
this will mean that it will be difficult to pass through the upper house his
tax increase on the rich to fund his economic programme.
In the aftermath of Biden’s victory, the United States reported
more than 126,000 new cases of the coronavirus two days in a row, as medical
experts warn that the outbreak is worsening across the country and could lead
to a devastating winter. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris elect
won on a promise of fixing the Corona Virus outbreak. Two hundred thousand
Americans have already died from the pandemic and the numbers are ratcheting
up. This Monday, Biden announced the members of his coronavirus task force who
will consult with state and local leaders to help steer the federal response
once he takes office in January of next year.
Presently, the essential process of handing over power to
Biden appears to be stalled. Inside the White House, there is no expectation
that steps toward a transition will move ahead until Trump concedes or the
government formally declares Biden the winner; a stubborn President Trump continues
to encourage his legal and campaign teams to forge ahead with their attempts to
challenge the election results. In the days to come, we at kingstonmouth.com
anticipate that a cornered Donald Trump will continue to fire shots at his
political opponents from the bow of his sinking political ship. His core
character is to shame the American democratic process.
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