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President-elect Joe Biden will try to “turn the page to divisions” in the country during his inauguration speech next Wednesday, in which he will convey an “optimistic” vision of the future of a nation mired in a political and public health crisis.
“He believes that we can unite this country,” said this Sunday what will be Biden White House communications director, Kate Bedingfield, in an interview with ABC News.
The president-elect will assume power at the inauguration ceremony with the highest security in the history of the United States, due to the threats that still lie after the assault on the Capitol by the radical followers of the outgoing president, Donald Trump, on January 6 .
Biden will also take the reins of the country hardest hit by the world’s pandemic in absolute terms, which borders on the 400,000 deaths from covid-19, and where millions of Americans need urgent help to pay their bills or keep their businesses afloat.
“He believes that a unified America is the only way we can deal with the massive crises we are dealing with,” Bedingfield stressed.
Turn the page
Therefore, Biden will use his first speech as president “to try to turn the page to the divisions and hatred of the last four years, and present a positive and optimistic vision of the country; present a path that really asks us all to work together ”, said the advisor.
“That is what the Americans want, that is what they voted for in this election. 81 million Americans voted for President-elect Biden in part because he was presenting a plan for this country that will lead us to a place where we can work together, so that is what he will talk about on the 20th, “concluded Bedingfield.
Putting that idea into practice will be tricky, however, in a country deeply divided by Trump’s defiance of the November election result, where an impeachment trial against the outgoing president is about to begin and where Republican opposition in the Senate vows to thwart Biden’s plans.
Divided country
This polarization is reflected in a poll published this Sunday by The Washington Post and ABC News, according to which the 49% of Americans believe that Biden will make the right decisions for the country, while 50% believe otherwise.
The percentage who trust Biden is much higher than the 38% of Americans who believed the same about Trump when he came to power in 2017, but much lower than the 61% who expressed faith in the decisions of former President Barack Obama before his inauguration in 2009 .
The poll also shows that 67% of Americans approve of the way Biden has handled the complex transition period, far more than the 40% who said the same about Trump and less than the 80% who thought so. same about Obama.
More than 6 in 10 Americans believe that Biden was legitimately elected; But when the respondents are divided by party, 7 out of 10 Republicans still do not believe that their election was a fair one, revealing the influence that Trump’s claims without evidence of fraud still have on the party.
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