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President Joe Biden called President Donald J. Trump to congratulate him on his victory and extended an invitation to the White House to ensure a smooth transition between the current Administration and the incoming Administration. President Trump looks forward to the meeting, which will take place shortly, and very much appreciated the call,
And on both of those, she had to get involved. She couldn’t push it off,
And you can be supportive of someone and still say, ‘I’m something different. I don’t look like him. I don’t sound like him. We have complementary points of view, but they’re not identical,
Was she loyal? Absolutely. Did it hurt her in the campaign? Absolutely,
Luntz said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday He also invited president-elect Trump to meet with him in the White House. The staff will coordinate a specific date in the near future. Tomorrow, President Biden will address the nation to discuss the election results and the transition,
It was the best decision I made. Her story represents the best of America’s story. And as she made clear today, I have no doubt that she’ll continue writing that story,
The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for,
He was supposed to be the bridge, a transition bridge for the next generation of Democrats,
said Douglas Brinkley, a veteran presidential historian We should have had a primary with all the talent and it would have given us a better chance to educate everyone on who the candidates were,
said Mark Buell, a prominent Democratic donor who supported Harris’ campaign There may have been an opportunity for her to distance herself from President Biden on the economy, ... and I think that is the place where we have to look back and say what we could’ve done there.”
The biggest onus of this loss is on President Biden,
said Andrew Yang, who ran against Biden in 2020 for the Democratic nomination and endorsed Harris' unsuccessful run Harris was dealt a really bad hand. Some of it was Biden's making and some maybe not,
said Bennett, who served as an aide to Vice President Al Gore during the Clinton administration There is not a thing that comes to mind,
Harris said, giving the Trump campaign a sound bite it replayed through Election Day That’s what we do in this town, Republican or Democrat,
I think that would have made a huge difference,
said Jerushatalla Pallay, a Howard University student who attended the speech at the center of her campus His presidency will not get high marks because he was hired to extinguish Trump and Trumpism and they’re both alive and well in America,
The question becomes which is the norm and which is the exception,
said Richard Haass, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations Maybe in 20 or 30 years, history will remember Biden for some of these achievements,
said Thom Reilly, co-director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy at Arizona State University This was an election about the Biden administration policies, particularly inflation and the economy,
said Quentin James, a co-founder of the Collective PAC, an organisation focused on supporting black voters and elected officials But they didn’t feel it,
Coons said in an interview on CNN
