It’s Uphill for Biden, but He Knows How To Climb

After four years of a right-leaning administration determined to dismantle the national and international successes of Republican and Democratic administrations since the 1950s comes the election triumph of seasoned Democratic politician Joe Biden and his vice president, California Sen. Kamala Harris, who have come as a social and economic breath of relief for the majority of Americans, even though 70-odd million still believe in the slogan “Make America Great Again,” as if the United States of January 2017 had not been better than ever, domestically and internationally speaking, following economic crisis that engulfed the second term of Republican President George W. Bush.

Biden’s election wasn’t easy, and it looks like he’ll arrive at the White House with a great political victory but with an uphill administrative future, especially if he has to govern with a Republican Senate should the Jan. 5 runoff election in Georgia not seat the two senators the Democratic Party needs for a tie with 50 elected Republicans.

At the same time, there’s the conservative majority on the Supreme Court that will more than certainly want to liquidate Democratic initiatives. But despite the screaming and litigation that alleged the voting in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania — states which Trump won in 2016 — was tainted by fraud, Republican observers in each state later asserted that were counted properly as the well-known recounts confirmed, to the disgust of millions of Republicans.

President-elect Biden is meeting with informed regional and local politicians to gather opinions and information about concerns for a national policy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, which is creating havoc and spreading uncontrolled due to how the federal government responded indifferently in treating the disease this year and the disastrous repercussions of the outbreak on the economy and the spirit of the people, repercussions that continue to worsen.

Biden’s experience as senator for many years and as a vice president gives him the skills necessary to be as close as possible to the people affected by social and structural deficiencies in health, education, immigration and with regard to race in recent years. As of Nov. 15, with 97% of the vote counted in 50 states and U.S. territories, Biden had 78,666,153 votes, or 50.8%, while his opponent had 73,110,783 votes, or 47.4%. Biden has won 306 Electoral College votes; the incumbent president had won 232 votes of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency. Biden’s election is unquestionable given how the recognized recounts showed how incorruptible the system is. It’s good that the recounts took place because the costly complaints by Republicans will now go up in smoke. According to Bloomberg Politics, on Nov. 15, the president appeared to acknowledge that Biden won, albeit fraudulently. “He won because the election was rigged,” Trump said.

Trump later walked the acknowledgment back, and Twitter marked the messages as disputed information concerning election results. Trump added that he did not recognize anything, saying, “We have a long way to go.” As hard as it is for Trump to accept, the more recounts and court decisions that rule against him, the stronger Biden’s victory is.