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With legal challenges to the election process. Im Clay Richards and welcome to the show joe biden has begun his 1st a full day as u. S. President elect by getting down to work by 1st went to mass at the Catholic Church in his home town willing to wilmington delaware where his son is buried hes planning an overhaul of government with a task force to tackle the coronavirus pandemic as his top priority earlier abidin used his victory speech to reinforce his message that its time to heal a divided nation. Meanwhile a defiant President Donald Trump has returned to the golf course where he was playing when u. S. Networks declared that biden had won the election trump has yet to concede defeat he insists the election was stolen from him and his family to press ahead with legal challenges. To washington then our correspondents is standing by sumi trump on the golf course while biden it goes to church what are we to make of this. Well clear we know that joe biden does go to Church Weekly this i
Finished were going to see a runoff in particular there in the state of georgia thats right all of our salary pouring for us from wilmington delaware thank you so much. Back here to europe where many leaders are hoping joe biden will help repair transatlantic ties that have been strained under the presidency germanys foreign minister today hails bidens election victory as a chance for a new start so what would a biden presidency look like for europe. He says he views you rope as a park now 1st resort and has pledged to work more with allies joe biden and leader with long standing ties to europe here in brussels e. U. Officials are hoping that joe biden the will rebuild Transatlantic Relations and restore trust. Trust they are expecting a friendlier tone towards europe but will there be real change in terms of substance fabrice put on the. Official is skeptical he believes its keno to focus on issues important to both i think its more about finding those global issues that where really
And so american citizens living in germany and for them of course there was a sense of relief and also the whole controversy about demanding ballasts have a very very happy so happy some of them even went to the american in front of the American Embassy again to celebrate others was set up writing online and of course the reaction of im going to america where you just talked about its also cheerful tweeting to h. E. Congratulates Vice President Vice President common our. President elect joe biden 4 days success in diesel action she highlighted. Translated to the need for the transatlantic ties to to remain it was a very difficult 4 years for i get america for the German Government president s you know donald trump theres been a lot of disputes between the 2 countries so of course germany is looking forward to a new start do you see this also the words used by foreign minister hi called so said he was congratulating the president elect and the Vice President and also looking forward to
Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania with 99 percent of the vote counted in pennsylvania biden it garnered a 49. 7 percent and trump received 49. 2 percent while the 20 electoral votes biden won in this state allows him to surpass the 270 that magic number needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press was also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. And democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect biden success from philadelphia to black lives matters plaza in washington to new yorks times square people showed signs of relief and excitement here some of those reactions to me me everything my mother is a disabled woman who knows the caribbean medicaid and medicare and to know. How to and you can no longer