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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joan E Greve in Washington

‘No time to pull punches’: is a civil war on the horizon for the Democratic party?

an elderly man in front of a microphone with US flags as a backdrop
Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Rose Garden of the White House on 7 November 2024. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Joe Biden stood before the American people, millions of whom were still reeling from the news of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race, and reassured them: “We’re going to be OK.”

In his first remarks since his vice-president and chosen successor, Kamala Harris, lost the presidential election, Biden delivered a pep talk from the White House Rose Garden on a sunny Thursday that clashed with Democrats’ black mood in the wake of their devastating electoral losses. Biden pledged a smooth transfer of power to Trump and expressed faith in the endurance of the American experiment.

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