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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

‘The will of the people always prevails’: Biden promises ‘peaceful and orderly’ transition to Trump

President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Thursday - (AP)

Four years after Donald Trump refused to acknowledge losing the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden said he would honor Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris by facilitating a “peaceful and orderly transition” to the incoming Republican administration.

In remarks delivered from the White House Rose Garden on Thursday to an audience that included a large portion of Biden’s cabinet, plus his granddaughter, Finnegan Biden, the president called the American electoral system “the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world.”

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