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Four years after Donald Trump refused to acknowledge dropping the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden stated 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 Wednesday to an viewers that included a big portion of Biden’s cupboard, plus his granddaughter, Finnegan Biden, the president known as the American electoral system “the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of the world.”

“The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they do it peacefully. And we’re in a democracy — the will of the people always prevails,” he stated.

To that finish, Biden stated he had held a congratulatory name with Trump — his predecessor and now his successor — and promised that he would “direct [his] entire administration” to work with Trump’s crew to move the baton to the incoming president and his employees.

“That’s what the American people deserve,” he added.

Biden additionally supplied reward for Harris, who he stated ran “an inspiring campaign” over the almost 110 days since he introduced that he was standing down from his re-election bid.

“She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran,” stated Biden, who additionally praised Harris for her “character” and for having what he described as “a back like a ramrod.”

The president’s conciliatory phrases come simply days after Trump shocked a lot of the world by besting Harris in each the electoral vote rely, which determines the identification of the subsequent president, and within the nationwide in style vote. Those two victories gave him the favored mandate he lacked when a majority of Americans throughout the nation voted in opposition to him regardless of his electoral faculty win in 2016.

The beautiful election consequence that may usher in Trump’s triumphant return to the White House subsequent 12 months was a wholesale repudiation of the Biden administration and the Democratic Party represented by Harris. It’s the latest in a string of elections which have seen incumbent events get tossed out of energy in most Western democracies, usually in favor of right-wing populists and authoritarians with whom Trump shares an affinity.

Yet Biden careworn the necessity for the nation he nonetheless results in calm its collective nerves and honor the consequence.

“The country chooses one or the other. We accept the choice the country made,” he stated.

Biden additionally praised the election employees and volunteers who helped run polls throughout the nation on Tuesday, and stated he hopes the results of this election — 4 years after Trump and his supporters rejected the end result of the final — can “lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system.”

“It is honest, it is fair and it is transparent, and it can be trusted, win or lose,” he stated.

Turning to the matter of the remaining days of his four-year time period, Biden reminded the viewers of employees and cupboard members that their work over the past 4 years had “changed America for the better” and urged them to “make every day count” through the 74 days they’ve left in energy.

And in an echo of Harris’s concession remarks lower than 24 hours earlier than, he urged folks to not despair on the election outcomes.

“Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable … Remember, a defeat does not mean we are defeated,” he stated.

Though Democrats could have misplaced the “battle” this week, he advised his employees — and the American folks — that the “America of your dreams” remains to be “calling for you to get back up.”

“That’s the story of America for over 240 years and counting. It’s a story for all of us, not just some of us… the American experiment endures,” he stated. “We’re going to be OK, but we need to stay engaged. We need to keep going, and above all, we need to keep the faith.”