What Does A Biden Presidency Mean For The Rest of The World?
It’s not only America where things will change
After days that felt like they would turn into weeks, Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election and will become the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.
The landslide that pools predicted may not have happened, but with Biden winning the electoral college by 306 votes, the same number that Trump won four years ago, it’s a convincing victory nonetheless.
Biden’s task will not be easy. He takes over a country that is arguably more divided than at any point since the end of the Civil War. On his own side, he has progressives who want him to push ahead with plans to tackle the climate crisis and beef up medical insurance for millions of people. While his vanquished opponents will simmer over the defeat of their man, Trump.
The task he faces is monumental. One that could be more complicated if the Democrats’ do not have control of the Senate, which is a distinct possibility. The two Senate races in Georgia will go to a runoff and if the Democrat’s win them both, no mean feat, then the Senate will be tied at 50–50, with Kamala Harris being the tiebreaker.
