Biden announced his victory, how to get Trump to leave the White House peacefully has become a problem
■ Observer
Biden has the desire to "set out the chaos" and bring American politics back on track, but the America he faces is very different from the America he is familiar with and expects.
At 8:30 pm on November 7, local time, Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate of the United States, delivered a victory speech to the nation.
The vote count for the general election is not over yet, but the result of the general election is clear.
While Biden announced his victory, Trump refused to declare defeat.
What needs to be seen is that behind Biden's victory is the rapidly changing American sentiment, and even the constantly tearing United States.
From Biden's announcement of victory to the final vote of the Electoral College, Trump's announcement of defeat to leaving the White House, the United States has entered a sensitive power transition stage.
In theory, the United States now has two presidents, one president-elect, and one president who is in office and does not recognize defeat.
Biden has vowed to be the president of all Americans, but this election is like an X-ray examination of American people's sentiments, allowing people to see the very clear red-blue opposition and the solidification and drift of election geographic space.
Biden's victory did not come easily, which was not expected by the Democratic Party, mainstream American polling agencies and the media.
Polls before the election show that Biden is fully ahead. Some people expect to see the "blue frenzy" on election night, but in fact the red and blue opposition is very clear. The Democratic Party is between the blue positions on the east and west coasts and the central red states. There appeared the general confrontation situation of Chuhe and Han circles.
Given the complex and changeable electoral geography, it is not easy for Biden to become the president of all Americans.
Because the vote gap is less than one percentage point, Trump's team of lawyers has requested recounts in many states.
In other words, the US election is not only difficult to measure, but also requires multiple measurements.
A large part of the reason is that Trump is an exception in American electoral politics.
Some polling experts say that there are not enough data on Trump, so it is difficult to accurately predict the outcome of the election.
In this general election, we have seen that the theoretical loopholes in the American electoral system have become a reality test.
The United States is not directly elected president, but an electoral system.
Before the vote, the election battle between Trump and Biden had begun. Both parties had disputes over voting rules, especially the legality of mail voting and post-election vote counting rules.
Large-scale voting, especially mailed ballots, is also a great pressure on the American electoral machinery.
Behind this is not the maturity of American politics. On the contrary, it is the mood of the voters that makes the turnout rate hit a record high.
Both sides in the general election used this sentiment to win more votes for themselves.
Trump is a master of emotional manipulation, mobilizing American fears, while Biden's team has taken advantage of the anxiety of the middle class and above.
During the counting of votes, the competition between the two parties did not stop.
The Trump campaign requested that the counting of votes be stopped after election night, and Biden launched a "count for every vote" campaign.
Therefore, the focus of this election is on the vote of voters, especially the vote of swing states.
But this is actually different from the American electoral system.
The American constitutionalists designed the electoral system to prevent the tyranny of the majority or the politics of passion, but this time we saw the influence of passion on American politics, and even formed two diametrically opposed "political worlds" based on emotions.
Biden delivered a victory speech, and his Twitter certification has been changed to "President-elect", but the election is not over yet.
Now it's just that the vote counting of each state has entered the final stage, and the next step is the voting by the Electoral College.
The problem and challenge Biden faces is that Trump has not announced his defeat, and the game and competition after the election will continue.
Under normal election conditions, the general election is over after the state's vote counting, and the remaining links are basically procedural and ceremonial.
However, this year’s general election is very different. Both procedures and ceremonies have become the focus of fierce competition. How to achieve a smooth transfer of power allows Trump to leave the White House peacefully despite his unwillingness. It is after Biden’s election. The first challenge.
Biden has the desire to "set out the chaos" and bring American politics back on track, but the America he faces is already very different from the America he is familiar with and expects.
Trump's election in 2016 and Biden's difficult victory indicate that American public sentiment has changed drastically. What Biden urgently needs to do is to recuperate and bridge the division of public sentiment.
□Sun Xingjie (International Relations Scholar)