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  • Biden Vows To Protect Abortion Rights, Denounces Trump's America In High Stakes Speech world news

    New Delhi: United States President Joe Biden will deliver his last State of the Union address on Thursday before he faces former President Donald Trump in the US election. He will use this opportunity to criticize Trump's vision for America and promise to make abortion rights the law of the land again. The State of the Union, an annual event mandated by the US Constitution for the president to report to Congress “from time to time,” will take place at 9 pm ET (0200 GMT on Friday) in front of a joint session of the House. and the Senate, and a national TV audience.

    Biden will contrast himself with Trump, his Republican opponent in the Nov. 5 election, on the issue of abortion rights, which have been endangered by the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. Trump was responsible for nominating three of the six conservative justices on the court.

    “I promise you: if Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I will restore Roe v. “Wade as the law of the land again,” Biden will say, according to excerpts from the White House.

    Biden will also address the dangers to democracy that he says Trump represents, as the former president continues to make false allegations about his 2020 election defeat and suggests locking up his political rivals.

    “I have learned to cherish freedom and democracy in my lifetime. A future built on the core values ​​that have shaped America: honesty, decency, dignity, equality,” Biden will say. “But some other people my age have a different vision: a vision of America driven by resentment, revenge, and retribution. That's not who I am.”

    Trump claims he will seek vengeance on his enemies and expel millions of immigrants if he gets another term in the White House.

  • Mike Pompeo Assures ‘smooth’ Transition To A Second Trump Administration Post Poll Results

    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday, November 10 said that the world should have confidence that the post-election transition in the United States will be ‘smooth’. During a news conference, Pompeo told the State Department that there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. He further asserted that President Donald Trump would be inaugurated again despite Joe Biden’s projected victory.

    Adding further, Pompeo said Republicans will recount all the votes. The world should have every confidence that the transition necessary to make sure that the State Department is successful today and successful when the president who’s in the office on January 20, a minute afternoon, will also be successful, Pompeo affirmed. Describing the United States democracy as a ‘shining city on a hill’, Pompeo said ‘the world needs us to live up to our providential promise’

    Meanwhile, world leaders have congratulated Joe Biden, for achieving unassailable leads in key states as well as a commanding edge in the nationwide popular vote. However, President Donald Trump has refused to concede the November 3 election.

    Democratic candidate Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US Presidential elections 2020 as per projections of numerous media networks almost four days after polling closed, with mail-in ballots still being counted in some states. He will be the 46th President of the United States after the inauguration on January 20. It was Biden’s home state Pennsylvania that finally delivered the victory to him, pushing him over the significant 270-electoral college votes mark.

    While he will formally assume office in January 2021, there is still the matter of Trump refusing to cleanly concede the election. Trump was last heard claiming that it was he who won the election and that mail-in ballots had defrauded the American people. The Trump campaign has also challenged counting in several states by filing a series of lawsuits. The incumbent leader has accused the poll officials of “cheating” and “fraud” as they continued counting ballots that arrived after 8 pm on the final voting day.