But there will still be wariness in Europe about what Mr. Biden may ask of the continent’s leaders, especially in the knowledge that he may be a one-term president and that the populist impulse that animated Trumpism has hardly gone away. At home, the president-elect prepared a transition of power and was to announce today a Covid-19 task force as the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. reached harrowing new levels. Biden speaks: “Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now,” Mr. Biden said to a drive-in audience in Wilmington, Del. Making history: Senator Kamala Harris became the first woman — and woman of color — to be elected vice president. Ms. Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, has risen higher in the country’s leadership than any woman before her.

Source: New York Times November 09, 2020 02:53 UTC