LET THE HEALING BEGIN
THEIR opponents have a lot to say about them but the one thing nobody can accuse them of is a lack of political experience.
Between them President-elect Joe Biden and his deputy, Kamala Harris, have more than 60 years at the very top of US government – and they’re going to need to draw on every bit of it, haul in every favour, play every diplomatic card and generally knuckle down because the US they’ve inherited is as fractured as it’s ever been.
They’ll be leading a country in the throes of a raging pandemic, riven with division and racial tensions and on the brink of recession.
“We’re fortunate that Joe’s got what it takes to be president and already carries himself that way,” former US president Barack Obama wrote in a statement congratulating his former vice-president. “When he walks into the White
