ok. that is a good question and crucial question many people who are living here in the area of washington to use d.c. are somewhat connected to the government and they wonder how the transition will take place i mean don't have any detail the news put out some fantastic radios over it showed how former presidents handled that time their 1st of all congratulated. the new president and then they try to do everything to make these transition smoothly because if you didn't long days a long time until january 20th when the new president is able to take office we shall see what donald trump and his administration is going to do many people fear that he will do hardly anything to make it easier for the biden administration to take over i think one it's fair to say the good news is that joe biden is already working to put up his team and from what we hear here is that he highly relays

on the former obama. professional so he makes everything to be able to be in charge from day one on his presidency so that's a good thing about having such an experienced politicians have filling the seat after a don't know which who might refuse to make a transition smoothly all right our washington bureau chief in as paul reporting for us in front of the white house on this historic day. of course of joe biden's victory crowns a long career in politics one that includes 2 previous a failed presidential beds and of course 8 years in office as barack obama's 2nd in command sic a closer look now at the man who will be in charge of the white house a for the next 4 years. it began half a century ago at 29 joseph biden was one of the youngest candidates ever elected to

the u.s. senate his success though laced with sadness when just weeks later his wife and daughter died in a car accident he remarried and made his 1st presidential bed in 1988 and again 20 years later my grandmother would yell out spread the faith. he was chosen to be barack obama's running mate. the best buy's president barack has ever had mr joe biden. and he resigned to never quite reaching the nation's highest office until donald trump came along that's why the dam announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. that we have to with this decades of experience biden said he was the man to restore america's standing in the world that he was the man for the moment. i'll be a president will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying up to dictators is over he promised

a sure leadership in the midst of the coronavirus condemning. it's estimated that nearly another 210000 americans could lose their lives by the end of the year anough no more. let's just set partisanship aside our butts and the politics and follow the signs. ultimately the voters agreed on me joseph biden the 46 president of the united states of america hard time lucky. well german chancellor angela merkel has congratulated joe biden and his running mate a couple of harris after major networks declared of them the winners of the u.s. presidential election and a statement posted on twitter she wrote quote i look forward to future cooperation with president biden our transatlantic friendship is irreplaceable if we are to master the great challenges of our time and democratic supporters across the

country have been reacting to the news of president elect biden success from philadelphia to black lives matters plaza in washington at new york's times square people showed signs of relief and excitement here's some of those reactions. i mean to me everything my mother is a disabled woman before security and medicaid and medicare and so you know they got out my house and you can no longer mess with those programs and so many things we want yet won't have a cow patty and our that was believed in our lord that reagan was the best for the united states you are going to have 3 come out here are rather surprising the are certainly here are very very thankful.

for more i'm joined again by stacy bevan's from our u.s. election team and assume is almost beyond our washington d.c. correspondent sumi i'd like to start with you we just heard in those reactions voters democratic voters happy for a number of reasons one of course was the historic campaign of kamel harris becoming the 1st female vice president elect do you think the biden campaign's decision to bring her on board really did reach out to black and a south asian voters in the way that they hoped. absolutely clear and i think that's something stacy's already touched upon as well you have to understand that there was a lot of frustration among the more progressive liberal wing of the democratic party that we didn't see much change in terms of the faces of people who were running for president in previous years and that again joe biden was selected to represent the democratic party as the candidate this year and in selecting couple a harris this really was a reaching out to many of those younger progressive voters who want to see real change in politics who want to see themselves reflected in politics not only at the

local level and at the state level where you're starting to see more people of color and more women in positions of power but also all the way at the very top in the white house and this really is a very historic moment i have to say myself as a tumble woman to see a black and a woman vice president elect harrison that doesn't mean a lot to people here particularly black and brown voters as stacey had already said and i think that was very effective in getting that part of the country to turn out and now we also have to keep in mind that you know there is of course the other half of the country who essentially voted for president trump here and that mrs that wasn't necessarily would have been necessarily their pick for a candidate obviously harris but for democrats in particular more progressive democrats this was a very effective pick by joe biden and that's why he spent a lot of time let's remember over the summer before he reached that decision of whom he wanted to be his running mate and couple harris was selected not only because she was

a very strong candidate senator from california for her experience as a public prosecutor for various reasons but also because she could reach out to those voters that joe biden maybe was concerned that he wouldn't be able to bring on board otherwise that's right you say she's the progressive candidate that they brought on board earlier i believe jeff and simon said that biden was the pick of the democratic party but naturally we saw a heated race between multiple democratic candidates before it was confirmed that joe biden would be the person that they would field against donald trump i mean do you. you think kamel harris this is a question to you now stacey do you think of bringing harris on board with something that satisfied the left wing of the democratic party who saw joe biden as a continuation of the democratic establishment and not left enough on some of the policies that they wanted to see i would say yes and also no no in regards to because she did work as a prosecutor and so there was this feeling that maybe she would be too pro police

so she really had to go out and share her history share what her thoughts were for the country and then people opened up to it progresses and more centrist in the democratic party and they rallied around her she was a smart candidate she was. she's a strong woman and just if we can again just step away from the insanity which is the donald trump circus for a moment and just really take in the fact that the american public has made history kamel harris is the 1st woman to be in the white house she's black she's south asian her husband will be the 1st 2nd husband and i bet in the white house yet i haven't seen that for a very exciting and there are a blended family i think that this group represents more of america america can see themselves the theme the people in michigan wisconsin and. pennsylvania those white working voters that were so courted and the election they

can see themselves in joe biden if they allow themselves to see the similarities because he they have more in common with him than they do with donald trump and then the other people people of color can get to see themselves and blended families can get to see themselves in the white house it's a historic moment it's very exciting. that's right and you know come on harris i think the reason it has so much attention has been paid to her vice presidential candidacy and now that she is a vice president elect in a way that you don't normally see. so much attention on vice presidential candidates but is it naturally because of joe biden's age and the boss is that she really is one heartbeat away from becoming the next president of the united states i mean could she you know like what kind of presidency myself it's not like let's not let's not speculate about how do you live by and have his moment to have his moment but it does seem like you know biden has set the stage he's even suggested that he might not seek a 2nd term if he were to be victorious do you read this as them setting the stage

for calm or heris as potentially for a presidential bid in the future essentially said through picking her and then that he's handing off the petard to to her and to the progressive more progressive part of the democratic wing sure i think that when you just when you just look. how president obama was with joe biden how he had him be the last person he spoke to when he was making big decisions how obama charged biden with helping with the with leading the trussing and of course when you get more experience and you have more of that leadership it prepares you for the next step so we'll get through biden 1st and then and then we'll see will happen with kamel harris a little bit on the future of the democratic party with stacy bevan's but i want to bring it back to sue me now to ask about the other side of the coin in the future

of the republican party what do you think is going to happen there after trump's projected defeat are they going to stick with with donald trump. that is very hard to say at this point you know that we have to keep in mind that even if president trump accepts the defeat and moves on that they were public and party has been for ever change you know president might no longer be there but trump isn't so what he has brought to the republican party is there to stay and his supporters are still the vast majority of republicans still support him in supporters are fervent supporters they will stand behind the president and he has moved the party from more from parts of the moderate wing of the party rather to a more to a more radical part of the party all of this together into one republican party standing behind him everyone lining up behind president trump and it's going to be very difficult to see what happens when there is that vacuum there and president trump is no longer in the white house now i do think that there have been ahead of

the election some republican senators some republican lawmakers slowly starting to voice some of their dissent some of their disagreement with president chavez something that they hadn't dared to do over the last 4 years because of his powerful base they knew that their own constituents would lash back out at them if they were to not fall in line with the president well we have seen some of those dissenting voices coming out now but it's going to be a real moment of reckoning for the republican party for conservatives across this country of how they deal with what happened in this election and what the party will look like going forward and clear i don't think anyone really has an answer for that just yet i mean i was going to thank you very much for that analysis i was talking earlier about a couple of harris joe biden's running mates and she has now spoken she has called the president elect to congratulate him take a listen. here president of the united. states i mean that's just

natural and you know it's fun and it's exciting like i said when you if you're allow yourself especially if you are a democrat or even if you're a woman who has a different political leaning. what's happened in the united states is history in the making and so yeah this is that was a cute moment with her calling her. new boss to let him know that that they're in the they're going to be in the white house it's nice and i think that like i said representation matters all those little girls including like me and i grew up in a predominately white suburban chicago sometimes you know people would say oh you're really intelligent you can be whatever you want to be but there's this lingering thing in the back of your mind where you know that white lives and black lives are valued different in the united states and so it was hard for me to allow myself to dream and so now there are so many people that are younger my my baby sister is in her twenty's and. so many other young much younger people that will

see not only a woman in the white house but brown in the white house a woman who is black a woman who is south asian a woman who can identify with their struggles when she was debating with with mike pence and you know she was biting her tongue and there's this stereotype about the angry black woman and you could see that she didn't want to be too tough and too strong with him there's not a black woman and a professional setting in a predominantly white it's a professional setting had that has not experienced that and now we see this woman somebody who is like us in the white house and that's remarkable and it's great to hear states as you say representation of matters so we spoke about a little bit as well as a time a person see incumbent harris as the 1st black woman but 1st a southeast asian woman to be on a major presidential ticket and now to be the vice president elect something all

right i want to bring this back now to susan what's going to in washington d.c. we are of course that watching this election we have been watching the results coming in with bated breath over the last 4 days from berlin in germany and one of the big questions has been how the trump administration has withdrawn from treaties and antagonized long time including here in germany what you think of right and presidency is going to look like for europe. well i think there's a reason that we're seeing you know a lot of these congratulations pouring in from around the world including from there in germany for the president elect joe biden because there's an expectation at least from the rhetoric that we've heard from joe biden on the campaign trail already this year that he will be someone who returned to norm's and that is something that is crucially important after these bitter last 4 years with president trump in the white house really questioning every every piece of multilateralism that had been built up previously so what i think

a lot of people are looking to from joe biden is to see that he will come back to this post world war 2 order of the world where there is security where there are shared values with european allies in particular and that is something that joe biden has constantly said he will do that he will hope full full wholeheartedly again reaffirm nato the u.s. its commitment to nato as well as to other important multilateral issues so finding a common approach to iran this is something that joe biden has already signaled that he would like to do as well to russia he will probably keep up a tough line on china because there is more and more bipartisan agreement here and also there in europe that china needs to be seen as not only as an economic partner but also as a competitor on many levels but again i think what a lot of people especially allies of the u.s. are looking for is a joe biden that will come back and reaffirm those important values that underscore the support as i said post world war 2 global order that really has been the

linchpin of security there in europe and around the world and i think that that is a reason that there is perhaps a breath of relief a sigh of relief there in germany and in europe today all right sumi someone's gunday in washington d.c. and c.c. defense here with me in the studio thank you very much for that speaking about the transatlantic alliance and how a biden presidency is going to affect it we want to know what a biden presidency will look like for the rest of the world to here's our. the world's policeman that was the role the u.s. took on at the end of the 20th century under bill clinton nato bombed serbia to stop its aggression in kosovo under george w. bush wars in afghanistan and iraq u.s. troops are still stationed in both countries even barack obama who promised an end to stupid wars authorized the bombing of libya. that policeman role largely ended in 2016 when donald trump announced an america

1st agenda the u.s. would no longer try to solve the world's problems. he backed out of major treaties and criticized alliances like nato rattling nerves in europe and beyond. and he embraced authoritarian leaders from vladimir putin in russia to kim jong un in north korea. joe biden has promised to restore what he calls america's place at the head of the table good evening i'll be a president will stand with our allies and friends and make it clear to our adversaries the days of cozying up to dictators is over it's always stand for our values of human rights and dignity a worker common purpose for more secure peaceful and prosperous world. in the middle east that means rejoining the 2015 iran nuclear deal that trump abandoned

biden says that when also help rein in iran's military provocations and reduce the risk of a new war in the region many experts consider china the biggest foreign policy challenge for the coming years biden has harshly criticized the chinese human rights record he's expected to try to rally allies to push back against chinese trade policies and its expanding influence around the world. on the environment biden says that on day one of his administration the u.s. will rejoin the paris climate accord limiting carbon emissions which trump quit and he wants to call a new climate summit to convince other major polluters to go beyond the commitments they've already made and he commits the u.s. to do so as well. in many ways a biden presidency would be a return to a more traditional american role but he'll have to work hard to restore trust from our allies who feel scarred from the last 4 years. well german chancellor angela

merkel has congratulated joe biden and his running mate harris after major networks declared them the winners of the u.s. presidential election in a statement posted on twitter she wrote i look forward to future cooperation with a president biden our transatlantic friendship is irreplaceable if we are to master at the great the challenges of our time. for more reaction from berlin let's bring in d.w. correspondent chas and i are good to see you there what is the reaction here in germany. well thing coming from the german government has a sense of 45 it has been confirmed that joe biden will be to 46 the president of the united states he has just quoted angle america as she presented how congress relations she said she was looking forward today at a corporation that says the right foreign minister heiko must say you know tweet

just moments before did tweet of the german chancellor as a star expressed and he said he was looking forward to to cooperation the east a new president of the united states to president elect joe biden he also saying it's a dog this was a moment it was time for a new beginning and a chance at transatlantic relations and it's time for a new deal here and our reporters have been out talking to germans about what they make of this election let's get some reaction. october i think what you want about trump he has divided the united states let's see what biden will bring in the end it can only get better for america that's the best let me. tell you i am sad yet i hope that change but i'm not on by inside. of the oval he definitely is the better choice in the end trump and his methods are impossible may be the world will be a more peaceful place not. better than triumph for sure. in mine it's

always a matter of opinion but after the way trump has acted in public i think for the us it's better that biden has won right. now the relationship between a president trump and a german chancellor merkel was known to be very difficult as you expect back to change with joe biden in the white house. definitely i think if you remember or 3 years ago in 2017 i got america how the war and the western allies that the times when they could count on each other as other were over because of the behavior of the then president of the united states donald trump and germany is very much expecting to see change coming not on some issues that so many was mentioning there on america stands on nato for example joe biden has also expressed interest in. starting a dialogue again with iran lately as donald trump also criticized the europeans the

europe european handling of the pandemic you had also a novice at the u.s. troops withdrawal from germany so all of these issues should be. tackled again we used to a new president so does this is something that germany's very much looking forward now and what other political expectations it does germany have toward a biden presidency. well there's of course promised a job biden. made to reach under perry's agreement i think it would be one of the major challenges that would be tackled by the 2 countries the relation with russia as well and you know there was that gas pipeline project russian gas being brought to germany and in the north stream to project and that oppose the u.s. and and barely an end germany so d.s. will be something that will be. retired by as are 2 governments now

so those ideas think patients that we can expect so far. are in the arch as reporting for us from berlin i thank you so much. so you've been back to the studio with your stacey's from our u.s. elections team you've been watching this campaign since the beginning you know this doesn't entirely wrap up but certainly is a pin days of expectations and even almost 4 years of a trump presidency itself what are your final thoughts on what we should take away from seeing this historic election well there's a few things 1st of all to trump supporters and donald trump himself counting votes is not stealing votes this is a democracy we want everybody's vote to count and we understood from the beginning since donald trump said that he wanted his supporters to come out and not mail in their ballots so we understood there was going to be a shift in and the and the results so the fact that he is working so hard to continue to have division when it's clear that the numbers are not on his

side and he needs to bring people together that's problematic but at the same time what it historic moment so many people came out to vote in record numbers 140000000 people. joe biden the oldest president to emerge the elected kamel of harris the 1st and only woman to be elected she's black she is south asian and she is a force and she represents so many people so that it's really historic it that's where we heard a clip of her earlier calling the president elect to control them on this historic victory as if we can take a lesson about one more time. there are. a president of the united states. and we will leave it there for now. from our u.s. election team thank you so much for your coverage throughout the night once again we are now we're projecting about it joe biden is the winner of the us presidential

elections you can watch 3 d. w. news with me claire richardson i mean the whole team making this coverage possible thanks so much for watching. to be completed.

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