electoral college votes the popular vote was much closer around 75000000 for biden to 71000000 for trumbo thread yeah indeed be the highest amount for any president and the 2nd highest amount for trump so this was not a landslide victory as you quite rightly said a blue wave of democrat senators and congressmen as well also failed to materialise for the democrats a boy i didn't know remains optimistic and was adamant he was a president that can unite these divisions this was what he had to say i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. who doesn't see red states and blue states always sees the united states the bible tells us to everything there is a season a time to grow tired of repeated time to sew and a time to hear oh this is the time get here on america i do so on the whole the the right words here are the time when deficient is right but it's a tough task. it is going to face a very much an uphill battle he faces a majority republican senate with some states still facing a runoff to see which senators take place. seas there clear consensus which people were hopin

finally mark an end to what was often known as the american century on to the points we are asked trumbo by how divided is the united states.

clear so we sort of similar picture in 2016 when hillary clinton for example won the popular vote trumbo won the electoral votes and it's similar case here despite winning most votes over all boyden had to wait until the electoral votes were counted before claiming the victory. well the election may be for me over and biden certainly has the the college votes here trump donald trump so to speak in that sense but the popular vote shows a much closer result are much more divided electorate and society here that's something we've seen over the last few days with from supporters coming out on the streets some of them even armed claiming this election was stolen and fraudulence other scenes we've seen today and before in support of biden and well happy to see . back and finally probably leaving the white house next year whatever happens i think was to see another rollercoaster of domestic u.s. politics over the next 4 years and we get that follows the obviously in january when joe biden is likely to take office indeed is going to be a busy run up to christmas this year dan thanks for coming i

will finally mark an ends to what was often known as the american century on to the points we ask trumbo by how divided is the united states. thanks very much for joining us my guest today here in the studio are soraya sarhaddi nelson from k c w radio maine who says the results show how disconnected american voters are from the jhumpa and from politicians pollsters and journalists. also with us is mostly secret freelance journalist and currently a fellow at the american academy here in berlin he argues that a deadly pandemic months of racial upheaval and scandal after scandal have done little to diminish trump's popularity polls and a warm welcome to to matthew carney chief europe correspondent for politico who believes whoever wins in the end the result shows that neither candidate's own party has a clear convincing mandate. thank you all 3 for being here great stuff i'd like to begin with you soraya america has voted to in walked one leading financial broadsheet kohl's a big us election that resolves little that seems like an option fed description of where we do you agree absolutely a

paris climate conference all of these issues taken away by his who will become his previous president trumbo so rolling back those environmental restrictions which president trump removed obama era. climate type environmental rules so certainly this is going to be a major change for joe biden and coming to harris coming into a new administration beginning a whole set of new policies come january the 20th thank you so much for that mike hanna live from joe biden's home state of delaware where president trump was playing golf when mr biden was declared the winner of the election and he has not conceded the ranks in a statement he said we all know why i joined biden is rushing to falsely pose as a winner and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him they don't want the truth to be exposed beginning monday our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws a fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. i watch house correspondent can we hope it has more now from washington d.c. so many americans who didn't vote for donald trump are saying why does he just