Projected winner of the United States presidential election, Joe Biden, on Tuesday called President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede his election loss an “embarrassment” but dismissed the standoff as unimportant.
“I just think it’s an embarrassment, quite frankly,” Biden said when asked what he thinks about Trump’s refusal to acknowledge defeat in the November 3 election.
“How can I say this tactfully? I think it will not help the president’s legacy,” Biden told reporters in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware.
A week after the US election, Trump remained shut up in the White House, claiming that he won the election with legal votes.
Biden, meanwhile, mostly ignored Trump.
“The fact that they’re not willing to acknowledge we won at this point is not of much consequence in our planning,” Biden said.
The Democrat signaled that despite attempts by Trump to stymie his transition to power he was increasingly a president in waiting.
In his latest exchanges with international leaders, he talked Tuesday with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ireland’s prime minister, Micheal Martin.
Asked what his message to them was, he said: “I’ m letting them know that America is back. We’re going to be back in the game. It's not America alone.”
The Republican president tweeted early Tuesday, expressing confidence that he will win the election.
He tweeted, “WE WILL WIN !”, in another tweet he said, “WATCH FOR MASSIVE BALLOT COUNTING ABUSE.”
Confirming the President's claim, the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said in a testy news conference that he was preparing for “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
“The world should have every confidence that the transition necessary to make sure that the State Department is functional today … with the president who is in office on January 20 a minute after noon will be successful,” he said, referring to the date of the presidential inauguration.