‘Let us be the nation we know we can be’: Biden speaks after defeating Trump – US election 2020 live updates

10.29am GMT

It is still a while away – the inauguration isn’t until 20 January 2021 – but the Hill this morning have a wrap of some of what can we expect from the opening days of a Biden-Harris administration. Jordan Williams writes:

People close to Biden’s plans said he plans to rejoin the Paris climate accords, which the US officially left on Wednesday. He’s also reportedly planning to reverse the US’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization, which is slated to take effect 6 July.

Biden also wants to immediately repeal the ban on immigration that targeted many Muslim-majority countries and reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

10.23am GMT

Donald Trump’s favorite niece Mary has written for us today, saying that all he has now is breaking things.

He’ll be having meltdowns upon meltdowns right now. He has never been in a situation like this before. What’s interesting is that Donald has never won anything legitimately in his entire life, but because he has been so enabled by people along the way, he has never lost anything either. He’s the kind of person who thinks that even if you steal and cheat to win, you deserve to win.

But there is some poetic justice here because he has been cheating for months. Now his tactics are coming back to bite him. He told Republicans not to vote by mail and they didn’t, but the result is he has been experiencing this slow drip-drip of disaster over the past few days. Oh, you have these huge margins! Now your margins are shrinking. Oh, Joe Biden’s ahead. Now his margins are growing. It must have been like slow torture, but he set up this failure for himself.

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