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Biden Says He Hopes Trump Attends Inauguration To Show ‘Chaos’ Is Over
President-elect Joe Biden said Thursday he hoped President Donald Trump would attend his inauguration next month, at the very least to demonstrate to Americans that the country had moved beyond the “chaos that he’s created.”
“I think it would be important only in one sense … important that we are able to demonstrate the end of this chaos that he’s created,” Biden said in a sweeping interview about his plans for the White House with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “That there’s a peaceful transfer of power with both parties there, shaking hands and moving on.”
“The protocol of the transfer of power, I think, is important,” Biden added. “But it is totally his decision, and it’s of no personal consequence to me.”
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sat down with Tapper for their first joint interview since the election last month. Trump lost that contest by more than 7 million votes and counting, but the president has so far refused to concede and instead has spent weeks undermining the results of the race and attempting to overturn the loss. All legal efforts to do so have failed, and the six battleground states he was targeting have since certified their votes declaring Biden the winner.
Trump has so far refused to say if he will attend Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, noting last week that he knew the “answer to that, but I don’t want to say it yet.”
While many Republican senators have not publicly acknowledged him as the President-elect, Joe Biden says "more than several" sitting GOP senators have privately called to congratulate him: "I understand the situation they find themselves in." https://t.co/09EtvTf1GGpic.twitter.com/72ex6eFY8F
— CNN (@CNN) December 4, 2020
Biden said that despite Trump’s refusal to concede and broad support throughout the Republican Party for the president, “more than several” GOP lawmakers had called to congratulate him privately.
“I say this tactfully … there have been more than...
