Today, United States (US) President-elect Joseph R. Biden will take the oath of office to become the 46th President, while Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take hers to become Vice President. Here is a throwback to an article I did shortly after the election on what the Biden/Harris administration might mean for US-Caribbean relations on a variety of fronts!
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Alicia Nicholls
Caribbean leaders have joined with those around the world to warmly congratulate US President-elect, Joe Biden, on winning the US presidential election of November 3, 2020. Of particular pride for the region is that his second-in-command, Senator Kamala Harris, who has both Jamaican and Indian parentage, is not just the first woman Vice President-elect, but first person of colour and first person of Caribbean descent to ascend to such high office in the US.
As of the time of this article’s writing, incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, who has now lost the popular vote twice, has not yet conceded defeat and has launched several legal challenges, calling the election ‘fraudulent’.
Beyond the symbolism of the Biden/Harris win, and assuming a peaceful transfer of power come January 20, 2021 (the date set for Biden’s inauguration), what does the Biden/Harris victory portend for…
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