The transition may be difficult, but remember Donald Trump has to go in January

As Donald Trump continues to bemoan the election in the US, one of The Independent’s reporters in Washington DC, Griffin Connolly, has looked at what the first 100 days of a Joe Biden presidency might look like.

A number of readers have let us know this week how much they are looking forward to 20 January – with Trump’s term officially coming to an end at 12pm on 20 January 2021, exactly four years since it started. The drafters of the US Constitution were very exact about this, so unless the current president succeeds in his attempts to overturn the result of this month’s election – very unlikely given the scant evidence of mass voter fraud – then Trump will not start a second term.

As Mary Dejevsky has written, transition periods between politicians can be difficult at the best of times – let alone when we have a situation like this.  

In the US you have both the outgoing and incoming administrations doing what they can to appeal to voters – looking to the future and needing to make a good impression, although for different reasons.

It is our job to help readers to understand what could happen over the next few weeks – and beyond. The transition may be difficult but the term has to end on 20 January, this is what we all have to remember. Then we can look towards the next four years.

No doubt you will let us know your thoughts on the last couple of months of the Trump presidency, and what your hopes are for the Biden administration – after a four-year political cycle that has been anything but simple, I’m sure there will be plenty of questions for us to answer in our coverage. But, as ever, we will do our best to give you the insight you need.

Yours,

Chris Stevenson

Voices editor