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		</div><p>US President Joe Biden spoke to the nation on Thursday in what was his first appearance on camera after Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris.</p>
<p>“In a democracy, the will of the people always prevails,” he said near the beginning.</p>
<p>Mr Biden said he had spoken to Mr Trump and assured him he would direct his administration to ensure a “peaceful and orderly transition”, because that is what the people deserve.</p>
<p>Mr Biden was subtly nodding to how Mr Trump, in 2020, refused to accept he lost the election. Mr Trump was re-elected this week.</p>
<p>Mr Biden spoke from the Rose Garden at the White House after Democrat Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump, speaking to his supporters and Americans.</p>
<p>The president reiterated that the US election system “is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent. And it can be trusted, win or lose”.</p>
<p>He closed by saying that defeat does not mean one is defeated.</p>
<p>“America endures,” he said. “We’re going to be OK, but we need to stay engaged.”</p>
<p>He had issued a statement shortly after Ms Harris delivered her concession speech on Wednesday, praising her for running a “historic campaign” under “extraordinary circumstances”.</p>
<p>Mr Biden also invited Mr Trump for a White House meeting, and the president-elect accepted.</p>
<p>Mr Trump spent his first day as president-elect receiving congratulatory phone calls from his defeated opponent, world leaders and Mr Biden as he began the process of turning his election victory into a government.</p>
<p>His impending return to the White House means he will want to stand up an entirely new administration from the one that served under Mr Biden.</p>
<p>His team is also pledging that the second will look much like the first one Mr Trump established after his 2016 victory.</p>
<p>The president-elect now has a 75-day transition period to build his team before inauguration day on January 20.</p>
<p>One top item on the to-do list is filling about 4,000 government positions with political appointees, people who are specifically tapped for their jobs by Mr Trump’s team.</p>
<p>That includes everyone from the secretary of state and other heads of cabinet departments to those selected to serve part-time on boards and commissions.</p>
<p>About 1,200 of those presidential appointments require Senate confirmation, which should be easier with the Senate now shifting to Republican control.</p>
<p>Mr Biden, 81, ended his re-election campaign in July, weeks after an abysmal debate performance sent his party into a spiral and raised questions about whether he still had the mental acuity and stamina to serve as a credible nominee</p>
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