The Concessions to Trump: Harris and Biden Congratulate the President-Elect, Promising a Peaceful Transition to the Man They Called a Fascist

A voter waking up from a three-year coma to catch Ms. Harris’s speech would be left thinking that her campaign had been the most amiable affair in American history.

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Vice President Harris and President Biden on Labor Day, September 2, 2024. AP/Jacquelyn Martin

Full of well wishes, Vice President Harris and President Biden are promising a smooth transfer of power to President Trump. It’s the right thing to do, of course. Yet what a dizzying reversal after tarring Trump as a “threat to democracy” and a Nazi. Those attacks have reduced to tears many Democrats who believed them, calling for a future free of such fearmongering. 

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