Joe Biden just spoke of his contacts with various world leaders since he won the US presidential election.
Biden received a phone call from the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, this morning.
At the address and press conference in Delaware moments ago, Biden signaled that his presidency will be a repudiation of Donald Trump’s nationalist, insular “America first” policy.
Biden said his signal to the world was: “America is back. We are back in the game. I’m not going to be ‘America alone’.”
Biden said he had taken with six world leaders and had some calls to return.
“Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, etc … Ireland,” he said, which obviously leaves out the major powers of China and Russia and Middle East nations.
He said the attitude of those calling was “fulsome, energetic” and said, “I feel good” – despite the recognition that he is “going to inherit a divided country” in “a world in disarray” because of the coronavirus pandemic.
