White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Saturday that President Trump will meet with Joe Biden on Wednesday at the White House.
The two will meet in the Oval Office at 11 a.m. that day.
BREAKING: President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House says. https://t.co/IB04ceE7xO
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 9, 2024
Per NBC News:
The announcement comes four days after Trump was projected to win the presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the days following her loss, both Biden and Harris committed to a peaceful transfer of power.
At her concession speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, the vice president told supporters, “Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.”
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Inbox: At President Biden’s invitation, President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday at 11:00 am.
— haleytalbotcnn (@haleytalbotcnn) November 9, 2024
“The post election meeting is a tradition but didn’t take place in 2020. The video below was Trump’s post election meeting with Barack Obama in 2016,” Collin Rugg wrote.
WATCH:
JUST IN: President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
They’re going to hit it off. I can feel it.
The post election meeting is a tradition but didn’t take place in 2020.
The video below was Trump’s post election meeting with… pic.twitter.com/8PwM3Ef4ol
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 9, 2024
Fox News reports:
President Biden addressed the nation from the Rose Garden on Thursday after his Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the 2024 presidential election to President-elect Trump and pledged to a ‘peaceful and orderly’ transfer of power. Trump did not host Biden in 2020 as the 45th president contested the results.
It has been tradition that the current first lady also hosts the incoming first lady at the White House.
Trump has been busy working on his transition team since he was declared the winner early Wednesday, making a historic appointment by naming Susie Wiles as the first female chief of staff.
“Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns,” Trump said in a statement. “Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again…. I have no doubt that she will make our country proud.”
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