With this, the drama triggered by the President Donald Trump since the Presidential elections on November 3 this year complaining of rigged elections and stolen victory by sleepy Joe, has ended despite the Republican President still not reconciled to his defeat after enjoying one term in the White House. Some of the top Republicans are still supporting Trump but this will not have any impact now. Trump has to vacate the White House before January20, 2021.

With the Electoral College vote behind him, Joe Biden called for unity while forcefully denouncing the president and his allies for their assault on the nation’s voting system. In an address in Wilmington, Del., on Monday night, he said the Republican efforts to get the Supreme Court to undo the result represented a “position so extreme we’ve never seen it before,” and called the attacks on election officials at the local level “unconscionable.”

Mr. Biden said that “it is time to turn the page” on the election. Praising officials who stood up for the integrity of the system, he added: “It was honest, it was free and it was fair. They saw it with their own eyes. And they wouldn’t be bullied into saying anything different.”

The electoral vote followed six weeks of unprecedented efforts by Mr. Trump to intervene in the electoral process and change the outcome of an election he lost by about seven million votes. He was joined by many Republicans who supported his unfounded claims of voter fraud, including 126 party members and 18 state attorneys generals who supported a case before the Supreme Court that legal experts said had no merit. The court rejected the case on Friday. The Democrats welcomed with great relief this decision of Supreme Court as there were apprehensions that the Trump appointed three judges, known rightwingers might delay the proceedings but ultimately, the legality of Trump supported petitions was so weak and the voting figures were so strong for the Democrats that the judges sided with the laws of the land and rejected all the petitions.

But for the Democratic Party, especially the Biden-Harris team, the battle has been won but the war is not over. That’s because unless Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, unseat GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in January. 5 runoffs, Senate control will remain in the hands of the anti-worker Republicans, marshaled by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Which would again make the Senate a graveyard for pro-worker legislation, from the Protect The Right To Organize Act to multi-billion-dollar measures to aid workers, cities, states, and schools slammed by the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuring forced closures and economic depression. Right now, the 100 member Senate has 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats. If the Democrats win the two vacant seats in the January 5 elections, the strength will be at par but the vice president has got casting vote so that the Democrats will be in a position to have majority to pass legislations.

For the Left within the Democratic Party led by Bernie Sanders, a majority in Senate is crucial for implementing the programmes on the basis of which the Democrats won the presidency. The medicare for all and the minimum wage of$ 15 an hour, apart from freeing the students from education loan debts are the demands which were the highlights of the campaign and this got support from millions of youth and new voters. If the Democrats can not get majority in the senate, the centrist establishment in the Democratic Party can always put pressure on President Biden to dilute the pro people programmes so that it can be passed in the Senate with Republicans approval. That will be a most uncomfortable situation for the American Left and the labour.

Democratic Party supporters are campaigning the whole hog in Georgia and President elect Biden is supposed to visit Georgia in support of the candidates. Similarly Trump has instructed his people in Georgia to do everything to win the two seats. He can then scuttle all moves by Democrats in Senate through Republican majority. So there is no respite for Democrats, even after the Electoral College win. Georgia senate wins on January 5 can only ensure that Biden presidency will mean differently to common people in USA. (IPA Service)