The transition may be difficult, but remember Donald Trump has to go in January

As Donald Trump continues to bemoan the election in the US, one of The Independent’s reporters in Washington DC, Griffin Connolly, has looked at what the first 100 days of a Joe Biden presidency might look like.

A number of readers have let us know this week how much they are looking forward to 20 January – with Trump’s term officially coming to an end at 12pm on 20 January 2021, exactly four years since it started. The drafters of the US Constitution were very exact about this, so unless the current president succeeds in his attempts to overturn the result of this month’s election – very unlikely given the scant evidence of mass voter fraud – then Trump will not start a second term.

As Mary Dejevsky has written, transition periods between politicians can be difficult at the best of times – let alone when we have a situation like this.