The LuLac Edition #4,433, November 11th, 2020

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Again this week we reach out to the Times Shamrock editorial board and their plea that Joe Biden be given the chance to lead in a smooth transition. With the thug President’s behavior, that will not be happening but the board does make sense.

OUR OPINION: GIVE BIDEN A CHANCE TO UNIFY THE NATION

President-elect Joe Biden will enter the White House facing challenges more pressing than most of his predecessors — a burgeoning pandemic, an incomplete economic recovery that may not last and entrenched political division that could limit his ability to address either of those problems.

Sadly, the incumbent will not make Biden’s task any easier, as President Donald Trump continued Saturday to make unfounded and deceptive claims about the validity of Biden’s victory, threatening to widen and cement that division.

But Biden’s history suggests he is uniquely qualified to find common ground in this fraught moment. The former vice president, often to the chagrin of the left wing of his own party, has built a political career on reaching across the aisle to achieve results, both as a six-term senator and in his eight years beside Barack Obama, when he played a key role in passage of the economic stimulus package following the 2008 crash.

Despite the best efforts of his opponent’s campaign, Biden maintains a reputation for honesty, humility and decency that could win over many of the 70 million Americans who didn’t support him, including 84,000 in Luzerne County, which President Trump carried with 56 percent of the vote Tuesday.

The president-elect struck the right notes to sway those voters in his acceptance speech Saturday, pledging to “work to win the confidence of all.”

“I understand the disappointment tonight,” he told them. “Let’s give each other a chance.”

The nation faces simultaneous health, economic and climate crises made all the more daunting by our own disunion. The president-elect has recognized that solving those problems will require a more cooperative, non-partisan and civil approach to politics.

Let’s give Joe Biden a chance.