U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. File
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U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday (November 13, 2024) at the White House on Mr. Biden’s invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday (November 9, 2024).

Mr. Trump will take office on January 20, 2025 after defeating current Vice-President Kamala Harris in the November 5 presidential election.

“At President Biden’s invitation, President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

Such a postelection meeting is traditional between the outgoing President and the incoming President.

But Mr. Trump, a Republican, did not host Mr. Biden, a Democrat, for such a meeting after Mr. Trump lost the election in 2020.

The Washington Post headquarters on K Street in Washington D.C. File
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The Washington Post newspaper announced on Friday (October 25, 2024) it will endorse neither Democrat Kamala Harris nor Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.

CEO William Lewis said this was a return “to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates”.

The Post editorial board has endorsed candidates for more than three decades before deciding to stay on the sidelines in perhaps the most polarising election in U.S. history.