The US presidential election has been reset

Now the Democrats can take the front foot on the important issues

President Joe Biden has passed the torch to Kamala Harris: American's first woman Vice President, first Black Vice President, first Asian-American Vice President. File photo: AP/Kevin Wolf

In this unprecedented US political year, in an unprecedented eight days, with an unprecedented threat to American democracy and its government... This election has been reset.

At 1:46 p.m. Washington time on Sunday, Joe Biden posted a letter on Twitter. He rightly touted the "great progress as a Nation", retrieving the country from "a once-in-a-century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression". He hailed "historic investments" in infrastructure, health care, veterans' care, and the the green economy.