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Resign, Joe Biden, and let Kamala Harris be the first female US president

Kamala Harris with Joe Biden.
Kamala Harris with Joe Biden. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Joe Biden should resign on his 82nd birthday on 20 November, allowing Kamala Harris to become America’s first female president, till 20 January. That would be a decent legacy.
Dominic Shelmerdine
London

• First laugh I’ve had since the election – Emmanuel Macron, to Trump: “Ready to work together as we have done for four years. With your convictions and with mine” (Orbán, Zelenskyy, Macron and European leaders respond to Trump’s win, 6 November).
Brian Smith
Berlin, Germany

• No Doonesbury cartoon on the Friday after the orange man-baby got elected – has the purge started?
Warren Brown
Ilkley, West Yorkshire

• Thank goodness for Radio 3 – and the Guardian’s brief letters!
Dr Mark Wilcox
New Mill, West Yorkshire

• Nine of Grace Dent’s last 12 reviews have been for London restaurants. Does she think the rest of us don’t enjoy dining out?
Colin Struthers
Rawtenstall, Lancashire

• Easier for weather forecasters to just say “It’ll be 50 shades of grey” – might promise a bit more fun as well!
Elaine Steane
Oxford

• We’re calling her Bad Enoch (Letters, 7 November).
Jennifer Evans
Aldershot, Hampshire

• Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.

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