After tumultuous campaign, Biden and Trump chat for 2 hours

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : They exchanged a handshake and warm pleasantries, with Biden congratulating Trump on his electoral victory and Trump complimenting Biden for initiating a smooth transition of power.
78% : "The president wants you all to know that Trump was gracious, came with a detailed set of questions.
62% : And as Trump contemplated his return to the building that he'd left in disgrace four years ago, only to mount a stunning comeback that's set to return him to power, he chose the high road -- at least for now.
51% : Biden and Trump then held a private discussion that ran nearly two hours, eventually drawing in chief of staff Jeff Zients and Susie Wiles, Trump's campaign manager and incoming chief of staff.
47% : But reunited a week after an election that delivered Trump the White House in resounding fashion, the two managed a cordial -- if somewhat awkward -- photo op in front of a roaring fire.
43% : First lady Jill Biden also popped in, the White House said, congratulating Trump and delivering a letter intended for Melania Trump, who had declined to make the trip.
34% : The president, he and his allies argued throughout the doomed bid, was the only one who had beaten Trump before.
33% : "For the brief moment made available to reporters, the Oval Office meeting was the start of the peaceful transfer of power that Trump denied Biden four years ago.
33% : Despite warning at one point earlier this year that Trump was "willing to sacrifice our democracy," Biden in the aftermath of the election ordered his aides to ensure the Trump team gets all it needs to stand up its administration.
32% : The White House offered few immediate details on how Trump and Biden filled their time behind closed doors, though press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said they discussed a pair of immediate priorities in keeping the government funded and managing the handoff between the current administration and Trump's incoming team.
24% : Trump has opposed continuing aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, vowing instead to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to broker a peace deal.
22% : And as he sat alongside Trump on Wednesday in the Oval, preparing to hand the reins back to the twice-impeached convicted felon he once dismissed as a "loser," he remained the only one.
21% : When the roles were reversed four years ago, Trump refused to concede and never invited Biden to the Oval Office.
20% : The scene was jarringly surreal in the aftermath of a vicious campaign that both parties cast as critical to the survival of the United States, and perhaps for no one more than Biden, who had warned for years that Trump represented a threat to the very soul of the nation -- and a particularly offensive figure to his own institutional sensibilities.
15% : But neither Biden nor Trump reemerged when the meeting ended, with Trump slipping past the hundreds of reporters assembled on the White House driveway and off the premises.
12% : Biden allies ahead of the meeting said they also expected the president to touch on foreign affairs, where aides harbor deep worries about how Trump will upend diplomatic relations amid wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
11% : "I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence," Trump said on that stage, adopting a pitying attitude toward Biden as the president struggled to make a coherent argument.

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