Hello, I'm Nula McGovern on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS conversations.

President Biden, Call for Unity. The new president has urged the people off the United States to unite, but he has

a tough job ahead, especially among Republican voters.

I'm sure in his heart of hearts he thinks that half the country, the 73 million people have voted for Trump,

are somehow subhuman.

But if he cannot let that get out,

if he can at least control himself,

because then it won't inflame people so badly. The 46 President of the United States Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Biden Jr. Joe Biden inherits his presidency at a time of crisis in the United States,

record debts from coronavirus, millions of job losses as a result of the ongoing

pandemic, and deep divisions across the country.

Not surprisingly, his inauguration speech attempted to reach out to all Americans.

With unity we can do great things, important things.

We can write wrongs. We can put people to work in good jobs. We can teach our

children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus.

President Biden is a man of faith, a practicing Catholic in a country where religion plays a significant role.

From the controversy of the presidential election, one conversation in the United States is over the

ongoing support of former president Donald Trump by a large number of white

evangelicals.

Evangelical Christians, they take the Bible's words as the highest form of authority, and white evangelicals

make up almost 20% of the U.S. electorate.

According to exit polls, four out of five of them voted for Trump in the last election.

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