Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer says he believes Joe Biden will be “very much a ceremonial president” and is set to have an administration which won’t be “very exciting”.
“He’s 78, he’s an old man and he just won’t have the energy and the enthusiasm, I suspect, to be able to become an activist and reformist president,” Mr Downer told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“I don’t think it will be a very exciting administration”.
“I think it will be a fairly quiet administration, but it’ll be more traditional than the one we’ve just seen”.
Mr Downer also said at this stage, Mr Biden is not appointing any “extremists or radicals” to his cabinet.