Trump nominated Hutchison in June 2017, and the Senate confirmed her appointment the following August. She represents the U.S. among the political and military union of 30 European and North American countries. Biden was declared the winner by most media outlets three weeks ago.
“President-elect Biden certainly is pro-NATO,” Hutchinson said in a Monday virtual news conference in Brussels, Belgium.
“We are going to work in a transition for a new administration coming in and we’re going to make sure it is smooth… so they have all the information they need to determine what the policy is,” she continued. “That’s what we have in democracies and that’s what we are going to produce.”
“President-elect Biden certainly is pro-NATO,” she added. “I served with him in the United States Senate and I know he is very much a multi-lateral organization supporter. We like to have allies, he likes to have allies, and I think that is ongoing from this administration to the next administration.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and European Union leaders have also recognized Biden as the U.S. president-elect. On November 10, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo there would be “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
Before becoming NATO Ambassador, Hutchinson served in the Texas House of Representatives, was Texas State Treasurer and became Texas’ first female U.S. senator. She has also practiced law.
In the past, Trump has publicly described NATO as “obsolete” and accused the organization of unfairly ripping off the U.S. since the U.S. pays more for the group’s military forces than other member nations.
In September, government officials expressed worries that Trump would withdraw the U.S. from NATO if he won a second term, a move that some experts said would largely benefit Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Biden is expected to reaffirm the U.S. bond with NATO and could reverse several Trump-era troop withdrawals that would’ve affected NATO allies, The Hill reported.
Newsweek contacted the Biden campaign for comment.
As recently as Sunday, Trump has alleged massive and unprecedented election fraud committed in part, he claims, by Republicans and possibly the FBI and Justice Department. Roughly 39 Trump campaign court cases alleging widespread fraud in key swing states have all failed, been dismissed or withdrawn, mostly for lack of evidence.