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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s victory speech at the Chase Center in Wilmington, the city where the vice president-elect lives, not to mention outgoing President Donald Trump who did not concede victory to his rival. A few hundred people inside their cars, parked drive-in style in a large plaza, and a few thousand people in masks huddled in the adjacent security area, even with picnic chairs, listened and applauded. The event on two giant screens, connected to the American networks. We the people now have the power to build a better future – in the words of Kamala Harris. We should never take democracy for granted, he added. I am the first female vice president but I will not be the last. This is a country of opportunities. Addressing the girls, he says: Dream about ambitions.

Then he gives the floor to President-elect Biden, who affirms the will to represent all Americans: I don’t see states that are blue or red but united. I want to be president that unites, better day tomorrow. Thanks to the wife: I am Jill’s husband and I would not be here without her. Without my family. Jill will make a fantastic first lady. Throw an olive branch at the end of a tough election campaign: treat your opponents as enemies. I know you will be disappointed, but give me a chance, Biden said, so he addressed the American voters who did not vote for him. I am a proud democrat but I will govern as president of the United States, he assured.

The crowd remains mixed, many children, all carrying American flags and campaign gadgets. There are also three Mexican boys who study in Delaware and wave the flag of their country: a victory for us too. Trump had called us criminals, traffickers, and rapists, but Biden will be a president who respects everyone. Once installed in the White House, Joe Biden will sign a series of executive orders to cancel some of the legacies of his predecessor Donald Trump. The former vice president has already announced that he will rejoin the United States in the Paris climate agreement. According to the Washington Post, Biden will also sign decrees to return Washington to the World Health Organization and abolish the travel ban, the ban on immigration to the United States from Muslim-majority countries. And on Monday he will present a working group of scientists and experts who will help him come up with a plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The time has come to defeat the pandemic. We need to get Covid under control, he said, listing the priorities of his presidency. The time has come to eliminate racism.

November 8, 2020 (change November 8, 2020 | 03:30)

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