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Joe Biden won the presidency on Sunday after Pennsylvania put him on top. The former vice president garnered more than 74 million votes nationwide, the most of any candidate in history.
President Donald Trump refused to concede defeat, complicating the transition and Biden’s task of defusing tensions in a nation amid a pandemic, economic uncertainty and extreme partisan passions.
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President-elect Joe Biden, right, on stage with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, left, on November 7.
He is the oldest person ever elected commander-in-chief. He will turn 78 on November 20. Sen. Kamala Harris of California, 56, will be the first woman and the first woman of color to serve as vice president, the position that Biden held for eight years under Barack Obama.
“The people of this nation have spoken, it is a clear victory, a compelling victory, a victory for the people,” he said, implicitly refuting any lingering doubts about the outcome. “Once again, the United States has tilted the arc of the moral universe toward justice … I vowed to be a president who does not seek to divide but to unify.”
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A cheering and waving crowd of supporters gathered at the Chase Center in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, on a nice Saturday night (local time) for his acceptance speech.
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President-elect Joe Biden and members of his family along with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and members of her family are on stage in Wilmington, Delaware.
To Trump’s supporters, Biden said he has lost the election and understands his disappointment, but implored: “Let’s give ourselves a chance … May this grim age of demonization in America begin to end, here and now.”
Biden trotted up onstage, saluting Harris with a double punch. They both wore masks except when making their comments.
“You delivered a clear message. You chose decency, science, truth. You chose Joe Biden,” Harris said, before introducing the president-elect. “Joe is a healer, a unifier, a tried and steady hand” and he will be “a president for all Americans.”
He thanked poll workers, including those still working on piles of absentee ballots. “You have protected the integrity of our democracy,” he said.
She praised Biden for having the “audacity” to elect a woman as vice president and paid tribute to generations of women who fought to expand political rights, especially black women who are “often overlooked but often shown that they are the backbone of our democracy. ” . … I stand on his shoulders. “
Although Biden promised to ease the grudge of the past four years, that may depend on how his adversaries behave and how Trump handles the transition. Trump will remain president for another 74 days, until he takes office on January 20, 2021.
Biden vowed during the campaign to reverse Trump’s decisions to remove the United States from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement. Those will be among a series of actions that you are expected to take in your first days and weeks.
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Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris holds hands with President-Elect Joe Biden and her husband Doug Emhoff as they celebrate their historic victory.
He also thanked the poll workers who risked their health to turn the gears of democracy during a Covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed more than 237,000 American lives.
Trump did not make public appearances all day. Late in the afternoon, he posted a tweet in capital letters insisting that “I WIN THE ELECTION” and falsely claiming that millions of voters were mailed unsolicited ballots.
Trump’s victory would require an implausible reversal of fortune, through tallies in Wisconsin and Georgia and court orders to invalidate tens of thousands of ballots in Pennsylvania and other states.
The Democrats brushed it aside as irrelevant nonsense.
“Donald Trump cannot decide the winner of the election. The people decide … and the voters have made their choice very clear,” said Biden spokeswoman Symone Sanders.
By dusk, Biden’s electoral tally stood at 290, well above the 270 mark needed to be sure, with victories declared Saturday morning in Pennsylvania and then Nevada. He led in Georgia and was likely to end up with the same 306s Trump collected four years ago, assuming he stayed in Arizona, which the AP had testified for Biden early Wednesday, although Republicans insisted he was too close to call.
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President Donald Trump arrives at the White House after playing golf on November 7.
Trump regularly boasted of having overwhelmingly won, despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by three million. Biden surpassed it by at least four million and used that margin to claim a mandate on climate change, economic policy, immigration, the pandemic and other contentious issues.
“The United States has asked us to rally the forces of decency and … justice and … science” to defeat the coronavirus, racial injustice, inequality and deprivation, Biden said.
Biden promised a return to a more traditional style of presidential leadership: no early morning tweet storms, belittling cabinet secretaries or demanding personal loyalty from FBI directors.
He reportedly planned to appoint a coronavirus task force on Monday and will soon be dedicated to completing his cabinet.
Obama, who was puzzled by his friend and vice president in Florida, Georgia and other disputed states, said Saturday that “when he enters the White House in January, he will face a series of extraordinary challenges that no incoming president has ever faced. Pandemic. , unequal economy and justice system, democracy in danger and climate in danger ”.
Biden is up to the challenge, Obama said, but the election showed “that the country remains deeply and bitterly divided. It will be up to not just Joe and Kamala, but each of us, to do our part, to go beyond our reach. “. comfort zone, listen to others, lower the temperature and find something in common. “
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