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WILMINGTON / OSLO (VG) In their victory speeches to the American people Sunday night, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris emphasized unity and diversity.
After an intense election drama, Joe Biden delivered a clear message to the American people Sunday night: He wants to be a unifying president and wants to restore America’s good name and reputation after what he calls a “dark age.” .
– It’s time to put aside the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature and start listening again, he said among other things to the more than 70 million Americans who voted for the opponent in this year’s elections.
– It was an attempt to calm the mood and the desire to start work, says Erik Mustad, Senior Lecturer at the University of Agder for VG.
He believes that Biden, through his victory speech, tried to reach out to disappointed and upset Trump voters.
“He said that he should be president of the entire United States, and that his most important task going forward was to try to unite, rather than divide,” Mustad said, adding:
In addition, he had a conciliatory tone, and not a confrontational tone, as we have seen from Trump.
– We saw an energetic and powerful 77-year-old man.
FIRST TEACHER: Erik Mustad describes Biden’s speech as “powerful and energetic.” Photo: Fredrik Solstad
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Van Jones, who comments on policy for CNN and is a former adviser to the Obama administration, tells the channel who believes that Biden’s message got to people.
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– Boring is the new and exciting. Also predictable. Usually the new is extraordinary. That’s where we are. A boring, simple and hopeful speech fills us with joy. People are crying. It shows how many people have wanted a change of tone in this country, he says.
Jones gained worldwide attention Saturday when he burst into tears on the spot when he learned that Joe Biden had been declared the winner of the presidential election:
Republicans: – A good start
Republican Karl Rove, a former adviser to former President George W. Bush, told Fox News that he thought Biden’s speech “was a good start.”
– This was his big moment. Tonight he made a speech that was his. It wasn’t the same linguistic elegance as John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, this was middle-class Scranton, he says of Joe Biden’s hometown in Pennsylvania.
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– I think it was a very good start, he adds and points out that Biden spoke of unity, and that he wants to work as much for those who did not vote for him as for those who did.
Also Kamala Harris, who took the stage Sunday night as the first woman to be elected Vice President of the United States, is praised for his speech.
– I will be the first woman in the presidential office, but I will not be the last. Every girl who looks tonight sees that this is a country of opportunity, she said, among other things, from the stage in Delaware.
Rove tells Fox News that this went home with him:
– He couldn’t help but get excited when he talks about his presence on stage, with new responsibilities, that this can make little boys, young girls, realize that the country’s opportunities are available to them, he says.
Donna Brazile, a former chair of the Democratic National Committee and Fox News political analyst, is also among those who praise Biden and Harris’ speech.
They are two of the best, most dedicated, and most caring public servants in America. “I think a lot of people who voted for President Trump will be amazed at all the good things that the incoming president and vice president will do,” he wrote in a comment on Fox News.
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VG commentator Hanne Skartveit, who is in Wilmington where Harris and Biden gave their speech, notes that Kamala Harris managed to blow up the glass ceiling, four years after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Trump in 2016.
– I think every woman in the US is enormously proud of this today, regardless of whether they voted for Trump or Biden. Getting a woman into the White House is a great historic achievement in the United States.
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Skartveit also highlights Biden’s message of broader cooperation across political divisions in the United States.
– I think maybe Joe Biden will be the only one who can rally the Americans. But it will take time, there are many unresolved conflicts and tensions in American society that have been there long before Donald Trump was elected president, he says.
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