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JOE BIDEN MADE an address to the American people to discuss his mandate as president of the United States.
Speaking from a stage in Wilmington, Delaware, he spoke of winning the election with historic support while acknowledging that no final declaration has been made yet.
“The numbers tell us a clear and convincing story,” he said.
“We’re going to win this race with a clear majority with a nation behind us.”
He claimed he is going to win Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada – all states still being counted but where he has leads.
24 hours (ago), we were behind in Georgia, now we’re ahead, and we’re going to win that state.
24 hours ago, we were behind in Pennsylvania and we are going to win Pennsylvania. Now we’re ahead, we’re winning in Arizona, winning in Nevada, in fact our lead just doubled in Nevada.”
“We’re on track to 300 electoral college votes, and look at the national numbers.”
With counting still ongoing, the Biden/Kamala Harris ticket has broken voting records.
“We’ve gotten over 74 million votes, that’s more than any presidential ticket has ever gotten in the history of the United States of America.
And our vote total is still growing. We’re beating Donald Trump by over four million votes and that’s a margin that’s still growing as well.”
He hailed the Democratic party for winning Arizona and Georgia back from Republicans, and for rebuilding the Blue Wall in the mid-west that “crumbled just four years ago”.
In a defence of the electoral process, he said that tallies “aren’t not just number”.
“I know watching these vote tallies on TV moves very slow and as slow as it goes it can be numbing.
But never forget the tallies aren’t just numbers, they represent votes and voters, men and women who exercised their fundamental right to have their voice heard.
“And what’s becoming clear each hour is that a record number of Americans of all races, faiths, religions chose change over more of the same. They’ve given us a mandate for action, on Covid, the economy, climate change, systemic racism.”
He said that he and Harris had held meetings with scientists today to start their work around the pandemic. He cautioned that America could see daily cases skyrocket, and that there could be a situation where 200,000 cases are being reported each day.
Today, 125,000 positive cases were reported.
Finally, Biden appealed for calm and patience while the counting continues.
“I know tensions can be high after a tough election like the one we’ve had,” he said. “But we need to remain calm. Patient. And let the process work out as we count all the votes.
We are proving again what we have proved for 244 years in this country: Democracy works. Your vote will be counted.
“I don’t care how hard people try to stop it. I will not let it happen.
“No matter who you voted for, I’m certain of one thing: The vast majority of the 150 million Americans who voted want to get the vitriol out of our politics. We’re certainly not going to agree on a lot of the issues but we can at least agree to be civil to one another.
“We have to put the anger – and the demonisation – behind us.”
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Imagine getting more votes than last time and still losing the popular vote and this time by a far bigger margin!
@Dave O’Keeffe: I’m afraid that’s only likely to embolden the Trump camp where bigger is invariably seen as better. As loathe as I am to say it and see it, the Donald and his ilk aren’t going away anytime soon.
@Shane McGettrick: oh I sincerely hope they don’t. I want to see the spectacle of the secret service hauling trump away to jail on January 20th
@Shane McGettrick: its still heartening to see Biden win though. Yes trump got more votes than we’d like but at the end of the day he lost. Lets hope America can move on from trumpism now. I wish Joe Biden all the best
@Brian Dunne: He’ll be biden trump good bi den!!!
@Micheal S. O’ Ceilleachair: BYEDON 2020 as they say.
Good speech by Joe … He may be old but there is an air of stability about him. He learns by his mistakes and isn’t afraid to say he was wrong in the past – like owning his mistakes with the crime bill. He might not be that bad. And America needs that after getting caught up in 4 years of chaos. This is what not addressing corruption in politics leads to and it’s not just an American problem.
@Pablo: Lol. Joe Biden is as cor-rupt as they get
@Kieran Hayes: would he be as corrupt as ……..Donald trump?
@Kieran Hayes: Do tell, please. Many of us may have missed the details about one of the most corrupt politicians ever, which is what Joe apparently being as corrupt as they get means.
@Kieran Hayes: evidence?
@Kieran Hayes: Like how???
No More Years.
@Brian Farrell: we’ll leave that to a judge to decide. He could still end up in state funded facility
There is something beautifully poetic about how it’s all ending for Donnie and his spawn.
If it not for cv19 then DT would have sailed into another 4 yrs as economy was flying and that due mainly to his policies.If he just ciuld have behaved somewhat decent. So funny how a world pandemic can work both ways for good & bad.
@Sean: If my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle, what’s your point?
@Sean: the economy doing well was more to do with policies that were put in place by the previous administration coinciding with a global boom.
A majority and the nation behind him is a bit of a stretch, because America has never been more divided and directionless…
And that’s not just a consequence of Trumps presidency, it’s a division that predates him and is something that will take much more than a change of President to address, especially when in reality the changes will be nothing but a just shift rhetoric with business continuing as usual.
The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and everyone else will carry the burden to insulate the rich.
@David Van-Standen: Are you saying he doesn’t have majority support?
@Cian – Wash your: I am saying that claiming to also have the nation behind him, is a bit of a stretch.
I wouldn’t be getting all your hopes up for the Donald to be leaving anytime soon, alot of info will come to the fore over coming days, collusion, secret spy manipulation software and so forth.
Its not over just yet, get the popcorn.
@Joe Moore: change “info” to “BS” and you’re onto something.
@Joe Moore: as a matter of interest, did you buy all the tin foil in the supermarket, I need some for the Sunday roast?
@D Mems: You’re hilarious.
@Joe Moore: meh, it’s a gift.
@Joe Moore: The schadenfreude is strong in this one, obi-wan
Me thinks when I see his dark eyes with the hidden cameras that Joe Biden is a very cleverly made Humanoid robot and he stutters when the batteries are low.
One small hand clinging to everything except reality is what Trump will be remembered for in this crazy year.
All Hail Americas first socialist president. Joe Marx Biden and his side kick Kamala Lenin Harris.
The numbers tell us that country is FuBAR’d!
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