Election Highlights: Biden Wins Presidency, Saying
‘America’s Back’
Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes vaulted Joe Biden
past the 270-vote threshold needed to take the White House. Kamala Harris is
the first woman elected vice president. Mr. Biden leads in Georgia and Arizona
and was declared the winner in Nevada. President Trump has vowed to file legal
challenges.
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RIGHT NOW
- Biden makes his first remarks to the nation as president-elect.
- Here’s what you need to know:
- Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States.
- Kamala Harris, elected V.P., has risen higher in national politics than any woman before her.
- Trump supporters, many armed, descend on state capitols.
- Which Four Seasons? Oh, not that one.
- Ocasio-Cortez says progressive ideas did not cause Democratic losses.
- Vote counts are continuing, but the chances of Trump’s fortunes changing are slim.
- China’s state-run news media reacts to Biden’s victory with cautious optimism.
- Trump supporters remain skeptical, but some say it’s time to ‘go on.’
- Biden makes his first remarks to the nation as president-elect.
“Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to
end here and now,” he said.
In remarks
before a drive-in audience in Wilmington brimming with longtime friends from
Delaware, his home state, he directly appealed to the tens of millions of
Americans who backed President Trump’s re-election, seeking to make good on his
central campaign promise of bringing the country together.
“For all
those of you who voted for President Trump, I understand the disappointment
tonight,” Mr. Biden, speaking at the conclusion of his third run for the
presidency, said. “I’ve lost a couple times myself. But now, let’s give each
other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the
temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again.”
He added, “This is the time to heal in America.”
Mr. Biden’s
optimistic speech, flecked with references to faith and American history, came
48 years to the day after he was first elected a senator from Delaware. He
spoke from a flag-bedecked stage outside the Chase Center on the Riverfront, an
event center near the Christina River, where he invoked themes that shaped his
presidential campaign.
The
message, as it was throughout the campaign, was rooted more in a sense of
values than in an especially ideological viewpoint, an approach that helped him
build a broad coalition throughout the campaign but that will be tested in
partisan Washington.
Yet Mr.
Biden grew impassioned as he insisted that for all of the tensions in the
country, Americans still wanted to see their leaders find common ground. He
promised to bring steady leadership and experience to meet the staggering
crises facing the nation, most prominently the coronavirus.
“What is
our mandate?” he said. “I believe it’s this: Americans have called upon us to
marshal the forces of decency, the forces of fairness, to marshal the forces of
science and the forces of hope in the great battles of our time.”
Senator
Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect, spoke first, telling voters that they
had chosen “hope and unity, decency, science and, yes, truth.”
She invoked
her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who came to the United States from India at the age
of 19, and paid tribute to the women “who throughout our nation’s history have
paved the way for this moment tonight.”
“While I
may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last,” she said.
“Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of
possibilities.”
— Katie Glueck and Thomas Kaplan
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