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you have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are americans. this is the time to heal. >> time to heal. president-elect joe biden calls on americans to come together, to work together. a very good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm poppy harlow. it is 4:00 a.m. on the east coast, 1:00 a.m. on the west coast. maybe you didn't go to sleep. it has been a big night in america. welcome to our live coverage of the historic u.s. 2020 presidential election. overnight joe biden and now vice president elect kamala harris certainly made history. >> the mood at his victory speech, their victory speech, was one of celebration, but we should note a raging pandemic

continues. there is widespread unemployment, continued racial division, bitterly divided country. some of the challenges awaiting biden and harris as they take office in january. on saturday hours after clinching t clinching, he spoke to the americans. >> america has called upon us to marshal the forces of fairness, science and forces of hope. and the great battles of the our time. the battle to control the virus, the battle to build prosperity, the battle to secure your family's health care, the battle to achieve racial justice and root out systemic racism in this country. and the battle to save our planet by getting climate under control. the battle to restore decency,

defend democracy and give even in this country a fair shot, that is all they are asking for, a fair shot. >> joe biden's running mate kamala harris has made history as well with a litany of firsts. the first woman, the first woman of color are, the first black person, the first south asian person to be elected vice president. she spoke broabout what her achievement means for the future. >> every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. and to the children of our country regardless of your gender, our country has spent you a clear message, dream with

am business, lead with conviction and see yourselves in a way that others may not simply because they have never seen it before. bu that we will applaud you every step of the way. >> and with knows wonoes those y made for sure. let's go to jason carroll who is this wilmington, delaware. what stood out to you most when you saw that? both what happened on stage and what you heard from the people around you watching. >> reporter: well, a couple things. first thing that stood out i think to not only me but to some of those who were out here who came to see joe biden, a hometown hero, was the message of unity. and it is a tall order considering just how divided this country is. but this was a message that we heard him talk about tonight, poppy, it is a message that we've heard from the very beginning of the campaign, this is something that joe biden

really believed in wanting to unite the country and he talked about that tonight, saying it is not about red states, it is not about blue states, it is about the united states, about recapturing the soul of the country. and when we spoke to folks who were out here, that is a message that really resonated with them, it was a really diverse crowd who came out here to hear the president-elect speak and some of the things that really stuck with some of the folks that we talked to was this message of calm, that they felt a sent of relief, that this is a man who could really bring the country together. one man that i spoke to fr cameroon, now a u.s. hit, he said when he saw joe biden on the sustaining and especially with kamala harris, he felt as though that his daughter could grow up and be whatever she wanted to be. kamala harris for her part saying a few things that really stuck out to me where she said that the country really chose decency, truth and hope. and she also talked about the

work that needs to be done going ahead. and the country facing a pandemic, facing an economic crisis as well. biden saying for his part on monday he will he be announcing 12 person task force dealing with the pandemic, a lot of folks wondering what will be happening with the transition. his transition team has been working behind the scenes since labor day. they already have folks in mind for the cabinet. he says his cabinet will look like the rest of the country, diverse. and these are a lot of the messages that i think are sitting home with a lot of people who came out here tonight and last night, it is all pluring in quite frankly at this point, but to hear joe biden president-elect speak. it was an incredible moment being here in wilmington where so many people care about him and i think at this poents a in

are just waiting to see what happens next and how he will tackle all of the challenges. >> we know night is blending into day. so thank you for staying up through all of it for us. we appreciate it. so you heard the victory speeches. what about the current president's concession speech? unfortunately, we're still waiting on that. sources tell cnn that president trump has not denied the election outcome privately, but publicly he continues to make baseless claims about mail fraud, about voting fraud, pushing his lawyers to challenge the results in court tweeting in all cap, i won this election by a lot. it is not true. we've also learned that his son-in-law and adviser jared kushner has approached the president about conceding. the question is, is that going anywhere. ron brownsteen joining us now

from los angeles. i'll set aside the president for a moment here because i suppose it is up to him when he recognizes reality. but i want to take a look at the electoral map again. beyond the numbers, and we should note both arizona and georgia as the tally stands now both going red, north carolina and alaska more likely to go blue -- georgia and arizona. what does this map tell you about joe biden and kamala harris's victory, where their support was and where it extended into in. >> it tells me that joe biden was probably the only democratic nominee who could have beaten donald trump. i wrote on election day in 2016 that the risk to hillary clinton was that she would fall just in between the party's fast and its future, that the rust belt would crumble a little further than it coalesced in the sunbelt. and of course that is what

happened. and it is pretty clear that that was possible for democrats again even with joe biden on the ticket and with a massive gain in the metro areas of philadelphia and detroit and madison and proven even in the suburbs of milwaukee, donald trump turned out so many rural blue collar voters that it was a narrow squeeze in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. and while biden significantly advanced the democratic cause in the sunbelt, those remain a very narrow squeeze as well. so i think this does point the party toward clearly a better position in the sunbelt where they can continue to build on his gains in places like the atlanta metro, houston and dallas, but both sides are still narrow for democrats and one perhaps only joe biden could have afforded. >> can i ask you about the lesson here building on that, ron, for democrats. you because it was a long time

ago that james carville said it was the economy, stupid, but it was the economy this time around again when you look at exit polling. and you have one democratic house member who a anonymously telling cnn thank god fbiden or we would have gotten wiped out, critical of nancy pelosi and some of the more progressive democrats. and tim ryan saying as a party, we have to live and breathe in the economic space. does this change the cal could you cus you -- calculus, is there a major party to learn in. >> i do think culture is more of a dividing line in our politics than economics at this point. >> even though more people said that they voted on the economy? >> yeah, i do. i think attitudes towards the underlying cultural changes in the country and the democratic change is so powerful in driving -- look, what trump has

been able to do is achieve enormous levels of turnout and continued margins even against joe biden. biden did recover somewhat among the blue collar white women, but probably not as much as they hoped. on the other hand, democrats really -- we can't overstate the size of their advantages in these big kind of metro centers of the country, whether it was cobb and gwinnett which used to be reliably republican counties or biden winning in philly by 275,000 vote, even texas winning the big urban are centers, that is real and i think that is the fundamental dividing line. and what you saw in the house was republicans running not so much against what democrats actually did in 2019 and 2020, prescription drug for medicare, background checks, they ran against what they might do like

defunding the police and single payor health care which are unlikely to pass, but you become a flash point in the sunbelt. >> and so let's talk about the possibility of divided government here. we don't know what will happen to those two senate elections in georgia, but let's say democrats don't get both of them. so paint a picture for me of how the senate under mitch mcconnell works with joe biden in the white house. is it pie in the sky to imagine compromise on anything? mitch mcconnell famously said when obama was elected, i want to make him a one term president. >> i think biden has a better chance evfeve of cooperation in republicans if they win both those seats and there is a 50/50

majority. i think if mcconnell has the opportunity to block the biden administration, he will. expanding aca, managing drug prices, big increase in spending on green energy, a new voting rights act, further gun control, police reform, what part of that is mitch mcconnell and the other republicans in the senate going to feel like they want him to advance. and the fact that we saw again in this election virtually every senate race go the same way as the presidential, and democrats simply could not beat any republican in any state that donald trump carried unless trump ultimately wins arizona. but the fact that they are now kind of all in the same coalition, i think it makes it hard to peel off meaningful are republican support unless thwin those races in georgia. and then joe biden's deal making

might allow him to bring some of them into the tent. but if they have the opportunity to block it all together, i don't know how he gets many of them to come across the line. >> oh, lord. with well, let's hope -- i think americans want some progress on something. >> and i think on the coronavirus by the way that is the big exception. the conditions are so horrific that they may have to deal with that. but i think on many of his agenda items, it will be awful tough again paradoxically, i think if they have the vote, biden will bring in republicans genuinely, but if they don't have the votes, mcconnell likes to be the grim reaper. >> so the executive order continues. ron, thank you so much. and president-elect biden faces as we just talked about a deeply split america. he also faces a congress where democrats cost in key races. the view from both sides of the

divide ahead. plus the latest on president trump's planned legal fights over mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. >> the scene earlier in philadelphia, biden supporters put president-elect bidenoff o the finish line.

all right. so the theme of the night was unity. how do you unify this divided country. so let's try to do that with two women on opposite sides of the political spectrum, alice stewart and maria cardona. >> maria -- good morning to both of you. and we owe you a debt of gratitude because you're with us in the clay razy overnight hour. som maria, let's take a moment sks we're only a few hours into this. >> right. >> the history here. kamala harris first woman, first black woman, first indian american woman to serve as vice

president. your reaction. >> it is overwhelming, jim. i was on the air yesterday when they made the announcement, when cnn called it for joe biden, i was on cnn espanol. and i did exactly what i'm told cried. it was completely overwhelming the flood of emotion. i have a latino daughter and latino son who are able now to see what the possibilities are after four years of so many communities including the latino community being attacked, being marginalized, being dehumanized, being hunted by the receipt tore vehicle that this president inspired. and so for joe biden to have picked kamala harris and to see her last night on stage speaking to my little girl directly about the possibilities in terms of

what this country has in store for her was just -- it filled my heart and it filled my soul and i know that that did for so many americans as well. >> alice stewart, as a republican strategist, i wonder what you think post this election happens to trumpism. because the president still got 7 million are momore votes thand in 2016. and 70 million plus people voted for him, the most ever to vote for a losing candidate. the margins were regaazor thin. is this the new republican party? >> he certainly has captured the voice of republican, 70 million of them in fact. and what he stands for and the message that he delivers, and the ideology he delivers is strong. and he has unified the republican party in terms of

having such tremendous support amongst his base. and i think what we do moving forward is part of the action item conversation in the autopsy report, but i think that we have to remember that while people might not agree with the tone and tenor that this president brought fort, i have a lot of issues with it and i've said them publicly often, you have to remember peel back the layers and it is the policies that he represents and the fact that he is giving voice to these 70 million people across the country. and they are united behind him and they look forward to how the party comes out across this. but if i can say this please, that i watched everything that happened yesterday. and i too like maria, i was chilled, i was touched in my heart. and when kamala harris said i might be the first woman in this office but i will the no be tno last and the camera panned to little girls, it is

heartwarming. and i'm encouraged to see what type of unity we have in this country moving forward. >> listen, i'm a dude and i was moved as well, right? >> i'm sure you were, jim. >> you're also a dad of a little girl. >> for sure. and she was watching. i had her up well past her bedtime, but she was watching last night. >> it was an important moment. >> let me play devil's advocate here for a moment. but yes, 70 million people voted for him, but he will be 5, 6 or 7 million behind joe biden. he underperformed his party in these races. losing the white house while they gained seats in the house and maybe lost only a couple in the senate. and when jimmy carter lost after one term or george h.w. bush lost after one term, they didn't say the party would forever be

defined by them, they said the opposite. can we overstate, is it possible that if not all but many republicans say that we need a course correction here? >> you know, that i think will be the question of the moment moving forward in terms of how are republicans going to deal with this humongous presence. and we all know that he is not going to go quiet into the night, right? we are all wondering whether he is going to try to grip on to the oval office and to the resolute desk with super glue and we'll have to peel him off and who is that going to be. but broadly he and his supporters frankly, specifically his son, have already acknowledged and kind of said, look, republicans who you want to run in 2024, why aren't you

coming out and defending donald trump. i think signaling we are not going to leave you guys alone, we are going to hold as much as we can our grip on the republican party. so i think that it is really going to be incumbent upon republican leaders to figure out what the way forward is for their party. i know so many republican, those folks who worked on the lincoln project, everyone who understood how dangerous donald trump was for the country and for their republican party were hoping that they could just start clean with a clean slate after this election if and when joe biden won. and that hasn't happened yet. will it? we'll see. i think that it will take all of us frankly work ing together. we'll help republicans with that if they want it. >> alice, you're are from georgia. and there is a very from a. good chance that joe biden will flip georgia blueare from georgia. and there is a very from a. good

chance that joe biden will flip georgia blue in 28 years. and if it happens, is it biden, it the moment, is it stacey abra abrams' work? what is the reason? >> there are several reasons. i speak with folks there and those in the secretary of state's office and a lot of it is in atlanta, the fulton county, the large number of democrats it that have moved into that area, and some of them have said that trump's demeanor did give them heartburn and it turned some of them off. look, it has been a long time coming in terms of this blue wave coming into georgia in terms of the presidential. i'm not convinced that we will lose those seats to the democrats. it is a poenlts, bssibility, but convinced. and to your point, stacey abrams has moved mountains to help energize the democratic party

and as well as the "black lives matter" group, and their organizational skills in georgia starting when stacey abrams ran for on governor. it has been tremendous. but the republicani party in go is still looking to galvanize, they will put boots on the ground and every effort they can possibly do to keep those seats republican. i think that is critical. because it is important to keep i think for the balance of power and for democracy in this country to have divided government. i think america will be better with joe biden in the white house and democrats controlling the house that we need the republicans to control the senate to keep the balance of power. and republicans in georgia will work extremely hard to make sure that that is the case. >> you all of a sudden, your home state became the center of the political universe for the next nine weeks, that is for sure. we have to leave it there, but

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worked to secure and protect the right to vote for over a century, i stand on their shoulders. and what a testament it is to joe's character that he had the audacity to break one of the most substantial barriers that exists in our country and select a woman as his vice president. >> there she was, the vice president elect kamala harris on stage, as celebrations under way in the indian village where her grandfather was born. look at that. good morning, everyone. >> people around the world watching. it is 4:30 a.m. on the east coast, 1:30 a.m. on the west coast. the new president-elect of the united states joe biden delivering his victory speech saturday night in wilmington,

delaware after a hard-fought campaign in what remains a deeply divided nation. >> joe biden laid out his plans on a day that the u.s. saw a record-breaking number of new coronavirus cases and he reached out to the more than 70 million people who voted for president trump. >> tonight we're seeing all cities and all parts of the country, indeed across the world, an outpouring of joy, of hope, renewed faith in tomorrow, bring a better day. and i'm humbled by the trust and confidence you placed in me. i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify. who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the united states.

>> when the election was finally called after days of uncertainty, overjoyed biden supporters poured into the streets across america and in some places those celebrations despite the sun being about to come up with still going strong. this is "black lives matter" plaza in washington, d.c., it is right in front of the white house. just a few hours ago, you can see a sign that reads you're fired pushed up there against the white house fence. and here is a different shot of the same scene, so you can see the white house in the background, president trump was there, he returned to the nation's capital midafternoon after golfing earlier in the day. >> in fact he was on the golf about course when the election was killed. whi sources tell us that jared kushner spoken to donald trump about conceding. ryan nobles is this washington, d.c. you've covered this president for some time now.

tell us what you're hearing from the administration, whether folks in that administration believe that jared kushner has the muscle to push the president to con said here, what is the latest? >> reporter: well, before we talk about that, i should say those crowds, where we're standing right now in washington, d.c., we're now 4:30 in the morning, they just quieted down in the last ten minutes. so those crowds were going pretty strong all night. but back to your original point about what is next for president trump and who is talking to him about those next steps, we did believe that jared kushner his son-in-law, someone who he is very tight with, one of his top advisers, is at least broaching the topic with president trump that he should at least consider conceding this election. but all we are have have to go t he has said. he put out a lengthy statement

that essentially said that he would see through the lawsuits that his team has filed in these battleground states and he also put out a tweet which made it clear where he stood at the time and that was where he said i won this election by a lot. he was not minces words about that, the president still believing that there was an incredible amount of fraud to this election and that is the reason why he was some 4 million votes behind biden in the election. and there is a reality that at some point president trump will have to do to terms with though, in addition to the big vote margins, there is just not any evidence of voter fraud of any kind in arizona or pennsylvania or georgia or nevada, these states that are at the margins. and there is also not many of the court challenges that seem to have any legs behind them that could actually get to the point where it will alter the

future of this race in any way, shape or form. so it seems pretty clear that joe biden will be the next president of the united states. the question is the exit ramp that president trump chooses to take to end all of this. and it could be a matter of saving face in some way shape or form. the president always wants to leave with the upper hand. he clearly does not have that upper hand right now. so this could just be a conversation that he's having with his closest aides or even in his own mind to look for some sort of an opportunity to claim victory even in the face of defeat so that he can then move on and the one thing right now, everything that we're hearing, it is probably not something that will happen at least in the near future. of course just 75 days until joe biden will be inaugurated the next president of the united states. >> all this attention as to how he feels about the reality of this rather than respect for the election's results. ryan nobles, that's where we

are. thanks very much. on that point, the president still has pennsylvania in his cites after it is the state that handed joe biden the election. just ahead, we'll talk to a former republican lawmaker from that state to see what he thinks about the president's unfoundedunfounded allegations of voter fraud there. and plus many world leaders are not waiting for president trump to concede, including some of the president's allies. we'll show you how the rest of the world is reacting to great lating joe biden's election win. today's ways of working, may work differently tomorrow.

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the commonwealth of pennsylvania has been a key target for the president and for other republicans that are right now making baseless claims about mail-th mail-in balance lie detectored fraud. joining me now, charlie dent. good to have you, sir. thank you for being here.

and thanks for getting up in the middle of the night for us. >> of course. >> i think it says a lot, does it not, that pennsylvania pat toomey came out and said that he has seen no evidence of democrats trying to, quote, steal the election. it is important to hear that from him and from other republican colleagues, is it not? >> yeah, poppy, it is. senator toomey is correct, there really isn't any evidence that i'm aware of any type of voter fraud. in fact i would argue if they were trying to steal the election, they did a lousy job of it because hillary clinton performed a little bit better than joe biden. the story is that joe biden performed exceedingly well in the suburbs of pennsylvania, particularly the suburbs of philadelphia where his vote exceeded hillary clinton's by 100,000 votes.

that is the story. and joe biden also cut down on trump's margins up state in places where i live in the lehigh valley and other parts of the state. that is the story here. >> he rebuilt the blue wall. he promised that he would do it, the blue wall donald trump smashed down four years ago. he rebuilt it. one, do you believe that joe biden is the only democrat who ran in the primary who could have done that and seeing margins that we see now, and b, what is the lesson, is there a takeaway for your party to leave with this if they want to regain it next time around? >> i believe that joe biden was a much better candidate than say bernie sanders or elizabeth warn. that would have been a came t catastrophe for the democrats in pennsylvania if they would have

in th nominated someone on the left. because you see what has happened, another story line that hasn't really been discussed is that there are a significant numbering of swing voters who are republican and independent, perhaps some democrats, who voted for joe biden and then they voted straight are republican down ballot. how else does one explain that not one house republican lost re-election but donald trump lost by a significant margin. >> so what does the party take from this if it doesen a utopsy? i was truck by marco rubio's comments about, you know, what the party needs to do and he said that the hunger and thirst for political leaders to focus on those issues, meaning the economy, is not going to change. but he says this, the question is whether someone not named donald trump is able to do what he was able to do. is trumpism gone or very, very

much alive for the future of your party? >> well, that is the debate that we're going to have. i would argue that the autopsy in 2013 was a very valuable lesson for all of us. there will be no need to do another autopsy this time around because we know who killed the patient. the republican party has to become much more sociallital rant, constructively engaged on the international stage, and must also have answers on policy issues like climate change, immigration, has to embrace free markets with moderate and reasonable regulation. we have to appeal to constituencies that donald trump had problems with, particularly women, lgbt and other minorities. i think that sis a gift to doube done on the democratic death march is a mistake, i think we have to figure out ways to make inroads. so let's have this debate about the future of the party.

we lost by not an insignificant margin. >> and final question, why do you think the president did get double the black male support this time around than he did last time around and more lgbtq support than last time? how do you explain that? >> that is a great question. you how do y how do you explain it. that is one answer that we'll have to delve into. i think maybe the democrats have taken the african-american community for granted for a long time and maybe their messages simply aren't resonating. i think all this conversation about defunding the police,t ne resonates the way they think it does. and in the lgbt issue, i think many folks thought that donald trump in his heart of heart was probably more social libertarian, he wasn't a hard social conservative. and so maybe they were more comfortable with him then maybe

say vice president pence. >> and fareed has a great article and he points out that the president won the largest share of the republican vote than anyone else. and so the question is how do they expand on that. thank you, congressman. >> thank you. great to have those conversations. and people around the world have been watching of course this election unfolgd. on the edge of their seats you might say. but just because they can't vote doesn't mean they don't have anything to say about it. how regular folks and world leaders are responding to biden's win. to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days

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these are people in ireland celebrating the results of the u.s. presidential election, this small you town pulled out all the stops. this is where some of joe biden's ancestors come in. >> and nic robertson is joining

us live from london. i was in europe when barack obama was elected and europe didn't exactly love george w. bush, but a greater degree with donald trump there. but i think the difference here big picture is that donald trump fundamentally upset relationships with close u.s. allies. germany, thoughts of pulling out of nato, that kind thing. so yochbeyond the celebrations the streets, what does it mean for those alliances? >> reporter: well, as the prench mayor french mayor of paris said, welcome back america. the message is that biden returns the united states towards the multilatter list position that the one europe has always relied on. i think that you will hear tweetwee

tweaks and adjustments in those relationships. but look at it through the eyes of boris johnson. you were probably here when president obama told the british public that if you leave the european union and go for brexit, you will be at the back of the line for xwesh greatineg new trade deal. and britain did that. and so boris johnson who some would see as a minute mini me president trump will suddenly find himself in a tough position. he congratulated president-elect biden. he said the special relationship between the two countries was hugely important, that we'll work together on climate change, on trade, on security. but he is sort of making good out of a difficult position there band and we heard as well the foreign secretary here, not only congratulating president-elect and vice

president elect kamala harris, but also saying that it was a close fought contest that trump had fought hard. that was sort of interesting. and makes you realize that perhaps britain still has things, you know, things that it is trying to negotiate still with the trump administration. emmanuel macron also speaking very strongly, let's work together. that is the message. >> and let me ask you about this then because donald trump also made friends with adversaries, right, strong men, the putins, the kims of the world, erdogans. how are they reacting to this? i know they haven't made necessarily public comments, but what does it mean for them. >> >> reporter: you know, i think it means different things. the chinese have said before the results became clear that they would work with whomever was leader. and if you listen to what people

on the streets of hong kong are saying, they are concerned that biden won't be as tough on china, i think that you will find in beijing, the assessment there is that they can negotiate the differences over trade with the united states better with president-elect biden than they can do with president trump. why we haven't heard from these leaders so far, let's not forget they are close allies of president trump even though they are enemies of the united states. and we're seeing this sort of trend that -- and we heard this from are the president of mexico, that he didn't want to even congratulate president-elect biden, that he was very cautious. he said let's wait until the courts decide what is going on. so perhaps that is why we're not hearing publicly. it is hard to judge. but if we step back and really look at the big picture here, this is the united states coming back into the fold of what the majority of the international community want. and it will direct repercussions

for some of the leaders here, specifically in london. those celebrations in ireland, i was there is a few months ago talking to joe biden's family and close relatives, they really want in new u.s. president to take a strong line on brexit, protect the good friday agreement and make sure that ireland doesn't get. >> referee: vanlged ravaged by the economic deal. >> and we'll watch that unfold. nick roberten so, . >> thanks to all of you for joining us this early py harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. please stay with cnn for "new day" sunday. businesses today are looking to tomorrow. adapting. innovating.

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