you ushered in a new day for america. to our campaign staff and volunteers this extraordinary team thank you for bringing more people than ever before into the democratic process. and for making this victory possible to the poll workers and election officials across our count country who have worked tirelessly to make sure every vote is counted our nation owes you a debt of gratitude. you have protected the integrity of our democracy and to the american people who make up our beautiful country thank you for turning out in record numbers to

make your voices heard. ah. and i know times have been challenging especially the last several months the grief sorrow and pain the worries and the struggles but we have also witnessed your courage your resilience and the generosity of your spirit. for 4 years you marched and organized for equality and justice for our lives and for our planet and then you voted. was. and you delivered a clear message you chose hope. and unity

decency science and yes shrewd odd. you shallows joe biden as the next president of my. job as a healer a united are a tested and steady hand a person whose own experience of loss gives him a sense of purpose that will help us as a nation reclaim our own sense of purpose and a man with a big heart who loves with abandon it's his love for jill who'll be an incredible 1st lady the.

it's his love for hunter and ashley and his grandchildren and the entire bible family of the of them. and while i 1st knew joe as vice president i really got to know him as the father who loved. my dear friend who we remember here today. and to my husband. od and i children cole and ella and my sister maya and our whole family i love ya more than i can ever express of the law. and we are so grateful to joe in jail for welcoming our family into bears on this incredible journey and to the woman most responsible for my presence here today my my. some of the gopalan harris

was always with. when she came here from india at the age of 19 she maybe didn't quite imagine this moment but she believes so deeply an america where a moment like this is possible and so i am thinking about her and about the generations of women black women. ahd. what lead to a man made of american women with. the our nation's history. paved the way for this moment to 9. women who fought and sacrificed so much for quality and liberty and justice for all including the black women who are often too often overlooked but so often proved

they are the backbone of our democracy vod. all the women. who have worked to secure and protect the right to vote for over a century 100 years ago with the 19th amendment 55 years ago with the voting rights act and now in 2020 with a new generation of women in our country who cast their ballots and continued the fight for their fundamental right to vote and be heard. of the. tonight i reflect on their struggle. their determination and the strength of their vision to see what can be unburdened by what has been. and i stand on their side. elders 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. but while i may be the 1st woman in this office i will not be the last. of the odd because 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 sent a clear message dream with the ambition to lead with

conviction and see yourselves in a way that others may not simply because they've never seen it before but know that we will applaud you every step of the way. and to the american people no matter who you voted for. i will strive to be a vice president like joe was to president obama loyal honest and prepared waking up every day thinking of you and your family. because now is when the real work begins the hard work the necessary work the good work the essential work to save lives and beat this epidemic to rebuild our economy so what works for working people to root out systemic racism in our justice system and society. to combat the climate crisis to unite our country and

heal the soul of our nation. with my. and the road ahead will not be easy. but america is ready and so are joe and i. must have before we have elected a president who represents the best in us a leader the world will respect and our children will look up to a commander in chief who will respect our troops and keep our country safe and a president for all americans. before and it is now my great honor. and was my president the last of the united

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ah ah ah. ah ah fro america what if the people brought me to dance don't know where i see my daddy time senator tom carper down there and i think i like senator coons is there and i think the governor is a rather odd is that rather than an hour and former governors and men are the only 2 poorly my sisters all my sister valerie that are way ahead of us. the people of this nation have spoken. they've delivered us a clear victory a convincing victory

a victory. for are we the people we've won with the most roads ever crash from presidential ticket in the history of the nation saturday for america i. i i had when i must admit a surprised me tonight we're seeing all over this nation all cities in all parts of the country indeed across the world an outpouring of joy of her renewed faith in tamara bring a better day and i am 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 the red states and blue states only sees the united states i. i

work on my heart with the conference of the whole people to win a confidence of all of you. and for that. is what america i believe is about. it's about the people. and that's what our administration will be all about ha i start this office to restore of the soul of america to rebuild the backbone of this nation the middle class and to make america respected around the world again. oh ah it unite us here at home. to seattle my lifetime that so many millions of americans have voted for that vision and now the work of making that vision is real it's a task the task of our time. folks as i said many times before i'm jill husband. was and i would not be here.

without their luck entire support of journal. and my son hunter in action my daughter our grandchildren oh and. and all our family. they're my heart. joe's a mom a military mom an educator she's dedicated her life to education but to she is a gesture she does it's who she is. for american educators this is a great day for ya old law you're going to have when you're out in the white house were one just going to make a great 1st lady i'm so proud of the law the law the honor of serving with a fantastic vice president who you just heard from common are errors. i.

he makes history as the 1st woman 1st black woman the 1st woman from south asian descent the 1st daughter of an immigrant's and her luck to this country. just may stop possible united states i swallowed her. and we're reminded tonight of those who fought so hard for so many years to make this happen once again america's bent the arc of the moral universe more toward justice probably dogs like it or nah your family you become an honorary brighteners no way out. ahead while those who you volunteered for and work to pose in the middle east pandemic. local elected officials you deserve a special thanks from the entire nation. and my campaign

team all the volunteers and all gay so much of themselves to make this moment possible i owe you iou iou everything. and all the others who supported us i'm proud of the campaign we built ran i'm proud of the coalition we put together the broadest and most diverse coalition to destry democrats republicans independents progresses moderates conservatives ya know yer going to suburban her gay straight transgender we're eager to know it is you native american . i'm reading especially those moderates and especially those moments when this campaign was that as low as 10 or the african-american community . was here and i have to yours.

i said at the outset i wanted to represent this campaign to represent and look like america we've done half now that's right they ministration to look like and act like for all those of you who voted for president trump i understand the disappointment i i've lost a couple times myself but now let's give each other and chantix in the in the it's time to put away the harsh rhetoric lower the temperature see each other again listen to each other again and make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies they are not our enemies they're americans they're american law. the bottle is us to everything there is a season a time to build a time to reprint a time to serve and a time to hear oh this is the time to heal in america when

the. now this campaign is over. what is the will of the people what is our mandate. i believe it's this america calling upon us to marshal the forces of decency the forces of fairness to marshal the force of science and the forces of hope in the great outdoors of our time the battle to control the virus the battle to build prosperity for the better secure your families health care about our chief racial justice and root out systemic racism in this country was in the battle to save our planet by getting climate under control. ah the battle of restore decency defend. proceed and give everybody in this country

a fair shot that's all they're asking for a fair shot. folks. are worried ganju getting covert under control we cannot repair the economy restore our vitality or relish life's most precious moments how good our grandchildren our children our birthdays weddings graduation all the moments that matter most to us until we get it under control. on monday i will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advisors. to help her take the bite hairs colored plan and convert or into an action blueprint that will start on january the 20th 2021. that plan will be built on bedrock science will be constructed out of compassion empathy and concern.

i will spare no effort none or any commitment. to turn around this pandemic. folks. i'm a proud democrat. but i will govern as an american president thank i work as hard for those who didn't vote for me as those who did. let discriminator of. demonization. in america began to end here and now. face years of democrats and republicans to cooperate with one another it's not some mysterious force beyond our control it's a decision a choice we make and if we can decide not to cooperate then we can decide to cooperate. and i the way. that this is part of the mandate

given to us from the american people they want us to cooperate in their interest and that's the choice i'll make and i call on congress democrats republicans alike to make that choice with me. the american story is about slow yet steadily widening the opportunities in america and make no mistake too many dreams have been deferred to law. we must break the promise of the country's real for everybody no matter their race their ethnicity their faith their identity or their disability . a mare has always been shaped by inflection point by moments in time where we've made hard decisions about who we are and what we want to bring later in 860 coming to save the union

after you are 930 tour promising to beleaguered country a new did. j.f.k. and 960 pledges a new front tear and 12 years ago when brock obama made history told us yes we can. we stand that inflection for you we have an opportunity to defeat despair to build a nation of prosperity and purpose we can do it i know we can i've last talked about the battle for the soul of america we must restore the soul of america our nation to shape by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses and what presidents say in this battle matters it's time for our better angels to prevail tonight the whole world is watching america and i

believe that our best america is a beacon for the close. we will not leave and we will live not only by the example of our power but by the power of our example. the 5 who i've always been way too many of you heard me say i've always believed we can define america in one word possibilities. that and america everyone should be given an opportunity to go as far as their dreams and god given ability will take to you saying i believe in the possibilities this this country we're always looking. ahead to what america is freer and more just ahead what america crazy jobs with dignity and respect had an america that cures diseases like cancer and all simon's ahead to america and never leave anyone behind. the

head of america's never gives up never gives. the story. it's always been a bad head to bet against america we're good people this is the united states of america there's never been and. never been anything we've been able not able to do what we've done together for. the last days of the campaign i began thinking about a ham. that means a lot to me and my family particularly my to see son bo it captures the faith that sustains me which i believe sustains america. and i hope. and i hope i can provide some comfort and solace the 230001000 americans who've lost a loved one to this terrible virus this year my heart goes out to each and every one of you hopefully this gives you solace as well it goes like this and he will

raise you up on eagle's wings bear you on the breath of dog and make you just sign hyper son and hold you in the palm of his hand. and now together on eagle's wings we embark on the work that god and his tips call the potus to do with full heart and steady hand with faith in america and each other with the love of god through a thirst for justice let us be the nation that we know every candy a nation united nations strength and a nation hailed the united states of america ladies and gentlemen there's never never been anything we've tried you've not been able to do so remember as my grandpa part grand property 7 i walked out of his home when i was a kid up in scranton said jerry keep the faith and our grandmother when she was

alive she yelled no joe we spread it. to you all. and let you take your cherry thank you thank you. while we're going to cross live now to our t's ben swanson an atlanta bed swan i'm sorry in atlanta to discuss with me the 1st speech that biden has given since the race was called in his favor so ben i mean this really was pretty much the victory speech even though we thought that the elections are still going on isn't that the is not the case. that is the case i mean there is a big difference between being projected winner which obviously joe biden. harris have been projected the winners by the media which is not unusual right when you are projected to win a certain state enough states to win the electoral college donald the bottom line is media makes projections in this country it's how it's always worked what's

important here to consider is the fact that in this particular case there are more lawsuits than we've ever seen at one time going forward after the election and enough lawsuits that if they were to prevail and that's a huge if yeah it really were to prevail we would see you know a possible different outcome yeah absolutely and it's important to note like you were saying and in previous hours that another lawsuit was filed in arizona just hours before this speech was actually given and it's also important to note you know. biden was talking about how the country is really in an inflection point right now and he promised that his administration was going to be able to turn around the pandemic you talked about systemic racism the environmental crisis i mean how how how serious do you think biden is in fixing these problems do you think you can. well i think it's going to be very difficult one of the things that's still outstanding at this moment is where the senate races fall so right now as it seems to be trending it would appear that republicans would continue to hold

control of the u.s. senate there are still going to be 2 runoff races in the state of georgia that would ultimately decide it looks like north carolina will go senate for republicans alaska will go to the republicans if that's the case it really comes down to georgia but if republicans hold the senate the biting the ministration doesn't have a whole lot of room in what they can do certainly not in terms of like the green new deal pushing forward a lot of these climate change policies even rolling back some of the policies of the trump administration it would be very difficult to do if they don't control the senate so it really comes down to whether or not they can either tie the senate because in the us the vice president is the tiebreaker when there is a split senate or whether or not they control that's what really comes down to that issue. right and of course there's also the idea of obamacare which was obviously. started under the obama administration in which joe biden was the vice president so that's another thing that he may perhaps biden will be trying to get through the

congress but the speech actually seems pretty confident that he's going to be able to work bipartisan lee with the republican party with the democrats with people of all racial denominations as he mentioned there are even if i guess you know there is a smaller majority of the democrats in the house and even if the republicans do maintain the senate do you think that's plausible. well i think it depends on what he's trying to accomplish if he's talking about rolling back tax cuts not going to happen if republicans control the senate because even though they'll work with them they're not going to roll that back are they going to institute the green new deal are they going to ban fracking are they going to ban oil exploration none of those things are going to happen it really comes down to what can you get done can you pass for instance comprehensive coronavirus bill that would provide economic relief to people who are struggling yet that can probably get. so i think it depends on the issue i want to mention very quickly though about these lawsuits it's very important you know a lot of trim supporters believe that they have been cheated in this the president

keeps referring to and i'm sure we're going to hear from him if not tonight by tomorrow we'll hear from the president who is going to say again that he has been cheated and by the way starting monday a lot of these lawsuits will go forward donald i've got to tell you the chances of these lawsuits actually prevailing pretty slim it's very unlikely that those lawsuits will prevail because it would be a very high burden you don't just have to prove that there was cheating you would have to prove there was enough cheating in these states that it actually would change the outcome of the election the outcome of the results in those states so it's very unlikely but here's what's important about that is that at this point dollars for his part didn't get blown out he has $69000000.00 plus votes almost $70000000.00 votes that have gone to him so even though the biden campaign says look we have 74000000 we have 4000000 more it doesn't discount the fact that at this point quite honestly joe biden and donald trump are now number one and number 2 in the history of the united states in terms of the raw vote and how many people

voted for them so that means 70000000 people in this country believe they've been cheated so it's very difficult you know the biden talked about in his speech a time to heal he quoted the book of ecclesiastes from the bible and said there's a season for everything and this is the season to heal a time to heal it's very difficult to tell people to heal when the half of the country 70000000 voters believe that you cheated your way into the white house is going to be a very very difficult thing for him you have been like you were saying i mean i think i'd agree with you there when you say that the lawsuits are most likely going to fail on on a state by state basis but then also there's the possibility of the supreme court right and the supreme court has a newly established conservative majority there we're not sure so you know what do you think about the possibility of it going to the supreme court and perhaps making a serious impact on the outcome of this election that joe biden was just declaring full out one yeah it's going to pin on a couple of issues number one if it goes to the supreme court specifically for the state of pennsylvania.