President-elect Joe Biden, along with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, delivered a message of unity and healing to a divided nation during their victory speeches in Wilmington, Delaware.
“The people of this nation have spoken,” Biden declared. “They’ve delivered us a clear victory, a convincing victory, a victory for ‘we the people’.”
Reunited America
President-elect Joe Biden called for cooperation in his victory speech symbolizing hope for a renewed and reunited America. “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,” Biden said. “I sought this office to restore the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class, to make America respected around the world again, and to unite us here at home.”
Time to heal
Pledgng he would restore “the soul of America”, Biden quoted the Bible and said “This is the time to heal in America.”
He vowed to marshal the forces of decency, of science and hope to fight “the great battles of our time” to control the virus, save the climate, build prosperity, secure family’s health care, root out systemic racism in the United States and to “restore decency, defend democracy.”
“You chose hope, unity, decency, science”: Kamala Harris
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who is set to make history as the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to serve as vice president, said that the American people chose “hope, unity, decency, science, and yes, truth” in electing Joe Biden the 46th president of the United States of America.
Harris, who is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, declared to the American people that she “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.”
Highlights
- Former Vice President and a Democrat, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win the White House.
- Biden’s victory comes 48 years after his first Senate win in November 1972 when he was just 29 years old. He served 36 years as senator from Delaware before his two terms as Barack Obama’s vice president.
- Biden, who turns 78 this month, will be the oldest president to be sworn in.
- Harris, 56, broke multiple barriers to become the first woman, Black American and Indian American to serve as vice president.
