Democratic President- Elect Biden and Vice President- Elect Kamala Harris deliver victory speeches in Biden's hometown, Harris the nation's first woman and first Black woman vice president....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest.
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WILMINGTON, Delaware-Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, the only Black female U.S. senator and the only Black woman to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, on Saturday night delivered victory speeches at a rally in Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Harris also the first woman and first Black female elected vice president in America.
After winning over incumbent President Donald Trump in the key battleground states that were holding up overall election results since Tuesday night, namely Nevada, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania, Biden, 77, won the White House earlier in the day with 290 electoral votes to Trump's 214 to become the country's 46th president.
He also won the popular vote 74.5 million to Trump's 70.4 million votes, Biden making history in garnering the most number of popular votes of any American president.
Harris spoke first, and then introduced Biden, a former vice president who served under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first black president.
"Our very democracy was on the ballot in this election," said Harris, 55 as the crowd cheered and tooted car horns. " With the very soul of America at stake and the world watching you ushered in a new day for America."
She thanked Biden for choosing a woman as his running mate.
"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," Harris said.
"While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last. Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities," she added.
Biden was just as dynamic and said that although he is a proud Democrat he will be a president for all Americans.
"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."
Finally winning after two previous tries for president, he also spoke specifically to Trump supporters.
"For all those of you who voted President Trump, I understand the disappointment tonight. I've lost a couple of times myself, but now let's give each other a chance," Biden said. "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again, and to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are Americans."
COVID-19 was the main factor in Trump's electoral college loss, pundits said, some 223,000 Americans dead from the virus that has taken the lives of Black people at a rate more than three times that of their White counterparts.
And the Biden-Harris team was miles apart from Trump and Vice President Pence on public policy issues across the spectrum, from the Affordable Care Act to racial justice, sexism, women's reproductive rights, taxes, education, climate change, Supreme Court nominees and Civil and human rights.
Their families joined them on stage after both spoke Friday night, Biden's wife, Dr Jill Biden, an educator, poised to become America's next first lady.
Winning the Democratic nomination for president was all but ensured for Biden when his closest opponent dropped out of the race, U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
A socialist Democrat, Sanders was making his second bid for president after losing the nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton going on to lose the general election to Trump, a real estate mogul and former television personality.
During his bid this time around for the nomination Sanders, as was Biden, was effective in narrowing the more than 28 Democratic candidates down to the two of them.
Sanders nearly won Iowa, coming in second place to Pete Buttigieg, and he went on to win New Hampshire and Nevada.
But Biden, powered by the Black vote and an endorsement from Black U.S. Rep James Clyburn, subsequently won South Carolina, and Super Tuesday, and never looked back.
Obama, Sanders, Harris, and nearly all of the other Democrats who sought the 2020 nomination for president, and the Dems in general, endorsed Biden's candidacy for president after Sanders quit the race.
Thereafter, the polls continued to dampen President Trump's campaign for reelection.
A popular Republican among his strong base of supporters, President Trump lagged behind Biden in key swing states and nationally in nearly every national poll, including the conservative leaning Fox News poll, and Quinnipiac, CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, and Emerson polls.
Harris is the first woman of color to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America.
A former California attorney general, the junior federal lawmaker is native of Oakland who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. She became the fourth woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America behind vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin in 2008 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton a presidential candidate that year.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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