No mention of Trump in Biden's statement claiming victory.
.@KamalaHarris will be the first woman vice president and the first Black and Indian American VP in history.
"Today marks the dawning of a new day of hope for America." @SpeakerPelosi reacts.
.@SenSchumer: "Joe Biden has won this election fair and square and Republican leaders must unequivocally condemn the current president’s rhetoric and work to ensure the peaceful transfer of power on January 20th."
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer called President-elect Biden at ~12:45 p.m. to "congratulate him on a tremendous victory," says a senior Democratic aide, who said it was a "happy call in which Dr. Biden also participated."
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Kamala Harris, in suffragette white: “While I may be the first woman in his office I will not be the last. Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”
Harris: “Now is when the real work begins. The good work, the hard work, the necessary work.” She mentions Covid, economy, systemic racism, combating climate change + “heal the soul of our nation.”
“The road ahead will not be easy, but America is ready. And so are Joe and I.”
Joe Biden: “We don’t have a final declaration of victory yet. But the numbers tell us a clear and convincing story. We’re going to win this race.”
Biden on his big popular vote lead: “They’ve given us a mandate for action, on covid, the economy, climate change, systemic racism. They’ve made it clear they want the country to come together, not pull apart.”
(Side note: How much of that stuff gets through a GOP Senate?)
One of many ironies in the "socialism" attack: It was deployed by a president who put his name on $1,200 cash payments to Americans, bailed out farmers hurt by his trade war, tried to send $200 drug discounts to seniors and favors $400B on F-35 jets that don't shoot straight.
The other irony of "socialism" is that the two most socialist programs in the USA, Social Security and Medicare, are mega-popular and politicians who use the word as an epithet tend to take care to show support for them.
Yet another irony of the "socialism" rhetoric is that it is often lobbed by politicians whose states are net beneficiaries of federal dollars from other states they decry as too socialist.
TEXAS (97% in): Joe Biden has more votes in 2020 than Donald Trump got there in 2016.
Biden grew Clinton's TX vote from 3.88M to 5.22M (!).
But Trump grew his TX vote from 4.69M to 5.87M.
And this is the story in battlegrounds all over the country.
Biden got far more votes than Clinton, but Trump grew his vote substantially, too, and it made the election close.
Look at Florida: Clinton got 4.5M and Biden has 5.3M; Trump has gone from 4.6M to 5.6M (with 96% in).
How did Trump grow his vote? Partially by boosting his margins a bit with non-white voters. But more importantly from the early exits he appears to have found a lot more white Americans without a college degree and gotten them to vote, which strengthened him everywhere.
Trump is claiming to have won states where he hasn’t been declared the winner, like Georgia, and baselessly said unnamed people are trying to “disenfranchise” his voters.
“Frankly we did win this election,” the president falsely says. Millions of votes have yet to be counted and no winner has been declared.
“We’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop,” Donald Trump says.