Biden: ‘We believe we will be the winners’

Joe Biden in a live address says his campaign is confident of victory and calls for post-election unity in a deeply divided nation. He stops short of claiming to have won the elections, but confidently predicts that “we will be the winners.”

Speaking from his home city of Wilmington, Delaware, with running mate Kamala Harrris at his side, Biden says, “Yesterday once again proved that democracy is the heartbeat of this nation, just as it has been the heartbeat of this nation for two centuries.”

“Even in the face of the pandemic more Americans voted in this election than any other in history,” he says. “If we had any doubts we shouldn’t have any longer of a government by and for the people.”

“Here, the people rule. Power can’t be taken or asserted. It flows from the people and it is their will that will determine who will be the president of the United States.”

“After a long tonight of counting it’s clear that we’re winning enough states to win 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. I’m not here to declare that we won but I am here to report that when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners.”

He says the campaign flipped Wisconsin and Michigan and expects to win both.

“I feel very good about Pennsylvania. Virtually all of the remaining ballots to be counted were cast by mail and we’ve been winning 78 percent of the votes by mail in Pennsylvania.”

“We’ve won the majority of the American people and every indication is that the majority will grow,” he says, adding that his campaign won more total votes than any in history.

“We are campaigning as Democrats but I will govern as an American president. The presidency itself is not a partisan institution. It is the one office in this nation that represents everyone,” Biden says.”I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as I will for those who did.”

“Every vote must be counted. No one is going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever. America’s come too far, fought too many battles, endured too much to ever let that happen. We the people will not be silenced, we the people will not be bullied, we the people will not surrender. My friends, I’m confident we will emerge victorious.”

“There will be no blue states or red states when we win, just the United States of America.”