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New Poll Shows Biden Favorite of Trump 0:43
(CNN) - Former Vice President Joe Biden won enough delegates to officially secure the Democratic nomination for president, CNN projected on Saturday.
Biden has been the only Democratic candidate since April, when Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders withdrew from the primaries. His electoral victory in Guam on Saturday allowed him to exceed the 1,991 delegates needed to claim the candidacy in the first vote of the party's convention, to be held in August. Biden currently has 1,992 delegates, according to CNN's tally.
A little over three months ago I stood on a stage in South Carolina and told the American people that ours was a campaign for all those who have been brought down, excluded and abandoned. Those words take on greater resonance today, at a time when so many Americans are suffering and have suffered so many losses, "Biden said in a statement. “Many feel demolished by the economic and public health crisis that we are going through. Many feel excluded and abandoned by a society that for too long has considered them less than equal, that has considered their lives as less than precious, "she added.
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Then he added: “It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented candidate groups that the Democratic Party has ever put forward, and I am proud to say that we are going to this general election as a united party. I'm going to spend every day from now until November 3 fighting to win the votes of Americans across this great country so that together we can win the battle for the soul of this nation, and make sure that as we rebuild our economy, everyone unite ”.
This moment comes after the coronavirus pandemic postponed most of the primaries scheduled for April and May and stopped the face-to-face campaign.
Seven states - Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and South Dakota - as well as Washington DC held presidential primary elections last Tuesday, in which Biden took a large number of delegates. She is expected to earn more this coming Tuesday, when Georgia and West Virginia celebrate their primaries.
The latest CNN poll of the general election between President Donald Trump and Biden finds that 51% of registered voters across the country support Biden, while 41% support Trump. That represents a shift in Biden's favor since April, when the CNN poll showed an average of 48% support for Biden and 43% for Trump.
These results come after more than a week of turmoil in the United States, with protests against racism and police brutality in the country following the death of a black man in police custody in Minnesota.
Biden, on his first trip out of Delaware in months, delivered a speech Tuesday in Philadelphia condemning Trump and referring to protests taking place across the nation.
"'I can't breathe. I can't breathe. ' The last words of George Floyd. But they did not die with him. They are still listening. They are resonating across the nation, ”Biden said.
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“They speak to a nation where too often only the color of your skin already puts your life at risk. They speak to a nation where more than 100,000 people have lost their lives to a virus and 40 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits, with a disproportionate number of these deaths and job losses concentrated in black and minority communities Biden said. "And they are heading to a nation where every day millions of people, not at the moment of losing their lives but in the course of living their lives, say to themselves 'I can't breathe,'" he added.
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