"It's time to heal America!"
Almost assured winner of the presidential election, and hailed as such by the American media, Joe Biden appealed for unity in a speech delivered in Wilmington, Delaware.
“There is a time for everything, a time to build, a time to reap, a time to sow and a time to heal,”
the former vice president of Obama said, quoting the Ecclesiastes.
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“I pledge to be a president who does not seek to divide but to unite. Who doesn't see the red states and the blue states, but who sees only the United States, ”
Biden said.
“It's time to put the aggressive rhetoric aside, to turn the heat down, to meet again, to listen to each other again.
And to progress, we must stop treating our adversaries as our enemies.
They are not our enemies.
They are Americans ”.
I have come forward to heal the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class, to have America again respected around the world, and to unite us here at we.
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Joe biden
“I came forward to heal the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class, to make America respected again around the world, and to unite us here. with us. ”
“It is the honor of my life that so many millions of Americans have voted for this vision. And now begins the work to make it concrete, it is the mission of our time ”.
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Biden was proclaimed the winner on Saturday morning by US media, based on results in states that were still tabulating the latest ballots.
But Donald Trump, who was at golf on Saturday, gave no sign of admitting defeat.
Joe Biden didn't even mention it.
“To those who voted for Trump,”
he said, addressing Republican voters,
“I understand how you feel: I lost myself once or twice, But now let's give a chance!
Let's lower the temperature, ”
he said, referring to the climate of extreme polarization in the countryside
.
Democracy is not a state, but an action, and we must fight for it.
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Kamala harris
Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's running mate, appeared on stage first.
Dressed in a white pantsuit, the former senator from California greeted the crowd by quoting John Lewis, elected black American who died last spring:
"Democracy is not a state, but an action, and we must fight for it. "
The first woman to be elected vice-president, and the first of Afro-Indian origin, she promised to be to Joe Biden what he had been to Obama,
"loyal, honest and available"
.
She introduced Joe Biden as
"a president for all Americans".
Biden has made fighting the pandemic his priority.
"Friends, our first mission is to control the Covid-19 ... I will meet scientists on Monday, in order to put in place a Biden-Harris plan from January 21, which will be based on solid facts.
I will do my best to control this pandemic. ”
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He compared the current period to other times when his predecessors had been at the crossroads of history, Abraham Lincoln when he saved the Union in 1860, Franklin Roosevelt with the
New Deal
in 1932, to John F Kennedy with the
New Frontier
in 1960, and Barack Obama, “
Yes we can”
in 2008.
“Let’s be the nation we know we can be. A united nation, a strengthened nation, a healed nation
,
”
Biden concluded.
“Nothing is impossible when Americans are united”
.