This is the time for “heal in America”. The mandate given to him by the Americans said that it will serve to: restore “decency, justice, science and hope”.
The new President then summarized his ideas by stating that it is time to: “To fight the great battles of our time: the battle to control the virus, to create prosperity, to guarantee family health care, to achieve racial justice and to exclude systematic racism in this country. And the battle to save our planet, controlling the climate. And the battle to restore decency, defend democracy and give everyone in this country a fair chance. That’s all they ask of us: a fair chance “.
The President-elect began by thanking the State of Delaware, friends and family and fulfilled his greatest wish: “I promise to be a president who will seek to unite, not divide. He does not see red states and blue states, he only sees the United States”.
About the “battle” he had just won, he said: “They gave us a clear victory. A convincing victory.”
About the bigger reason that led him to run, he said: “I looked for this position to make America a respected country in the world again ”, says Joe Biden, at a time when he enters a part of the speech that underlines the importance of his family. “Jill is going to be a great first lady“.
Trump ignorado
Joe Biden insisted on calls for unity and spoke to those who did not vote for him. Contrary to what is customary in these speeches, Biden made no reference to the candidate who lost the election – at a time when Trump refuses to accept the election result and has not yet recognized the Democrat’s victory. “We are going to make the end of the demonization era in America begin here and now,” asked Biden in an indirect to Trump.
Biden was convinced of the potential of America by stating: “I believe in America of the possibilities. We are the United States of America and there was never anything we couldn’t do when we did it together”.
The President-elect also remembered his son Beau Biden, who died in 2015, to comfort everyone who lost family members during the pandemic. Joe Biden announced the creation and appointment of an expert group to advise him on the pandemic.
American soul
In a speech to the political class he recalled: “I am a proud Democrat but I will govern as an American president. I will work for both those who did not vote for me and those who voted for me”.
Biden stressed that he will seek unity in Congress between Republicans and Democrats in all matters. “America has always been shaped by inflection points, moments when we choose what we are and what we want to be ”, underlined Biden, referring to presidents like Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Obama. We are at another turning point. I have long spoken of the battle for the soul of America. We must restore America’s soul“, the president-elect appealed.
Dthen addressing Trump supporters, he said: “It’s time to lower the temperature, to hear each other again“.
Collective work
Biden thanked yet “to all those who volunteered and who worked at polling stations in the middle of this pandemic”, that said, “deserve special thanks from the whole nation”.
The new President also referred to the campaign moment that ended to underline the union of, “Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Progressives, Moderates, Conservatives, Young, Older, Urban, Suburban, Gay, Straight, Transgender, White, Latino, Asian, Native American. Especially in the most difficult moments of this campaign, the African-American community rose again for me. You were always there to defend me – and I will always be here to defend you “, he said.
“I wanted this campaign to represent and resemble America. To all of you who voted for President Trump, I say: I understand the disillusionment, I’ve also lost a few times, but let’s give each other a chance. It is time for us to listen to each other again. It is time to leave behind the hard rhetoric, to lower the temperature. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as enemies. They are not our enemies, they are Americans“.
The last reference in Joe Biden’s speech was religion.
“Let’s be the nation we know we can be, a united nation. As my grandfather used to say when I left his house, when I was a kid in Scranton, keep the faith, and my grandmother used to say no, Joey, spread it. Spread the faith! God loves you all. May God bless America and protect our church“concluded Biden.
After the speech, songs like “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty and “A Sky Full of Stars” by Coldplay were heard.
Fireworks lit Wilmington’s skies.
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