Last Call For Biden, His Time

Claiming a "mandate for action" tonight but not victory, Joe Biden asked America to remain patient as the votes are counted and to come together to heal, and promised to start to work on the immediate problems in America, starting with the COVID-19 pandemic reaching yet another new daily case high of over 130,000.

 

Former Vice President Joe Biden urged the nation to remain patient as votes are tallied, saying he is confident of victory as he is pulling even further away from President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, the state that may make him the 46th US president.

 In the latest batch of results from the Keystone State, Biden expanded his lead over Trump, which is now up to 28,833, meaning the President's already thin hopes of catching up are fast dwindling. Trump cannot win a second term without Pennsylvania, and if Biden captures its 20 electoral votes he cannot be stopped. 

Biden would not declare victory when he spoke to the nation late Friday night, but said he was confident in an impending victory. "The numbers tell us a clear and convincing story. We are going to win this race," Biden said. 

He added, "We are going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us." 

Biden put on a show of confidence about the state of the race and also sought to present a picture of a new administration that is ready to get to work. He said that from his first day in the Oval Office he would launch a plan to control the pandemic, and he vowed to quickly enact an economic plan to speed the recovery. 

And noting political tensions stirred by the election, Biden said, "We have to remain calm, patient, let the process work out as we count all the votes."

 

Imagine that.  A normal, sane response to COVID-19, climate change, and a country in dire need of leadership during one of its darkest hours. This was a marked change from Trump's blithering idiocy earlier this week. 

And I'm glad for it.