WASHINGTON — Thousands of people took to the streets in celebration Saturday after the Associated Press announced Democrat Joe Biden would become the 46th president of the United States.
The call came after several days of tense waiting as votes in key battleground states — including Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia — were counted while the current president, Donald Trump, tried to undermine the results with lies and false accusations about fraud.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Washington, D.C. Saturday to celebrate Joe Biden’s win over President Donald Trump.
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Trump, who was golfing when the results were announced, has already signaled he plans to challenge the results in court.
In Hawaii, voters overwhelmingly backed Biden’s bid for the White House in what has become a historic election in terms of turnout and the number of votes cast.
Biden, the former vice president to Hawaii-born Barack Obama, won the Aloha State with more than 63% of the vote to Trump’s nearly 34%.
Kamala Harris, Biden’s pick for vice president, made history in her own right. Harris is the first woman, first Black and first South Asian American to be vice-president elect.
Hawaii Congressman Ed Case was the first in the state’s delegation to issue a statement on Biden’s win, saying that despite the delay in counting votes, the nation “took the time democracy deserved.”
Thousands of people celebrated Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump at Black Lives Matter Plaza outside of the White House in Washington, D.C.
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“Now the real work begins, of charting a better path forward for all Americans, of healing a bitterly divided country, of listening to and including the almost half of our fellow Americans who chose differently,” Case said. “This work will be profoundly difficult. But today we all can reflect with pride and humility on the resilience of our democracy and recommit ourselves each in our own way to our own role and responsibility.”
Biden’s win over Trump was not as resounding as some polls had suggested it might be. Democrats did not perform as well as expected in both House and Senate races across the country.
At this point it is unlikely Democrats will retake control of the Senate, a prospect that once seemed attainable just days ago. The balance of the Senate will not be decided until all votes are counted and the results of January runoff elections in Georgia are finalized.
Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz took to Twitter to acknowledge Biden’s win and reiterate that there’s still a lot of work to be done, on issues such as climate, now that Democrats are set to retake the White House.
“The problems within the republic remain,” Schatz tweeted. “But the republic does remain.”
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