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  • I'm here to tell you tonight we believe we're on track to win this election.

  • We were getting ready for a big celebration way were winning everything, and all of a sudden it was just called off.

  • There's a lot of heart palpitations going on.

  • It's not always quick.

  • Um, it can be ugly.

  • So far.

  • This night is not going the way the opinion pollsters told us in Florida on I can tell you it is on a knife edge.

  • It is neck and neck.

  • This this night has just begun.

  • The next phase of the campaign has just begun.

  • I don't want to count my chickens, as we would say in Texas before they hatch, but things are looking really good for us right now, but their calculations are based on Florida.

  • They saying, Look at North Carolina, Look a Georgia.

  • If I had a dollar for every time a Biden person has said about Georgia, then you know I could definitely buy a round of coffees.

  • It will take Georgia a couple of days to put all these mail in ballots through the machines, and so you might see this start to narrow very quickly.

  • Postal votes only started to be counted after 8 p.m. Eastern time this evening, and in some counties they won't even start till tomorrow morning.

  • So patients is going to be the order of the day.

  • It's not always pretty.

  • It's not always quick.

  • Um, it can be ugly in the terms of way we get to the results of elections, but we always get their.

  • Your message is loud and clear.

  • It's time to put the poisonous politics of this era behind us.

  • Tonight, the Liberals of California, New York and Washington D.

  • C learn the hard way that Alabama Senate seat cannot be bought.

  • This night is not going the way the opinion posters told us again, as it did in 2016.

  • Didn't go the way it told us.

  • It's much happy that would be we don't yet have.

  • Those absentee ballots counted may not be until Friday that we hear about those other upper Midwestern states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on you get a distinct sense of deja vu of 2016 when we were here, kind of waiting for Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

  • We believe we're on track to win this election.

  • We knew because of the unprecedented early vote in the mail and vote.

  • There's gonna take a while.

  • We're gonna have to be patient until the hard work of talent in votes is finished and it ain't over until every vote is counted.

  • Every ballot is counted, so we'll be going to the U.

  • S.

  • Supreme Court.

  • We want all voting to stop.

  • We don't want them to find any ballots at four oclock in the morning and add them to the list.

  • Okay, it's It's a very sad He's a very sad moment to me.

  • There's a very sad moment, and we will win this.

  • And ASU Faras I'm concerned we already have one.

  • It was the most remarkable statement by an incumbent president on election night in America's history.

I'm here to tell you tonight we believe we're on track to win this election.

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Election results: The story of the night so far... - BBC News

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campaign

US /kæmˈpen/

UK /kæm'peɪn/

  • verb
  • To work in an organized, active way towards a goal
  • noun
  • Series of actions meant to achieve a goal
unprecedented

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UK /ʌnˈpresɪdentɪd/

  • adjecitve
  • Not having happened before, or to such a degree
sense

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UK /sens/

  • noun
  • Certain mental feeling or emotion
  • Normal or clear state of mind
  • Meaning of a particular word, phrase or text
  • verb
  • To perceive using sight, sound, taste touch etc.
  • To recognize the presence of something
distinct

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UK /dɪˈstɪŋkt/

  • adjecitve
  • Clearly different in nature from something else
track

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UK /træk/

  • verb
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  • To move a certain way/follow a particular course
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  • noun
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  • Course or way someone takes, e.g. in education
  • Path in a field or a forest made by walkers
  • Often circular course laid out for car racing
  • One of multiple musical recordings on an album
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  • Metal lines that trains ride on
opinion

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UK /əˈpɪnjən/

  • noun
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statement

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UK /ˈsteɪtmənt/

  • noun
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concern

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UK /kənˈsɜ:n/

  • verb
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  • noun
  • Company, firm or business
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court

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UK /kɔ:t/

  • verb
  • To act in a way to shows you wish to marry someone
  • To encourage dangerous behavior
  • To pay attention to someone to get their support
  • noun
  • Place king or queen meet people, makes laws etc.
  • Place where legal cases are decided
  • Large, flat area, to play tennis or basketball
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UK /edʒ/

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