Senator Casey, thank you.

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I We're here to make a a brief statement, and I'm sure we'll have more to say later on either tonight or tomorrow.

But let me begin by thanking the press for being here and thank you, everyone else.

My fellow Americans yesterday once again proved that democracy is the heartbeat of this nation.

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It has has been the heartbeat, this nation for two centuries.

And, uh, even in the face of pandemic mawr, Americans voted this election than ever before in American history.

Over 150 million people cast their votes.

I think that's just extraordinary.

And if we had any doubts, we shouldn't have any longer by the government of by and for the people.

It's very much alive, very much alive in America.

Here the people rule power can't be taken or asserted.

It flows from the people.

And is there well that determines who will be the president of United States and there will alone.

And now, after a long night of county, it's clear that we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

I'm not here.

Declare that we've won.

But I am here to report.

Well, the Countess finished.

We believe we will be the winners.

All the votes counted.

We have one Wisconsin by 20,000 votes, virtually the same margin that President Trump won that state four years ago in Michigan.

We lead by over 35,000 votes and is growing a substantially bigger margin.

And President Trump won Michigan in 2016.

Michigan will complete his vote soon.

Maybe a Zerlina is the day, and I feel very good about Pennsylvania.

Virtually all the remaining ballots to be counted were cast by mail, and we've been winning 78% of the votes by mail in Pennsylvania.

We flipped Arizona and the second District of Nebraska.

Of special significance to me is that we've won with the majority of the American people, and every indication is that the majority will grow with the popular vote lead of nearly three million votes and every indication is that will grow a swell.

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Senator Harris and I are on track toe win more votes than any ticket in the history of this country that everyone the presidency and vice presidency over 70 million votes.

I'm very proud of our campaign Onley Three presidential campaigns in the past have defeated an incumbent president.

When it's finished, God willing will be the fourth.

This is a major achievement.

This is a major achievement.

It's been a long and difficult campaign, but it's been, um, or difficult time for our country.

Ah, hard time.

We've had a hard campaigns before.

We faced hard times before.

So once this election is finalized and behind us, it will be time for us to do what we've always done as Americans to put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us.

Toe lower the temperature, to see each other again, to listen to one another tweet, to hear each other again, respecting care for one another, to unite to hell, to come together as a nation.

I know this won't be easy.

I'm not naive.

Neither of us are.

I know how deep and hard the opposing views are in our country on so many things.

But I also know this is well to make progress.

We have to stop treating our opponents as enemies.

We are not enemies.

What brings us together as Americans is so much stronger than anything that can tear us apart.

So let me be clear.

I were campaigning as a Democrat, but I will govern as an American president.

The president.

The presidency itself is not, ah, partisan institution.

It's the one office in this nation that represents everyone, and it demands a duty of care for all Americans.

That is precisely what I will do.

I will work is hard for those who didn't vote for me as it will for those who did vote for me.

Now every vote must be counted.

No one's going to take our democracy away from us.

Not now, not ever.

Americans come too far.

Americans fought too many battles.

Americans endured too much.

Never let that happen.

We, the people will not be silenced.

We, the people, will not be bullied.

We, the people will not surrender.

My friends, I'm confident, will emerge victorious.

But this will not be my victory alone.

Or our victory alone would be a victory for the American people, for our democracy, for America.

And there will be no blue states and red states when we win just the United States of America.

God bless you all.

And may God protect our troops.

Thank you.