From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden struck an optimistic tone Wednesday afternoon, saying he anticipates he will win the 2020 presidential election and that he will govern as an “American president.”
Biden, speaking from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., touted the “extraordinary” turnout in the 2020 race, just hours after the Fox News Decision Desk projected that the former vice president won the battleground state of Wisconsin.
“If we had any doubts, we shouldn’t have any longer about a government of, by and for the people,” Biden said. “It is very much alive – very much alive in America. Here, the people rule.”
He added: “Power can’t be taken or asserted – it flows from the people, it is their will that determines who will be the president of the United States, and their will alone.”
Biden said that he was “not here to declare that we won,” but to “report that when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.”
Biden said he feels “very good” about Pennsylvania and Michigan, and said that many of the remaining votes to be counted were “cast by mail,” noting that the Biden campaign has been “winning 78% of votes by mail in Pennsylvania.”
Biden touted his wins in key battleground states but said there was “special significance” to him that he and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., “won the majority of the American people.”
Biden said that he and Harris will win the popular vote, and are “on track to win more votes than any ticket in the history of this country.”
“I am very proud of our campaign,” Biden said, noting that only three presidents have defeated an incumbent preside… (Read more)