US election 2020: We’re going to win this race, says Joe Biden
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that it was clear and convincing that he is going to win the closely-fought race
Washington: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that it was clear and convincing that he is going to win the closely-fought race for the White House against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.
Biden is on the cusp of being declared as the winner of the November 3 presidential elections, as the 77-year-old former US vice president was leading in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia where counting of votes is continuing.
As of Friday night, Biden had 264 of the 538 electoral college votes. He requires another six electoral college votes to reach the magical number of 270, to be declared elected as the next US president.
Given that counting of votes has not concluded in some key battleground states, Biden refrained from declaring victory but exuded confidence that he will be the winner when final results are out.
"My fellow Americans, we don’t have a final declaration of victory yet, but the numbers tell a clear and convincing story: We are going to win this race,” Biden said in his address to the nation.
“And look at the national numbers: We’re going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us. We’ve gotten over 74 million votes. That’s more votes than any presidential ticket has gotten in the history of the United States of America, and our vote total is still growing. We’re beating Donald Trump by over 4 million votes, and that margin is still growing as well,” he said.
“We are going to be the first Democrat to win Arizona in 24 years. We are going to be the first Democrat to win Georgia in 28 years. And we re-built the Blue Wall in the middle of the country that crumbled just four years ago. Pennsylvania. Michigan. Wisconsin. The heartland of this nation,” he said.
He announced that he will introduce his plans to contain the Covid-19 pandemic on his first day in office.
"On day one, we're going to put our plan to control this virus into action,” he said.
The virus has killed more than 236,000 Americans and infected over 9 million others, making the US the worst-hit nation.