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savannah guthrie in new york the moment
the entire country has been waiting for
after a very close race
nbc news now projects that joe biden has
won the keystone state pennsylvania
and its 20 electoral votes and that
means we can now project that former
vice president joe biden has been
elected
president of the united states he is
president-elect joseph robinette biden
at 77 years old chuck will turn to you
this map is uh is a
real interesting one not necessarily the
path that anyone thought
would have unfolded but here we are here
we are uh
look we got just enough vote in in order
to
uh call pennsylvania even if it may slip
into a recount we think there's just
the mathematically uh nearly impossible
uh for the for the uh the order of
finish to change in pennsylvania
and when you look at it in many ways joe
biden won with
a the same with a somewhat traditional
map
in the midwest he rebuilt the blue wall
um
and narrowly but he did it he added two
sort of expansion states
it looks like potentially when all said
and done with arizona and georgia but
the fact is he did it without it
and it proved that four years ago the
biggest important lesson from this
election is that
2016 was not an outlier this is
essentially the 2016 election
with the gary johnson vote going to joe
biden
and here we are all right andrea i'm
thinking of the 32-year quest for the
presidency
of this man his resilience in the face
of
failed attempts in the past a very slow
start stumbling out of the gate
losing the primaries and caucuses
reclaiming it on super tuesday
and taking a centrist message which will
now challenge him
his ability to reach across the aisle
will be challenged on the left within
the democratic party
but the empathy the fact that he was so
policy directed
which comes from his whole career during
covid which i think was the biggest
story of this
closing part of the campaign his
response to the pandemic
and to the racial inequality the
protests after george floyd
really spelled uh that appeal to
suburban women
and others in broadening that appeal
that hillary clinton simply could not
reach in the 2016 map
and that spelled victory in a sharp
contrast with appealing
for unity for calm as he has in the last
48 hours
and casey hunt is here uh concession is
normally the opening to transition
are we going to see that i i think we're
all going to be watching to see what
republicans
do here and they have a real challenge
in trying to
manage a president who has been ruled it
seems by his emotions and who has fed
into the chaos so i would expect some
republicans to focus on
letting what chuck mentioned there is
still going to be a process that plays
out in the states obviously republicans
have talked about legal challenges
i'm going to watch to see how long and
how far republicans are going to be
willing to entertain that
clearly current president trump has a
lot of support there were a lot of
americans
who voted for him here but i'm not sure
that there's going to be sustained
support for that and you know just to
pick up on what andrea was saying
as i as as i was i've been watching all
of this and you think about what got joe
biden
into this race and and how you know
everyone in washington has
looked at this president he has said
repeatedly that the events in
charlottesville and the president's
unwillingness to be very clear on
matters of race
are what got him into this in the
beginning that he was something of a
reluctant candidate that his son beau
should have been the one who was running
here i mean he has been trying as andrea
said
to find his way into this office for
decades uh
and that the relationships that he did
build through the roles that he had in
the senate i think are going to drive us
going you know there's a mandate
there is a mandate here and there's
gonna be a fight about what it is but
i'll tell you what the american people's
mandate is
heal the nation that's joe biden's
mandate that's the message that was sent
heal the nations why you ran and you
know what
that is why he won hey nbc news viewers
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