Election 2020 Live News: Biden Wins Presidency. Democrats Rejoice. Republicans Disbelieve. - The New York Times
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Michael D. Shear in Washington
The White House declared a “lid” at 3:59 p.m., indicating that Trump has no intentions of appearing in public today to make a statement his loss. (He could still tweet his feelings at any moment.)
Nov. 7, 2020, 4:03 p.m. ET
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Our photographers got up close — but not too close — and personal with those reacting to the presidential race’s dramatic conclusion.
Eric Schmitt in Washington
Former Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, in a phone interview about Biden: “He can help heal the country. All of his instincts are to govern from the middle, from the center.”
Nov. 7, 2020, 3:46 p.m. ET
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Supporters in Milwaukee on Saturday at a rally for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.Credit...Morry Gash/Associated Press
Michael Jeske stepped into his yard in suburban Milwaukee and blasted a conch shell.
Bjorn Hansen received a text message in Kent County, Mich., and pumped his fist.
Derrick McConnell of Detroit jumped up and shouted, “Thank you, Jesus!”
As supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. learned the news of his clinching the presidency on Saturday morning, they were flooded with joy, relief, hope and in some cases overwhelming emotion.
“I’m giddy,” Mr. Jeske’s wife, Karren, said through tears. “It’s amazing.” She had quit a job to volunteer full time for Democratic groups seeking to turn out Wisconsin voters. “The nightmare is over,” she said.
Biden voters said they wanted a new president to get control of the coronavirus that is raging anew, to return the United States to the Paris climate accord, to follow science — and most of all, to unify a fractured country.
That last sentiment seemed particularly strong in the so-called blue-wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which President Trump had flipped in 2016, and which all flipped back to Mr. Biden.
“Thank God, America will be for the good of the people once again,” said Linda Gorski-Slear, 69, a retired dental hygienist in Washburn County, Wis. She said the country urgently needed a leader who would address the resurgent coronavirus pandemic. “Biden cares about the people, not just going to the golf course on the weekend,” she said.
Heather Rodriguez, 44, a restaurant manager in Eagle River, Wis. — the part of the state, she said, that’s “up north, where all the guns are” — was hopeful that Mr. Biden would be able unify a country that she said had never been so divided. “I hope with Biden in the White House the world can come together a little more,” she said.
Mr. Hansen, an airline pilot, is a Republican who voted for Mr. Biden.
“I’m extremely happy,” he said. “I hope Biden can now start lowering the temperature a little bit and we can talk to each other again. You had, on top of that, the vice-presidential choice, that to me is tremendous, too,” he said of the election of Kamala Harris as the first Black woman to the nation’s second-highest office. “The bottom line is it’s time to come together again as two sides.”
Nov. 7, 2020, 3:41 p.m. ET
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Supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr., drove by a gathering of President Trump’s supporters in front of the Texas State Capitol in Austin.Credit...Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times
AUSTIN — Hundreds of President Trump’s supporters from across Texas gathered in front of the Texas State Capitol before noon on Saturday, surprising many Democrats who spontaneously took to the same spot to celebrate in this city, which voted strongly for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
“I wasn’t expecting this many Trump supporters,” said Liam Andrus, 29, a doctoral student studying physics at the University of Texas at Austin. “I thought it was going to be a happy time.”
Mr. Andrus, like most supporters of Mr. Biden, wore a mask as he stood on one side of 11th Street and took in the scene of dueling slogans and scores of flags. He said that he hoped Mr. Biden would do more to combat the coronavirus.
“I want everything to go back to normal,” Mr. Andrus said.
Across the street, Mr. Trump’s supporters — few of them wearing masks — shouted “Stop the steal!,” a slogan adopted by those who believe a baseless claims that the election was being stolen, and “America first!”
“I think the president is courageous for fighting the corruption,” said Diana Arldt-Roberts, 56, who was holding a Trump flag that fluttered in the light breeze. She had come from Belton, Tex. to join the rally.
John Connors drove about four hours from the Dallas suburb of Frisco for the rally, which had been organized in the days after the election.
“We just want it to be legit,” said Mr. Connors, who wore a mask of Mr. Biden and carried a garbage bag full of paper meant to represent stolen ballots. “I’m stealing this election,” read a sign he carried.
The Biden supporters were not happy to see all the Trump fans. Ashlyn Bodin, 23, a supporter of Mr. Biden, had come from her apartment near the Capitol expecting a festive scene after a bitter election.
“We thought we were coming for a celebration,” she said, looking at the Trump supporters. “I just feel like — I’m getting angry.”
Nov. 7, 2020, 3:41 p.m. ET
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Trump supporters protested outside the Arizona State Capitol on Saturday.Credit...Jim Urquhart/Reuters
PHOENIX — Several hundred Trump supporters gathered for a midday protest on Saturday in front of the Arizona State Capitol to express opposition to Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the presidential race.
The crowd included at least a dozen men carrying military-style rifles. At several points, the crowd broke into chants of “Fox News sucks” and “Where is Ducey?” (Doug Ducey, Arizona’s relatively moderate Republican governor, has refrained from attending this week’s pro-Trump protests.)
“Trump shouldn’t concede if he feels there’s been voter fraud,” said an armed protester who gave his name only as Dave, age 28. He said he was a public-school teacher and had moved to Arizona from New Jersey to be in a part of the country that is friendlier to gun owners.
He said he would be prepared to recognize Mr. Biden as president if the election results are shown to be free of fraud. “If it’s Joe Biden, I will pray for him and support him,” said the protester, who was carrying an AR-15-style rifle.
Speakers at the protest urged those in the crowd to refrain from recognizing Mr. Biden’s victory. Numerous people held Trump flags.
The protest at the State Capitol unfolded after an earlier demonstration fizzled out in front of the building where Maricopa County employees were counting ballots. The latest release of the vote count on Saturday in the county, a onetime Republican bastion, showed Mr. Biden holding his lead both in the county and statewide.
Catie Edmondson in Washington
Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 House Republican, takes a cue from President Trump, saying “the election is not final” until legal challenges are resolved.
Michael D. Shear in Washington
Trump’s motorcade arrived back at the White House, having driven past crowds of mostly Biden supporters. Trump waved at reporters as he entered the West Wing side entrance.
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Katie Glueck in Wilmington, Del.
In many ways, he ran as the politician he has always been. And for one extraordinary election, that was enough. After a half-century in public life, Joe Biden is president-elect.
People celebrated as drivers-by honked at a rally in Freedom Park in Atlanta on Saturday.Credit...Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
ATLANTA — The news of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory rolled across Atlanta, starting with alerts on phones and growing into a huge celebration. A “count the vote rally,” sponsored in part by a get-out-the-vote group founded by the former Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams, had been planned in Freedom Park from the beginning to mix protest and celebration.
But celebration seemed to win the day.
All along Moreland Avenue, the north-south traffic artery bordering the park, hundreds of people sped by honking incessantly. Protesters on the sidewalk waved signs and flags proclaiming Black lives matter, or in support of the Biden-Harris ticket. One woman hoisted twin signs that read “GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE,” and a put-down, surely directed at Mr. Trump, which the president himself often favors: “LOSER.”
Jen Willsea, 40, an antiracism facilitator, was walking to the rally around noon with her husband, Mick Rehrig, a clinical social worker, and their 3-year-old daughter, Frances Willsea-Rehrig. Frances carried a small handmade sign that said: “Donald Trump is mean. Make him go away! All people love each other.”
“I was having a little trouble coming into my feelings of relief and celebration,” said Ms. Wilsea. “I’ve been involved in antiracism work for a long time, and for me this is just one win. We should keep our eyes on the long term.”
Noemi Griffin, 23, a Spanish teacher, and Ashley Meehan, 25, a public health worker, were ecstatic about Mr. Biden’s win, even though Ms. Griffin had supported the candidacy of Bernie Sanders and Ms. Meehan had supported Elizabeth Warren.
Ms. Meehan said she wanted to see serious structural change in the country on the issues of racial justice, the protection of the environment and health care. She was not sure that Mr. Biden, a moderate, could deliver, especially if he ends up facing a Republican controlled Senate. But she was still in a very good mood.
“I don’t expect all these issues to be solved in four years,” she said. “We just needed another driver of this bus to get in it and turn it around.”
The crowd of a few hundred people stood on a grassy hill and watched an exuberant drag performance, and listened to activists talk about the need for better protections for working people, more pandemic relief and the need to turn out again for two runoff races in Georgia that could determine control of the U.S. Senate.
Damian Denson, 43, a behavioral scientist, was in the crowd wearing a Stacey Abrams T-shirt. He had been planning to go for a hike but decided instead to go to the protest to help pressure government officials to conduct a fair and thorough count of the votes. He had been feeling anxious about the race all week. He stopped for coffee when the news came over his phone. “This is it,” he said. “This is the moment.”
Mr. Denson, an African-American who grew up in Georgia, delivered an unsparing assessment of President Trump, using words like “immoral” and “misogynistic” to describe him. “He’s all the things I despise,” he said. “It’s been a challenge these four years, knowing that he’s the leader of America.”
Mr. Denson, who, like nearly everyone at the rally, was in a mask, said it was the largest gathering he’d attended since the pandemic began. He said he wanted “competence” from the White House going forward, and “someone who believes in science.”
“This,” he said, “is a start.”
‘The media do not get to determine who the president is,’ said Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
As President Trump refused to concede his defeat on Saturday, the top Republican congressional leaders followed suit, refraining from releasing the customary statements congratulating the victor that have been standard among senior lawmakers in both parties in the past when a presidential election has been declared.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, declined on Saturday to acknowledge Mr. Biden’s victory, with an aide instead pointing reporters to a generic “count all the votes” statement the Kentucky Republican released on Friday before the results were known.
In the statement released on Twitter, as Mr. Trump preemptively contested the outcome of the election, Mr. McConnell had outlined “how this must work in our great country.”
“Every legal vote should be counted,” he said. “Any illegally-submitted ballots must not. All sides must get to observe the process. And the courts are here to apply the laws & resolve disputes.”
“That’s how Americans’ votes decide the result,” he said.
His silence on Saturday came as other Republican leaders also kept mum about the results, and some openly questioned it.
“The election isn’t over until all legal votes are counted and certified,” Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the second-ranking Republican, said on Twitter. “There are still serious legal challenges that have been made, and until that process is resolved, the election is not final. The American people deserve a fair and transparent process.”
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said on Twitter, “The media do not get to determine who the president is. The people do. When all lawful votes have been counted, recounts finished and allegations of fraud addressed, we will know who the winner is.”
And Representative Jodey Arrington, Republican of Texas, said on Saturday that it would be “unwise to accept any outcome” before recounts had been completed and courts had certified the results.
The messages echoed recent statements by Mr. Trump in which the president has made baseless claims of voter fraud and irregularities.
Only a handful of rank-and-file Republicans offered their good wishes for Mr. Biden, including some who are not likely to face voters again.
“It’s time to come together,” wrote Representative Will Hurd, Republican of Texas, who is retiring. “America has spoken and we must respect the decision. More unites us than divides us; we can find common ground. I hope the president-elect can embody this. I wish him good luck and I wish the president a successful final few weeks.”
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and a frequent critic of Mr. Trump, also offered a traditional statement of well wishes to the victor, referring to Mr. Biden by his new title.
“Ann and I extend our congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris,” he wrote on Twitter. “We know both of them as people of good will and admirable character. We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead.”
Adam Nagourney in Los Angeles
What to watch: former Republican presidents and candidates validating Biden’s victory. In particular, George W. Bush. Mitt Romney was quick to do it. Watch for Bob Dole.
Nov. 7, 2020, 2:40 p.m. ET
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Relatives and supporters of President-elect Biden Jr. celebrated in Ballina, Biden’s ancestral village on the west coast of Ireland.Credit...Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times
Many European leaders quickly congratulated Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Saturday after he was declared the winner of the American presidential campaign, with messages of support flowing in from Ukraine to Italy.
Boris Johnson, the British prime minister who, like President Trump, has recovered after being hospitalized with the coronavirus, said on Twitter that he was excited to work with the country’s “most important ally” on climate change, trade and security issues.
In Ukraine, the country that was at the center of President Trump’s effort to derail Mr. Biden’s campaign, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a congratulatory tweet that he was optimistic about U.S.-Ukraine relations and that, with Mr. Biden’s election, “our friendship becomes only stronger.”
In Russia, the Kremlin remained silent on Saturday night. Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the foreign relations committee of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of parliament, said that Mr. Biden’s election could be positive for Russia because “the topic of Russia’s influence on the presidential election in the U.S. will likely disappear from the internal political agenda.”
Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, who had maintained a particularly friendly relationship with President Trump, wrote on Twitter that Americans had shown “an outstanding turnout of democratic vitality” and said he was ready to work with the president-elect.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany congratulated both Mr. Biden and Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect. “Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the United States,” she wrote. “From my heart, I wish him good luck and success, and also congratulate Kamala Harris, the first woman Vice President-elect of her country.”
And President Emmanuel Macron of France, in congratulating Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris, said that they all had “a lot to do to overcome today’s challenges.”
Michael Grynbaum in New York
On Fox News, Chris Wallace says the Trump campaign has presented no hard evidence of fraud. He notes that “tens of thousands of votes” would have be reversed to change the result.
Katie Glueck in Wilmington, Del.
Obama spoke separately today with Biden and Harris, a representative confirms: “He congratulated them on their historic victory and told them how proud he was of the campaign they ran.”
Nov. 7, 2020, 2:08 p.m. ET
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President Jimmy Carter, left, with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 1978.Credit...Barry Thumma/Associated Press
ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter welcomed Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s election to the White House on Saturday, more than four decades after they first became political allies.
“Rosalynn joins me in congratulating our friends President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris,” Mr. Carter said in a statement. “We are proud of their well-run campaign and look forward to seeing the positive change they bring to our nation.”
Mr. Carter, who turned 96 last month, has long been close to Mr. Biden. In a video for this year’s Democratic National Convention, the former president said Mr. Biden had been “my first and most effective supporter in the Senate” when Mr. Carter ran for president in 1976.
Although Mr. Carter attended Mr. Trump’s inauguration in 2017 and later spoke with him at least once by phone, Mr. Carter sharply criticized the president in September 2019.
“It would be a disaster to have four more years of Trump,” Mr. Carter said at the time.
Emily Cochrane in Washington
Representative Will Hurd, Republican of Texas, who is also retiring: “It’s time to come together. America has spoken and we must respect the decision.”
Catie Edmondson in Washington
Some Trump allies in the House have adopted his rhetoric: “It would be unwise to accept any outcome” before recounts and court reviews, said Rep. Jodey Arrington of Texas.
Michael Breitenbach, age 47, a construction worker from Philadelphia, expresses his outrage on Saturday.Credit...Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Jodi Lavoie-Carnes, 48, a dental hygienist who lives in Dover, New Hampshire, supported President Trump for re-election. On Saturday, she was shocked and disturbed by the boisterous celebrations of Biden supporters, who had gathered in her town waving profane anti-Trump signs.
The tone was so negative that she wondered what lies ahead for the country.
“I’m like, are you serious?” she said. “The language doesn’t need to be there. My children need to drive by that.”
She said it was President-elect Biden’s responsibility to keep the tone of celebrations civil.
“Now you’re an elect, so calm them down,” she said.
Around the country, Trump supporters greeted news that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won the election with a combination of disappointment and disbelief.
Larry Thompson, who had voted for President Trump in Prosper, Texas, initially believed that Mr. Trump would win re-election in a landslide. Even after media outlets had called the race for Mr. Biden, Mr. Thompson, 75, still thought the president would ultimately prevail.
“I don’t believe what the A.P. has called here for Biden, especially because of all the discrepancies that are out there,” Mr. Thompson said. “I’m not agreeing with that assessment.”
Mr. Thompson pointed to “computer glitches and all these new ballots” as potential sources of fraudulent votes. “I want my guy to win,” he said. “But if he loses fair and squarely, I’m in. But that doesn’t seem to be the case on the other side.”
In Washington, a few dozen Trump supporters gathered outside the Capitol shortly after 1 p.m. in a peaceful protest against the election results. One person waved a sign reading “four more years,” while another waved a sign stating “Stop the Steal.”
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In New York, it started with a low murmur that sounded like faraway crowd noise. In Chicago, they rang cowbells and clanged on pots and pans. In Louisville, Ky., where protesters have poured into the streets weekly since the death of Breonna Taylor, people also gathered, this time in jubilation.
In cities across the country where support for Joseph R. Biden Jr. was particularly strong, residents flooded outdoors to celebrate on Saturday after major news organizations projected that the former vice president had won the presidential race.
The joy was particularly pronounced in cities that months earlier saw waves of protests over police brutality and systemic racism, at which Mr. Trump and his policies were a target of constant ire.
“I feel amazing, I feel at peace, I feel like my hope has not got lost,” Nicole Hayden, 38, said in Louisville. “We needed this.”
Ms. Hayden was one of several people who gathered at Jefferson Square Park, where demonstrators have for months maintained a memorial to Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was killed by the police during a raid on her apartment.
Mass celebrations and smaller protests broke out around the country after Joseph R. Biden Jr. defeated President Trump in the election for the presidency of the United States.CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Ms. Hayden said that Mr. Biden’s victory gave her some cause for optimism.
“We’ve been out here fighting for justice for Breonna Taylor for so long, and we just needed a little bit of hope,” she said.
In Chicago, Demoz Desta, 29, emerged from a grocery store, stunned at the sudden commotion. “I thought the Cubs won the World Series for a second,” he said. “This feels so good to see everybody so happy.”
The streets of New York City were filled with the sound of people banging on pots and pans, in what felt like an echo of the nightly cheer for the frontline medical workers that began in the spring, when the city was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. One man popped open a bottle of champagne in the middle of a Brooklyn block.
Still, not everyone in the city seemed to share in the excitement. At a construction site in Manhattan, workers stared at their phones with a hint of disappointment. Others walked away shaking their heads in disbelief.
“My job site was very disappointed for him to win,” John Rodin, 25, said. “Everybody wanted Trump.”
Emily Cochrane in Washington
Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, who’s retiring: “After counting every valid vote and allowing courts to resolve disputes, it is important to respect and promptly accept the result.”
Glenn Thrush in Washington
Senator Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, is not waiting for Trump to concede. He’s congratulated Biden and Harris and praised them “as people of good will and admirable character.”
Nov. 7, 2020, 1:40 p.m. ET
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Rudy Giuliani speaks at a news conference in Philadelphia on Saturday.Credit...Bryan R. Smith/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, repeatedly attacked the election results at a news conference on Saturday morning held shortly after major news outlets declared Joseph R. Biden Jr. the winner of the presidential race.
Speaking outside a landscaping business in Philadelphia, Mr. Giuliani went as far as to suggest that the courts in Pennsylvania may want to “set aside” the tally there. Though President Trump initially led in the early vote totals in Pennsylvania, he lost that lead as the remaining ballots were counted.
For the cameras, Mr. Giuliani assembled a group of poll watchers who he said were not given an opportunity to see the ballots they were supposed to be monitoring. He used their accounts to launch a broad attack on voting across Pennsylvania, where there is no evidence of any widespread voting fraud or irregularities.
“Courts set aside elections when they’re illegal,” Mr. Giuliani said at the news conference, which was scheduled before the race was called. “In this particular case, I don’t know if there’s enough evidence to set aside the entire election. Certainly not around the country, maybe in Pennsylvania.”
The Trump campaign has filed several lawsuits in Pennsylvania, but most have little chance of succeeding and would be unlikely to make any significant difference in the vote count.
Emily Cochrane in Washington
Schumer, celebrating on the streets of Brooklyn during the call with Pelosi and Biden, held up his phone so the president-elect could hear the crowds cheering, an aide said.
Nicholas Fandos
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer called Biden at 12:45 p.m. to congratulate him and extend their support for working with his administration, an aide said.
Katie Glueck in Wilmington, Del.
Barack Obama expressed confidence in his former vice president: “I know he’ll do the job with the best interests of every American at heart, whether or not he had their vote.”
Luke Broadwater in Washington
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said the election wasn’t settled. “The media do not get to determine who the president is,” he said. “The people do.”
Nov. 7, 2020, 1:16 p.m. ET
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Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland speaking at a polling location on Tuesday.Credit...Noah Berger/Associated Press
In Oakland, Calif., the birthplace of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Mayor Libby Schaaf was in tears on Saturday as she spoke about the victory.
“I’m proud, I’m relieved. I’m joyful,” Ms. Schaaf said in an interview, her voice cracking with emotion with nearly every word. “We will finally have decency and compassion in our nation’s highest office.”
Outside her home in the Oakland hills residents rang cowbells and whooped and cheered. Her husband dashed out of the house to share champagne with a neighbor.
Ms. Schaaf has sparred with President Trump repeatedly over immigration and Mr. Trump’s characterization of Oakland as wracked with violence.
“These cities, it’s like living in hell,” Mr. Trump said in June, singling out Oakland and Detroit, among other cities. Ms. Schaaf on Saturday said she was elated to put that behind her.
“To have a White House that was a constant source of battle was exhausting. And to have to battle your own federal government during one of the worst crises this world has ever seen was untenable,” Ms. Schaaf said. “Now we will have allies in the White House — and particularly will have a vice President who grew up on our soil, who grew up with our values, who grew up fighting for the same vision of a just and equitable world.”“It is like a whole new world,” Ms. Schaaf said.
Sydney Ember
With her ascension to the vice presidency, Kamala Harris will become the first woman and first woman of color to hold that office. A true milestone for the country.
Jeb Bush just tweeted congrats to Biden. Watch for a bunch of these from Republicans as the day goes on. Not sure it will prompt Trump to concede, but the nation is moving on.
Nov. 7, 2020, 1:11 p.m. ET
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A flag supporting Donald Trump in Bismarck, N.D.Credit...Bing Guan/Reuters
BISMARCK, N.D. — Minutes after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was projected to have won the presidency, a crowd of several dozen President Trump supporters stood in a cold fog in front of the State Capitol in Bismarck, N. D., as the national anthem played. They came to protest what they saw as a fraudulent election, and to show support for President Trump.
“I don’t accept any of this,” Charles Tuttle, 59, said while puffing on a cigar. “This is a sad day in America if this stands.”
“We are not going to take to the streets with violence,” he added. “We are the party of law and order.”
Ken Weigel drove nearly two hours to attend the protest. “It sickens me,” Mr. Weigel said of Mr. Biden’s victory. “There is nothing legitimate about it.”
Mr. Weigel, who works in an oil field and lives in Minot, said he would not accept Mr. Biden as president, and that he hoped the courts would expose what he called the “corruption” that led to his election. “We don’t need to go to war over this,” he said.
Katie Glueck in Wilmington, Del.
“We’re just overjoyed — overjoyed and grateful,” says Jim Biden, Joe Biden’s younger brother, who said he has spoken with the president-elect. “He’s doing well.”
Nov. 7, 2020, 1:04 p.m. ET
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MINNEAPOLIS — Georgia Powell, a 61-year-old bus driver, was walking her dogs Nico and Reba in Chaska, a Minneapolis suburb, when she heard the news that her preferred candidate, Joseph R. Biden Jr., had just been named the president-elect.
“I love it,” she said, adding that she had always disliked President Trump because of what called his self-centered approach. “I don’t think he is right for leading the country.”
While Chaska, a city of about 24,000 mostly white residents, has long been a Republican stronghold, Mr. Biden captured more votes this year than Mr. Trump, who took the city in 2016. Mr. Biden won Minnesota by nearly eight percentage points.
Although a Biden-Harris administration may financially hurt Antonio Drane, who owns a construction company in Miami but was in Minneapolis on Saturday for work, he said he was excited that Mr. Biden had been elected. Mr. Trump, he said, has fueled a hatred that he thinks makes things more dangerous for Black men like him.
More so, he was excited about the possibility of Sen. Kamala Harris becoming vice president.
“It’s ecstatic because I was raised by Black women, so it’s like more along the lines of, I voted for her for what she stands for,” said Mr. Drane, 34.
Kia Bible, 32 from Minneapolis, described Mr. Biden’s victory as “harm reduction.”
“Either way it goes, we are still at the bottom of the totem pole,” Ms. Bible, who is Black, white and Native American, said of people of color.
Ms. Bible is the founder of 612 MASH, a nonprofit emergency response team formed out of the George Floyd protests.
“It’s more so a matter of making sure that the BIPOC community has an opportunity to thrive, and I don’t see that happening too much under Trump’s name right now,” she added. “Biden is saying right now that he is going to help that.”
Adam Nagourney in Los Angeles
Worth keeping in mind: Trump’s 2016 victory was narrow. (Lost the popular vote, and won the “blue wall” states by 80,000 votes.) Biden’s victory is substantial (and more conventional).
Michael Cooper in New York
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, tweeted his congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, writing, “It’s time to get back to building bridges, not walls.”
Michael Cooper in New York
Reaction is pouring in from around the world. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, tweeted: “Welcome back America!”
Nov. 7, 2020, 12:58 p.m. ET
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“The election isn’t over,” Franklin Graham said. “This is going to have to go to the courts.”Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times
Moments after news networks announced that Mr. Biden had won the presidential election, Mr. Trump’s leading evangelical supporters, who have defended him at every turn the past four years, quickly pushed back.
In North Carolina, Franklin Graham, an evangelist who has stood by Mr. Trump throughout his presidency, expressed concern about the accuracy of the results.
“The election isn’t over,” he said. “This is going to have to go to the courts.”
In Texas, Dr. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said he had already reserved billboards across the city for an upcoming Sunday sermon on how Christians should respond to Mr. Biden’s presidency.
“President Trump, if he wants to contest it, he certainly has every constitutional right to do that,” he said. “We really believe there are going to be millions of Christians who are disappointed in these results.”
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