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The NPR Politics Podcast

After Election Victory, Joe Biden Addresses Nation

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris addressed the nation after clinching the election.

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This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, correspondent Asma Khalid, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.

0:05.4

I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

0:07.4

I'm Asma Kaleh, I cover the presidential campaign.

0:10.1

Of course, the campaign is now officially over.

0:13.3

And I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.

0:16.3

And it is 9.35 pm on Saturday, November 7th.

0:20.5

And President-elect Joe Biden just wrapped his victory speech tonight in Wilmington,

0:25.1

Delaware.

0:26.1

The people this nation have spoken.

0:29.8

They've delivered us a clear victory, a convincing victory, a victory for we, the people.

0:40.0

We've won with the most votes ever cast on presidential ticket in the history of the nation.

0:46.2

74 million.

0:48.2

Asma, you're there in Wilmington.

0:50.4

What was it like tonight?

0:51.9

That's right, Sue.

0:52.9

Well, I was at the victory celebration tonight.

0:55.8

It was a drive in Car Rally.

0:57.5

And I will say some of the folks in the crowd actually told me that they had come out on

1:01.4

Tuesday night.

1:02.4

They were anticipating some sort of victory celebration that night.

1:05.7

Of course, we all know that didn't happen, but they had come back out to celebrate.

1:10.0

And what I will say is in some ways, this was like a normal party, but in many ways it

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