President-elect Joe Biden calls this ‘a time to heal’ as he reads a Catholic hymn in victory speech
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🗓️ 8 November 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is a special Sunday |
| 0:06.4 | edition of the Daily 202. For Joe Biden, the third time is the charm. |
| 0:12.0 | Kamala Harris will be America's first Madam Vice President. |
| 0:17.0 | And we have exclusive details on the first executive orders that will get signed by the new president. But first, the big idea. |
| 0:28.0 | Joe Biden was the wrong man for the moment in his two previous presidential campaigns. In 1988 and 2008, he didn't |
| 0:37.5 | fit with what the country was looking for. But he had enough longevity to convince voters that he was right for this one and now the man who was once the country's youngest senator will become her oldest president |
| 0:50.8 | The son of a car salesman and a homemaker, the product of Catholic schools and public universities, |
| 0:57.0 | the six-term senator and two-term vice president, has craved one title above all others in decades of trying and decades of failing. |
| 1:06.9 | On Saturday, Biden won it. |
| 1:10.1 | President-elect. |
| 1:12.3 | Remarkably, Biden secured the presidency on the 48th anniversary of his first election to the Senate in 1972. |
| 1:20.0 | His victory was the culmination of four long years of struggle for Democrats and others who have resisted President Trump. |
| 1:28.0 | It was celebrated by an emotional outpouring in cities from coast to coast that ended with a tailgate style |
| 1:34.0 | victory party late Saturday night in Biden's hometown of Wilmington. The election |
| 1:38.8 | took four days to be resolved after the former vice president was projected to win a series of battleground states. |
| 1:45.4 | His win was clenched, fittingly, by Pennsylvania, the state where he was born. |
| 1:52.3 | In a prime time speech to flag-waving supporters outside the |
| 1:55.3 | Chase Center from a few miles from his house, the 77-year-old son of Scranton made |
| 2:00.2 | no mention of Trump's intransigence and refusal to concede. |
| 2:04.4 | Instead, he offered an olive branch to the President's supporters. |
| 2:09.1 | And he implored all Americans to put away the harsh rhetoric and end what he called this grim era of |
| 2:16.7 | demonization. The Bible tells us to everything there is a season, a time to build, a time to reap, and a time to sow, |
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