The long days after Tuesday’s election have been filled with anxiety, fear, stress, and emotional ups and downs. Should we have expected anything less during this blasted year of 2020???
Last night, President-elect Biden addressed our divided nation saying that he would not be just the President of the red states or the blues states, but rather the President of the United States. He spoke of this as being the time to heal in America and made a strong effort to reach out to all who had supported President Trump.
74,400,000 votes went to Joe Biden while President Trump received 70,400,000 votes. The fact that over 144,800,000 people voted in this election is in fact a victory for democracy and for all of us.
Our President up to this point has refused to concede though election officials and every major news outlet have confirmed the results. On Twitter, the President boasted that no sitting President had ever received as many votes as he had while failing to note that Biden had received 4,000,000 more votes than he did.
Former President George W. Bush congratulated President-elect Biden on Sunday. He thanked Biden for the patriotic message that he had delivered and in a statement said, "Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country." Further, he wrote, "The American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear." If only other prominent Republicans would echo these words.
I didn't vote for George W. Bush, but I have always liked him, never more so than after reading his statement.
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris will face enormous challenges, none more serious than the raging Coronavirus pandemic. The death toll in our country has now reached 237, 000. Tomorrow, Biden will be announcing a Coronavirus task force to begin working on this crisis.
Let us all pray for the safety and success of our President-elect and for our country to come together and as he asked last night, give him a chance. Even opponents acknowledge that Biden is a good and decent man. I believe he is the right man for these troubled times.
Stay safe. Stay strong. Try to find a reason to smile each day.
My prayers are going out to them at rocket speed. They will need each and every one of them to get us through the mess that 45 created. It was so nice to here Kamala Harris talk, she is amazing and of course to hear Joe Biden sound so presidential, it was a relief. Stay safe.
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