For the nations better angels to prevail. Some specificity in the speech by joe biden, roll call saying the president elect says he is going to name a team monday to get a covid19 plan ready for january 20. Our capitol hill producer craig kaplan, pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the office of the Vice President. Senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet from julian ross of the pittsburgh gazette pointing out the history of the state. Today is 48 years to the day biden was elected to the u. S. Senate from the news journal, the headline, november 1972. This is from the president elects granddaughter naomi, a tweet of the family hug. You saw a lot of the family gathered on stage. That, from one of the president elects granddaughter. Greta . Greta the former twoterm Vice President and 36year Senate Veteran joe biden will be the 46th president of the united states. Heres looking at a live shot of black lives matter plaza in washington, d. C. Crowds have gathered there. As soon as the announcement was made, you can see that has just stepped away from the white house. Crowds have gotten bigger in the Nations Capital and in other cities across the country. Lets go to calls. Morgan in tennessee, you voted for the president. Did you listen to the president elect . What did you think . Caller i did. I listened to the president elect, and im hopeful. I hope that he does great things. I didnt vote for him. I actually voted for trump. I actually voted for trump last election as well. I have my doubts just because he has been in politics for 47 years or whatever it is. I really wish things wouldve been a little more professional with the election. I feel there was a lot of fraud, in my opinion. Everyone has their own, but i hope he does great things. I did vote for trump, and i hate that he lost, but we live to fight another day, and i hope he makes america great. Greta you sound optimistic, open to the president elect and his administration. Was there something in tonights speech he said that you liked . Caller you know, i listened to all of it. There wasnt really anything that he said that i thought was wrong or anything. I think everything he said was positive, but again, i am optimistic. I am hopeful that things will turn out great. I have my doubts, but i guess we will see in the next four years. Greta naomi in columbus, ohio. Naomi, your thoughts tonight . Caller hello. Im sorry. I am still highly emotional at this point. I dont want to be a hatemonger myself, but i found trump to be kind of misogynistic and divisive for us. God bless joe, and god bless america. I am so happy, so thrilled, and the gentleman before me who voted for trump twice, but he still has hope. Im 62 years old. I have a degree. I am educated, and i think we have good times ahead. Im very happy. Greta naomi, what is emotional about this for you . Caller oh my gosh. Well, they were showing family, people of color, women of color, men of color, and also caucasians and everybody was there celebrating. They all had something to celebrate. He reached out to so many people, so many different people. Like i said, i have to turn the tv off, or im going to keep crying. Im very happy for him. Greta what about the Vice President elects speech . Did anything stand out to you . Caller oh my gosh. I mean, she was entirely polished. The speech was excellent. She stuck to the points. When biden came on, he kind of followed up on what she had started. She to me was, you know trump is so rude to people, and she was so professional. She didnt attack trump or anything like that. I thought she was perfect, absolutely perfect. Greta the california senator wearing suffragette white, as people have noticed tonight, marking the 100year anniversary of women getting the right to vote. Ruth in cleveland, ohio, you voted for the bidenharris ticket. How are you feeling . Caller i am feeling ecstatic. This is the best election this country has ever had. We have now got a president instead of an incompetent. He will bring us closer together. I am an air force veteran. Biden just gave the most prolific unity speech that any other elected president has ever given. I am happy. This nation is wishing to go back to unity and not be the laughter of the entire world. We are going to be americans again, not separated or divided by race, creed, color, and whatever, religion. I am so happy. Greta daniel in buffalo, new york. Who did you vote for . Caller i voted for donald trump. Greta ok. Caller its an interesting election with the amount of Election Fraud going on, especially with Software Glitches apparently in michigan that triggered a hand count that changed the results of one election, and it was spread to 47 counties apparently. I wonder if that is ever going to be addressed, and how anyone can truly trust any of the elections when that doesnt seem to be acknowledged. Greta when you look at where the popular vote stands with over 4 million separating the two, do you think any of these legal challenges to some of the votes are enough to overcome the lead that joe biden has . Caller im sorry, but i find it unusual for you to mention the popular vote when that is not even particularly relevant to our political system. It is judged from each independent state. So 4 million total on the popular vote. Its greta well, ok. So take a look at the number of votes that joe biden is leading with in these battleground states. Caller what is it in pennsylvania . 35,000 . Greta you believe these legal challenges, there could be enough challenges to enough votes to make a difference. Caller there would have to be enough legal challenges proven across five different battleground states. I dont think that the popular vote is relevant to that, but to see that there is one election and one district in michigan that had everything overturned by a hand count. Greta ok. All right, daniel. Bill scanlan . Bill the president is tweeting with some pride about the popular vote. The president tweeted this afternoon 71,000 legal votes, the most ever for a president , and reflecting some of the messages house senators and House Republicans are saying. Steve scalise tweeted this the election is not over until the processd until is resolved come the election is not final. The American People deserve a fair and transparent process. On twitter, people saying texting, rather barry in cape cod. Liberation in america today. Katie in kelso, washington. Bidenharris, this is what america is about. What a relief for a president to sound president ial again. Stephen in kissimmee, florida saying, im not a huge fan of mr. Biden, but i think hes a better man than donald trump. Heres what the brits will be reading tomorrow in the sunday times. Their headline, tweeted by the Neil Henderson of the bbc. Sleepy joe wakes up america. Noting he may be coming back to america. Make jack or tweeting this im looking forward to coming back to an america free of namecalling and be amongst people i know have harmony. It is a challenge, but it can be done. Greta . Greta across the country, as in the Nations Capital, the crowds went to the streets to celebrate the victory, the declared winner in this campaign, joe biden and senator Kamala Harris. You can see black lives matter , plaza is steps away from the white house here. Russ in windsor, nebraska, you voted for president trump. Did you listen to the president elect . What did you think . Greta yeah, caller yeah, what a joke. First of all, biden needs to get his mask on. What about social distancing . Everybody out there, huddling around. Second of all, he better get his clowns in line climbing on white light pols down by the white house. Just a joke. You guys are all corrupt. Greta russ, is there anything this president elect could do to give you confidence that he will follow through on the promise he made tonight to unify this country . Caller the guy doesnt even know his own name, let alone trying to lead a country. Everybody that voted for him thinks it is all fairytales and whatnot, but they are all clueless. Greta why did you vote for the president . What was the motivating factor for you . Caller he got the economy going and back on track and brought more jobs and had everything going, and then this china flu came over. Greta ok. Portia in hampton, georgia. Portia, you voted for the Vice President , now president elect. Caller yes, i did. Greta what did you think of his victory speech . Caller i thought it was a wonderful speech, especially trying to bring america together. I am a black american in georgia, and as a black female voter, we really came to the polls. We voted for him. We hope we can take over the senate. We have two candidates here. We want to control the senate coming up in january. I think biden was the best choice. Trump, like i said, there were too many flaws in this man, not only personal but the things he did, not standing up for people of color, loving to make divisions, not paying his taxes. Im a schoolteacher, so i am so happy we do have someone in the white house, the first lady, who is an educator to see what we are going through. Maybe we can have education reform and some kind of way she can get involved in helping us develop a Better School system so we are number one, not down in the bottom 50. The education here in america. I am so happy hes in the white house, and i know this country is going to come together, and just like he said, he lives in a lived in a subdivision. I do too. I have white neighbors. I have hispanic neighbors. We are all together here. I have. I have hispanic neighbors. We are all together here. I know what hes talking theres never been issues. I know what hes talking about, and i can relate to biden. I could never relate to a millionaire like trump. His whole attitude people say about jobs . Sure, we all had jobs, and i know hes going to make it better. Teachers need the pay so we can all make this country a much better place. Can all make this country a much better place. Greta before you go, as a black woman, what does it mean for you to see Kamala Harris as the Vice President elect . Caller it is wonderful. Thateted to my friends black women have been to the mountaintop. We have seen the future, and now we know we have a place. It has been a long time since Shirley Chisholm who ran for president. Now its about time. Its definitely a wonderful feeling. It brought tears to my eyes seeing her up there representing all of us, and not only just black women but all women. Greta wendy in gilbert, arizona. You voted for president trump. Did you listen to joe biden tonight . Caller no, i did not. Greta why not . Caller i was watching a movie to be honest. Greta how are you feeling today . Caller i feel like i love president trump, and the one thing that people need to understand, the difference between biden and trump is trump was not raised in government, does not have the communication of a politician. He talks to you like you are a neighbor, coworker, boss. He has more communication with companies than with government. He came in with no political affiliations. He wasnt raised as a governor, congressman, senator. Thats why he doesnt have the dialect most politicians use. That is one thing i liked about trump. You never heard what someone was telling him to say. He said everything from what he was thinking. You never had to secondguess. That was the one thing that i absolutely loved about him. One thing that i think is most important, whether its biden or trump, we have to accept whoever is our president. It. E is no changing we cannot go back. First of all, to stop bringing color into things. We are all americans. Every race is diversified now. There is no black race. Latinos are intermingled with white. White are intermingled with japanese, chinese, africanamericans. We are all americans. We need to consider everybody human. Wendy, do you think the president at this point should accept the results and deliver a concession speech . Caller in truth, i am not one because i was not there. I do not know what is fact and what is fiction as to the actual things being said. If there was fraud, he needs to absolutely without a doubt file what needs to be filed. Whether it is biden or trump, it needs to be fixed. Something needs to be resolved. It needs to be investigated. Im not saying its true. Im not saying its not true. I didnt see the facts. Im not aware if there were facts. Greta understood. More of your calls coming up. Phil, what do you have . Phil four years ago on this day, the 2016 race had been conceded by Hillary Clinton. Heres how she reacted to the news that joe biden had been predicted as the winter by the Associated Press and other major news organizations. The former secretary of state Hillary Clinton saying her husband, the former president bill clinton an independent view of tonight speech, justin amash, the only independent in the u. S. House will disagree a lot and ill hold president elect biden as possible, but i a couple of updates on numbers across the country. Megan with the nevada independent, as fireworks pop, clark county just dropped ballots. Margin widens again to 2. 12 . In georgia, greg with the atlanta journalconstitution, biden has widened his lead over trump in georgia to over 9000 votes with a recent tally of Dekalb County ballots. That will go to a recount. In washington, read this on the front page of the washington post. Biden defeats trump. Greta jasmine in san diego, california, independent. Did you watch the president elect in wilmington tonight . You are a. We lost jasmine. We will go to angela in wilmington, north carolina. You voted for president trump, but did you watch tonights speech . Caller i did. I did watch the speech. I just want to know what he was getting that. I just feel like he kept going around it and around it in circles, and i just dont understand if there is all of this fraud in the ballots and things like that how we can declare him as president. I feel like we should go ahead and make sure that everything is accounted for before we go ahead and say biden is our next president. I want to thank everybody that voted for him because now my taxes are going to be raised. We are going to be forced into vaccinations for covid and things like that. There is no freedom. As an american, there is nothing for our veterans. Theres nothing for the people who fought for this country, nothing for the middle class or lower class people who go out on a daily basis and work for everything that they have, and quite honestly, i feel like this was just a covid 2020 party. He didnt even have a mask on. What happened to social distancing and things like that . You want to force me into vaccinations and other things. I dont get it. It is population control. Greta have you always voted republican . Caller i have. Greta how old are you . Caller i am 43. Greta what do you do for a living, angela . Caller thats neither here nor there. Greta ok. Tom in ann arbor, michigan. You voted for Vice President joe biden, the former Vice President and president elect. Caller this is actually my first vote for a president. I really liked the speech overall. I guess one thing i wanted to say that i thought i guess i wished biden had had in the speech, but i wished that biden had been able to reach out, republicanse senate , someone like Chuck Grassley or James Lankford or mitch mcconnell. Even though i support biden and voted for biden in the election, we are going to need to work with the Senate Republicans to get things done, and bringing biden into office on this unity ticket, i think it would be awesome if biden made some appeal in the speech. Greta did you not take his words when he said, we choose to not cooperate, so we can choose to cooperate, and hes calling on congress to cooperate . Did that sound to you like hes talking to republicans . Caller i mean, i think in the messaging he is talking to republicans, but i think it would be stronger if he said something along the lines of, i think republicans in congress are decent human beings, because on the democratic side, there is so much vilification of the Senate Republicans. When it comes down to it, most of them are good people, and yeah, money corrupts politics, but i think that message could have been conveyed more strongly. Greta ok. How old are you . Caller i am 21 years old. Greta and this was your first election . Caller first election. Greta are your parents democrats . Parents are definitely democrats, yeah. Greta tom in ann arbor. Bryant, texas. You voted also for the bidenharris ticket. How are you feeling . Caller i am fine, thank you. Greta what did you make of the speech . Caller i loved the speech. He included everyone, and i really like the fact that he didnt have any fear about choosing someone such as Kamala Harris not based on race or background or whatever. In hercause of her work lifetime. Shes been able to achieve a lot. He does know washington. A lot of people have sour grapes. They are chewing on sour grapes right now. Ive waited for years for this president to do something other than run our nation as a business, and i can breathe now. I can breathe. Im so glad. Mentions theia career of the Vice President elect. She was a San Francisco attorney, district attorney, attorney general of california, elected in 2010, again in 2014, and elected to the senate in 2016. Johnson, chairon of the Homeland Security committee, has been an advocate of invest getting the background of hunter biden. He tweets this tonight senator johnson of wisconsin saying, is unbelievably energetic campaigning efforts earned him 200,000 more votes in wisconsin than 2016 and made posters look ridiculous. Regardless of the outcome, in my book, he will always be a winner and a patriot that truly loves america. A tweet from a former member of , he saysjoe crowley this talking about Geraldine Ferraro who passed away in 2011, she was the Vice President ial candidate with Walter Mondale in 1984. Viewersom listeners and disappointed that joe biden didnt talk about the economy when its the number one election issue, michael in portland sends us this text barack obama tweeted a statement congratulating joe biden and Kamala Harris on their victory. The former president said, the Election Results at every level show that the country remains deeply and bitterly divided. It will be up to not just joe and kamala, but for each of us to lower the temperature and find some common ground. And now a live look at the chase center in wilmington, delaware, where president elect biden and Vice President elect harris will hold an event tonight, their first since the president ial race was called earlier today. The morning, after president ial case was called for joe biden, Rudy Giuliani held a News Conference on allegations of voter fraud, focusing on the state of pennsylvania