2020 is now the best year woohooo this is a cbs news special the election of joe biden, reporting tonight from cbs news election headquarters in times square. Norah odonnell. Odonnell good evening. And you are looking live at celebrations in new york city tonight after a week of waiting and wondering and ballot counting, america has decided. Joe biden has been elected next president of the United States. Incredible crowds across america, from here, in times square, to the streets outside of the white house, voters are cheering. At the Biden Campaign headquarters in wilmington, delaware, supporters of the president elect and his running mate, Kamala Harris are also partying. The new president elect and Vice President elect will be speaking there shortly, giving the acceptance speeches theyve waited their whole lives to give. S,d there will be fireworks, were told. Reporter fireworks and more than just rhetorical ones. The real ones. Welcome once again to our cbs news election headquarte
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 looki
If you voted for President Trump if you supported the president elect if you voted for somebody else youran also text us with first name, city, and state. Well get to your calls in just a minute. Tonight. Lon is with us reaction to the victory speech . We are bound to hear about firsts in this election, but heres a tweet about joe biden. Hes the second ever elected catholic president. Theaid its time for 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. Craig kaplan pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the Vice President s office, senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet pointing out the history of the state. Dayy is 48 years to the biden was elected to the u. S. Senate. The headline, november 1972. This is from the president na
We have reaction to the victory speech. And we are bound to hear a lot about first in this election. There are a lot of those. Here is a tweet from Andrew Rafferty that says about joe biden, he is the second ever elected catholic resident. It is time for the nations better angels to prevail. Speech by joe the biden, roll call saying that the president elect says he is going to name a team monday to get the covid19 plan ready for january 20. Craig kaplan pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Craig kaplan pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the Vice President s office, senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet pointing out the history of the state. Dayy is 48 years to the biden was elected to the u. S. Senate. The headline, november 1972. This is from the president naomi, aranddaughter tweet of the family hug. You saw a lot of the family gathered on stage. Greta . Gr
They created the vice presidency for two reasons, in case the president died, resigned or was incapacitated, summary can step in. That was not clarified and was indeed, controversial until the 1840s. The second reason, potentially was because of the Electoral College structure. About thew anything Electoral College, you know that one of the rules of the original design was that Electoral College electorate vote for two people. They have to be from two different states. The way it worked was that you votes perwo boats president. They had to come from two different states. The founders did that because they thought that at some level or some point, they would vote for somebody from their own state. That second vote was there to force people to vote for somebody else from another state to try to run in the region and get summary from the national reputation. Then they used those two votes to get a first and second place winner. Otherwise, it was just a placeholder. Carlisle, infessor the