Good evening. Good evening. Thank you. Ood evening. So thank you. Ood evening. So congressman john lewis before his passing wrote democracy is not a state, it is an act. And what he meant was that americas democracy is not guaranteed. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. To guard it. And never take it for granted. And protecting our democracy takes struggle, it takes sacrifice, but there is joy in it and there is progress because we the people have the power to build a better future. Cheers and applause] and when our very democracy was on the ballot in this election, with the very soul of america at stake, and the world tching, you ushered in a new day for america. To our Campaign Staff and volunteers, this extraordinary team, thank you for bringing more people than ever before into the democratic process. And for making this victory possible, to the poll workers and Election Officials across our country who have worked tirelessly to make sure every vote is counted,
Is the reporting of the arizona republic. Biden increases lead in arizona, ending trumps hope continuing vote count would put the state in his column. They write seemingly every National News that has not called arizona for joe biden, called it late thursday shortly after Maricopa County reported results from its latest round of ballots. Fox news and the Associated Press had already called arizona for biden last week but at that point President Trump had a chance albeit slim to pull ahead of his democratic challenger. Biden needs trump with a margin greater than the estimated number of ballots remaining to arizona. D in the thursday evening results from about 4000 Maricopa County ballots went 53 for biden and 43 for trump. It hadnt changed much, the map was already called for arizona by the associated dress. That is the data by the Associated Press. That is the data we use for cspan. Quoting from the Washington Post turning arizona blue is a huge achievement fro for biden. Since 1998,
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] cspan has a mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission which i want you to reside along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [applause] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. Let us launch it at the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, b