On the former obama. Professional so he makes everything to be able to be in charge from day one on his presidency so thats a good thing about having such an experienced politicians have filling the seat after a dont know which who might refuse to make a transition smoothly all right our Washington Bureau chief in as paul reporting for us in front of the white house on this historic day. Of course of joe bidens victory crowns a long career in politics one that includes 2 previous a failed president ial beds and of course 8 years in office as Barack Obamas 2nd in command sic a closer look now at the man who will be in charge of the white house a for the next 4 years. It began half a century ago at 29 joseph biden was one of the youngest candidates ever elected to the u. S. Senate his success though laced with sadness when just weeks later his wife and daughter died in a car accident he remarried and made his 1st president ial bed in 1988 and again 20 years later my grandmother would yel
And so american citizens living in germany and for them of course there was a sense of relief and also the whole controversy about demanding ballasts have a very very happy so happy some of them even went to the american in front of the American Embassy again to celebrate others was set up writing online and of course the reaction of im going to america where you just talked about its also cheerful tweeting to h. E. Congratulates Vice President Vice President common our. President elect joe biden 4 days success in diesel action she highlighted. Translated to the need for the transatlantic ties to to remain it was a very difficult 4 years for i get america for the German Government president s you know donald trump theres been a lot of disputes between the 2 countries so of course germany is looking forward to a new start do you see this also the words used by foreign minister hi called so said he was congratulating the president elect and the Vice President and also looking forward to
Lets get you a live look right now from philadelphia where abc news expects the first drop of the morning there to come any minute now. Between now and 10 00 our time. Joe biden still holds nearly a 29,000 vote lead in pennsylvania. If he holds on, hed be the president elect of the United States. Lets zoom out to show you where the race to 270 currently stands, its been in hold for the past 48 hours, biden still with 253 electoral votes, the president with 214. Both campaigns are taking different approaches to the count. Abc 7 News Reporter matt boone starts us off with why the biden camp is feeling confident. Reporter all eyes were on wilmington, delaware as joe biden took the stage, still confident in his chances. Were going to win this race with a clear majority with the nation behind us. Reporter though he made it clear it was not his call to make. Never forget, the tallies arent numbers. They represent votes and voters. Men and women who exercise their fundamental right to have th
A few hours time doesnt bode well for what we might see play out of the coming months so you know we saw when President Trumpet took office that the previous president obama actually laid out a path hand over power to make sure that the president from steve that they were up to date on everything that was happening and everything was needed for them to be able to carry forth the policy that had been left behind but that actually didnt end up happening that handover it turned out that a lot of the materials that were prepared by president obamas team to hand over to President Trump werent actually accepted and carried forth and so it is hard to imagine that that will happen now that President Trump will prepare a smooth handover and transition that being said we dont know what will happen from now until january 20th which is Inauguration Day it could be the president trying change of course changes tack in that some you know they do pretty prepare a smooth handover and transition but th
On the welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted and Sylvania Biden won 49. 7 percent and trump won 49. 2 the 20 electoral votes biden takes home in the state allowed him to surpass the 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press he also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290. 00 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. 00. Democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect by success from philadelphia to black lives matter plaza in washington to New York Times square people didnt want to hide their relief and excitement lets take a look at those reactions. To me me every time my mother is a disabled woman who goes directly to medicaid and medicare and said no a day. Out and you can no longer mess with those programs is the thing we w