The Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Partnership (original) (raw)

Just after the ballot when it was clear that Joe Biden won his bid for the president of the United States, he addressed Americans as well as people in the rest of the world. He claimed that the clear majority of at least four million votes and a majority of the electoral college "made it clear they [the voters] want the country to come together -not to continue to pull apart." He continued: "we have to remember: the purpose of our politics isn't total, unrelenting, unending warfare. No. The purpose of our politics, the work of the nation, isn't to fan the flames of conflict, but to solve problems, to guarantee justice, to give everybody a fair shot, to improve the lives of our people. We may be opponents -but we are not enemies. [my italics] We are Americans."