Confidence you placed in me. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Who doesnt see red states and blue states, only sees the United States. [ cheering ] i work with all my heart with the confidence of the whole people to win the confidence of all of you. And for that is what america i believe is about. Jake, this was certainly the kind of speech that at least half of the country had been so anxiously waiting to hear for four years. Thats right. More than half of the voters at the very least. Lets check in with articlette saenz in wilmington, delaware. Arlette, whats the latest . Well, things have wrapped up at the chase center as the crowd heard from tpresident elect joe biden for the first time. A message of unity is what he was projecting this evening, acknowledging the disappointment of people who may have voted for President Trump, but telling them to try to give each other a chance. He also talked about the need to move away from demonization, that youve seen play out in politics over the past few years. And as joe biden spoke here in his native delaware to a hometown crowd, he also started to look forward a bit to what these next few weeks are going to look like. He specifically in that speech mentioned that he would be announcing his team on monday to address the coronavirus pandemic. We are told that is really going to be the central focus of the opening days of this campaign. O need to tackle that crisis. And he has made clear that he wants to get immediately to work, not waiting until he is in the white house to start addressing this issues. He has talked about how he wants to start reaching out the republican and democratic governors to hear about the needs that they need to have addressed in their states as the coronavirus pandemic is still raging across the country. Now over the course of the campaign, joe biden spoke very little about the transition. Hes superstitious and did not want to get ahead of himself. But in these coming days, he will be diving in to that transition work as he and Kamala Harris prepare for their path to the white house over these next few months. Now one thing that still remains unclear is whether there has been any outreach to or from the white house. The Biden Campaign, his advisers have not addressed that at this moment. But that is something that we will be watching whether there is any type of communication between him and President Trump in these coming weeks as he is putting this transition together. I mean this is about the governance of the United States of america. 330 Million People. It doesnt have to do with anybody being petulant. Arlette saenz, thank you so much. Appreciate the reporting. Lets check in with Kaitlan Collins who is at the white house. Kaitlan, you heard what arlette just said, the biden team not really addressing whether or not they have heard from the outgoing president of the United States. Can you shed any light for us . Yeah, we can tell you that there has not been any outreach. The president has not made any calls to former Vice President joe biden, and of course if the president hasnt made my callan calls, so no outreach yet from the president. We have not heard from him in several hours, since he returned from his golf course earlier, which is where he was when cnn made the call that joe biden was projected to win the presidency. And then the president drove back the washington in a motorcade that wove through streets that were filled with thousands of people cheering the fact that joe biden has won and donald trump has lost the presidency and will not be reelected to a second term. So thats why it was so notable in that speech there, as you listened to joe biden. He did not mention donald trump. And he did not mention any call coming from President Trump to talk about his victory here. And thats so different, jake, because i went back and reread what donald trump said in 2016 the night that he was elected. And right out of the bat he opened and said i just got a call from secretary clinton. He congratulated her in turn on her hard fought campaign. None of that tonight because the president has not called joe biden. And this comes as the president is publicly and falsely saying that he won the election. We know that is not the case. And jake, im told that privately, the president has also acknowledged that this is the outcome of the election, and he has lost. But he is not saying that publicly. Instead, see encouraging his attorneys to move forward with these legal challenges, knowing that it will delay possibly the formal certification of these election results. We had republican election attorney ben ginsburg look at the lawsuits and complaints. And as of now, they all seem to be without merit, with the one exception of the one having to do with ballots in pennsylvania that came after the election that have not been included in any count. So it just seems like a lot of frivolousness. To what end, kaitlan . It doesnt matter if he accepts or is in denial, he is going to be leaving that building. Its just a question about whether or not he wants to look like a sore loser and a petulant child or whether or not he is going to be a man. An adult. And his advisers are realizing that. The question is can people successfully break through to the president . Because this is a president who has long run on this pattern of creating a lot of noise about something, as he did at the start of his political career when he promoted the birther conspiracy about president obama. He basically can create a lot of noise around something that makes people believe what he is saying, even though there is no evidence around it. And kind of following a similar pattern here, where the president is challenging the results. Its going to allow some of his supporters to also question the legitimacy of joe biden, and thats a dangerous thing. And the president s allies realize that. People who work in this white house realize it. Im sure the Vice President , mike pence, someone who has been a longtime in politics also realizes it. By doing this the president can delay the formalization of the ballots. For the president who obviously does not want to lose, that is what he is going to do. He will at some point, jake have, to come to terms with reality. He will have to actually leave the white house. He cant deny that. But he can go and not grant joe biden, you know, the Public Acceptance of his victory, which is likely what hes doing. Its definitely what he is doing right now. Likely what he is going to continue to do for the next several days. I guess we shouldnt expect anything different. Kaitlan collins, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Abbi, before we came back from break, we were talking about i saw a tweet from a writer at reason magazine that perhaps in many ways joe biden is the only democrat that could have beat donald trump to give donald trump his due. He is a political force. Yeah. Despite acting the way or maybe because of acting the way he acts, 70 Million People voted for him. It was an election that was not an immediate landslide, as a lot of democrats were hoping it would be. It took some time to count the ballots, and some of the states were pretty close. But biden it seems to be in many ways was the right person at the right time. Yeah, and i think the democrats four years ago widely believed that they underestimated donald trump, and they didnt do that this time around, understanding that what trump did four years ago was really changed the Political Landscape for the republican party. I think a lot of people believed that the demographic change in the country, even republicans beli believe this, if you read their autopsy report after mitt romney lost in 2012, they believe that the demographic change would force the party to appeal more to more diverse constituencies. And what donald trump did was say no, we can just bring out more of white america, White Working Class america. And i think that has changed the dynamic for a little bit of time, and joe biden is a candidate who was chosen by voters, chosen by black voters to take that on directly. Someone who a lot of black voters i spoke to in the primary believed was the only person in that primary who could adequately speak to people in the upper midwest, pennsylvania, michigan and beyond. And maybe it turns out that that was the case. Because were sitting here talking about president elect joe biden. We were talking on what was election night, five days ago, about the fact that joe biden was likely i think you said it, abby, joe biden was likely to build a different coalition than any democrat had before. Most winning candidates have unique coalitions. And biden did that in such a way that he was a unique figure that could build that blue wall because he was so relatable. David axelrod says he remembers in 2008 because biden had such a connection in those areas, they parked in those areas. Because its genuine. So i want to play just a little bit from president elect bidens acknowledgment, appreciation, thanks for his victory in which he acknowledges what you just mentioned, abby, how the black community got him there. Take a listen. The African AmericanCommunity Stood up again for me. You always have my back, and ill have yours. So theres i would say in addition to that, in addition to having the black community having his back, which is obviously a huge part of his victory, there are a couple of other things that made joe biden the candidate who could beat trump. And there are a lot of people who thought that maybe a fresh face like Pete Buttigieg or a progressive like warren or sanders might be able to do a better job. In this theory of the case, its only biden. A couple other reasons. Why, according to this theory of the case, joe biden is such a known quantity. He has been in politics for 47 years. He was Vice President for eight, including Barack ObamasVice President. Therefore the demonization, the attacks from trump failed to stick. Yeah. People thought they new him. They felt that they knew him. They knew joe biden, and you couldnt make him into this sleazy, disgusting leering gross person. There is something else, though, is that donald trump couldnt get out of his own way to to attack joe biden in such a way that it would stick. What i mean is every time the campaign would try to define joe biden, which is code for attack joe biden in political parlance, the president would mess it up by doing something on his twitter feed or at a rally that would distract from the very message that they were trying to do in order to make joe biden unpalatable as an alternative to donald trump, even those who didnt really like donald trump for whatever reason. It didnt work or the that reason, and i think the fundamentals i think youre right, that he was just undefinable in that way. Another thing that i think was made joe biden so special for this moment is donald trump, President Trump has a lot of political gifts. One of them is not empathy. He comes across as cruel. He can even, nazi the first debate come across as emotionally abusive at times. The difference between a guy like donald trump and a guy like joe biden on the issue of compassion and empathy was so stark that there was nowhere to go if that was a quality that was important to you other than joe biden. Joe biden has a stutter. His campaign the trump campaign, trumps daughterinlaw would make fun of it. Joe biden would go and embrace people with disabilities. Donald trump would make fun of them. And in fact somebody from the disabled Community Just reached out the me on social media and said this is the first time hed ever heard a president acknowledge the Disability Community in a speech. I dont Pay Attention to these things. This is not a community that gets a lot of attention as a political force, the disabled community, although theyre out there. If you follow the crip the vote, you can see theyre out there and theyre very active. Joe bidens speech said we must make the promise for everybody, no matter their race, their ethnicity, their identity or their disability. Something i didnt even notice. But the disabled community heard it. And theyre there and they vote and they have family members and they vote. And how does President Trump treat the disabled community . He makes fun of them. He makes fun of them. I think typically we think about politicians with long histories as a liability because it makes it in some cases easier for them to have a long rap sheet. But for joe biden it actually functioned in a completely different way in this election because it was easier for him to say and actually the democrats did this repeatedly during their convention, they talked repeatedly about these personal stories of joe biden with one person, joe biden with that elevator conductor at the New York Times building. Oh, yeah didnt get the endorsement of the editorial board. Got the elevator conductor. Right. But, you know, going back to our conversation about why joe biden may have been perfect for this moment, its because its hard to demonize somebody whose life story is sympathetic and who has the history that is backed up by photographific evidence and Video Evidence and testimonials and people after people after people willing to come forward to say this is the person i knew. The trump campaign, they were stumped by this. Republicans really preferred that the president talk about policy and fracking and taxes and the economy and not all of this other character stuff that was clearly not as effective because joe biden was inoculated in some ways because his story seemed to be wellknown to people. His tragedy and his triumphs seemed to be people felt like they knew it, and it was hard for the president to get around that. One thing that if i may, i want to go back to what kaitlan was reporting on about the kind of toing and froing inside trump world right now about getting him to the place that he can concede the fact that none of us remembers a time in our political coverage where the losing candidate doesnt give at least a speech or even a phone call. And im just again taken back to that night in november of 2008 when john mccain made that concession speech, and a friend, mark salter was just reminding me. I was reading it in one of the books that that was so powerful about not just about him and his character, but what that means about what american democracy represents. That when mccain would travel around the world, people would recite that speech back to him because they were taught that this is what democracy should sound and look like. Pretty amazing. Its amazing. 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Lets go to gary tuchman in atlanta. I see theyre still partying. Theyre still celebrating where you are, gary. Wolf, the jubilation here in the midtown section of atlanta is intense. This is atlantas Biggest Dance Party tonight in the streets here in midtown. Its also its longest dance party. This has been going on for ten hours after cnn projected joe biden this morning. People started gathering out here. This is the impromptu spontaneous party with no guest list, no start time, no end time. And people just started pouring into the streets when this began, there were cars still in the streets. Hey, you guys, you guys. Let the viewers hear me, okay . You can yell and scream, but dont say that, please. There hasnt been any violence. Its been very peaceful. People have enjoyed themselves. And thats an important thing to point out, wolf. Like i said, there were a lot of cars and trucks moving through in the beginning. Police closed the streets. We havent even seen any police here. Its been going on for ten hours. People have been celebrating. Whats really interesting when joe biden and Kamala Harris spoke, everyone got very quiet, and they started gathering at the restaurants on the street that had their tvs on. And people started watching the speech very quietly. When the speech