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Obama: I could not be prouder

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Joe Biden’s old boss Barack Obama has released a statement saying: “I could not be prouder to congratulate our next President, Joe Biden, and our next First Lady, Jill Biden.”

“I also could not be prouder to congratulate Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff for Kamala’s groundbreaking election as our next vice-president.”

The 44th US president pointed to the record number of voters backing the Biden-Harris ticket, which he says gave them a “historic and decisive victory”.

Obama says that his former vice-president is prepared to handle all of the “extraordinary challenges” that he will inherit in January including “a raging pandemic, an unequal economy and justice system, a democracy at risk and a climate in peril”.

He says Biden will work for Americans who did not support him, and calls for those that opposed him to give him a chance.

It will be up to all Americans, Obama says, not just Biden and Harris, “to lower the temperature and find some common ground from which to move forward”.

He also spoke today with both Biden and Harris to offer his congratulations directly.

Hillary Clinton, who worked with Joe Biden when she served as Obama’s secretary of state, also congratulated the winners, saying it was a “new page for America”.

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