Joe Biden will win Michigan, CNN projects.
There are 16 electoral votes at stake in Michigan. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the 2020 presidential election.
Biden: «I am here to report when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners»
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden acknowledged the historic nature of the election and how more than «150 million people cast their votes» this year during a speech in Wilmington, Delaware.
«More Americans voted this election than ever before in American history. Over 150 million people cast their votes. I think that is just extraordinary. And if we had any doubts, we shouldn’t have any longer about a government of, by and for the people. It is very much alive, very much alive in America,» Biden said.
Biden added: «Now after a long night of counting, it’s clear that we are winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. I’m not here to declare that we have won. But I am here to report when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.»
Biden speaking now from Delaware
Joe Biden is speaking now from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, the same place he accepted the Democratic nomination in August.
«Here, the people rule. Power can’t be taken or asserted. It flows from the people,» Biden said. «And it’s their will that determines who will be president of the United States and their will alone.»
«And now after a long night of counting, it’s clear that we are winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency,» Biden continued.
