My Prayers for the last 4 days have been answered. Joe Biden is officially elected the 46th President of the US. This is my 9th time to participate in a Presidential election in the US and my 7th winning streak. FOR THE RECORD here's a summary of the Presidential election that I have participated since 1974.
1974-1977- Gerald Ford (R) Win
1977-1981-Jimmy Carter (D) Win
1981-1989- Ronald Reagan(R) Win
1989-1993- George H. W. Bush (R) Win
1993-2001-Bill Clinton (D) Win
2001-2009- George W Bush (R) Lost (I voted for Al Gore)
2009-2017- Barack Obama (D) Won
2017-2021- Donald Trump (R) Lost ( I voted for Hilary Clinton)
2021-2025 Joe Biden (D) Win, Win, Win ! ( Tears of Joy streaming on my Face)
Here's an excerpt from the New York Times Today:
Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump
Joseph R. Biden Jr. achieved victory offering a message of healing and unity. He will return to Washington facing a daunting set of crises.
By Jonathan Martin and
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, promising to restore political normalcy and a spirit of national unity to confront raging health and economic crises, and making Donald J. Trump a one-term president after four years of tumult in the White House.
Mr. Biden’s victory amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisive conduct and chaotic administration, and was delivered by an unlikely alliance of women, people of color, old and young voters and a sliver of disaffected Republicans. Mr. Trump is the first incumbent to lose re-election in more than a quarter-century.
The result also provided a history-making moment for Mr. Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, who will become the first woman to serve as vice president.
With his triumph, Mr. Biden, who turns 78 later this month, fulfilled his decades-long ambition in his third bid for the White House, becoming the oldest person elected president. A pillar of Washington who was first elected amid the Watergate scandal, and who prefers political consensus over combat, Mr. Biden will lead a nation and a Democratic Party that have become far more ideological since his arrival in the capital in 1973.
He offered a mainstream Democratic agenda, yet it was less his policy platform than his biography to which many voters gravitated. Seeking the nation’s highest office a half-century after his first campaign, Mr. Biden — a candidate in the late autumn of his career — presented his life of setback and recovery to voters as a parable for a wounded country.
In a brief statement, Mr. Biden called for healing and unity. “With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,’’ he said. “It’s time for America to unite. And to heal. We are the United States of America. And there’s nothing we can’t do, if we do it together.”
My Ripe Ampalaya( Bitter melon)- November, 2020
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