President-Elect Joe Biden Thanks “Gay, Straight, Transgender” Supporters
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris made sure to note how historic, diverse, and groundbreaking their campaign for the White House has been, while giving their election victory speeches.
“And to all those who supported us,” Biden said during his 15 minutes of remarks, “I am proud of the campaign we built and ran I am proud of the coalition we put together, the broadest and most diverse in history. Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Progressives, moderates and conservatives….Gay, straight, transgender.”
Biden’s speech is another precedent-setting first: he is the first President or President-elect to mention trans people in official remarks. It seems that the eventual 46th President is beginning to follow through with his campaign promise to trans people that he believes “that Trans Lives Matter.”
As ‘LGBTQ Nation’ reports, the moment follows in the footsteps of Biden’s former partner, President Barack Obama, who was the first to mention gay people in a victory speech when he was elected to the commander-in-chief in 2008.
Then, Obama explained that “questions [on] the power of our democracy” were answered with his victory, citing that change comes through people both “gay, [and] straight.”
In his speech, Biden continued on to thank his racially diverse supporters – “White. Latino. Asian. Native American. And especially for those moments when this campaign was at its lowest — the African American community stood up again for me. They always have my back, and I’ll have yours.”
“I said from the outset I wanted a campaign that represented America, and I think we did that,” the President-elect said. “Now that’s what I want the administration to look like.”
Biden once again renewed his request to Trump supporters and conservatives to give him a chance and allow him to lead the United States to “lower the temperature” so the people can “see each other again” and “listen to each other again.”
“To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans,” he stated. He also cited the Bible which declares that there is “a time to heal.”
Now, “this is the time to heal in America,” Biden declared.
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