My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected president of the United States.

It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.

We will be back in some form.

We are still deeply divided.

Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?

Absolutely.

Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?

Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,

dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this

fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be

the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power

of our example. That is the history of the journey of America. That was the year that was 2024. How was it

for you? If it was anything as tumultuous as American politics, I want to send you the very

happiest Christmas wishes as we start our end of year podcast with Marion McKeown over there and me

here. Marion, I sat down today to go, well, where do you begin with a year like that?

And it just seemed to be never-ending miserable, crazy news from one end of the year to the other,

with one totemic event that spun the entire new cycle in the direction that it ended up going.

And that event being the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, would you agree with that

being the biggest moment of the year?

I would agree that the photograph from that moment is the most iconic campaign image in American electoral history.

The Donald Trump, you know, jumping up, the fist clenched in the air, the blood splattered

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