Biden: 'Now it's time to turn the page...to heal'

President-elect Joe Biden declared Monday that “democracy prevailed” and the integrity of the nation's elections "remains intact," as electors nationwide cast votes affirming his victory in last month’s election.

In a speech from his longtime home of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden aimed to guide Americans past the tumult of the campaign and President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat.

"Respecting the will of the people," Biden noted, "is at the heart of our democracy, even when we find those results hard to accept.

Biden said President Donald Trump's lawyers brought "dozens and dozens and dozens" of legal challenges to the election results but each time they were found to be without merit.

He said Trump's team repeatedly made arguments to state legislatures, officials and even the U.S. Supreme Court, trying to make their case before more than 80 judges across the country "and in every case no cause or evidence was found to reverse or question or dispute the results."

Biden recalled how it was his duty as vice president to certify the results of the 2016 election. Vice President Mike Pence, on the losing ticket this year, will be tasked with carrying out that same duty in January. .

After garnering a record of more than 81 million votes, Biden is still trying to build momentum as he prepares to assume the presidency on Jan. 20. That's been complicated by Trump refusing to concede and has instead pursued baseless legal challenges that have been roundly rejected by judges across the political spectrum, including the justices at the Supreme Court.

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