In a virtual call with worried supporters, President-elect Joe Biden said that he “had a bit of a cold” during the Monday Electoral College victory speech that caused his voice to seem hoarse and disturbed.
“Thank you, I have a little bit of a cold, I’m sorry, but look, you know, you did it, you did it, not a joke,” Biden said.
“This campaign for president was more like the first time I ran as a 29-year-old for the Senate. I believed that ordinary folks and extraordinary folks would get together and make this work. You didn’t let us down. You didn’t let the country down. I really mean it, think about it.”
Biden was declared victor of the 2020 election after gathering 306 electoral votes, same as Trump did in 2016. He has on Friday undergone yet another coronavirus test that came negative.
“I know we’ll get through this one together,” he said about the Covid-19 crisis.
He continued: “That’d how we get through it – together. So as we start the hard work to be done, may this moment give us the strength to rebuild this house of ours upon a rock that can never be washed away.”
