Our resilient democracy

What an amazing day! As election workers across the country continue the essential work of counting every vote, I am elated that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be the next President and Vice President of the United States.

In spite of a pandemic, voter suppression, disinformation, foreign interference, and other challenges, the voters have spoken and our democracy has shown remarkable resilience.

In a very high turnout election, voters of all ages, races, and points of view went to great lengths to cast their votes.

Heroic election officials kept calm and ran mostly smooth and efficient elections under extremely difficult conditions.

Our work is far from done. There is so much to do to rebuild our democratic institutions, take urgent action in response to the pandemic and the climate crisis, fix our broken health care system, and tackle systemic racism and stark socioeconomic inequality.

And that work starts even before Biden and Harris are sworn in as President & Vice President, with a two-election fight in Georgia to take back the Senate.

But for now, let’s take a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, and to appreciate the resilience of our democracy.

Fired up. Ready to go.

Quentin