From Jubilation To Dismay, A Divided Nation Reacts To Biden’s Victory

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Soon after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election Saturday, a celebratory crowd headed to Black Lives Matter plaza across from the White House in Washington, D.C.

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A crestfallen Trump supporter looks on outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia Saturday after Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election.

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In Colorado Springs, several hundred Trump supporters gathered outside City Hall after driving in via caravans from Denver and other parts of the state. The crowd waved Trump flags, chanted «Four More Years,» and let out loud cheers as speakers at the rally claimed the election had been stolen from President Trump.

«I will never accept Biden as my president,» said Ron Sauve, who went to a pro-Trump rally in Phoenix. «Not with this kind of cloud hanging over it.»

In Alabama, the president’s supporters gathered outside the state Capitol to protest Biden’s victory, wave Trump flags, and pray. Many in the crowd echoed the president’s unsubstantiated claim that mail-in voting is fraudulent. One protester vowed to keep protesting until «this is all over.»

Similar pro-Trump rallies formed in Albuquerque, Nashville and Boise.

NPR correspondents Cheryl Corley and Eric Westervelt, and Kyle Gassiott, of Troy Public radio, contributed to this story.

• 2020 presidential election
• Donald Trump
• Joe Biden