Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed to end the "total, unrelenting, unending warfare" of Trump-era politics as he was getting closer to US presidency with the continuation of ballot count in three crucial states.
In a short address to the American people on Friday, the Democratic nominee expressed confidence that his win over his Republican rival President Donald Trump would soon be declared.
According to CNN, the former vice president called for calm and patience at a moment of flaring national tensions, as Trump warns he will dispute the result of the election if he doesn't win.
"The numbers tell us a clear and convincing story. We are going to win this race," Biden said in the speech which he had hoped would be a victory speech before vote counts dragged on.
Biden spent the day stretching his leads in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada and holding off the President's challenge in Arizona, as vote counting continued and he moved ever closer to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
In the latest batch of results from Pennsylvania, Biden expanded his lead over Trump, which is now up to 28,833, meaning the President's already thin hopes of catching up are fast dwindling.
Trump cannot win a second term without Pennsylvania, and if Biden captures its 20 electoral votes he cannot be stopped.
The former vice president is also stretching his leads in Nevada and Georgia, though each state remains too close to call. He leads Trump by more than 22,000 votes in Nevada and is ahead by more than 7,000 in Georgia.
The count will be complicated in Pennsylvania by tens of thousands of provisional ballots and many others that require extra care for reasons that include damage, legibility, signature issues or other defects.
The President cannot reach 270 electoral votes without winning both Pennsylvania and Georgia, and at least one of the other outstanding states. Biden can get over the top by winning Pennsylvania on its own or by taking Nevada.
The challenger currently leads the President by 264 to 214 electoral votes, AP news agency projects.
Biden's late-night appearance in Wilmington, Delaware, struck a contrast to Trump's grievance-filled speech the night before, in which he flung false claims that the election is being stolen and vowed to fight on in the courts.
Claiming a mandate to ease the nation's angry divides, Biden vowed that life in America under his administration would be less angst-ridden and acrimonious.
"We have to remember: The purpose of our politics isn't total, unrelenting, unending warfare. No. The purpose of our politics, the work of the nation, isn't to fan the flames of conflict -- but to solve problems," Biden said.
Trump has not appeared in public after his grievance-filled news conference at the White House on Thursday, and as a battle of wills began to emerge between the President and Biden's camp over the election endgame.
Trump said in a Tweet that Biden should not "wrongfully claim" the office of president and promised legal proceedings to try to hang on to his job.
But so far the Trump campaign has offered conspiracy theories and accusations but little concrete evidence to back up its claims of corruption in the election.
