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Parties, protests erupt as Joe Biden projected to win 2020 election

By Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

Parties, protests erupt as Joe Biden projected to win 2020 election People celebrate outside Vaughn's Lounge in the Bywater section of New Orleans, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, after news outlets called the Presidential election in favor of President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

By Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

Parties and protests erupted across the country Saturday as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were projected to win the 2020 election.

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In New York, residents banged pots and pans out of windows, honked horns and rallied on street corners.

In Philadelphia, crowds of Biden supporters celebrated outside City Hall.

“(Biden’s win) was just a release from stress, to know that the country would get back to civility and decency,” Sherry Viggs told CNN.

In Chicago, crowds were seen popping bottles of champagne and singing Queen’s “We Are The Champions.”

Hundreds of Biden supporters met at Freedom Tower in Miami to celebrate, CNN reported.

In Georgia, a group supporting President Donald Trump as part of the national “Stop the Steal” rallies in many cities across the country, WSB-TV reported.

Biden supporters celebrated in Freedom Park with a performance of the “Electric Slide.”

In Colorado, police stood between groups of supporters for Biden and Trump, the Colorado Sun reported.


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