Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke Wednesday on the outcome of the ballot in his home town of Wilmington.
"We think we are going to win," he said, urging "all votes" to be counted.
"We are winning enough states," added Joe Biden.
The Democratic candidate for the White House Joe Biden said he was convinced Wednesday to win the US presidential election against Donald Trump, urging to count "all the votes" while the American president engaged him in a legal battle.
Americans will "not be silenced," proclaimed Joe Biden in a statement from his home town of Wilmington, Delaware.
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"It is obvious that we are winning enough states"
"It is evident that we are winning enough states to win the 270 votes of the voters," the number needed to be elected to the White House in the American system of indirect universal suffrage, asserted the former. right-hand man of Barack Obama.
"I did not come to tell you that we won," said Joe Biden, 77, in his brief statement.
"But I have come to tell you that when the count is over, we think we will win," he added, his running mate Kamala Harris standing by his side on the stage, masked.
"We are not enemies"
"All votes must be counted," urged Joe Biden, as Republican Donald Trump launched a legal offensive, including to suspend the count in Pennsylvania.
Once the outcome is known, it will be time "to put the aggressive rhetoric of the campaign behind us," he said in a country deeply divided.
"To move forward, we must stop treating our opponents as enemies. We are not enemies," said Joe Biden before launching one of the sentences he hammered for months: "I campaign as a Democrat but I will govern like an American president. "
"It is particularly important to me that we have won a majority of (votes) Americans," he continued, even if winning the popular vote is not a guarantee of victory in the United States.
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"Senator Harris and I are on course to win more votes than any other 'tickets'" - the presidential and vice-presidential candidate duo - "in the history of this country," said the Democrat, while never before have so many Americans participated in the presidential election (160 million voters, according to the US Elections Project).
California Senator Kamala Harris, 56, is the first black candidate of Indian descent to run for vice-president of the United States.
She would become the first female vice president of the United States if she wins.