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{{Short description|Viral video of Kamala Harris}}
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{{Kamala Harris series|expanded=Vice presidential campaigns}}
'''"We did it, Joe!"''' is a [[viral video]] in which [[Kamala Harris]],
== Background ==
In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were, respectively, the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s candidates for President and Vice-President, running against incumbent President [[Donald Trump]] and Vice President [[Mike Pence]].
The 2020 presidential election was severely disrupted by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], which began notably [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|affecting life in the]] [[United States]] in March 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Pilkington |first1=Ed |last2=McCarthy |first2=Tom |date=2020-03-28 |title=The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/trump-coronavirus-politics-us-health-disaster |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> [[Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign|Biden's general election campaign]] limited its in-person events, and the candidate appeared frequently via live and pre-recorded videos from the basement of his [[Delaware]] home.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lizza |first=Ryan |date=2020-03-27 |title=Inside Joe Biden's bizarre coronavirus bunker |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/joe-biden-coronavirus-bunker-151302 |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=Politico}}</ref>▼
▲The 2020 presidential election was severely disrupted by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], which began notably [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|affecting life]] in the
The pandemic also caused an unprecedented spike in [[mail-in voting]], which did not require voters to appear in person at polling stations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cassidy |first=Christina A. |date=2021-08-16 |title=Report shows big spike in mail ballots during 2020 election |url=https://apnews.com/article/health-elections-coronavirus-pandemic-election-2020-campaign-2016-f6b627a5576014a55a7252e542e46508 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Associated Press |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atske |first=Sara |date=2020-11-20 |title=The voting experience in 2020 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/11/20/the-voting-experience-in-2020/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}}</ref> As a result, while media organizations have been largely able to predict the results of U.S. presidential races on [[election night]] in recent decades, several [[Swing state|battleground states]] remained too close to call on November 3, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kang |first=Michael S. |date=2020-11-04 |title=The election results are delayed because so many people voted. That's a good thing. |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/election-results-delayed-bright-side-voting-ncna1246368 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Riccardi |first=Nicholas |date=2020-11-02 |title=AP Explains: The election result may be delayed. That's OK. |url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-Biden-Trump-delayed-result-d9208787554db4c4575579f6b75a7cde |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Associated Press |language=en}}</ref> In particular, a [[Pennsylvania]] law precluding the process for counting mail-in ballots until polls closed caused a marked delay in the state's tabulations.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Timm |first1=Jane C. |last2=Edelman |first2=Adam |date=2024-02-27 |title=The 2020 election took days to call. Could it happen again this year? |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/election-wait-mail-ballots-swing-states-rcna140221 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> As counting progressed, then-President [[Donald Trump]] falsely claimed he had prevailed in Pennsylvania. On the morning of November 7, the [[Associated Press]] and other major media organizations determined that Biden's lead in Pennsylvania was sufficient to declare him the winner of the state and thus that he had accumulated enough votes in the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]] to become [[President-elect of the United States|president-elect]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Previti |first=Emily |date=2021-01-06 |title=A contentious year: How Pennsylvania's tumultuous 2020 election unfolded |url=https://www.witf.org/2021/01/06/an-election-year-unlike-any-other-how-pennsylvanias-tumultuous-2020-election-unfolded/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=WITF |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Becket |first1=Stefan |last2=Quinn |first2=Melissa |last3=Segers |first3=Grace |last4=McNamara |first4=Audrey |last5=Watson |first5=Kathryn |last6=Baldwin |first6=Sarah Lynch |last7=Freiman |first7=Jordan |date=2020-11-08 |title=Biden wins White House after taking Pennsylvania |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/2020-election-live-updates-2020-11-07/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}</ref>▼
▲The pandemic also caused an unprecedented spike in [[mail-in voting]], which did not require voters to appear in person at polling stations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cassidy |first=Christina A. |date=2021-08-16 |title=Report shows big spike in mail ballots during 2020 election |url=https://apnews.com/article/health-elections-coronavirus-pandemic-election-2020-campaign-2016-f6b627a5576014a55a7252e542e46508 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Associated Press |language=en |archive-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706235000/https://apnews.com/article/health-elections-coronavirus-pandemic-election-2020-campaign-2016-f6b627a5576014a55a7252e542e46508 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atske |first=Sara |date=2020-11-20 |title=The voting experience in 2020 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/11/20/the-voting-experience-in-2020/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627020814/https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/11/20/the-voting-experience-in-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Video ==
At 12:23
▲At 12:23 p.m. [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time]] on November 7, after news organizations began calling the election, Harris tweeted a 16-second video in which she stands in a grassy field wearing [[athletic clothes]] and sunglasses, holding a cell phone in her right hand and wired [[ear buds]] in her left. Harris tells the person on the phone, reportedly Biden, <blockquote>"We did it. We did it, Joe! You're going to be the next president of the United States," then laughs.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-11-07 |title='We did it, Joe!': Kamala Harris calls president-elect Biden to celebrate election victory – video |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/nov/07/we-did-it-joe-kamala-harris-calls-president-elect-biden-to-celebrate-election-victory-video |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-11-07 |title=Kamala Harris Congratulates Joe Biden: 'We Did it, Joe.' |url=https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-biden-election-day-2020/card/8jkuSTtwUSsyfBdniXbO |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Spocchia |first=Gino |date=2020-11-07 |title=Kamala Harris says 'we did it' as she becomes first female VP-elect |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/kamala-harris-vice-president-biden-trump-b1676334.html |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> </blockquote>A black [[Chevrolet Suburban]] crosses the frame in the first few seconds of the video, and a person in a black suit is seen in the upper right portion of the frame.
Harris's husband [[Doug Emhoff]] said that he filmed the video after the two received the news of the election result while they were out [[jogging]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lakritz |first=Talia |title=Doug Emhoff wants credit for recording Kamala Harris saying 'We did it, Joe' in the viral 2020 election video |date=10 August 2022 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-we-did-it-joe-recorded-by-doug-emhoff-2022-8 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US |archive-date=July 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707001812/https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-we-did-it-joe-recorded-by-doug-emhoff-2022-8 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Gerson |first=Jennifer |date=2022-08-08 |title=Kamala Harris made history — so her husband did, too |url=https://19thnews.org/2022/08/doug-emhoff-second-gentleman-women-gender-equity/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=The 19th |language=en-us |archive-date=July 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707001817/https://19thnews.org/2022/08/doug-emhoff-second-gentleman-women-gender-equity/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Twenty minutes before Harris posted the video, Emhoff tweeted a picture of the couple hugging in a grassy area.<ref>{{cite tweet|first=Doug|last=Emhoff|user=DouglasEmhoff|number=1325121659519561730|date=November 7, 2020|title=So proud of you. ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸|link=no|access-date=July 6, 2024}}</ref> The event reportedly took place near the Biden campaign's headquarters in [[Wilmington, Delaware]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ting |first=Eric |date=2020-11-07 |title=Kamala Harris was out on a jog when Joe Biden was declared president-elect |url=https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-vice-president-video-jog-reaction-20-15709686.php |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=SFGate}}</ref>
== Reception ==
{{Tweet
| name = Kamala Harris
| username = KamalaHarris
| date = 7 November 2020
| text = We did it, @JoeBiden.
| ID = 1325126733482385409
| image =
}}
By the afternoon of November 7, the video had been liked on [[Twitter]] more than 800,000 times.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morin |first=Rebecca |date=7 November 2020 |title='We did it': Video shows Kamala Harris calling Joe Biden after presidential win |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/07/joe-biden-kamala-harris-share-phone-call-after-presidential-win-called/6203436002/ |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=USA Today |language=en-US |archive-date=July 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707001811/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/07/joe-biden-kamala-harris-share-phone-call-after-presidential-win-called/6203436002/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the days after the video was posted, creators on [[TikTok]] spoofed it using the original audio or their own renditions, exaggerating Harris's lilting tone and the lack of enunciation in her third sentence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Katie Louise |date=2020-11-12 |title=Kamala Harris saying "We did it Joe" has been turned into a TikTok meme |url=https://www.capitalfm.com/internet/kamala-harris-we-did-it-joe-tiktok-meme/ |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=Capital |language=en |archive-date=July 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707001818/https://www.capitalfm.com/internet/kamala-harris-we-did-it-joe-tiktok-meme/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[What can be, unburdened by what has been]]▼
* [[You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?]]
▲* [[What can be, unburdened by what has been]]
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