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'''"We did it, Joe!"''' is a video in which [[Kamala Harris]] calls [[Joe Biden]] to congratulate him on winning the [[2020 United States presidential election]].<ref name=":0">{{cite tweet|first=Kamala|last=Harris|user=KamalaHarris|number=1325126733482385409|date=November 7, 2020|title=We did it, @JoeBiden.|link=no|access-date=July 6, 2024}}</ref> The quote "We did it, Joe!" became a [[meme]], and Harris' [[Tweet (social media)|tweet]] publishing the video became one of the [[List of most-liked tweets|most-ever liked posts]] on [[Twitter|X]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Montgomery |first=Blake |date=2024-07-05 |title=#KHive: Kamala Harris memes abound after Joe Biden’s debate disaster |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/05/kamala-harris-memes-coconut-tree |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Clemens |first=Danny |date=2020-12-07 |title=Remembering Chadwick Boseman, Kobe Bryant: Tweets honoring icons lost are year's most-liked on Twitter |url=https://abc7news.com/most-liked-tweet-of-2020-retweeted-all-time-kobe-bryant/8587671/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=ABC7 San Francisco |language=en}}</ref>
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By the afternoon of November 7, the video had been liked on X, then Twitter, more than 800,000 times.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morin |first=Rebecca |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}}</ref> It would later amass 2.9 million likes, making it the 16th-most liked post on
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 second 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}}</ref> By [[Thanksgiving]] later that month, users posted videos in which they recited the "We did it, Joe!" video in place of [[Grace (meals)|saying grace]] at family gatherings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Travis |first=Abi |date=2020-12-08 |title=TikTok’s “We Did It, Joe!” Trend Is Kind of Creepy, Right? |url=https://www.distractify.com/p/we-did-it-joe-tiktok |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=Distractify |language=en-US}}</ref>
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