With tens of thousands of outstanding mail-in ballots waiting to be counted, Joe Biden held a victory rally in Wilmington, Del., on Saturday night. After news outlets declared him the winner of Pennsylvania, Nevada, and the Electoral College vote, he claimed the title of president-elect in a speech in which he referenced Ecclesiastes 3 and proclaimed a national “time to heal.”

As vote counting continued in a few swing states, Joe Biden took a lead of about 29,000 votes in Pennsylvania. Barely 4,000 separated him from President Donald Trump in Georgia, where the secretary of state said a recount would occur. Some media outlets already declared Biden the winner, but recounts and lawsuits could throw that result in doubt.

The last votes seemed to take the longest to count as another day began without definitive results in key states. According to the Associated Press’ election map, Joe Biden lacked just six electoral votes to clinch the presidency. Early on Friday morning Biden took a slim lead in Georgia, a state with 16 electoral votes, as counting continued. But with lawsuits pending in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, along with the possibility of recounts in several close states, Americans could still be weeks away from knowing who will be president for the next four years.

The former vice president called the Green New Deal unachievable, gave a winding explanation of his policies on race, and criticized President Donald Trump for approaching his job with a “divide and conquer” attitude. But at a televised town hall meeting in Philadelphia on Thursday, he did not directly answer a question about the Supreme Court, which has become a defining issue of the campaign.

Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday suppressed the distribution of a “smoking gun” New York Post report alleging corrupt dealings between former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and a Ukrainian gas company.

The mother of the late Sen. John McCain, who inspired her son’s maverick attitude and accompanied him on the presidential campaign trail in her 90s, died on Monday. Roberta McCain was 108.

President Donald Trump had not made a public appearance since his hospitalization with COVID-19 ended Oct. 5—until Saturday. Hundreds of people, many of them wearing masks, gathered on the South Lawn of the White House to hear the president speak from the Blue Room balcony. For 18 minutes, he spoke to a mostly Latino and African American audience about his support for law enforcement.