WILMINGTON, Delaware-With his vice presidential running mate by his side and on the verge of the presidency, Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden gave a pre-victory speech Friday night in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware as America awaits voting results from the key swing states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada, Biden leading over incumbent President Donald Trump in all four states.

He urged unity when he spoke and said he would be a president to all of America as protesters supporting both candidates have continued to rally in Pennsylvania since election night on Nov. 3, after the president publicly demanded that counting the vote cease in keeping with a promise that if he loses he would blame it on mail-in voting and alleged voting fraud.

Biden demanded an end to what he called "partisan warfare" and said Friday night that Americans must come together as the coronavirus pandemic that has dogged Trump's presidency since it hit the U.S. with a vengeance in early March continues to soar with more than 223,000 confirmed deaths.

"The purpose of our politics isn't to wage total and unrelenting war. It's to solve problems," Biden said. "We may be opponents, but we're not enemies. We're Americans."

The former vice president urged patience as votes continue to trickle in and said that he and U.S. Sen Kamala Harris, his vice presidential running mate and the first Black woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, will be victorious, sooner or later.

"We're going to win this race with a clear majority and the nation behind us," said Biden, who served as vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Trump's predecessor.

The final tabulation of votes in key battleground states aside, Biden leads in the popular vote and has all but clinched the 270 electoral votes needed to become president.

By most accounts Biden has some 264 electoral college vote to Trump's 214.

CNN has Biden at 253 electoral votes, and Trump at 213.

"One of the things I'm especially proud of is how well we've done across America," Biden said relative to his lead in battleground states that Trump won  in  2016, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. "We've rebuilt the 'blue wall' in the middle of the country that crumbled just four years ago."

Some of his speech on Friday sounded familiar to what he said in Cleveland last week.

Though he lost Ohio by eight percentage points election night, the same margin Trump won over then opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016, Biden visited Cleveland on the eve of the Nov. 3 presidential election, his second visit to the majority Black city since it hosted the First Presidential Debate on Sept. 29

In Cleveland he spoke before a group of supporters, including elected officials and other dignitaries, at a drive-in event at Burke Lakefront Airport in the downtown area of city that in 1967 elected the first Black mayor of a major American city.

"In 2020, I'm asking for your trust again, in me and Kamala," he said. " I'm proud of the coalition this campaign has built to welcome Democrats, Republicans, and Independents."

And he spoke at length on the  pandemic and criticized Trump over the president's mishandling of the deadly virus, the U.S. leading the world in both confirmed cases and deaths.

"This president knew in January this virus was deadly, but he hid it from the American people," Biden complained. "He knew it was worse than the flu. But he lied to the American people. He knew it wasn't going to disappear. But he kept telling us a miracle was coming," he said of President Trump.

He promised to get Covid-19 under control if elected president.

His message in Cleveland Nov 2 on unity was similar to what he said Friday night during his hometown speech.

"I'm running as a proud Democrat, but I will govern as an American president," Biden told his Cleveland supporters a day before the Nov 3 presidential election.