The Kennedy family celebrated President-elect Joe Biden‘s victory by performing a socially distance ‘stadium wave’ on Saturday.
Video of the group of cousins and family members, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s former wife Kerry Kennedy, was shared to Instagram by Kick Kennedy, the 28-year-old daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
It came just hours after Biden snagged the presidency from Donald Trump.
Footage begins with one Kennedy cousin energetically dancing and waving her arms in the air.
The Kennedy family celebrated Joe Biden’s presidential victory by performing a stadium wave on their Instagram stories
Grace Allen (left), the daughter of Kara Anne Kennedy, appeared second in the Instagram video
‘Let’s do a wave for Biden!’ she shouts.
What follows is a montage of Kennedy cousins continuing the celebratory wave in different places across the country.
Grace Allen, the daughter of Kara Anne Kennedy, kicks off the second wave in the passenger seat of a vehicle.
Kerry Kennedy joins the wave next while sailing on a boat with two friends. Kerry was married to Andrew Cuomo for 15 years and the couple had three daughters.
The women pump their fists and smile for the camera.
‘Yay Joe Biden!’ one woman exclaims.
Kerry Kennedy (center), New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former wife, joined in on the celebratory wave while sailing with friends on Saturday
Sarah Kennedy (center), the daughter of Christopher Kennedy, did the wave while coverage of the election plays on a TV in the background
Sam and Caroline Shriver, the children of Timothy Perry Shriver, are then joined by Caroline Shriver, daughter of Mark Kennedy Shriver, in the front yard of somebody’s home.
Then, the video turns to the daughter of Christopher Kennedy, Sarah Kennedy, and two others performing the victory dance while coverage of the election plays on a TV behind them.
Kick Kennedy makes an appearance towards the end with a man wearing an America flag across his shoulder and another tied around his head.
Kick Kennedy (left), the 28-year-old daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., did the victory dance with a man who donned an American flag around his shoulders
Other clips featured in the jubilant Instagram Story showed friends continuing the wave near an intersection, at a park and amid a street performance in a city plaza.
Despite the celebration, Trump called the election ‘stolen’ Sunday morning as he tweeted claims from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich that Democrats ‘stole what they had to steal.’
But he avoided using his own voice in a series of tweets, instead highlighting Gingrich – who had appeared on Fox and Friends – and Turley, a registered Democrat who had spoken against Trump’s impeachment as a Republican witness to the House Judiciary Committee.
Almost immediately, the tweets were flagged by Twitter as possible misinformation.
Joe Biden applauds next to his granddaughters after speaking during his election rally, after news media announced that he has won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Wilmington, Delaware,
At the same time, Trump left the White House to play golf again, just like he did on Saturday.
The tweets suggest that Trump is not backing down or planning to concede despite signs he is already fracturing his family with his sons and Jared Kushner at odds over whether he should concede.
Gingrich’s claims the election was corrupt came from a Fox & Friends interview in which he called Democrats ‘corrupt’ and claimed the outcome was a ‘left-wing power grab.’
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Trump quoted Newt Gingrich on Fox & Friends in his tweet. The best pollster in Britain was in fact an American right-win think tank commentator, Patrick Barsham, who works for the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. but was writing in the Sunday Express in the UK
Another voice: Jonathan Turley is a law professor and registered Democrat who has backed Trump repeatedly
Gingrich had spent Saturday at the same Trump golf course where the president was golfing when he was told that TV networks and the Associated Press had called the election and that he was defeated. It is unknown if the two men spoke there.
Trump also amplified claims by Turley, a law professor, about fraud, specifically in Pennsylvania, which is the state which pushed Biden over the top to his electoral college majority.
Turley suggested that there could be a problem ‘authenticating’ ballots received after Tuesday and that this could affect the result of ‘the whole election.’
The claim is difficult to assess. Pennsylvania had already separated the late-arriving ballots, and it is so far not known how many there are and whether there enough to sway the election’s outcome.
Trump’s eldest sons launched a fusillade of morning tweets claiming their father’s defeat was fraudulent Sunday, in a sign of a split from their brother-in-law Jared Kushner.
Don Jr. and Eric both retweeted claims from Republican operatives that included the late boxer Joe Frazier voting in Philadelphia and that counting software was rigged against Republicans.
Eric called for a ‘manual recount’ of all ballots – which would amount to as many as 150 million – because one county in Georgia said three days ago that it was briefly delaying counting due to a software glitch.
‘Software from hell! There needs to be a manual recount of every ballot in this country right now!’ he said.
And Don Jr. retweeted an anti-concession demand accusing Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania of ‘rampant fraud.’
It was unclear early Sunday whether either son has spoken to their father since his defeat was called by networks just before midday Saturday.
But it was revealed late Saturday night that their brother-in-law Jared has been urging Trump to come to terms with defeat and offer a concession.