#Chuck Schumer lets Joe Biden hear Brooklyn cheers via phone

Sen. Chuck Schumer gave President-elect Joe Biden some Brooklyn love.

The Senate Minority Leader said he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Biden Saturday to congratulate him.

“It was on my cell phone. I held it out the window and he heard Brooklyn cheering and was he happy,” New York’s senior senator said during a brief news conference Saturday afternoon. “I said the  long dark night in America is over and a new dawn is coming.”

Schumer said he stayed up late Friday thinking Biden might declare victory. When the moment came Saturday, he said he “let out a shout of joy, and within a minute outside my apartment window in Brooklyn, you could hear cheers from one end of the neighborhood to another.”

“I say to Donald Trump, you lost. No more games. Go home to Florida. Stop delaying, stop making up lies about the election. It was fair. There have been no irregularities. You lost fair and square and America now must forget you and move on and do the big, bold action this country needs,” Schumer said during the briefing outside his midtown office.

The senator said he had been in five locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan to witness New Yorkers celebrate Biden’s win. At one point, he was spotted walking through a large crowd in Times Square holding a Biden-Harris sign.

He ended the briefing by belting out his own version of “God Bless America” with the lyrics “We did the right thing to restore democracy and now we will get a lot done.”