Colorado’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic lead­ers react­ed Sat­ur­day morn­ing after for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden was pro­ject­ed as the win­ner in a hard-fought pres­i­den­tial race that took five long days to count bal­lots across a hand­ful of states.

Gov. Jared Polis, in a state­ment, con­grat­u­lat­ed the pres­i­dent-elect and his run­ning mate, Kamala Har­ris, say­ing the results “reflect the will of the people.”

“A new dawn is ris­ing in Amer­i­ca,” Polis said in the state­ment. “Con­grat­u­la­tions to Pres­i­dent-Elect Biden and Vice-Pres­i­dent-Elect Har­ris on a his­toric vic­to­ry in Col­orado and across the coun­try and on focus­ing on what unites us all as Americans.”

John Hick­en­loop­er, the Den­ver Demo­c­rat who rode a blue wave across Col­orado on Tues­day on his way to a Sen­ate vic­to­ry over incum­bent Repub­li­can Cory Gard­ner, said in a state­ment that his “good friends” Joe Biden and Kamala Har­ris “are going to rebuild from this cri­sis and restore the soul of this great nation.”

His soon-to-be Sen­ate col­league, Michael Ben­net, said in a state­ment that with Biden’s vic­to­ry “comes the promise that, as a coun­try, we can set aside years of par­ti­san acri­mo­ny and get to the hard work of mak­ing equal­i­ty and pros­per­i­ty our shared purpose.”

Soon after the race was called, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Demo­c­rat, posed pic­tures on Face­book of him­self with Biden and Harris.

“Fear is con­ta­gious, but so is hope,” Neguse wrote in this post. “And it is clear that our coun­try has cho­sen hope. The Amer­i­can peo­ple are count­ing on us. We won’t let them down.”

Colorado’s state sen­ate lead­er­ship said the vic­to­ry gave them hope for the future.

“We are deter­mined to with­stand the crush­ing cir­cum­stances of the last four years and begin to rebuild a bet­ter coun­try,” said Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader Steve Fen­berg, a Boul­der Democrat.

Den­ver May­or Michael Han­cock post­ed on Twit­ter that Biden’s win was “a vic­to­ry for hope, decen­cy and the promise of the Amer­i­can people.”

“Come Jan­u­ary, the dys­func­tion will be over. Pres­i­dent-elect Biden has faced this type of chal­lenge before, work­ing with Pres­i­dent Oba­ma to pull us out of the Great Reces­sion, and he’ll be ready on Day 1 .. to take the steps need­ed to get this pan­dem­ic under con­trol,” Han­cock posted.