US President-elect Joe Biden will address the nation in Wilmington, Delaware on November 7 at 8 pm ET. He will be joined by Dr Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and Doug Emhoff.
US Election 2020 Results Highlights: Democratic Party candidate and former vice president Joe Biden has defeated Republican Party’s nominee and incumbent President Donald Trump to become the 46th President of the United States. Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes put Biden over the 270 electoral votes needed to win. California Senator Kamala Harris becomes the nation’s first Black and South Asian Vice President, and the first woman to hold that office.
Voters were urged to vote early this time, especially through mail-in ballots, to avoid queues amid the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, over 101 million votes were cast and recorded even before the Election Day. Voters had cast about 73.4 percent of the total votes counted in the 2016 presidential election, even before Election Day. But counting of mail ballots is more laborious and that is delaying the result.
US President-elect Joe Biden will address the nation in Wilmington, Delaware on November 7 at 8 pm ET. He will be joined by Dr Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and Doug Emhoff.
Democrat Joe Biden, who won US election 2020 after securing a win in his native Pennsylvania, has won in Nevada too. AP reported that the Democrat has won Nevada with 25,699 votes; ninety-three percent of the state’s votes have been counted. Biden won by 49.91 percent of the votes against Trump’s 47.92 percent.
Donald Trump has refused to concede to president-elect Joe Biden, vowing legal challenges that would overturn the results of the US election 2020.
Trump said in a statement: “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor.”
“Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated... I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.”
With Joe Biden’s victory in the US election 2020, Kamala Harris is set to become the first woman vice president of America and the first person of colour to hold the post. The California Senator is the fourth woman to be on a major party’s presidential ticket. The first woman to achieve this feat was Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, followed by Sarah Palin in 2008, and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Harris, who will be sworn in as vice president in January, is also the first woman in the US to be on a successful ticket.
Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States. His victory in his native Pennsylvania helped the Democrat secure over 270 electoral votes, to win the US election 2020. Biden, who turns 78 at the end of this month, will become the oldest US President when he is inaugurated in January.
Who is Jo Jorgensen, the third candidate in American presidential race?
Jo Jorgensen may not be the talk point of the closely fought US election 2020, but she is on track to secure 1.2 percent of the national vote. The number may look insignificant, but this might have driven thousands of votes away from both the Democrats and the Republicans in the battleground states. Libertarian Party’s nominee Jo Jorgensen is the only female presidential candidate to make the ballots in all 50 US states. A professor of psychology by profession, she is the first female presidential candidate to be nominated by the Libertarian Party. Although she has not won a single electoral vote, she did secure the second-highest number of votes ever won by her party.
Michigan officials rectify glitch after Trump's votes mistakenly went to Biden
Some of a Michigan county’s votes had mistakenly gone to Democrat Joe Biden due to a software glitch. The tally has now been fixed by Michigan officials to show that incumbent President Donald Trump had won there in the US election 2020. This had, however, not affected the overall result in the state, where the Republican leader is trailing by almost 1.5 lakh votes.
State Votes left to count Current lead
Georgia: 1 percent ( <50,000) Biden
N Carolina: 1 percent (<50,000) Trump
Pennsylvania: 1 percent (<50,000) Biden
Nevada: 13 percent (<2,00,000)Biden
Alaska: 50 percent (<2,00,000)Trump
Democratic candidate Joe Biden is leading in four key states, namely, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. In Georgia, Joe Biden is leading by a narrow margin of about 7,200 votes at 2,461,455 (49.4 percent) against Trump’s 2,454,207 votes (49.3 percent). In Arizona, he is leading by around 30,000 votes, at 1,604,067 (49.9 percent) against Trump’s 1,574,206 (48.7 percent). In Nevada, Biden is up by more than 22,000 votes at 6,32,558 votes (49.8 percent) against Trump’s 6,09,901 votes (48 percent). In Pennsylvania, he has a lead of more than 28,00 votes, at 3,336,887 votes (49.6 percent) against Trump’s 3,308,054 (49.1 percent).
If incumbent US President Donald Trump loses the re-election bid in 2020, he will become the first to fail it since 1992. The last US president to lose a re-election bid was George HW Bush. Since then, all three presidents, namely, Bill Clinton, George Bush (Jr), and Barack Obama, have won the re-elections. In the past 100 years, only four US presidents have failed to secure a win in the re-elections.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has overtaken incumbent Donald Trump in the states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. Even if he is declared the winner in any one of these states, Biden will become the new president of the United States. And it seems that the Democrat is all ready to wear the crown, even as the Republican is in no mood to concede. An already triumphant Biden has said: “The numbers tell us ... it's a clear and convincing story: We are going to win this race.”
> Nevada: 87 percent of votes counted
> Arizona: 90 percent of votes counted
> Georgia: 99 percent of votes counted
> North Carolina: 99 percent of votes counted
> Pennsylvania: 99 percent of votes counted
> Alaska: 50 percent of votes counted
Georgia: Biden leads by 7,248
Nevada: Biden leads by 22,657
Pennsylvania: Biden leads by 28,877
Arizona: Biden leads by 29,861
North Carolina: Trump leads by 76,479
Counting is still on in all these states
