JOE BIDEN BECOMES 46TH US PRESIDENT; KAMALA HARRIS VICE PRESIDENT: US ELECTIONS 2020 LIVE UPDATES !
Joe Biden has become the 46th US President, US media said, calling the raucous and bitterly-fought election that Donald Trump is yet to concede. Indian-origin Kamala Harris will become his Vice President.
US Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Forty-eight years to the day after he was first elected a senator from Delaware, Joseph R. Biden Jr. will speak to the nation for the first time as president-elect on Saturday night. In his first statement after he defeated incumbent Republican US President Donald Trump to become the 46th President of the United States, Biden Saturday said he is “honoured” by the trust American people have placed in him and that he will be a “President for all Americans — whether you voted for me or not.”
Biden’s victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed the processing of some ballots. Biden crossed 270 Electoral College votes with a win in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris will become the first woman and person of colour to hold the office.
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US Election Result 2020 LIVE: Kamala Harris to become Vice-President
Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men — almost all of them white — entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries.
The 56-year-old California senator, also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency, represents the multiculturalism that defines America but is largely absent from Washington’s power centers. Her Black identity has allowed her to speak in personal terms in a year of reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism. As the highest-ranking woman ever elected in American government, her victory gives hope to women who were devastated by Hillary Clinton’s defeat four years ago.
Harris has been a rising star in Democratic politics for much of the last two decades, serving as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general before becoming a US senator. After Harris ended her own 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate. They will be sworn in as president and vice president on Jan. 20.
Biden’s running mate selection carried added significance because he will be the oldest president ever inaugurated, at 78, and hasn’t committed to seeking a second term in 2024.
Harris often framed her candidacy as part of the legacy — often undervalued — of pioneering Black women who came before her, including educator Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black candidate to seek a major party’s presidential nomination, in 1972.
“We’re not often taught their stories,” Harris said in August as she accepted her party’s vice presidential nomination. “But as Americans, we all stand on their shoulders.”
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With the AP calling Pennsylvania and Nevada for Biden, it brings the President-Elect’s tally to 290. The election in Georgia, where Biden has a small lead, is yet to be called. A win in Nevada will bring Biden’s final tally to 306, which was Trump’s tally in 2016.
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Jeb Bush, brother of former US President George W Bush and a former Republican presidential candidate tweets:
Congratulations to President-elect Biden. I have prayed for our President most of my adult life. I will be praying for you and your success. Now is the time to heal deep wounds. Many are counting on you to lead the way.
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Statement by Donald Trump
“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. The simple fact is this election is far from over. 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. In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.”
“Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access.”
“So what is Biden hiding? I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.”
Nov 7, 2020
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US Election Result 2020 LIVE: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to address the nation at 8 pm ET (6.30 am IST)
On Saturday, 8 pm ET, November 7, President-elect Joe Biden will address the nation in Wilmington, Delaware and be joined by Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and Doug Emhoff.
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“This election is about so much more than Joe Biden or me,” tweets Kamala Harris. “It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started.”
Nov 7, 2020
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While media houses have called the election for Joe Biden, Donald Trump will not concede. Not with a legal fight.
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Fox News, ABC have also called the election for Joe Biden.
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Statement by Joe Biden:
I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect Harris.
In the face of unprecedented obstacles, a record number of Americans voted. Proving once again, that democracy beats deep in the heart of America.
With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation.
It’s time for America to unite. And to heal.
We are the United States of America. And there’s nothing we can’t do, if we do it together.
Nov 7, 2020
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US Senator Kamala Harris, first woman, first Indian American and first woman of colour to become Vice President of the United States.
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Biden, who turns 78 at the end of this month, will become the oldest president when he is inaugurated in January.
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The Associated Press and CNN have called the US Election in favour of Joe Biden.
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CNN is reporting that results in Philadelphia will be declared over the next few hours.
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President Trump tweets:
“Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping — 11:30am!”
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City Commissioner Omar Sabir told CNN that about 40,000 votes remain to be counted in Philadelphia.
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Donald Trump lawyers to hold a press conference at Philly landscaping company, president says
Nov 7, 2020
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US Election Results 2020 LIVE Updates: Three states pass amendments that ‘only citizens’ can vote
Voters in Colorado, Florida and Alabama passed ballot measures Tuesday that codify what is already law: That only US citizens 18 and older can vote. The passage of the largely-symbolic measures has triggered questions about why the pro-Trump group behind them spent time and money on the effort. The amendments passed overwhelmingly in all three states, including by a nearly 8-to-1 ratio in Alabama and Florida. Before the 2020 election, North Dakota and Arizona were the only state constitutions that specified non-citizens could not vote in state or local elections.
Nov 7, 2020
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US Election Results 2020 LIVE Updates: Incendiary texts traced to outfit run by top Trump aide
A texting company run by one of President Donald Trump’s top campaign officials sent out thousands of targeted, anonymous text messages urging supporters to rally where votes were being counted in Philadelphia on Thursday, falsely claiming Democrats were trying to steal the presidential election. The messages directed Trump fans to converge at a downtown intersection where hundreds of protesters from the opposing candidates’ camps faced off Thursday afternoon.
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The Donald Trump campaign has filed at least six lawsuits in battleground states since Election Day.
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US Election Results 2020 LIVE Updates: Count drags on as Biden nears victory
Four days after the election, the US presidential race hovered in suspended animation Saturday as the long, exacting work of counting votes brought Democrat Joe Biden ever closer to a victory over President Donald Trump. The delay in producing a verdict can be attributed to high turnout, a massive number of mail-in ballots and slim margins between the candidates. Biden held leads in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia, putting him in an ever-stronger position to capture the 270 Electoral College votes needed to take the White House.
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In Georgia, Biden is leading narrowly by about 7,200 votes, 2,461,455 (49.4 percent) to Trump’s 2,454,207 (49.3 percent).
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In Arizona, Biden is up about 30,000 votes, 1,604,067 (49.9 percent) to Trump’s 1,574,206 (48.7 percent), with 97 percent of the expected vote in.
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In Nevada, Biden leads by just over 22,000 votes, 632,558 votes (49.8 percent) to Trump’s 609,901 votes (48 percent), with 93 percent of the expected vote in.
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In Pennsylvania, Biden is leading by over 28,00 votes, 3,336,887 votes (49.6 percent) to Trump’s 3,308,054 (49.1 percent), with 96 percent of the expected vote in.
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President Trump’s latest tweet, flagged by Twitter of course, for misinformation:
“Tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8 P.M. on Tuesday, Election Day, totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and certain other razor-thin states. As a separate matter, hundreds of thousands of Votes were illegally not allowed to be OBSERVED…”
Nov 7, 2020
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As per the latest numbers, Joe Biden has been declared the winner in 264 seats, while Trump has 213.
Biden is leading in Pennsylvania (20 seats), Georgia (16 seats) and Nevada (6) – winning the three states will take his tally to 306 seats.
The margins in the three states are about 29,000, 7,000 and 23,000 seats, respectively, as per latest numbers by Fox News.
Nov 7, 2020
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Confident of their victory in the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris have begun working on the task ahead by focusing on two critical areas of public health and economy, both battered by the raging COVID-19 pandemic. According to latest projections, Biden had 264 of the 538 electoral college votes up for grabs. He only requires another six electoral college votes to reach the magical number of 270, to be declared elected as the next US president.