President-elect Joe BidenUS Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump and is projected to become the 46th president of the United States. However, Trump has refused to concede, saying the “election is far from over” and that he will not “rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and what Democracy demands”. Alleging fraud in mail-in votes, Trump tweeted that he won “71,000,000 legal votes” and that observers were not allowed into counting rooms. However, his statement was flagged by Twitter as a disputed claim.
Besides Biden, his running mate Kamala Harris will become the first woman and person of colour to hold the office. 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.
In his acceptance statement, Biden said: “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.”
Biden, 77, staked his candidacy less on any distinctive political ideology than on galvanizing a broad coalition of voters around the notion that Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy. The strategy proved effective, resulting in pivotal victories in Michigan and Wisconsin as well as Pennsylvania, onetime Democratic bastions that had flipped to Trump in 2016.
The high stakes election was held on November 3 against the backdrop of an unprecedented pandemic that has killed more than 2,30,000 Americans and wiped away millions of jobs. [So what does President Joe Biden mean for India and its relationship with the US? Read our explained]
A demonstrator reads a banner on display at Black Lives Matter Plaza, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
US President Donald Trump's campaign files another lawsuit, this time regarding the alleged rejected votes in Arizona.
In Pennsylvania it doesn't get much "redder" than Juniata County, a predominantly white and rural region dotted with picturesque churches, livestock farms and factories which US President Donald Trump carried in the election with 80 percent of the vote.
So it was with a mix of disappointment, suspicion and resignation that residents took in news on Saturday that their state had tipped the presidential race in Joe Biden's favor, denying Trump another four years.
"It's sickening and sad," said Kayla Doyle, a 35-year-old Trump supporter and manager of the GridIron Pub on Main Street in Mifflintown, the Juniata county seat about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Harrisburg, the state capital. "I think it's rigged."
The rural-urban divide highlights the daunting task facing Biden to win over voters outside the big cities who are skeptical of his agenda and believe Trump was the first president to govern with their interests at heart.
Herbie Stoner, a 53-year-old Trump supporter, said he was suspicious of the Democratic Party and the integrity of the vote. He is also worried that a Biden administration won't be able to match the job growth Trump delivered to the region.
But Stoner, echoing the sentiment of most of the more than 50 Trump supporters interviewed by Reuters across Pennsylvania this week, said he was willing to give Biden a chance. (Reuters)
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga congratulated Joe Biden on Sunday for winning the US presidential election, saying he looked forward to working with the new administration to further strengthen the alliance between the two countries.
Investors and financial executives took a big sigh of relief on Saturday after major networks declared Democrat Joe Biden winner of the US presidential election, offering some certainty after days of conflicting reports about who might run the White House next term.
Although current President Donald Trump said he would fight the results in court, Wall Streeters who offered comments felt there was little doubt Biden would ultimately succeed. Election predictors including the Associated Press, NBC, Fox News and Edison Research, upon which Reuters relies, called the presidency for Biden.
"Biden is good news for the markets," Christopher Stanton, chief investment officer at Sunrise Capital Partners, said on Saturday. "We're all so tired of the whipsaw that came with the Trump tweets."
Major US stock indexes registered their biggest weekly gains since April this week, as investors bet Biden would win and Republicans would hold onto the Senate. That scenario would create a steadier hand in the Oval Office and a Congress that would check left-leaning impulses on taxes or regulations that pinch companies, investors said. (Reuters)
After many news channels projected Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States, incumbent Republican President Donald Trump accused of 'fraud' and said he won the election. Twitter, however, flagged his tweet, terming his election fraud claim as 'disputed'.
Democrat supporters celebrating Joe Biden's election victory near the White House on Saturday (EST).
Iran's first vice president said he hoped for a change in "destructive US policies" after Democrat Joe Biden captured the US presidency on Saturday, adding that the era of Donald Trump and his "adventurous and belligerent" administration was over. "I hope we will see a change in the destructive policies of the United States ... finally ... the era of Trump and his adventurous and belligerent team is over," Eshaq Jahangiri tweeted.
As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns — honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties — as an agonizingly vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning. And for all that joy, there was equal parts sorrow, anger and mistrust on the other side.
Across the United States, the dramatic conclusion of the 2020 election was cathartic. Just after The Associated Press and other news organizations declared that former Vice President Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump, fireworks erupted in Atlanta. In Maine, a band playing at a farmers’ market broke into the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
People waved Biden signs from balconies and banged pots and pans. A pickup truck drove around Washington with a band playing in the bed. In Manhattan, they danced in the streets, banged cowbells and honked their car horns. In Louisville, Kentucky, Biden supporters gathered on their lawns to toast with champagne.
Trump’s supporters have for days been protesting outside of ballot-counting operations, alleging without evidence that the slow-moving results were proof of cheating. “This isn’t over! This isn’t over! Fake news!” some of Trump’s supporters shouted as they gathered at the Georgia State Capitol after news organizations’ decision to call the election. (AP)
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has congratulated Democrat Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris for their election victory. "Congratulations @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris. Look forward to President Elect Biden's Global Summit on Democracy & working with him to end illegal tax havens & stealth of nation's wealth by corrupt ldrs. We will also continue to work with US for peace in Afghanistan & in the region," he tweeted.
Hours after losing his reelection bid, President Trump has returned from his Virginia golf club to the White House and a very different Washington, DC Trump has so far refused to concede to President-elect Biden, and is promising legal challenges. (AP)
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, promising to restore political normalcy and a spirit of national unity to confront raging health and economic crises, and making Donald J. Trump a one-term president after four years of tumult in the White House.
Biden’s victory amounted to a repudiation of Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisive conduct and chaotic administration, and was delivered by an unlikely alliance of women, people of color, old and young voters and a sliver of disaffected Republicans. Trump is only the third elected president since World War II to lose reelection, and the first in more than a quarter-century.
The result also provided a history-making moment for Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, who will become the first woman to serve as vice president.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated US president-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris on their election victory.
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hailed the election victory. "Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed Medicare For All won re-election or is on track to win re-election," she tweeted.
President Donald Trump was playing Golf when networks and major news channels declared Democratic candidate Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States. Trump, who rejected the outcome, was seen at the Trump National Golf course in Sterling, Virginia, playing Golf.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday congratulated Joe Biden on his election as the US President and said he looks forward to working with him to further strengthen India-US relations.
"My sincere felicitations to Joseph R. Biden on his election as President of the United States of America and @KamalaHarris, as Vice President. I wish @JoeBiden a successful tenure and look forward to working with him to further strengthen India-US relations," Kovind tweeted.
A Democrat, 77-year-old Biden became the oldest man ever to be elected to the White House. He will be the 46th president of the United States.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Joe Biden for winning the US presidency on Saturday in a bitter election against US President Donald Trump. Soon after Biden was declared winner by the Associated Press, PM Modi congratulated him on his spectacular victory on Twitter, saying Biden’s contributions as vice president to “strengthening Indo-US relations was critical and invaluable”.
“I look forward to working closely together once again to take India-US relations to greater heights,” he added.
From the earliest days of her childhood, Kamala Harris was taught that the road to racial justice was long.
She spoke often on the campaign trail of those who had come before her, of her parents, immigrants drawn to the civil rights struggle in the United States — and of the ancestors who had paved the way.
With her ascension to the vice presidency, Harris will become the first woman and first woman of color to hold that office, a milestone for a nation in upheaval, grappling with a damaging history of racial injustice exposed, yet again, in a divisive election. READ FULL STORY HERE
Although US President Donald Trump wasn’t conceding defeat, people in other parts of the world starting celebrating Joe Biden’s election victory Saturday and expressed hope that the Democrat will quickly set to work on a topic that wasn’t vital in the White House for the past four years: combating climate change.
“Welcome back America!” tweeted the mayor of Paris. Referencing the Paris climate accord that Trump pulled out of, Anne Hidalgo called Biden’s victory “a beautiful symbol to act more than ever together against the climate emergency.”
Cascading around the globe on social media and live news broadcasts, word of the victory in Pennsylvania that pushed Barack Obama’s former vice president past the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes needed to take over the Oval Office himself brought widespread relief in world capitals.
Former President Jimmy Carter joined other leaders in congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and his running candidate Kamala Harris for their victory in the 2020 US Presidential elections.
"Rosalynn joins me in congratulating our friends President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We are proud of their well-run campaign and look forward to seeing the positive change they bring to our nation," he said in a statement.