IT'S OVER: Biden defeats Trump as US voters take the rare step to remove an incumbent president
IT'S OVER: Biden defeats Trump as US voters take the rare step to remove an incumbent president
The Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, Decision Desk HQ projected shortly before 9 a.m. ET on Friday, November 6.
The Democratic nominee Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 presidential election early Friday, as voters rejected President Donald Trump's chaotic and deeply polarizing first term.
Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House by flipping the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.
His vice presidential running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, made history by becoming the nation's first female, Black, and Indian American vice president.
Biden had over 4 million more votes than Trump as of early Saturday, a lead that's likely to grow as states finalize their results in the coming days and weeks.
In a speech on Friday evening at his campaign HQ in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden did not declare victory, but said he was confident in winning once more votes had been tallied.
With Biden's victory, Trump becomes the 13th president to lose reelection and just the fourth to do so since the end of World War II.
Biden had led Trump in national and state polling for months, and though he ultimately won the race, polls in critical states significantly overstated his lead. Biden's win came after two full days of ballot counting, which was delayed in many states because of a surge in mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
The 77-year-old former vice president addressed the nation while the counts were underway, expressing confidence in the outcome of the race and insisting that all votes should and would be counted.
At the same time, Trump and his allies falsely claimed that he had won the election.
The Trump campaign filed lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania in an effort to halt the states' vote counts, and it called for a recount in Wisconsin. While a candidate has the legal right to request a recount, Trump does not have the authority to unilaterally demand that legally cast ballots be discounted.
Biden's election is a rebuke of Trump's presidency, which for the past nine months has been marred by the administration's response to a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans and resulted in an economic crisis. Biden's win also happened against the backdrop of Trump's attacks on the integrity of the election process, none of which have been supported by evidence or empirical data.
Biden ran as an elder statesman with moderate politics who could stabilize a country reeling from several crises and rebuild the US's relationships with foreign allies.
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