Joe Biden Elected President Of The United States

It's official: Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States.


Both the Associated Press and CBS News are calling the 2020 United States presidential election in favor of the former vice president and his VP pick, Senator Kamala Harris, with Biden crossing 270 electoral votes, enough to clinch victory from incumbent President Donald Trump. Key battleground states Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan flipped back to blue right after going for Trump in 2016, which boosted Biden over the finish line.


"Democracy is some days messy," Biden said on November 5, two days before the race was called in his favor. "It some days requires a little bit patience as well. However that patience has been rewarded right now for more than 240 years with a system of governance that's been the envy of the world."


Biden's victory came soon after a drawn-out election that saw big surges of early voting starting in late October, with more than 93 million votes cast before November 3's Election Day. 2020 also seen a nearly historic rate of voter turnout, with Residents of the
U.S. Casting an estimated 159.8 million ballots, enough to potentially eclipse a record set over a century ago.


Notably, millennial and Gen Z voters, who comprise about 20 percent of all registered voters in the nation, showed up in the millions. Biden, and also his vice presidential pick, Senator Kamala Harris, also won the popular vote by a margin of 4 million, and racked up nearly 74 million votes in total.


The election of Harris as vice president is historic: She's the woman, the opening Black person, and the initial South Asian American person to serve in the position.


The 2020 election season was maybe the most unprecedented in modern United States history given it took place amid the backdrop of the continuous COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected an announced 9.4 million Residents of the
U.S. And claimed the lives of 234,000. The pandemic led to widespread utilization of mail-in ballots categorize in attempt to minimize time spent waiting in line at polling locations. In certain states, some of the announced 64 million mail-in ballots cast throughout this election couldn't start to be counted up until Election Day, which led to a couple of days of tallying.


Biden has reportedly already met with his advisers group in attempt to be briefed on the coronavirus pandemic, which is still crippling the U.S. And surging in nearly every state. On November 5, the nation set a new record for cases in an individual day: 121,000.