Joe Biden gestures after speaking during election night at the
Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, early on November 4, 2020.
ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House, US media
said Saturday, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that
convulsed American politics, shocked the world and left the United
States more divided than at any time in decades.
CNN, NBC News and CBS News called the race in Biden’s favor just
before 11:30 am (1630 GMT) as an insurmountable lead in
Pennsylvania took the 77-year-old over the top in the
state-by-state count that decides the presidency.
Trump had no immediate reaction to the announcement, but as
Biden’s lead grew during vote counts since Tuesday’s election, the
Republican president lashed out with unsubstantiated claims of
fraud and claimed, falsely, that he had won.
Earlier Saturday, as he headed to his golf course in Virginia,
he repeated this, tweeting: “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!”
However, the result now condemns 74-year-old Trump to becoming
the first one-term president since George H. W. Bush at the start
of the 1990s.
Biden, who got the votes of a record more than 74 million
people, was hunkered down with his running mate Kamala Harris, in
his home town of Wilmington, Delaware.
August 20, 2020 Former vice-president and Democratic presidential
nominee Joe Biden (L) and Senator from California and Democratic
vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris greet supporters outside
the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware. Olivier DOULIERY /
AFP
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Late Friday he delivered an address urging Americans to “come
together as a nation and heal.”
The Secret Service has already begun intensifying its protective
bubble around the president-elect, who will be inaugurated on
January 20.
A centrist who promises to bring calm to Washington after four
turbulent years under Trump, Biden is the oldest man to win the
presidency — a position he twice sought unsuccessfully during his
long political career, before being elected vice president to
Barack Obama in 2008.
Harris, a senator and former California attorney general, will
make history as the first Black woman to enter the White House in
either of the two top jobs. At 56, she is seen as a leading
contender to succeed Biden and try to become the first female US
president.
Polarized nation, Covid crisis
Overall turnout on Tuesday broke records with some 160 million
people pouring out across the United States after a deeply
polarizing campaign complicated by the resurgent Covid-19
pandemic.
Biden secured his win by recapturing the Midwestern states of
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — traditional Democratic
territory that Trump had flipped in 2016 with his powerful appeal
to white, working-class voters.
With Pennsylvania in the bag, Biden has now accumulated 273 out
of 538 Electoral College votes, clearing the bar of 270, thereby
making it impossible for Trump to get a second term even if he were
to win the remaining undeclared states.
October 24, 2020, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
speaks at a drive-in rally on the Bucks County Community College’s
Lower Bucks campus in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Angela WEISS /
AFP
Biden was also ahead in Arizona, Nevada and in a near dead heat
in Georgia — a southern state that has not voted for a Democratic
presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1992 and is now headed
for a recount.
Results from congressional races indicate that Biden will face a
divided legislature, with his Democrats holding a majority in the
House and Republicans clinging to control of the Senate — although
that could still shift.
The division in Washington will likely complicate immediately
Biden’s ability to govern, starting with disputes in Congress over
a delayed economic stimulus package for Americans hammered by the
fallout from the coronavirus crisis.
AFP
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