Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.
His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed processing. Biden crossed the winning threshold of 270 Electoral College votes with a win in Pennsylvania.
Trump refused to concede, threatening further legal action on ballot counting.
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.
Biden, in a statement, declared it was time for the battered nation “to unite and to heal.”
“With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,” he said. “There’s nothing we can’t do if we do it together.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1325120550679662596?s=19
Biden was on track to win the national popular vote by more than 4 million, a margin that could grow as ballots continue to be counted.
Trump was not giving up.
Departing from longstanding democratic tradition and signaling a potentially turbulent transfer of power, he issued a combative statement saying his campaign would take unspecified legal actions and he would “not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1325119238089138178?s=19
Trump has pointed to delays in processing the vote in some states to allege with no evidence that there was fraud and to argue that his rival was trying to seize power — an extraordinary charge by a sitting president trying to sow doubt about a bedrock democratic process.
THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020
Kamala Harris made history as the first Black woman to become vice president, an achievement that comes as the U.S. faces a reckoning on racial justice. The California senator, who is also the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency, will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government, four years after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.
Trump is the first incumbent president to lose reelection since Republican George H.W. Bush in 1992.
He was golfing at his Virginia country club when he lost the race. He stayed out for hours, stopping to congratulate a bride as he left, and his motorcade returned to the White House to a cacophony of shouts, taunts and unfriendly hand gestures.
Trump earlier repeated his unsupported allegations of election fraud and illegal voting on Twitter. One of his tweets, quickly flagged as potentially misleading by Twitter, claimed: “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!”
In Wilmington, Delaware, near a stage that has stood empty since it was erected to celebrate on Election Night, people cheered and pumped their fists as the news that the presidential race had been called for the state’s former senator arrived on their cellphones.
On the nearby water, two men in a kayak yelled to a couple paddling by in the opposite direction, “Joe won! They called it!” as people on the shore whooped and hollered. Harris, in workout gear, was shown on video speaking to Biden on the phone, exuberantly telling the president-elect “We did it!” Biden was expected to take the stage for a drive-in rally after dark.
Across the country, there were parties and prayer. In New York City, spontaneous block parties broke out. People ran out of their buildings, banging on pots. They danced and high-fived with strangers amid honking horns. Among the loudest cheers were those for passing U.S. Postal Service trucks.
People streamed into Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House, near where Trump had ordered the clearing of protesters in June, waving signs and taking cellphone pictures. In Lansing, Michigan, Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter demonstrators filled the Capitol steps. The lyrics to “Amazing Grace” began to echo through the crowd, and Trump supporters laid their hands on a counter protester, and prayed.
Americans showed deep interest in the presidential race. A record 103 million voted early this year, opting to avoid waiting in long lines at polling locations during a pandemic. With counting continuing in some states, Biden had already received more than 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate before him.
Trump’s refusal to concede has no legal implications. But it could add to the incoming administration’s challenge of bringing the country together after a bitter election.
Throughout the campaign, Trump repeatedly refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, arguing without evidence that the election could be marred by fraud. The nation has a long history of presidential candidates peacefully accepting the outcome of elections, dating back to 1800, when John Adams conceded to his rival Thomas Jefferson.
It was Biden’s native Pennsylvania that put him over the top, the state he invoked throughout the campaign to connect with working class voters. He also won Nevada on Saturday pushing his total to 290 Electoral College votes.
Biden received congratulations from dozens of world leaders, and his former boss, President Barack Obama, saluted him in a statement, declaring the nation was “fortunate that Joe’s got what it takes to be President and already carries himself that way.”
Republicans on Capitol Hill were giving Trump and his campaign space to consider all their legal options. It was a precarious balance for Trump’s allies as they try to be supportive of the president — and avoid risking further fallout — but face the reality of the vote count.
On Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had not yet made any public statements — either congratulating Biden or joining Trump’s complaints. But retiring GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who is close to McConnell, said, “After counting every valid vote and allowing courts to resolve disputes, it is important to respect and promptly accept the result.”
More than 236,000 Americans have died during the coronavirus pandemic, nearly 10 million have been infected and millions of jobs have been lost. The final days of the campaign played out against a surge in confirmed cases in nearly every state, including battlegrounds such as Wisconsin that swung to Biden.
The pandemic will soon be Biden’s to tame, and he campaigned pledging a big government response, akin to what Franklin D. Roosevelt oversaw with the New Deal during the Depression of the 1930s. But Senate Republicans fought back several Democratic challengers and looked to retain a fragile majority that could serve as a check on such Biden ambition.
The 2020 campaign was a referendum on Trump’s handling of the pandemic, which has shuttered schools across the nation, disrupted businesses and raised questions about the feasibility of family gatherings heading into the holidays.
The fast spread of the coronavirus transformed political rallies from standard campaign fare to gatherings that were potential public health emergencies. It also contributed to an unprecedented shift to voting early and by mail and prompted Biden to dramatically scale back his travel and events to comply with restrictions. The president defied calls for caution and ultimately contracted the disease himself.
Trump was saddled throughout the year by negative assessments from the public of his handling of the pandemic. There was another COVID-19 outbreak in the White House this week, which sickened his chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Biden also drew a sharp contrast to Trump through a summer of unrest over the police killings of Black Americans including Breonna Taylor in Kentucky and George Floyd in Minneapolis. Their deaths sparked the largest racial protest movement since the civil rights era. Biden responded by acknowledging the racism that pervades American life, while Trump emphasized his support of police and pivoted to a “law and order” message that resonated with his largely white base.
The third president to be impeached, though acquitted in the Senate, Trump will leave office having left an indelible imprint in a tenure defined by the shattering of White House norms and a day-to-day whirlwind of turnover, partisan divide and Twitter blasts.
Trump’s team has filed a smattering of lawsuits in battleground states, some of which were immediately rebuffed by judges. His personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was holding a news conference in Philadelphia threatening more legal action when the race was called.
Biden, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and raised in Delaware, was one of the youngest candidates ever elected to the Senate. Before he took office, his wife and daughter were killed, and his two sons badly injured in a 1972 car crash.
Commuting every night on a train from Washington back to Wilmington, Biden fashioned an everyman political persona to go along with powerful Senate positions, including chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees. Some aspects of his record drew critical scrutiny from fellow Democrats, including his support for the 1994 crime bill, his vote for the 2003 Iraq War and his management of the Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court hearings.
Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign was done in by plagiarism allegations, and his next bid in 2008 ended quietly. But later that year, he was tapped to be Barack Obama’s running mate and he became an influential vice president, steering the administration’s outreach to both Capitol Hill and Iraq.
While his reputation was burnished by his time in office and his deep friendship with Obama, Biden stood aside for Clinton and opted not to run in 2016 after his adult son Beau died of brain cancer the year before.
Trump’s tenure pushed Biden to make one more run as he declared that “the very soul of the nation is at stake.”
(AP)
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Gam zu letovah!
I really feel bad for anyone in the vicinity of @Mosheingolus right now.
What a shameless, slanted, and misleading article!!
Rigged. All we have left is Hashem and each other..
JOE BIDEN ELECTED Filthy Dirty Lie!!! שקר מוחלט
Democrat Cohorts STOLE the election. This includes Wisconsin with 3.2 Ballots from 3.1M voters, and Pennsylvania which did not allow observers to witness the counting in contempt of court.
Trump should concede as soon as Hillary does.
How much longer before extremely left wing Kamala Harris becomes president! We knew it and we voted for her.
We’re definitely going to lose the Supreme Court. We will not recognize the America of 2020 in 2024.
Our President, Donald J. Trump, needs our support in this fierce battle against the Democrat-media-tech-Globalist monopolist monster. Constituents of all of the Republicans must demand that they stand fully behind President Trump in this.
Trump needs lawyers far more capable than Rudy Guiliani to represent him in his upcoming trials civil and criminal since his immunity from ends on January 20th at noon.
Another disappointing headline from YWN. Why not just write “projected winner”? If AP journalistic standards are dropping, do you have to drop with them????
Why is YWN parroting all these tendentious headlines and articles prematurely declaring Biden (read Harris and the senile puppet’s other handlers) the winner? Contrary to the NY Times’ infamous tweet on election night, no media outlet has the authority to declare the winner of a Presidential election.
This is NOT OVER! President Trump and his voters will fight!
Khazak, Khazak v’ya’ametz!
This is what can happen when you bring so much in the way of substance and policy to the table but speak like a lunatic. This, in addition to the fraud that surely took place, as the president asserts.
The danger is not so much Biden. The danger is in what the Democrats as a whole have up their nafarious sleeve in the guise of Harris and her ilk.
Perhaps, the lawsuits that are pending can change things but that will need a lot of siyatta diShmaya and teshuvah.
B”H!!!
> “Departing from longstanding democratic tradition and signaling a potentially turbulent transfer of power”
So this article is trying to imply that the transition from Obama to Trump was not “turbulent” (and what about the “chads” court case during the Bush election)? Are they really going to stonewall with that argument? Perhaps that argument should indicate to any rational reader as to which side is telling the truth and which side cheated their way to votes.
WHY IS YWN PUBLISHING THIS AP GIBBERISH?
So much for the Torah code guy.
I feel real bad for YWN for writing so much about something so premature. But it is no surprise because YWN has been pro-democrat for a long time, possibly during the entire Trump presidency.
I don’t feel bad for Biden. He belongs to the no-shame democrats. The no-shame democrats that invented russian collusion and impeachment and when it was disproven, just went on mocking the president like nothing ever happened. When Trump wins the lawsuits and comes through victorious in Election 2020, the democrats will denigrate the court and call Trump an illegitimate president.
But what will YWN do?
Fake news media tries to GASLIGHT America, claims Biden the winner… Trump fires back with ultimate truth: “The media doesn’t decide elections”
As part of the continued effort to gaslight America and demoralize Trump supporters, the same fake news media that ran the Russia collusion hoax for four years has now declared Joe Biden to be the president-elect, even though no states have certified their final vote reporting and numerous states have recounts and lawsuits pending. This is nothing but a desperate effort by the fake news media to gaslight America and hope Trump supporters become demoralized. Trump legal advisor Jenna Ellis replied:
Media coordinated efforts are attempting to simply declare Joe Biden the president and ignore the rule of law. There is no official winner until every legal vote is counted accurately, the states certify results, and all legal challenges are resolved.
President Trump has now issued a devastating statement:
“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.”
Newt Gingrich adds context to the insanity of the media calling the election for Biden:
“If you want to see how much the fix is in, votes are still being counted, no recounts have started, challenges are ignored, 5 states are within one percent but the media pack has declared Biden won”.
Never forget that the media cheered Al Gore as he fought the 2000 election all the way through Dec. 14th, but now with Trump, they demand he immediately concede (before all the evidence of vote fraud comes out).
Didnt clinton tell biden not to concede untill the last vote is counted? Doesn’t Trump get the same priviledge? Lets be fair
Marxist Democrats tried to steal an election in massive FRAUD. morons like Quayboardwarrior will be very disappointed wen the trust prevails. stay tuned.
Trumps lost only two states at the BALLOT BOX, NY ant Ct. He even won California in person vote. Cheats like Quayboardwarrior always rely on Mail Fraud Vote.
Trump wrote “Art Of The Deal” book.
Marxist Democrats wrote Art Of the Steal.
The American media has become the most criminal entity in the entire world. And most of the people have absolutely no clue this has happened. I can’t believe this isn’t just a bad dream that I’ll wake up from, but it’s reality, The media controls all thoughts and actions of a programmed and dumbed down society, that does whatever it’s told to do, Zombies are among us, and they are the majority…
How about everybody follow the rules established in the constitution, Trump wins !
Note To: YWN Please stop carrying the Fake News from the AP and their cohorts, this is Disgusting on your part to reprint their articles when you know that they’re part of a cabal in a coup d’état against our duly elected leader.
Misleading headline. Joe Biden was not elected president. He was declared president by news organizations that have no official role.
the fix is in, the msm has already inaugurated the senile impostor.
The media does not get to legally declare who actually won. The election is far from decided until President Trump’s lawsuits and investigation is over. Biden only “won” if the fake illegal ballots are counted. People older than Moshe Rabbienu voted in Michigan!
“I am humbled” Haven’t heard that in 4 years.
I just saw a video Van Jones (a CNN commentator) made before election day. He spoke how its possible a president should lose but still stay in power. He spoke a lot about the formality of the concession speech, but it took him until about 15:10 to finally say why this election is so different then all past elections and why Trump is not conceding. Mr. Jones says ” We got to to a better job of protecting voter rights…. and also making sure we got the technology that no one needs to be afraid of voter fraud.” Mr. Trump and his supporters feel this election was stolen from him for exactly this reason – voter fraud. Mr. Jones mentions technology. If I want to access my dept. store account I need a user ID, password and security answers. Sometimes its easier to get into my bank account. Why in the world in 2020 are we still using paper ballots. Here in NYC its done by computer that’s better then paper, but they don’t ask for any ID. I could come to a polling station say I’m Mr. Doe (if I know his address) Scribble on a tablet a signature and vote for someone else. The president warned and warned about the mail in ballots and if it wasn’t right out fraud there are enough questions to cast doubt.
another leftist garbage news outlet deciding elections
there has been enormous fraud
biden wasn’t elected to anything
and its good that trump is fighting it
YWN.
THIS IS FAKE NEWS.
Media do not decide elections, COURTS do.
As of 105 AM,
3 major developments:
1) PA update-Provisional ballots are the last votes to be counted. There are over 100k in PA alone & they are said to be cast mostly by Trump voters who initially requested mailin ballots but then voted in person after Trump advised them to vote on Nov 3 & given provisional ballot.
2)Arizona update- The math is there, given that he’s down 18K in the state with ~100K votes left in Pinal, Maricopa, and the red part of Pima. He needs 59% of remaining votes, and should nail it.
3)GA just had a massive glitch update.
(80K votes in favor of Trump).
We will not know the winner until the COURTS DECIDE.
Hashem is in charge. Not YWN
I am sorry, but your article is wrong. The Media has no right to declare a Winner. According to the Constitution, the Electoral College gets the declare a President.
Not my president.
This guy cheated.
Thats not only ignorant but insensitive to post “elected!”
He is the PROJECTED winner and there is a big difference between the two terms. Get educated
Nu, what do you expect from Giuliani, after all he’s on Trump’s payroll, I very much doubt that Giuliani believes firmly in what he says, he’s Trump’s servant
Shoin Genug, or as Biden said, IT’S A TIME TO HEAL
Lmaaseh Biden earned 57 of his electoral votes by less than 1% margin.That is a very tight race. And an amazing piece of history for analyzation.
@Mosheingolus
Don’t get your hopes up.
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Trump should take Hillary’s advice on this one. She said just several weeks ago “under no circumstances concede this election”. Ok