Joe Biden declared presidential election winner
JAKE CACCAVARO | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 years, 10 months AGO
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After a nearly week-long counting of the votes in a number of battleground states all over the country, Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America.
According to Fox News, the Associated Press, ABC News and other national media outlets across the country, President-elect Biden was declared the presumptive winner around 9 a.m. PST after surpassing the mandatory recount margin in Pennsylvania, earning Biden 20 electoral votes and vaulting him over the threshold of 270 votes needed to become president.
President Donald Trump is the first incumbent president to lose reelection in nearly 30 years, since Republican George H. W. Bush lost re-election in 1992, and the first-ever United States President to lose the popular vote twice.
As of this writing, President Trump has yet to concede the election, citing a number of lawsuits he has filed in various states across the country. However, it is unlikely any of those lawsuits will reverse the results of the election, as some of the Trump campaign’s lawsuits have already been dismissed by the courts in Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Joe Biden currently sits at 290 electoral votes to President Trump’s 214 with Alaska, Georgia and North Carolina yet to be called. Biden is currently in the lead in Georgia, with President Trump maintaining a healthy lead in Alaska and North Carolina.
On the state level, Idaho reelected Republican Senator Jim Risch and Republican Congressman Russ Fulcher, and overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, awarding him four electoral votes.
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