Live Updates: Biden wins race to White House after securing victory in Pennsylvania
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware.
Trump Biden Election Results Live Updates: After four years in the White House, Mr. Trump became the first incumbent to lose re-election in more than a quarter-century.
The election result fulfills Mr. Biden's decades-long ambition in his third bid for the presidency. It also provides a history-making moment for Senator Kamala Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, who became the first woman on a winning presidential ticket.
Joe Biden won 74,478,345 votes aganist Donald Trump who secured 70,329,970 votes by the time Biden won Pennsylvania.
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Joe Biden was spending the morning with his family at his home in Delaware when he saw the news that he was projected the winner of his native Pennsylvania and will be the 46th president of the United States.
He will address the nation tonight.
US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Trump is leading in Alaska and North Carolina
Incumbent US President Donald Trump is currently leading in the states of Alaska and North Carolina, while his rival Joe Biden is likely to emerge victorious Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Donald Trump had won Alaska by a margin of 14.7 points in the year 2016. This year, in Alaska, which accounts for three electoral votes, Trump is leading by 62.1 percent votes to 33.5 percent, as per AP figures. So far, around 50 percent of the expected votes have been counted in Alaska, which makes it the slowest in all of US.
US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Biden vs Trump: Electoral votes up for grabs in battleground states
Arizona: 11
Nevada: 6
Georgia: 16
North Carolina: 15
Pennsylvania: 20
Biden is currently at 253, against Trump’s 214. Trump is also leading in Alaska (three electoral votes)
US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Trump, GOP test out rallying cry: Count the 'legal' votes
President Trump and some of his Republican supporters are testing out a rallying cry for his uphill fight to reverse the lead that Biden holds in key battleground states: count all “legal” votes.
The language is freighted with a clear implication, namely that Democrats want illegal votes counted, a claim for which there is no evidence. (Input from The Associated Press)
Federal District Court Judge Andrew Gordon, an Obama appointee in Nevada, has denied a Trump campaign-backed request to force Clark County to stop using a signature verification system to help process mail ballots.
US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Biden vs Trump: Margin in battleground states
Georgia: Biden leads by 4,430
Nevada: Biden leads by 22,657
Pennsylvania: Biden leads by 28,833
Arizona: Biden leads by 29,861
North Carolina: Trump leads by 76,515
Counting is still on in all of these states (as of 12.30 pm IST).
Team Biden has begin work
As officials continue to count ballots in several undecided states, longtime Biden aide Ted Kaufman is leading efforts to ensure the former vice president can begin building out a government in anticipation of a victory. Kaufman is a former senator from Delaware who was appointed to fill the seat vacated when Biden was elected vice president. He also worked on Barack Obama's transition team in 2008, and helped write legislation formalizing the presidential transition process.
Biden took the stage at Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, for a late-night address Friday to the nation. He declared "look at the national numbers: We're going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us."
Arizona has an estimated 250,000 to 270,000 unaccounted ballots left to count, according to Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.
There are still approximately 35,000 outstanding mail-in ballots in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, but results could start coming in today.
"Some of those were postmarked before Election Day, some were postmarked on Election Day. They're arriving and they didn't start counting until after Election Day,"