Joe Biden wins US presidential election
Joe Biden has won the race to become the 46th President of the United States, defeating Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday’s election.
The BBC projects that Mr Biden has won the key battleground of Pennsylvania, propelling him over the 270 electoral college vote threshold required to clinch the White House.
The Trump campaign has indicated their candidate does not plan to concede.
The result makes Mr Trump the first one-term president since the 1990s.
The BBC’s projection of Mr Biden’s victory is based on the unofficial results from states that have already finished counting their votes, and the expected results from states like Wisconsin where the count is continuing.
The election has seen the highest turnout since 1900. Mr Biden has won more than 73 million votes so far, the most ever for a US presidential candidate. Mr Trump has drawn almost 70 million, the second-highest tally in history.
President Trump had falsely declared himself the winner of the election when vote counting was unfinished. He has since alleged irregularities in counting, but has not presented any evidence of election fraud.
His campaign has filed a barrage of lawsuits in various states and earlier on Friday, as Mr Biden appeared on the cusp of victory, said: “This election is not over.”
The election was fought as coronavirus cases and deaths continued to rise across the United States, with President Trump arguing a Biden presidency would result in lockdowns and economic gloom. Joe Biden accused the president of failing to impose sufficient measures to control the spread of Covid-19.
Joe Biden is now set to return to the White House, where he served for eight years as President Barack Obama’s deputy. At the age of 78, he will be the oldest president in American history, a record previously held by the man he has now defeated, Donald Trump, who is 74.
(Source: BBC)
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Mix fortunes for Sri Lanka.
First of all a decent man who respect the law and working together and not lying few time a day and make fight one half of the country against the other to achieve his naked ambition to stay in power, going to hold US presidency from 21st January. So, it is good news for the US and the good of the world.
Secondly, because of the tendency of the democratic party to accept funds and act on the information provided by the LTTE rump living in the US and elsewhere without finding and analysing for the truth, it is bad news for Sri Lanka and other smaller countries if Biden administration going to continue in the same vein Clinton administration did. On the good side, Biden is not going to be the enemy of China. So, he want be sending a secretary of state to bully Sri Lankan government behind the curtain to stop out thousands of years old friendship with China to stop.
I understand your concerns Indra,
A Biden-Harris leadership in the US will propel a Woman with close links to Tamil Nadu, to the second most powerful chair in the World.
The so-called LTT Rump will directly influence US Policy.
Not yet,
The Supreme Court will shortly decide the winner.
The World will be spared of Sleepy Joe and his brown GF.
People in this forum, be aware a xenophobic piece of SH_T is among us posting here vomit. Does not worth responding. As a person who frequent Onlanka website, I have noticed a lot of others have already done so.
The media, including print and social media, do not get to determine who the President is. The people of the United States of America do. When all lawful votes have been counted, recounts finished, and allegations of fraud addressed, the World will know who the next US President is.