Joe Biden Defeats Trump in US Election
Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States.
While ballots are still being counted in some states, Biden has secured the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the election and is on track to win the national popular vote by more than 4 million votes.
Biden's victory comes after three days of uncertainty as election officials dealt with a large number of mail-in votes, which slowed down the count. A record 103 million voted early this year, choosing to avoid waiting in long lines on polling day during a pandemic.
Biden said that he wants "to make America respected around the world again and to unite us here at home."
Kamala Harris became the first Black woman to be elected as vice president. The California senator, who is also the first person from a South Asian family elected as vice president, will become the highest-ranking woman ever in the US government.
Harris introduced Biden at their victory celebration as "a president for all Americans."
Trump is the first incumbent president to lose reelection since Republican George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Meanwhile, Trump has refused to concede defeat and has said he will take legal action against the count.
Trump has pointed to delays in counting votes in some states to say, with no evidence, that there was fraud going on. Trump also claimed that Republican observers were not allowed to see the counting as it happened. CNN reports that both claims are completely false.
Before the results were announced, Trump also posted on Twitter in all-caps, "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!" Twitter marked the tweet as misleading.
