WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - NOVEMBER 06: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addresses the nation at the Chase Center November 06, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. The winner of the 2020 presidential election has yet to be declared, as vote counting continues in the key states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, and North Carolina. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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It’s Official: Biden triumphs over Trump

November 7, 2020
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Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in the state where he was born put him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win.

With Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, Biden now has a total of 273 electoral votes.

Before becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Biden served as vice president under former President Barack Obama. He is also Delaware’s longest-serving senator.

Throughout his campaign, Biden has argued that the “soul of the nation” is at stake, and has promised that he would seek to heal a country fractured by Trump’s presidency.

After days of waiting, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer called the presidential race for Joe Biden at 11:24 a.m. ET.

“After four long tense days, we’ve reached a historic moment in this election. We can now project the winner of the presidential race. CNN projects Joseph R. Biden Jr. is elected the 46th president of the United States, winning the White House and denying President Trump a second term,” Blitzer said. “We’re able to make this projection because CNN projects Biden wins Pennsylvania.”

Blitzer added: “The former vice president, in his third run for the highest office, pulling off a rare defeat of the sitting commander in chief. With this victory, Kamala Harris is set to become the first woman and the first person of color to be the vice president. Again, CNN projects Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States. Jake, he is now president elect Joe Biden.”

Moments after networks, including CNN, called the presidential race for Joe Biden, President Trump said in a statement from his campaign that Biden is “rushing to falsely pose as the winner,” and call the race “far from over.”

The statement says the campaign’s legal battle will begin Monday:

“Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated.”

“I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands,” Trump says in the statement.

Trump is currently at his Virginia golf course.

President-elect Joe Biden has issued a statement, saying he is “honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed” in him and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

“With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,” the statement added.

Here’s the full statement:

Kamala Harris will be the country’s first female and first Black vice president

 

Kamala Harris will be the United States’ next vice president, CNN projects.

She will be the first woman to hold the office. She will also be the nation’s first Black and South Asian vice president.

Harris, who has represented California in the Senate since 2017, is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, and she grew up attending a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.

She was the first Indian-American and second Black woman to serve as a senator.

As Kamala Harris made history as the first woman of color to be Vice President, CNN’s Dana Bash commented on Black women finally seeing representation:

“The Democratic Party has been alive on the backs of — and through the hard work of — Black women for many, many years, and now, they finally see representation. And that is a huge thing,” she said. “100 years ago, this year, women got the right to vote. 55 years ago this year, Black Americans were told that it could be easier for them to vote with the Voting Rights Act. That was after so much bloodshed, so much protests, and now, after all of that time, a Black woman has made history. “

CNN’s Abby Phillip commented on what this moment represents to millions in this country:

“Her path to this moment, I think, is fairly unconventional. She was one of the first major candidates to drop out of the Democratic field, but was someone who, I think, in the Party believed always had so much promise,” she said. “One of the roles that she will play for Joe Biden is helping him bridge that gap between the Joe Biden who has been in Washington for decades and decades, the old guard, the 70 something-year-old White man, with the younger part of the party that is clambering to be heard. They feel like their futures are on the line, especially after the last four years. And I think a lot of them are looking to Kamala Harris to give voice to that.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper added:

“The son of Scranton and the daughter of immigrants are headed to the white house. It is a sign of what can happen in this country. You can become anything you want to be.”

Harris: “We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started.”

Kamala Harris, who will be the nation’s first Black and South Asian vice president, and first woman to hold that office, reacted on Twitter to their projected win.

“This election is about so much more than @JoeBiden or me. It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it,” Harris tweeted alongside a video.

“We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started,” she added.

See her tweet:

These are the Presidents who have lost reelection

President Trump’s reelection defeat makes him the 11th sitting president in US history to lose the White House in a general election campaign.

Ten of those were outright reelection bids. Gerald Ford, who ascended to the presidency following Richard Nixon’s resignation, also lost his campaign to remain president in 1976.

The last president to lose a reelection bid was George H.W. Bush in 1992.

Grover Cleveland lost his reelection campaign in 1888 but won back the White House four years later by defeating sitting President Benjamin Harrison. He is the only president to have served two nonconsecutive terms.

This list does not include sitting presidents who did not receive their party’s nomination for the next general election.

10 elected presidents lost their reelection campaigns:

  • John Adams (1797-1801; lost to Thomas Jefferson in 1800)
  • John Quincy Adams (1825-1829; lost to Andrew Jackson in 1828)
  • Martin Van Buren (1837-1841; lost to William Henry Harrison in 1840)
  • Grover Cleveland* (1885-1889; lost to Benjamin Harrison in 1888)
  • Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893; lost to Grover Cleveland in 1892)
  • William H. Taft (1909-1913; lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1912)
  • Herbert Hoover (1929-1933; lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932)
  • Jimmy Carter (1977-1981; lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980)
  • George H.W. Bush (1989-1993; lost to Bill Clinton in 1992)
  • Donald Trump (2016-present; lost to Joe Biden in 2020)

1 non-elected president lost in the following general election:

  • Gerald R. Ford** (1974-1977; lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976)

*Cleveland later won a second, nonconsecutive term

**Ford was not elected vice president or president

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Ford previously served as the 40th vice president of the United States from December 1973 to August 1974. Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College.

Biden will move to unify the country in his speech tonight

Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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, an official tells CNN.

A line from Biden’s speech last night will be a theme of his remarks: “Never forget: the tallies aren’t just numbers. They represent votes and voters, men and women who exercise the fundamental right to have their voice heard.”

Dana Bash: Biden “made a comeback just this year like we’ve never seen”

After CNN projected Joe Biden to win the presidency, Dana Bash said the “conventional” Biden path has been “so unconventional.”

“He’s the most conventional of politicians, but in this election cycle his path has been so unconventional. Remember, he beat out the biggest, most diverse field in the Democratic primary and he is an older white man who did that,” Bash said.

“He lost Iowa, he lost new Hampshire, and it was Democratic Black voters who saved him and propelled him to this point,” Bash added.

Bash noted that Biden’s promise to “heal” the United States will be an uphill battle.

“He made a comeback just this year like we’ve never seen. And also remember, Joe Biden is defined by his personal loss. His calling card is knowing how to heal himself and what he ran on and what he says he’s going to do is try to heal this nation. Now he’s got to turn his attention to that and, can you imagine a more arduous task?”

Hillary Clinton calls Biden’s election “a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Joe Biden for his presidential victory on Twitter today.

“The voters have spoken, and they have chosen @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris to be our next president and vice president,” Clinton tweeted. “It’s a history-making ticket, a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America. Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Onward, together.”

Read the tweet:

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