Joe Bided Elected as 46th President of the United States

After a grueling election season - and an even tougher election week - Joe Biden is set to be elected as the 46th President of the United States. Source.

If you’ve tuned into any of the major news networks in the past three days, you know it’s been a whirlwind of hypothetical after hypothetical trying to piece together who will win the presidency. Finally, over 72 hours after Election Night, former Vice President Joe Biden has been declared the projected winner. 

After Michigan and Wisconsin flipped blue on the electoral map owing to late-counted absentee ballots, the final step to securing his place as America’s 46th President became clearer than ever. Biden needed only one more 2016 Republican state to flip. That state was Pennsylvania. Now that it has, he has amassed enough Electoral College votes to meet and surpass the 270 vote majority threshold. 

So what are we still waiting on? 

Results in Arizona are expected to be released later tonight. Nearly half a million votes have yet to be counted — of which Trump would need to secure about 55% to win compared to Biden’s 41%. Regardless, The Grand Canyon State and its 11 electoral votes won’t be able to make enough of a difference for Trump. He would have needed Pennsylvania for that. Georgia, too. 

But as it stands currently, Georgia is highly likely to cast its electors for the Democrat for the first time since 1992. The state has reported 99% of the vote, and so far, Trump and Biden have been going neck and neck. As the final ballots are being processed, results show Biden up by less than 2,000 votes. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed yesterday that the state will issue a recount because of the extremely slim margin. However, if the results in Pennsylvania hold, the Georgia recount will not matter to the electoral college majority.

At nearly 1am on Election Night, Biden held a press conference to address the issue.  “Power can’t be taken or asserted,” he said. “It flows from the people. And it’s their will that determines who will be the President of the United States, and their will alone.”

For months, Trump has demanded that no votes be counted beyond Election Day. Nearly an hour and a half after Biden’s election night press conference, Trump made his own television appearance, during which he prematurely informed his followers that “frankly, we did win this election.” The Trump campaign will almost certainly levy legal action in key battleground states to contest the results. The final and perhaps most nerve wracking wait for the American people is to see whether any legal challenges pass and rekindle the political fire that has been raging since Tuesday night.