Joe Biden Declared As the 46th President of the United States

Following the announcement that the 2020 Presidential Election has been called for Joe Biden by most major news networks at 11:25 a.m. ET on Nov. 7, 2020, I would like to follow up with some quick analysis about the race. All major news networks have now called the race, with President-Elect Joe Biden winning 279 or 290 electoral votes currently.

Joe Biden has now been declared the 46th President of the United States, in his third bid for the highest office of the United States and being one of only a handful of challengers to unseat a sitting president after just one term.

Kamala Harris becomes the 49th Vice President of the United States, being the first woman, first woman of color, first Black, first African-American, and first Asian-American to hold this position, and will make history by being the highest-ranked female officer in the country.

Newshacker Blog generally follows race calls from the Associated Press, and the Electoral College map now looks as follows.

The call for Biden can be made after the President-Elect was declared the victor in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, just after he passed the 0.5 percent margin of victory to avoid a recount. He currently sits at a 0.55 percent, or 37,298 vote lead, with 98 percent of the estimated vote count being reported.

The battleground state of Nevada has also been called at about 3:30 a.m. ET, with all major news networks calling the state for the President-Elect. Biden leads by 2.2 percent, or 27,350 votes, with 95 percent of the vote being reported. The President-Elect was expected to win this state after Hillary Clinton carried the state in an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2016. The heavily-Democratic Clark County (Las Vegas) is still counting up votes as this post is being written.

Though the President-Elect’s winning margin has narrowed in the battleground state of Arizona, the Associated Press has already called the race, and we are not expecting Donald Trump to be able to flip the state. 97 percent of the vote has been reported already.

This puts President-Elect Joe Biden at a comfortable 290 called electoral votes, while Donald Trump sits at 214.

Georgia has still not been called for either candidate, but an automatic recount is underway. The President-Elect leads by just 0.18 percent, or 9,160 votes, in this key battleground state with 98 percent of the vote being reported. We are expecting Georgia to go to the President-Elect, but the race is currently too close to call.

Not much has changed in North Carolina, but the President-Elect has caught up slightly as some more votes are being counted. Donald Trump leads by just 74,000 votes or 1.4 percent, so the race is not a done deal. Do not expect an N.C. race call until at least next week, as the state is still accepting mail ballots until Nov. 12. An analysis has described that up to 166,000 votes could still be counted in N.C., so we will likely be waiting for a while.

Again, with Alaska not even touching mail ballots until Nov. 10, we will be waiting a while for Alaska to be called. Currently, 56 percent of the vote has been reported, with Donald Trump leading with 108,231 votes over the President-Elect’s 56,849 votes. With at least 122,000 absentee ballots not having been counted yet, the President-Elect is an underdog here, but not impossible for him to win.

There have been no updates with regard to the Senate since yesterday’s update.

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