Joe Biden Defeats Trump To Emerge As 46th President Of United States

Joe Biden has been declared and elected into office as the 46th President of the United States.

The 77 year-old Democratic candidate won the decisive battleground state of Pennsylvania on Saturday.

He clinched 273 electoral college votes, three more than he needed to win the presidency.

He has made history as the oldest American to ever be elected President alongside his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, an African Asian American, who has become the first woman of colour to be elected as vice-president.

In the aspect of defeating President Donald Trump, the fourth candidate to defeat an incumbent, Biden is positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.

As AP reported, Biden staked his candidacy less on any distinctive political ideology than on galvanizing a broad coalition of voters around the notion that Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy.

The strategy proved effective, resulting in pivotal victories in Michigan and Wisconsin as well as Pennsylvania, onetime Democratic bastions that had flipped to Trump in 2016.

Biden, who has received more than a record 74 million votes, the most in history, had previously declared:

“I will govern as an American president. There will be no red states and blue states when we win. Just the United States of America.”

It was a stark contrast to Trump, who up till Saturday was still trying to discredit the US democracy, by alleging vote counting fraud. Follow us on Instagram @sofovilla | Follow us on Twitter @sofovilla | Like our page on Facebook via @sofovillamedia