Biden Won Electoral Battle, Most Sources Say

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November 15, 2020

Final tallies are still to be set for most of the states and territories in which votes were cast for the 2020 presidential and congressional elections. As of November 15, most political and media authorities in the U.S. have settled on a victory in the presidential race for Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate and former Vice-president. The incumbent, President Donald Trump, is not conceding the race and has filed lawsuits in several states, seeking to prove allegations of voting irregularities.

The deadline for all states to certify their voting results is the end of November. The Electoral College will meet on December 14, and it is expected that on that day, Biden will formally be declared the 46th President of the United States.

According to projections, Biden and Trump won the popular vote total in 25 states each. The states won by each candidate mirrored closely those won in 2016 by Trump and Hillary Clinton. In 2020, Biden won a large handful of states that Trump had won four years before: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. (Full results)

2020 electoral map

Republicans have won 50 seats in the Senate. They went into the elections holding a 53–47 advantage over the Democrats. As a result of the Nov. 3 elections, Democrats have claimed 48 seats. The two open seats are in Georgia. In both of those cases, no candidate received a majority; Georgia law requires a runoff between the top two vote-getters, and so those two runoffs will take place on Jan. 5, 2021.

The Democratic Party has maintained its majority in the House, albeit by a smaller margin. The pre-election spread was 235–199. Projections are that the Democrats control 219 seats and that Republicans control 204, with two seats remaining undetermined.

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