االنتخابات الرئاسية األمريكية 2020.

United States Presidential Election 2020.

BIDEN, Joe, 1942-; TRUMP, Donald, 1946-

On Saturday, Democratic nominee Joe Biden was named Presidentelect of the United States after securing 270 Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election. Biden, the former vice president, and his running mate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, are slated to take office on January 20th, 2021. Biden was victorious in his campaign for the White House on the third attempt, having previously run for president in 1988 and 2008. His last stint in public office was as President Barack Obama's vice president from 2008-2016 and served before that as a U.S. Senator from Delaware. Biden officially surpassed the 270 Electoral College votes needed on Saturday following several days of continuing vote tabulations when he was projected to be the winner in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania. Analysts had anticipated that an outcome in the presidential race might not be known on Election Day itself, considering a large number of mail-in ballots this year because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Overall, the 2020 election had the highest voter turnout in over a century, with both candidates getting over 70 million votes. President-elect Biden has secured over 80,100,000, with President Trump winning over 73,900,000. In the all-important Electoral College, Biden successfully rebuilt the "blue wall," a coalition of swing states including Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, that have previously been key to catapulting Democratic candidates to the White House. Biden was also able to re-take battleground states that President Trump won in 2016, such as Arizona and Georgia. For his part, President Trump won both Florida and Ohio, two states that his campaign had identified as being key to potentially winning re-election. Despite President-elect Biden reaching and significantly surpassing 270 Electoral College votes, President Trump indicated that he would not concede defeat without a legal fight. The president has baselessly claimed that voter fraud is rampant in mail-in and absentee ballots and has vowed to challenge the race outcome in several states, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Nevada. These legal challenges will play no role in altering the race's outcome, although it is within the president's right to request an investigation. Legal challenges and recounts over vote counts are not unheard of. However, President-elect Biden's advantage in the contested states is in the tens of thousands, and historically– even at best– recounts only affect the margin by a few hundred votes, if any. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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