The Associated Press and other major networks including Fox and CNN have called the United States presidential race for Joe Biden, who has reached 284 electoral votes. Sen. Kamala Harris will become the first female vice president in U.S. history.
Biden won the 2020 presidential election, the Associated Press projected Saturday, sending President Trump to a bitter defeat four years after he shocked the world by winning the White House with a victory over Hillary Clinton.
Biden crossed the 270-vote threshold in the Electoral College on Saturday after the AP called Pennsylvania for him. He was also able to capture Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona, states that Trump carried in 2016.
Other states remain too close to call, and the Trump campaign has filed multiple lawsuits to contest the legitimacy of certain ballots. The fate of those challenges was obscured Thursday, after Biden was projected to have won the Electoral College.
Biden now holds the record for the most number of votes cast for any presidential candidate in history — more than 73 million — shattering the previous mark (69,500,000) set by Barack Obama in 2008. He leads Trump by nearly 4 million votes nationwide.
The latest on key races:
• Pennsylvania: The AP called the state for Biden at 11:25 a.m. ET, allowing him to cross the 270 threshold needed to win.
• Arizona: Biden leads Trump by about 20,000 votes as of Saturday morning. The AP called Arizona for Biden around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Fox News had also called the state for Biden, angering the president’s campaign, which expressed confidence it can still win.
• Nevada: At 12:15 p.m. ET, the AP called the Silver State for Joe Biden.
• Georgia: Biden took the lead in the Peach State early Friday and leads Trump by about 7,000 votes. The secretary of state announced that there will be a recount in Georgia as the final margin is expected to be within half a percentage point.
Electoral vote count: A candidate needs at least 270 electoral votes — a majority of the 538 electoral votes in the Electoral College — to become president of the United States. Here’s where the count stands:
Joe Biden: 290
Donald Trump: 214