🚨 Breaking News: Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been elected the 46th president of the United States 
The Democrat has claimed victory, with 273 electoral votes, after three days of suspense
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Joe Biden took the key state of Pennsylvania and with leads extending in Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, he has now secured 273 electoral college votes - passing the winner-takes-all majority of 270
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million ballots
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The former vice-president won Pennsylvania by 34,458 votes and Nevada by 25,068
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With 20 electoral college votes, Pennsylvania is the largest of the final states to declare this election. Donald Trump could not win without it
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How the election night played out:
When states declared by electoral college votes (all times GMT)
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When states declared by electoral college votes (all times GMT)
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In the 2016 election, 28 per cent of Hispanic men voted for Trump, but according to exit poll data that number rose to 36 per cent this year
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The final polls before election day gave Biden an 8.4 point lead - double where Hillary Clinton had been in 2016.
Currently, Biden’s lead in the popular vote stands at 2.9, a lower margin by 5.1 points from where polling had expected him to be
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Currently, Biden’s lead in the popular vote stands at 2.9, a lower margin by 5.1 points from where polling had expected him to be
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The influence of the Hispanic vote is borne out in county-level results for Florida, which was a turning point on election night when it was declared for Trump
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Trump’s vote share increased most in heavily Hispanic areas of Florida:
Vote share and difference from 2016 vote for Trump in Floridian counties, by Hispanic population
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Vote share and difference from 2016 vote for Trump in Floridian counties, by Hispanic population
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In Michigan, Democratic success pivoted on a few key urban counties, with Biden securing more support within higher educated areas than his predecessor had four years earlier
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Biden’s vote improved at least five points in most areas of Michigan where at least 30% have college degrees
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The election remained closer than many predicted in another difficult night for pollsters and pundits
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Biden's win in pictures
🔴 Update 🔴
Joe Biden has claimed 279 electoral college votes as Nevada swings blue
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Joe Biden has claimed 279 electoral college votes as Nevada swings blue
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Mr Trump has vowed that he "will not rest" until there was an "honest vote count"
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"Mr Biden had strengths that exposed Mr Trump’s weaknesses while having downsides less easy for Mr Trump to distort and exploit," says @benrileysmith
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"Mr Biden has to translate his victory in an anti-Trump referendum into an election for an agenda that really brings people together"
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Joe Biden's granddaughter, Naomi, who is a law student, has posted a picture of the family celebrating the election result
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"Naturally empathetic, his instinct is to find out what makes other people tick, and what they need," says @PeterWestmacott
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"I pledge to be a President who seeks not to divide, but to unify. Who doesn’t see Red and Blue states, but a United States"
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"A senator for 36 years and a vice-president for eight, he has the experience and authority that Mr Trump lacks," writes @benrileysmith
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Bernie Sanders, the former Democratic presidential candidate, is reportedly angling for the role of Labor Secretary
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Donald Trump's niece, Mary, celebrated the election result by wearing a Biden-Harris baseball cap and raising a glass of champagne
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"Frankly, people in some of the most important decision-making positions in the party — are becoming so blinded to this anti-activist sentiment that they are blinding themselves to the very assets that they offer"
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President-elect Joe Biden spent his Sunday with his family at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington
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Revellers sat on car roofs to toast victory and danced to George Michael's Freedom
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“We are determined to achieve at least ten percent of what she has and work hard in our passion to become a junior Kamala Harris”
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CNN reports that First Lady Melania Trump has joined the growing list of advisers urging President Trump to concede the election
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First day priorities will include restoring the rights of government workers to unionise and establishing a new team of advisers to fight Covid-19
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“When she came here from India at the age of 19, she maybe didn’t quite imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible. So I’m thinking about her”
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Shortly after he was elected to the Senate in 1972, Joe Biden's wife Neilia and daughter Naomi were killed in a road collision
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