Kamala Harris makes history. As the next vice president, Harris will become the first woman, first Black American and first Asian American to win the second highest U.S. office reut.rs/3eBsRqd#Election2020results 1/4
A U.S. senator from California, Harris has a track record of shattering glass ceilings. She served as San Francisco’s first female district attorney and was California’s first woman of color to be elected attorney general 2/4
Her background in criminal justice could help a Biden administration tackle the issues of racial equality and policing after the country was swept by protests this year. She is expected to be a top adviser on judicial nominations 3/4
Harris, whose mother and father immigrated from India and Jamaica, respectively, had her sights set on becoming the first woman U.S. president when she competed against Biden and others for their party’s 2020 nomination. More: reut.rs/3eBsRqd#Election2020results 4/4
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The U.S. has a long history of peaceful transfers of power that is likely to continue despite Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of the #Election2020 result, national security experts say. Here is what to expect in the weeks and months to come: reut.rs/3peuM9l 1/7
Does Trump face a deadline to leave office?
Yes. The presidential election is not formally over. Electors - party loyalists who typically pledge to support the candidate who gets the most votes in their state - will convene on December 14 to formally cast their votes 2/7
The newly seated Congress accepts the results from the Electoral College on Jan. 6. If Biden wins the Electoral College vote as expected, he will be sworn in at noon on January 20 — a date set in the Constitution 3/7
Joe Biden emerged the victor over Donald Trump in a tight election that was not decided until days after the polls closed on Tuesday. Here are🔟numbers that help explain a historic U.S. election reut.rs/2JFGI3o 👇 1/11
The coronavirus crisis made voting by mail the go-to option for some 65 million Americans, close to half of those who voted. The mail-in ballot surge, tracked by the U.S. Elections Project, also overwhelmed election workers in many states, keeping the world on edge for days 2/11
From the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, Biden won more votes than Trump in suburbs and other areas that skew toward affluence. Turnout in suburban counties was on track to rise about 18% as college-educated voters repudiated Trump. Turnout rose less in largely rural counties 3/11
Pfizer and BioNTech say their COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective reut.rs/3eDWrvv
Futures tracking the S&P 500 hit a record high after Pfizer said its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data from a large study reut.rs/38rzA4X
Expert Views: Pfizer and BioNTech are the first drugmakers to show successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine. Here are reactions to the news reut.rs/3pfu3Vs
Joe Biden has been a fixture in U.S. politics for a half century as a senator and vice president. He has now completed a long climb to the political summit by defeating President Donald Trump reut.rs/2U2poHI 1/6
Some of the United States’ biggest and closest allies quickly congratulated Joe Biden on Saturday, recognizing his presidential election victory even though Donald Trump, with whom several have had rocky relations, had yet to concede reut.rs/2IfY1Yr 2/6
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he looked forward to tackling 'the world’s greatest challenges' with the new administration, including climate change, an issue with which many nations have argued over with Trump
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Biden has a lead of 0.2 percentage points as of 4 p.m. ET, with 96% of the estimated vote counted.
Ballots are still being counted from Philadelphia and Allegheny county. Today is the last day that Pennsylvania can accept mail-in ballots postmarked on or before #ElectionDay
Biden is leading by 4,263 votes as of 5 p.m. ET, with 99% of votes counted, according to Edison Research. Trump needs both Pennsylvania and Georgia to win.
Brad Raffensperger said he expects the margin to be just a few thousand votes, which would trigger an automatic recount.