Four days after a (much closer than predicted) election, American networks have called the race for Joe Biden, who has secured more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the race.
CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News (and now the BBC) project Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States, as vote counting in Pennsylvania gave the Vice President a big enough lead for them to say with confidence he had won. The additional 20 electoral votes from the swing state bring Biden to a total of 273. Based on current projections, Biden only needed one of the outstanding states (including Georgia or Nevada) to cross the finish line.
In addition to the networks, Joe Biden is now also declaring victory. Very cautious of his language over the past few days (saying he felt confident he was ‘going to win’ the race, rather than asserting he had won), Biden sent out a tweet minutes after the networks started announcing his win, thanking the American people for choosing him as their leader for the next four years.
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