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By IANS 
17h ago
New York – The moment has met Joseph R. Biden. The networks have called the US elections for Biden.
After four full days of patiently waiting for the slow march of the vote count to resolve, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph R Biden, 77, achieved one of the great political changes in America by defeating Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. elections and is now effectively the country’s president-elect.
Exactly 160 years ago around this time, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
However, the current occupant of the White House continues to project a defiant public stance. Insiders at the White House, while deflated, have been sending signals that Trump has no plans to budge until the last fight is over. Five states have yet to report final results.
For Biden, today’s victory crowns a more than three-decade quest for the grand prize. During that time, he has carried the weight of many personal pains on his winding path to the highest office in America.
Biden’s victory comes amid highly unusual terrain for a presidential election. From coast to coast, vote-by-mail ballots led to Biden and his vice president electing Kamala Harris in an election transformed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden’s breakthrough came around 9 a.m. Friday EST when he took the lead in Pennsylvania and initially outscored Trump by about 5,000 votes. Since then, that advantage is only growing as votes continue to be counted.
Interestingly, this is the state where, in the week before Election Day, Trump told voters he wanted to “get out of here.” That was an indirect reference to the circumstances that forced Trump to campaign in places where he won comfortably in 2016, but the irony is not lost in the context of a Biden victory here.
Biden is a stark contrast to Trump, both personally and politically. The past three days in particular have shown Americans glimpses of that same difference.
Biden spent every day since November 3 trying to ease tensions and delivering his messages with little sign of anxiety. The disciplined nature of the campaign extends to plans for the lame duck phase of the Trump presidency. Two days before final results came in, Biden’s campaign unveiled its transition website, underscoring its quiet confidence in what was to come.
“I ask everyone to stay calm. The process is working,” Biden has said repeatedly. “It is the will of the voters. No one, no one else, elects the president of the United States of America.”
Biden’s campaign believes it has crossed the Pennsylvania challenge and is “lighthearted,” according to reporters on the ground in Delaware, Biden’s headquarters. He currently leads there by 30,000 votes.
Millions of votes remain to be counted, but even before we have the final recount, Biden already has 73 million votes nationally, the most in American political history.
Trump is furious, remains defiant, and continues to allege “fraud” in Pennsylvania and other battlefields. His children have played a role in the overall collapse of the White House, in terms that generally occupy the wide arc between “legal” and “illegal.”
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