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WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden won 306 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College that decides who wins the White House, against 232 for Donald Trump, US media projected on Friday.
Biden solidified his victory over Trump in the US election with a victory in the traditionally Republican-leaning Georgia, which CNN, ABC and other networks called in his favor.
Triumph – who also had 306 votes in the electoral college when he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 – claimed victory in North Carolina, as projected by CNN and NBC, putting his final tally this time at 232.
Biden has been the presumed winner of the election since victory in Pennsylvania on Saturday brought him above the 270-vote threshold.
Georgia, one of the five states that Biden changed after entering Trump’s column last time, had not been won by a Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1992.
Trump took a comfortable early lead in the state when the overwhelmingly rural vote was counted, but it ended up being the closest race in the nation when the cities of Atlanta and Savannah began tabulating the results.
Biden has currently uploaded about 14,000 votes and a manual recount is expected to be completed next week. Election audits across the state never bring the kind of change Trump would need to change the outcome.
In traditionally Republican North Carolina, a push to remove black voters from the Democrats was not enough to overcome Trump’s hugely loyal base of white men with no college education and rural voters.
Trump, who has refused to concede defeat, was due to address the public later Friday for the first time since he became the projected loser six days ago.
It was unclear whether he would answer questions or eventually address his defeat, but Trump has repeatedly referred to his 306-vote victory in 2016 as a “landslide” and a “beating.”
