US Presidential Election 2020

Kamala Harris becomes the first South Asian American and Black woman to become the Vice President of the United States.

After Joe Biden’s win, Donald Trump underlined that states had not yet certified the results, and his campaign has launched multiple legal challenges.

Though Biden will officially take over in January 2021, there are still 10 million fewer jobs than in this February and the economy is about 3.5% smaller than before the crisis. Also, his Democratic Party failed to win sweeping control in the US Congress.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., 77, was finally elected Saturday as the 46th president of the United States, defeating incumbent Donald Trump in an election that played out against the backdrop of a pandemic.

Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States.

Harris has been a rising star in Democratic politics for much of the last two decades, serving as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general before becoming a US senator. After Harris ended her own 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate.

CNN, NBC News were among the television networks that called the race in his favour, minutes after projecting that he had won the key state of Pennsylvania.

US presidential election 2020: Americans have been waiting longer than any presidential election year since 2000 to learn the winner, with vote counting slowed by a record number of mail-in ballots.

This came even as Trump’s challenger Joe Biden urged unity in a brief address in his home state of Delaware, calling for an end to the “partisan warfare” that has characterised American politics in recent years.

Murthy, who at 37 was the youngest US surgeon general, is one of the two core Indian-American advisers to Joe Biden. He has been privately advising Biden on the coronavirus pandemic for months.

Harris was born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother Shyamala Gopalan, a leading cancer researcher and activist, who was born in Chennai before she moved to the US for further study.

It is the first since 2000 that Americans are waiting this long for the results of the presidential election.

This underscores Trump’s strategic imperatives as Biden closes in on securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, tactics that are rooted more in political messaging than legal precedent.

Antonio LaMotta, 61, and Joshua Macias, 42, both of Chesapeake, Virginia, were arrested on Thursday night outside the center on suspicion of carrying handguns in Pennsylvania state without permits, according to US media reports.

With Biden nearing the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the presidency, Trump has escalated his effort to sow doubt about mail-in votes that state officials are still counting.