Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump confirmed by US Electoral College

Name: Biden clears 270-vote mark with California vote in US Electoral College
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The next step will come on January 6, when Congress will be tasked with certifying the electoral college results

Biden’s popular vote lead over Trump stands at 81 million votes to 74 million votes, according to Associated Press

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The Electoral College vote has formalised Joe Biden’s victory. Photo: TNS

Jacob Fromerin Washington

Published: 6:30am, 15 Dec 2020Updated: 11:40pm, 15 Dec 2020

The US Electoral College has elected former vice-president Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States.

The vote, which took place in all 50 states and the capital city of Washington on Monday, formalised Biden’s victory over Donald Trump, even as Trump and his most loyal allies in Congress continued to deny that reality and refused to acknowledge Biden’s win.

Needing 270 Electoral College votes to win, Biden secured all 306 of the votes he was expected to receive, with no instances of “faithless electors” voting against their state’s winner. The president-elect’s 306-232 win over Trump was by the same majority with which Trump won the 2016 election – an outcome he then described as a “landslide”.

The next step will come on January 6, when Congress will be tasked with certifying the Electoral College results.

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Biden clears 270-vote mark with California vote in US Electoral College

Vice-President Mike Pence, whose other title is president of the Senate, will oversee that session of Congress, and may find himself having to be the one who makes the final declaration that he and Trump have lost the election.