After four full days of waiting patiently for the slow march of vote counting to work itself out, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph R Biden, 77, pulled off one of the great political turnarounds in America by defeating Donald Trump in the US 2020 election. When he is sworn in on January 20, 2021, Biden will be 78.
Exactly 160 years ago around this time, Abraham Lincoln was elected US President.
Biden's victory came at around 11:30 am on Saturday, November 7, when NBC, BBC and The Washington Post called Pennsylvania for Biden.
Trump's favourite network Fox has also called the race for Biden. In fact, they have Biden's lead at 290 -214 rather than the more conservative 273-214 that many of the other networks are flashing on screen.
This US election was also inclined towards the Indian community and India. Both Biden and Trump tried to win Indian communities and the result says Biden hit the masterstroke by electing Kamla Harris as the candidate for Vice President.
Now, among Indian leaders, the first to wish the 46th President of US President was none other than Rahul Gandhi, Rahul on his Twitter wrote, "Congratulations to President-elect @JoeBiden. I’m confident that he will unite America and provide it with a strong sense of direction."
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