Joe Biden chosen as 46th American president

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/11/08
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Joe Biden has won the U.S. presidential election with an insurmountable advantage over President Donald Trump in the state of Pennsylvania, thus providing him with enough electoral votes to break the threshold of 270.

Major U.S. news outlets, including CNN, AP, The New York Times, and even Fox News, are reporting that Biden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes. With 98 percent of the vote counted, Biden has garnered 3,345,724 votes to Trump's 3,311,310, an advantage of 34,414 votes.

Biden's win is history-making. At 77, he is the oldest man to be elected president, and his running mate Kamala Harris is the first female and person of color to serve as vice president. Biden has also gained a record number of votes with 74,847,834 and counting.

Despite the fact that he has earned 4,256,303 more votes than his Republican rival, he had to scratch and claw for them in a handful of swing states to win, thanks to America's byzantine electoral college system. The vote-counting process was brought to a crawl due to the fact that the election was held during the worst pandemic to strike the U.S. in over 100 years, which compelled many Democrats to vote by mail.    [FULL  STORY]