JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. ELECTED 46TH USA PRESIDENT .. DETALIS
(CNN) - The United States elected Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, according to CNN projects, drawing on a veteran voice that has projected calm and compassion, promised a more empathic and scientific approach to the pandemic, and pledged to stabilize the American politics after four years of Donald Trump's Chaos in the White House.
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Biden, who turns 78 later this month, will become the oldest president when he takes office in January amid the worst public health crisis in 100 years, the deepest economic depression since the 1930s and a national recognition of racism and police brutality that has yet to be resolved.
His election will end Trump's tumultuous grip on Washington and condemn the Republican, who has had a lifelong obsession with winning, to the ranks of CEOs who lost after just one term.
In a cinematic twist, it was the state of Pennsylvania in Biden's childhood that put him above the 270 electoral vote threshold and achieved the White House. Trump had had a wide lead over Biden on election night, but when election officials counted hundreds of thousands of ballots by mail, the contest dramatically turned in Biden's favor, infuriating Trump and his allies, who knew the president's way. toward the The White House is over without the Commonwealth.
The fact that Keystone State was the last hurdle on Biden's path to the White House was a fitting end to a close race given that the former vice president has long cultivated his image of "middle-class Joe" from Scranton. On a visit that now seems almost prophetic, he had made one last trip to his childhood home in the city on Election Day after spending much of the campaign vowing to prioritize the livelihoods of many working-class voters. that Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in her 2016 offer.
On one of the walls of the living room of the house where he grew up, he wrote: "From this House to the White House with the Grace of God", signing his name and the date "11.3.2020".
In the final days of the race, Biden's team redoubled its efforts to rebuild the Democrats' "blue wall," and that tactic paid off when Biden won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to CNN projections, while occupying Minnesota. , which the president made a priority in his re-election drive.
As he watched his reelection hopes strangled with every leg of the vote in Pennsylvania, Trump lashed out on Twitter during the tense vote count, attempting to undermine democratic institutions with demands like "STOP THE COUNT."
The president falsely claimed that the election was being stolen from him, as many mailed ballots, which were often counted after Election Day voting, fell into his opponent's column.
Faced with a deeply polarized country, Biden had tried to project courtesy and patience, and his desire to unite America.
"There will be no blue states and red states when we win. Only the United States of America," Biden said Wednesday afternoon. "We are not enemies. What unites us as Americans is much stronger than anything that can separate us."
Biden again asked his supporters for patience Thursday afternoon. "Stay calm. The process is working," he said in Wilmington, Delaware. "Every ballot must be counted ... Democracy is sometimes complicated. Sometimes it also requires a little patience. But that patience has now been rewarded for more than 240 years with a system of government that is the envy of the world."
Part of Trump's frustration was due to the fact that his campaign's finely tuned ground play did, in fact, attract far more so-called "hidden Trump voters" than expected, making the race much tighter than pre-election polls suggested. .
Ultimately, Biden worked his way to 270 Electoral College votes by keeping most of the states Clinton won and adding Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to his column. Ballots are still being counted in the key states of Nevada and Arizona.
Trump continued to slander the electoral process, wrongly suggesting that there was something dire about the fact that vote counting in key states continued long after Tuesday night, as is customary in American elections. Meanwhile, his team mounted a series of lawsuits in various states, including Pennsylvania, seeking to stop the counting of votes in some areas while challenging how closely observers can monitor officials who count the votes in others. The Trump campaign also said it would require a recount in Wisconsin, where Biden led Trump by about 20,000 votes, although historically a margin of that magnitude is unlikely to be reversed.
A career search completed
The victory of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., who forged a 50-year career as senator and vice president from his home in Delaware, is a full-circle moment that comes more than 30 years after his first presidential campaign. His running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, will make history as the first woman, the first black person and the first person of Southeast Asian descent to become vice president.
Biden's life of tragedy: he buried his first wife and first daughter, and his adult son Beau, who died in 2015, survived two brain aneurysms and remained in politics after two failed campaigns in the White House, shaped his image as a man of resilience and decency. Those qualities made him the United States' choice for president that could bear the pain of a nation traumatized by the loss of more than 234,000 citizens to Covid-19, with millions unemployed in an environment of intense economic uncertainty.
Biden's victory means that Trump's anger-filled presidency, fueled by his nationalism, toxic racial appeals, incessant lies and attacks on democratic institutions, may come to be seen as a historical aberration rather than a new normal.
But Biden faces a great task to unite the country and address America's disillusionment with establishment figures like him, leading to the current president's political rise as an outsider who was elected in a wave of populism in 2016.
Biden is committed to restoring America's "soul," which he says was compromised by Trump's divisive approach, and purging the president's "America First" foreign policy and rebuilding Washington's traditional position of global leadership.
But Democrats who dream of an era of "New Deal" reform in health care, the economy, climate change, race, and possibly even expanding the Supreme Court will have their ambitions tempered by their lack of profits in the balance of power in Congress and the need for the Biden administration to stop a pandemic that is worsening. Project health experts from the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation say the virus could claim the lives of nearly 400,000 Americans by the time Biden is sworn in.
A future dominated by a pandemic and uncertainty
A country tired of nearly a year of lockdowns, separation from family and friends, and economic deprivation will need to mobilize to take aggressive new steps to conquer a pandemic that, according to Biden, the Trump administration essentially stopped fighting.
The long-awaited arrival of a vaccine that experts hope will be widely available in 2021 is a possible ray of hope, although it will be many months before life returns to normal. That means that Biden's first year, the time a new president's power is maximized, will be dominated by the coronavirus.
And it remains uncertain whether Biden's pragmatic instincts, his lonely belief that a new era of cooperation with Republicans is possible, and his desire to preserve a winning coalition that included moderates and Never Trumpers could lead to early clashes with progressive Democrats.
Biden's task is complicated by inheriting a political climate intensely polarized by the Trump presidency. After months of the president's predictions that the election will be "rigged," Trump's supporters view the Democrat's victory as illegitimate, confusing their hopes of forging national unity.
A battle for the future ideological direction of the Republican Party between the president's supporters and more traditional conservatives in the post-Trump era could sow more discord in Washington. And the chances that Trump will simply fade into history seem slim given the real estate mogul's history of controlling the news cycle while putting together his Twitter account to resolve political grievances.
Biden's international aspirations also face challenges. The world has moved on during four years of American distraction. China has accelerated its power plays in Asia and around the world, and a new Cold War is looming. America's allies wonder if America can continue to be trusted and how long the internationalist restoration in Washington will last. The clashes with North Korea, Iran and Russia are even more acute than when President Barack Obama left office.
