Joe Biden elected 46th US president
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Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in the state where he was born put him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win. With Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes, Biden has gained a total of 273 electoral votes.
The counting of votes after the November 3 elections took so long due to a large number of correspondence votes.
The situation in the most critical states has changed quite dynamically over the last days. But there was a turning point – Joe Biden took the lead in Pennsylvania, which was almost a guarantee of victory. Earlier, the southern state of Georgia, where Trump previously had a slight lead, also shifted in favor of Biden.
Kamala Harris will be the nation’s first Black and South Asian vice president, and the first woman to hold that office.
