{"id":90265,"date":"2020-11-07T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=90265"},"modified":"2020-11-07T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:36:15","slug":"auto-draft-304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/11\/07\/auto-draft-304\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump to claim the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t-content__chapo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90266 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Elected-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Elected-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Elected-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Elected.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Elected-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Elected-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Elected-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>RFI \u2014 Democrat Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States after clinching the decisive state of Pennsylvania on Saturday \u2013 but incumbent Donald Trump is showing no signs of conceding.<\/p>\n<div class=\"t-content__body u-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"m-interstitial\">\n<div class=\"m-interstitial__ad\" data-readmore-target=\"\">\n<div class=\"m-block-ad \" data-tms-ad-type=\"box\" data-tms-ad-status=\"idle\" data-tms-ad-pos=\"1\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The call from Associated Press came after Biden\u2019s lead in Pennsylvania\u00a0widened by over\u00a030,000 votes. This\u00a0handed\u00a0him the state&#8217;s 20 electoral college votes, enough to propel him over the 270 needed to take the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Not long afterwards, Biden also claimed Nevada&#8217;s six electoral college votes.<\/p>\n<p>US media\u00a0including CNN and FOX\u00a0announced Biden&#8217;s win\u00a0after projections showed he would take both battleground states.<\/p>\n<p>Counting is ongoing in Georgia and Arizona, where Biden is holding narrow leads.\u00a0Authorities in Georgia said they would launch a recount as the race\u00a0remains &#8220;too close to call&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"tms-ad-inread-5596299884718121\" class=\"tms-ad\" data-tms-ad-type=\"inread\" data-tms-ad-provider=\"teads\" data-tms-ad-status=\"idle\">\n<div class=\"teads\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"em-WBMZ7440-RFI-EN-20201107\" class=\"m-em-flash\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RFI_En&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1325118992785223682&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rfi.fr%2Fen%2Famericas%2F20201107-joe-biden-defeats-donald-trump-to-claim-the-white-house&amp;siteScreenName=RFI_En&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1325118992785223682\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A former vice-president under\u00a0Barack Obama, Biden is the first\u00a0candidate to notch more than 70 million votes nationwide in a presidential contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the campaign over, it\u2019s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,\u201d he said in a statement shortly after his win was projected. He also changed his Twitter profile to &#8220;president-elect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refusal to concede<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However Trump has not accepted the results, and instead warned the election was &#8220;far from over&#8221;.\u00a0He released\u00a0the following statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know why\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don\u2019t want the truth to be exposed,\u201d Trump\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the marathon count, Trump has claimed \u2013\u00a0without evidence\u00a0\u2013 that Democrats are trying to &#8220;steal&#8221; the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His campaign filed an injunction\u00a0to bar votes from being counted in Philadelphia unless a Republican observer is present. He also\u00a0filed a lawsuit to halt the vote count in\u00a0Michigan, which a judge rejected. And he is seeking a recount in\u00a0Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/asia\/20201107-cheers-for-kamala-harris-from-her-ancestral-indian-village-thulasenthirapuram-p-v-gopalan-us-elections-biden\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Cheers for Kamala Harris from her ancestral Indian village\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>America saw its highest voter\u00a0turnout\u00a0in a century, with more than\u00a0100 million votes\u00a0cast even before Election Day. But results were slowed, in part, by the unprecedented number\u00a0of mail-in ballots this year due to the coronavirus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congressional race results are also trickling in, with Democrats set to retain their majority in the House, albeit with a slimmer margin.\u00a0Republicans appear poised to hold on to their majority\u00a0in the Senate but\u00a0January run-offs could further shift the balance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFI \u2014 Democrat Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States after clinching the decisive state of Pennsylvania on Saturday \u2013 but incumbent Donald Trump is showing no signs of conceding. \u00a0 The call from Associated Press came after Biden\u2019s lead in Pennsylvania\u00a0widened by over\u00a030,000 votes. This\u00a0handed\u00a0him the state&#8217;s 20 electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90268,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90265\/revisions\/90268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}