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The U.S. Electoral College has voted to affirm the November 3 presidential election, making Joe Biden the 46th president-elect of the United States.
Mr Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, also won the popular votes, earning 81.3 million votes, compared to the incumbent Donald Trump’s 74.2 million votes. The Biden-Harris ticket beat the Trump-Pence ticket by about 4.45 percentage points.
President-elect Biden has been officially awarded 306 of the 538 Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential elections. A candidate requires 270 votes to win.
With the elections results now affirmed, in what comes next in the U.S. electoral process, the Congress will formally receive and tally the Electoral College votes and again confirm Mr Biden’s win on January 6. The official oath of office is slated for January 20.
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LANSING Michigan s 16 Electoral College delegates unanimously voted in support of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Monday, following state law and constitutional requirements needed for the Democratic nominee to become president in January.
Traditionally this is a routine and relatively obscure undertaking, formalizing the will of Michigan voters following the presidential election. It is usually a celebration, both for the victors and for democracy.
But Monday s meeting of the Electoral College in the state Senate came at a time when President Donald Trump and many of his supporters continue to allege conspiracy and fraud. Despite presenting no evidence, these allegations and subsequent vitriol led to threats against lawmakers and delegates.
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LANSING Republican leaders of the Michigan Legislature explicitly conceded the election to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden Monday in an apparent effort to ease tensions just ahead of Michigan s Electoral College vote.
The statements from Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, and House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, came amid continuing calls for the Republican-controlled Legislature in Michigan to defy the certified election results and somehow name a slate of electors for Republican President Donald Trump. They rejected those requests, which are based on unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and election irregularities.
LANSING In a ceremonial act made dramatic by a “credible threat of violence” that closed the Capitol, 16 Michiganders gathered in the state Senate on Monday to officially cast their Electoral College votes for Democrat President-elect Joe Biden.
The elector signatures on “certificates of ascertainment” ended Republican President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and unsuccessful public pressure campaign to persuade Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature to discard Biden’s 154,188-vote win and swing the election to him.
The vote leaves Trump with just one clear move to fight what he continues to claim was a “rigged” election, and one that is even less likely to succeed than myriad lawsuits he and allies have lost: Imploring Congress to reject electors from contested states.
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