Hillary Clinton reacts to projected Biden victory
The victory will make Biden the oldest president ever sworn into office, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the first woman and person of color to serve the office.
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The victory will make Biden the oldest president ever sworn into office, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the first woman and person of color to serve the office.
Biden narrowly defeated President Trump after a bitter campaign that exposed deep divides in a country still in the throes of a deadly pandemic.
Nevada has six electoral votes, and CBS News projects that Joe Biden will win, edgeing out President Trump by about 2 percentage points.
The race for the presidency is still too close to call.
Supporters of President Trump continued rallying outside the elections offices in Arizona and Nevada on Friday, determined to wait it out for the final results.
Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes, and Biden's projected win flips the state Democratic after Trump won it in 2016.
Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania called President Trump's unsubstantiated suggestion about illegal votes "very disturbing."
"Our state doesn't need a Democrat senator or a Republican senator, we need an Arizona senator. A senator like John McCain," Kelly said ahead of his win.
Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum said on Thursday the president's claims are "shocking" and "dangerous."
The race for the White House continues to center on the Peach State as well as Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina.
As workers continue counting votes, Arizona supporters of the president, who are angry over the delay, are demanding to see the ballot count to its finish.
Several freshmen Democrats who flipped Republican districts lost or appeared to be losing after this week's elections.
In his first remarks since just after election night, Trump unleashed untruthful and inaccurate claims against Democrats and the media, whom he accused of trying to steal the election from him.
As of Thursday afternoon, Trump had 50.2% of the vote in Pennsylvania compared to Biden's 48.5%, with 92% of the vote counted.
Now, the state's attorney general said the governor can't appoint someone to fill the empty seat, which he attempted to do one day after the election.