Obama congratulates Biden and Harris on projected victory
Mr. Obama thanked those who volunteered for the Biden campaign and all Americans who participated in the electoral process, including "everybody who voted for the first time."
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Mr. Obama thanked those who volunteered for the Biden campaign and all Americans who participated in the electoral process, including "everybody who voted for the first time."
Numerous videos claiming to show "election fraud" have gone viral, fueling Trump's baseless claims that Democrats were trying to "steal" the election.
"President Trump's legacy will only become more significant if he focuses on moving the country forward," the longtime supporter of the president said on-air Friday night.
Biden narrowly defeated President Trump after a bitter campaign that exposed deep divides in a country still in the throes of a deadly pandemic.
One of the most hard-fought battles of 2020 was waged by Trump and Biden over Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes.
President-Elect Biden was just 29 years old when he won his seat in Delaware. Nearly five decades later, he is expected to lead the nation.
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 is projected to win the electoral votes needed to be declared the 46th president of the United States.
Harris will be the first woman, the first Black American and the first Asian American to serve as vice president.
House Republicans were able to knock off at least five Democratic incumbents they had targeted in 2020.
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.
Several battleground states have not yet projected a winner — Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada, and Biden holds slim leads in all of them.
Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum said on Thursday the president's claims are "shocking" and "dangerous."
Mr. Trump made a series of false claims about the election during a speech at the White House on Thursday.
The group represents four states and is split evenly by party – three Democrats and three Republicans.
The number of women expected to serve in the 117th Congress is up from the previous record of 127.
Several members of the group were inciting violence, including calls for a Civil War.
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.
"It just goes to show the last-ditch efforts these guys are going to go to to try and derail this election to their benefit," Attorney General Aaron Ford said on "CBS This Morning" Friday.
The race for the White House continues to center on the Peach State as well as Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina.
Question 2's passage also establishes that religious organizations and clergy members have the right to refuse to perform a marriage.
Taken into custody at convention center where votes were being counted after police were alerted to threat of attack by men who drove in from out of state.