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Just moments after former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, who began her political career in the San Francisco Bay Area, were declared winners of the 2020 Presidential Campaign Saturday, congratulations rained down from local politicians.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered remarks on Saturday, after winning the requisite electoral votes to win the presidential election.
Crowds streamed into the streets of San Francisco and Oakland Saturday to celebrate the victory of former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris in the contentious 2020 presidential election.
Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, will be the first male spouse of a vice president come January.
CBS News projected that Joe Biden has secured enough electoral votes early Saturday to become the 46th president of the United States, defeating President Trump and capturing the White House after a bitter campaign that exposed deep divides in the country.
San Jose peace activists took to the streets Friday to march in support of Joe Biden and to show support for the process of counting all the ballots in the 2020 election.
Trump supporters in the east Contra Costa County town of Brentwood say they're ready for the election and the hard feelings and sporadic violence associated with it to end.
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said a hostile incumbent could make the transition very difficult, whether it's delaying access to classified information or create other roadblocks for members of the new administration.
Depending on the final outcome of this rollercoaster election, Kamala Harris is poised to become the first woman to reach the office of Vice President when all the votes are counted.
On the Friday after Election Day, residents across the Bay Area continue their anxious wait for a result in the presidential election.
The mayor of Berkeley announced Friday that Measure II, which increases accountability for the city's police and decreases the department's budget, passed with an overwhelming majority of the vote.
A Bay Area district has elected California's youngest state lawmaker in more than eight decades, elevating a 25-year-old progressive Democrat who already has years of legislative experience to the state Assembly.
A Santa Clara County judge ordered a community college teacher with ties to the far-right, anti-government "boogaloo" movement to stand trial Thursday on charges that he sent threatening letters to a county health officer.
Los Angeles voters have elected former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon to run the nation's largest prosecutor's office.
Twitter permanently suspended an account belonging to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon after he suggested Thursday morning that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded
