Democrat candidate, Joe Biden, has won the US Presidential election, US media said Saturday, defeating incumbent President, Donald Trump.
CNN, NBC News and CBS News projected Biden just before 11:30 am (1630 GMT) as an insurmountable lead in Pennsylvania took the Democrat over the top in the state-by-state count that decides the presidency.
President Trump had no immediate reaction to the announcement, but as Biden’s lead grew during vote counts since Tuesday’s election, Trump had lashed out with unsubstantiated claims of fraud and claimed, falsely, that he had won.
On Saturday, as he headed to his golf course in Virginia, he tweeted: “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!”
The result will condemn 74-year-old Trump to becoming the first one-term president since George H. W. Bush at the start of the 1990s.
Biden, according to the media platforms, beat Trump, winning 279 electoral college votes from 74,523,834 votes to emerge the 46th US President with the incumbent President securing only 214 electoral college votes from 70,357,235 votes out of 270 electoral college votes required.
The democrat winner, aged 77, is the oldest candidate ever elected to the White House. Trump, 74, has however made unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud, and his campaign has launched legal challenges in several states.
Biden’s victory comes in his third run for the nation’s highest office, having served as Vice President to Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
