It's official: Biden wins White House

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Saturday, Nov. 7 2020

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BIDEN TROUNCES TRUMP Joe Biden is projected to become the next president of the United States after an election that was historic, messy, chaotic and uncertain. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will be with him as vice president, the first woman, Black person and Asian American to ever hold the position.

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TRUMP FUMES FROM GOLF COURSE Moments after Democrat Joe Biden was projected to be the winner of the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump released a statement on Saturday declaring that his opponent “is rushing to falsely pose as the winner.” Trump was spotted arriving at his golf course in Sterling, Virginia, earlier Saturday morning. [HuffPost]

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HARRIS MAKES HISTORY There are several villages that helped raise Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is now the first Black woman, Asian American, HBCU graduate, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants to be elected vice president of the United States. [HuffPost]

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TRUMP NEVER WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS

From the moment he took office Trump showed little interest in healing the country. He actively stoked the flames of racial hatred and exploited the nation’s divisions for political gain, encouraging the rise of fringe elements and conspiracy theories that have proliferated through a Republican Party whose soul has changed in his image. [HuffPost]

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BIDEN HAD TO BEAT TRUMP WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND HIS BACK President-elect Joe Biden just did something incredibly difficult: He defeated an incumbent president for the first time in 28 years, and only the fifth time in 100. Beyond overcoming the traditional advantages held by an incumbent, Biden had to maneuver through the archaic Electoral College, which denied the clear winner of the popular vote an easy victory. He also had to surmount a stunning series of decisions by conservative courts and Republican legislatures that made it harder both to vote and to count the vote. And finally, there was Donald Trump’s unprecedented and perhaps illegal use of federal government resources to aid his reelection bid. [HuffPost]

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BIDEN RAN ON CHARACTER. THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO FIX WHAT'S BROKEN WITH AMERICA. Trump’s removal alone will not solve the nation’s troubles. It will not even prevent them from deepening over the next few months. Biden will likely enter office with the economy in deep recession as an uncontrolled pandemic rages. What was once bemoaned as bitter partisanship has metastasized into an at-times murderous cultural animosity. Trump has bequeathed his successor a country in which many Americans on different sides of the political divide not only dislike each other, but take active pleasure in their mutual estrangement. [HuffPost]

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SCARIEST DAYS OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY COULD BE AHEAD He may be a lame duck, but he will have the immense powers of a president and commander in chief — and nothing to lose. [HuffPost]

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AMAZING PHOTOS OF CELEBRATION AS BIDEN DEFEATS TRUMP Celebrations around the country erupted as news spread that Vice President Joe Biden won the election against President Donald Trump. [HuffPost]

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