Insider and its partners at Decision Desk HQ made the call for Biden early Friday. Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House by flipping the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.
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With Biden’s projected victory, Trump becomes the 13th president to lose reelection and just the fourth to do so since World War II.
Trump has yet to concede and is still committed to challenging the result in the courts, claiming voter fraud. There is no evidence of any ballot-rigging, however.
According to reports, the president is becoming an increasingly isolated figure as his allies in the media now press him to accept the inevitable.
In a monologue, Fox News host Laura Ingraham advised Trump to accept defeat with “grace and composure” in a messaging shift from a usually fawning network.
Other Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlets — Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post — called on the president to accept defeat.
“Mr Trump’s legacy will be diminished greatly if his final act is a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat,” wrote the Wall Street Journal in an opinion article entitled “The Presidential Endgame.”
Biden had over 3 million more votes than Trump as of early Saturday, a lead that is likely to grow as states finalize their results in the coming days and weeks.
Biden has received the most votes of any candidate ever.
Insider and its partners at Decision Desk HQ made the call for Biden early Friday. Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House by flipping the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.
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With Biden’s projected victory, Trump becomes the 13th president to lose reelection and just the fourth to do so since World War II.
Trump has yet to concede and is still committed to challenging the result in the courts, claiming voter fraud. There is no evidence of any ballot-rigging, however.
According to reports, the president is becoming an increasingly isolated figure as his allies in the media now press him to accept the inevitable.
In a monologue, Fox News host Laura Ingraham advised Trump to accept defeat with “grace and composure” in a messaging shift from a usually fawning network.
Other Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlets — Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post — called on the president to accept defeat.
“Mr Trump’s legacy will be diminished greatly if his final act is a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat,” wrote the Wall Street Journal in an opinion article entitled “The Presidential Endgame.”
Biden had over 3 million more votes than Trump as of early Saturday, a lead that is likely to grow as states finalize their results in the coming days and weeks.
Biden has received the most votes of any candidate ever.
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