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Axios Re:Cap

Biden wins: What to expect next

Axios Re:Cap

Axios

Daily News, News

4.5705 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This is Axios Special Election 2020 coverage. Joe Biden wins the presidential election, AP projects. We talk to Axios reporters Hans Nichols and Jonathan Swan to find out what’s next for both Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

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0:00.0

Joe Biden is the next president of the United States.

0:08.0

That's according to an Associated Press projection.

0:11.0

Securing Pennsylvania Saturday puts Biden above the all-important 270 electoral college threshold

0:17.0

to win the race.

0:18.0

And the vote counting that continues has Biden ahead in Georgia,

0:21.5

Arizona, and Nevada.

0:23.2

In the popular vote, Biden currently leads President Donald Trump

0:26.3

by more than four million ballots cast.

0:29.1

With this win, the Democratic ticket also makes history.

0:32.3

Joe Biden becomes our oldest president,

0:34.4

and Kamala Davy Harris will become the first black,

0:37.3

first Asian American, and first female Davy Harris will become the first black, first Asian American,

0:38.5

and first female vice president of the United States. This is an Axios election 2020 special.

0:44.4

I'm Naila Boodoo. We're going to spend the next few minutes talking about what happens next with two

0:48.9

journalists who have been reporting about all of this since the beginning. Hans-Nichols covers

0:53.0

the Biden campaign for Axios,

0:54.8

and Jonathan Swan is also a political reporter at Axios watching the Trump administration.

0:59.3

First, let's just start with your initial reaction, Hans. Well, they had a theory. They had a case,

1:04.4

and they won. And that's all that matters, right? We don't know where Joe Biden will take the oath of

1:09.6

office. It will be on the front of the Capitol. but he'll take the oath of the office if this all passes legal muster and all

1:15.6

the lawsuits are thrown out. They had a theory from the beginning that the electric in their own

1:20.4

party was more moderate, that the electorate in the country was in the center, not the far left.

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