JOE BIDEN wins US Presidential Elections 2020.
                     JOE BIDEN WINS US 
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2020
INTRODUCTION
• Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has defeated 
Donald Trump to become the 46th U.S. 
president.
• Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7 passed 
the 270 vote electoral college threshold 
needed to claim victory in the 2020 
presidential election.
Source: BloombergQuint
O L D E S T  P R E S I D E N T
• Biden, 77, will become the oldest president-
elect in U.S. history and the first to oust a 
sitting commander-in-chief after one term 
since Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush 
in 1992.
Source: BloombergQuint
F I R S T  B L A C K  A N D  I N D I A N - A M E R I C A N  W O M A N  A S  V I C E  P R E S I D E N T
• Biden’s running mate, California Senator 
Kamala Harris, 56, becomes the first Black 
and Indian-American woman to serve as vice 
president, a glimpse at a coming 
generational shift in the party.
Source: Times of India
B AT T L EG RO U N D  S TAT E S
• Biden won back the battleground states of 
Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -- the 
so-called Blue Wall that delivered the 
presidency to Trump in 2016.
Source: BloombergQuint
WO N  BY  4 M I L L I O N  VOT E S
• Biden reaped 4 million more votes than 
Trump nationwide, as of Saturday morning, 
winning nearly 75 million votes to Trump’s 
71 million.
Source: BloombergQuint
• Trump rejected the outcome, saying in a 
statement immediately after the race was 
T R U M P  R E J E C T E D  T H E  O U T C O M E
called that the election is far from over.
Source: Times of India
• Trump might have won a second term if not 
for his widely criticized response to the 
C R I T I C I Z E D  R E S P O N S E
coronavirus pandemic and the economic 
fallout. 
Source: BloombergQuint
• Biden has promised that combating the U.S. 
outbreak will be his highest priority, along with 
B I D E N ' S  P R O P O S E D  P L A N
repairing a battered economy. 
• He has proposed a $3.5 trillion plan that relies 
heavily on deficit spending to create jobs, though a 
plan that size likely would face resistance in a 
Republican-led Senate. 
Source: BloombergQuint
• Biden plans to rejoin the Paris climate agreement 
and the World Health Organization and reverse 
B I D E N  A G A I N S T  T R U M P
Trump’s rollbacks of environmental regulations. 
• He says he will also end the ban on immigration 
from several predominantly Muslim nations and 
restore rights for asylum seekers.
Source: BloombergQuint
• Facing a likely Republican majority in the Senate, 
Biden would have to draw on longstanding 
relationships with top Republicans in Congress in 
order to have any shot of passing major legislation 
or getting his prBeI DfeE Nrr FeAdC E cS a GbOiPn SeEtN cA ToEnfirmed.
Source: BloombergQuint