{"id":38802,"date":"2020-11-07T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=38802"},"modified":"2020-11-07T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:30:36","slug":"joe-biden-wins-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/joe-biden-wins-the-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden wins Presidential Election 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Joe Biden becomes the 46th President-elect of The United States after winning the state of Pennsylvania.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At long last, Joe Biden might win the Presidential Election in the US after extra time to count the votes took place since Tuesday 3 November 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He becomes the 46th President-elect of The United States after winning the state of Pennsylvania, bringing his total of states won to 273, called by The Associated Press, BBC, SkyNews, CNN and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alongside him as his vice president, Kamala Harris, America&#8217;s first woman to be elected as US Vice-President.<\/p>\n<p>After a tight race in Pennsylvania &#8211; a state which was crucial for either party to win saw Donald Trump in the lead but as votes were continued to be counted, Biden leaps forward as mail-in ballots proved to be prominently for the Democrat party.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will challenge the election results and take it to court. He has repeatedly said that the Democrats were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/us-election-who-is-ahead-why-is-it-taking-so-long\/\">&#8220;trying to steal the election&#8221;<\/a> and that the system is &#8220;corrupt&#8221; as they should not count votes after Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Sam Tabahriti | Subbing: Arwa Nadeem<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden becomes the 46th President-elect of The United States after winning the state of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 At long last, Joe Biden might win the Presidential Election in the US after extra time to count the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":38807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[805,6488,6620],"class_list":["post-38802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biden","tag-trump","tag-us-election"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}