US Electoral College makes Biden s victory and Trump s defeat official
US President-elect Joe Biden speaks after the Electoral College formally elected him as president, Monday at The Queen theater in Wilmington. AP
The US Electoral College decisively confirmed Joe Biden on Monday as the nation’s next president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede he had lost.
The presidential electors gave Biden a solid majority of 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, the same margin that Trump bragged was a landslide when he won the White House four years ago.
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