Electoral College makes it official: Biden won, Trump lost
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December 15, 2020
Erin Schaff, New York Times
President-elect Joe Biden speaks after the Electoral College vote officially affirmed his victory, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.
WASHINGTON - The 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.
Heightened security was in place in some states as electors met to cast paper ballots, with masks, social distancing and other pandemic precautions the order of the day. The results will be sent to Washington and tallied in a Jan. 6 joint session of Congress over which Vice President Mike Pence will preside.
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