Democratic nominee Joe Biden has finally defeated Republican candidate and incumbent President Donald Trump to win the 2020 general elections in the United States of America.
Biden emerged as President-elect after his pyrrhic victory in Pennsylvania, which puts him above the required 270 electoral college votes.
The former vice president and his campaign has set new records in the history of US presidency. Below are five major records:
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- All things being equal, Joe Biden, who turns 78 at the end of the month, will become the oldest president of the United States.
- His running mate, Kamala Harris is officially the first woman in US history to hold the office of Vice President.
- Kamala Harris is also the first Black, and the first South Asian American Vice President-Elect of the nation.
- The result makes Mr Trump the first one-term president since the 1990s.
- The election has the highest turnout since 1900. Joe Biden won more than 74 million votes so far, the most ever for a US presidential candidate. Trump has the second-highest in history with more than 70 million.
