The president-elect emphasized how he would handle the pandemic response.
Joe Biden is set to become the 46th president of the United States, capping a tumultuous and tension-filled campaign during a historic pandemic against President Donald Trump. ABC News characterized Joe Biden as the apparent winner of his home state of Pennsylvania, putting him over the 270 vote threshold needed to capture the presidency.
The hard-fought battle against the president was set against the backdrop of racial unrest and the coronavirus pandemic and bitter divisions among the electorate.
Trump had falsely declared on election night, when he held a lead in several key states, that he won the contest and alleged without evidence, after the count started to swing the other way, that the election was being stolen from him and that fraud had been committed.
Painting the election as a "battle for the soul of the nation," Biden won on a message of unity over division, compassion over anger, and reality over what he called Trump's "wishful thinking" as the coronavirus pandemic cast a heavy shadow over the campaign.
The 2020 election has shattered voting records with votes totaling 147 million and counting, surpassing the 138 million who voted in 2016.
The polls are closing in New York, Nebraska, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Michigan and Texas.
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who supported the fringe conspiracy theory QAnon in the past is projected by ABC News to win Georgia's 14th Congressional District.
In videos unearthed by POLITICO, Greene also espoused racist, Islamophobic and sexist views.
She was expected to win in the conservative congressional district. While there was a Democrat on the ballot, he dropped out of the race when it was too late to replace him on the ballot. The seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Tom Graves, who originally was retired, but then resigned from Congress in October.
Trump has fully embraced Greene, calling her a "future Republican star" after she won her primary.
Greene has since said in an interview on Fox News's> digital platform that her expressed support of the QAnon conspiracy is in the past and not part of her agenda in Congress.
-ABC News’ Quinn Scanlan
A pipe burst Tuesday morning in State Farm Arena in Atlanta and it delayed processing of ballots by about four hours, according to deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs.
"It had no impact on ballots, not a single ballot was damaged," Fuchs said, stating that any reports of damaged ballots are false.
State Farm Arena is the largest ballot processing center in the Fulton County, according to Fuchs. It is not yet clear exactly what effect this will have on results out of Fulton County, Georgia's most populous county in the state.
"The State Farm Arena team acted swiftly to remediate the issue. Within 2 hours, repairs were complete. No ballots were damaged, nor was any equipment affected. There was a brief delay in tabulating absentee ballots while the repairs were being conducted," according to a statement released by Fulton County.
The county also said that it will continue to tabulate the remaining ballots "over the next two days."
-ABC News' Olivia Rubin
Trump will win West Virginia's five electoral college votes, ABC News projects.
GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is also projected to win reelection in the state.
