Election 2020 updates: Biden warns of 'dark winter,' pushes masks in pandemic plan
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.
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President arrives at Trump National Golf Club, falsely tweets he won
The president arrived at his Trump National Golf Club Saturday morning as his path to securing reelection continues to narrow.
Trump falsely tweeted Saturday morning "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!" Twitter flagged the tweet saying, "Official sources may not have called the race when this was Tweeted."
ABC News projects Trump has 214 Electoral College votes while Biden has 253. Biden is ahead in four out of five key states still counting votes.
-ABC News' Elizabeth Thomas
ABC News projects Georgia Senate race between Perdue-Ossoff going to a runoff
ABC News projects that the Georgia Senate race between Sen. David Perdue (R) and Jon Ossoff (D) will advance to a runoff on Jan. 5.
ABC News has already projected that the 2020 Senate special election in Georgia will advance to a runoff between Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R).
Biden ahead in Pennsylvania by 28,833 votes
Biden is leading Pennsylvania by 28,833 votes.
Biden has 3,336,887 votes, or 49.6%, compared to Trump's 3,308,054 votes, or 49.1%.
Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes.
-ABC News' Adam Kelsey and Alex Hosenball
Biden's lead in Georgia now 7,248
Biden's lead in Georgia grew overnight and now stands at 7,248 after several counties uploaded all or a portion of their military and overseas ballots and provisional ballots, including roughly 5,000 from Fulton County.
Biden now has 49.4% (2,461,455 votes) while Trump has 49.3% (2,454,207) as of 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
ABC News estimates that there are approximately 15,600 ballots that could still be counted, including overseas/military, provisional and any other outstanding absentee ballots.
This outstanding total doesn't include all counties' potential absentee ballot cures, but it does include 535 absentee by mail ballots from Gwinnett County that required a signature of cure. The total also includes and 965 provisional ballots that will be reviewed by the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections to determine their eligibility to be tabulated.
Approximately 5,000 additional votes, including all or a portion of its provisional ballots and military/overseas ballots, also came from Fulton County overnight.
-ABC News' Soorin Kim