Joe Biden has been predicted to be the 2020 presidential election winner, meaning Donald Trump’s days as President are drawing to a close.
Kamala Harris made history as the first African American woman to become vice president of the nation.
Biden won a variety of states on both coasts including California, Washington, Oregon, Virginia, New York, and Maine, but it was the battlefield states that carried Biden.
The previous one Vice President freaked out Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, who were elected Democrats for the first time since 1992. Many of these states criticized Trump during his tenure.
Trump constantly attacked Michigan Governor Gretchen Withmer for her coronavirus lockdowns, and many looked at Trump when the FBI announced it had arrested members of a suspected conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer. Trump also for years attacked former Arizona Senator John McCain, who served the state from 1987 to 2018, and consistently nudged former Senator Jeff Flake, who served as the United States Senator in the state from 2013 to 2019.
Another reason Biden can claim victory is because of black Americans who voted for him in droves in Republican states with large democratic cities like Detroit and Philadelphia.
90% of black women voted for the former vice president, but for the third straight election, democratic support for black men has fallen as Biden got 80% of the vote from black men.
By comparison, Hilary Clinton received 82 percent of black men in 2016. In Obama’s first presidential campaign, 95 percent of black male voters and 96 percent of black women voted for him. Four years later, black women gave Obama equal support for Obama’s 2012 re-election while the number of black men fell to 87 percent.
The loss will be difficult for Trump to deal with as he lost the election largely because of his own actions. At the beginning of 2020, Trump switched from a virtual ban for re-election to people who had queued for more than eight hours to get him out of office because he couldn’t take the coronavirus pandemic seriously.
In February, Trump stopped denying the virus existed, saying it would have minimal impact, but announced this in mid-March 200,000 People will die. Since the pandemic hit the US, more than 236,000 people have died from the virus, the US economy is in tatters, and the unemployment rate rose to 14.7% in April and is now 6.9%.
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