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Running candidate for the White House, Joseph Biden, emerged on the other side of the race as President-elect Biden. The hotly-contended presidential election sent over one hundred million citizens to the polls in what appears to be a record-breaking voter turnout. The former Vice President, who won more votes than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history, received a whopping seventy-four million ballots and counting in his favour, a loud and clear mandate from the American People that many pundits are interpreting as a repudiation of the Trump administration.
As news of the historical results propagated throughout social media and network television stations in the early hours of Saturday afternoon, millions of people took to the streets in an unprecedented nationwide celebration that reached its climax with Biden's first conciliatory address to the nation as President-elect later that evening.