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#BULLETIN: CNN projects Joe Biden elected the 46th president of the United States after Biden wins Pennsylvania

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Mysticrose

All the networks have now called it.

Except Fox, I think.

rottenborough

AP calling to

rcs1000

Mysticrose said:

1st

You are Joe Biden???

OnlyLivingBoy

America's nightmare is over.

rottenborough

BBC calling it for Biden

DeClare

BBC has just called it too, the big three networks in the US must have as well.

Settle up Betfair.

Pulpstar

Fox in bizzare situation with their Az and Pa calls now

rottenborough

Did I not say there was no way on God's earth that Biden would allow himself to not win Penn?

TheScreamingEagles

DeClare said:

BBC has just called it as well, the big three networks in the US must have as well.

Settle up Betfair.

I'm resigned to them not paying out until December, and maybe even until January 20th.

FrancisUrquhart

OnlyLivingBoy said:

America's nightmare is over.

Just rampant COVID, an economy down the tubes, rise of China and ML / AI coming for loads of jobs and a hugely divided nation with continued ongoing daily riots to deal with...America's nightmare is far from over.

kle4

FrancisUrquhart said:

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1325112826072084480?s=20

Sounds like a job no sane person would want...

It's why most of us, even most politicians, are not leaders. For even want to lead and so be responsible (or have far less responsibility than people think but still trying to lead), and far fewer of those are actually well suited for it.

TheScreamingEagles

I haven't been this happy since, *checks notes*, the 25th of June 2020.

ThomasNashe

What a great, great moment!

rottenborough

OnlyLivingBoy said:

America's nightmare is over.

Guy on CNN in tears in the studio.

alex_

Amusingly Fox are saying that just because a lot of networks have called it doesn't make it so. Citing, er, 2000 when er, Fox called it for Bush on a razor thin margin.

kinabalu

☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

alex_

Fox are going to look very stupid if they haven't called it when Biden is giving his victory speech.

Philip_Thompson

Never in doubt. 😜

rottenborough

Trumpy still at 22 on BF

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1325114455513063427

kle4

I'm reminded when some people objected to unseemly displays of smug delight from certain Tories last December. But winners deserve their moment.

TheScreamingEagles

https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1325115627456040961

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1325115108809453568?s=20

tlg86

FrancisUrquhart said:

OnlyLivingBoy said:

America's nightmare is over.

Just rampant COVID, an economy down the tubes, rise of China and ML / AI coming for loads of jobs and a hugely divided nation with continued ongoing daily riots to deal with...America's nightmare is far from over.

But hopefully we don't have to hear quite so much about America now.

Philip_Thompson

Incredible of Fox not to have called PA yet. This has been over since crossover.

MaxPB

FrancisUrquhart said:

OnlyLivingBoy said:

America's nightmare is over.

Just rampant COVID, an economy down the tubes, rise of China and ML / AI coming for loads of jobs and a hugely divided nation with continued ongoing daily riots to deal with...America's nightmare is far from over.

Nothing really then.

kle4

rcs1000 said:

Mysticrose said:

1st

You are Joe Biden???

It would explan his confidence throughout.

twistedfirestopper3

Hang on, I thought Trump won this election, by a lot?

Mysticrose

This is such a sweet moment.

The world can breathe a massive sigh of relief. A lot of work ahead but we're no longer headed over a cliff.

alex_

Fox have called it!!! Called Nevada for good measure.

IanB2

Fox calls it

Took three minutes to make the call to Rupert

ping

A sad end for trump

Mysticrose

kle4 said:

I'm reminded when some people objected to unseemly displays of smug delight from certain Tories last December. But winners deserve their moment.

This is not a victory for one party. It's a victory for the whole world.

(Apart from loons out on the conspiracy far right)

TheScreamingEagles

https://twitter.com/btharris93/status/1325116228332113921

CorrectHorseBattery

This isn't my 1997 moment yet but it's not far off, I can imagine.

Hope and competence trumps hatred and fear. We're coming for you next Boris.

IanB2

Fox reporting it straight: Biden and Harris to be next P and VP

rottenborough

Incredible to think I got on Biden to win PA at 3.3 only a couple of days ago.

RochdalePioneers

#letsgetdrunk

DeClare

TheScreamingEagles said:

DeClare said:

BBC has just called it as well, the big three networks in the US must have as well.

Settle up Betfair.

I'm resigned to them not paying out until December, and maybe even until January 20th.

Their rules state:


'This market will be settled according to the candidate that has the most projected Electoral College votes won at the 2020 presidential election. Any subsequent events such as a ‘faithless elector’ will have no effect on the settlement of this market. In the event that no Presidential candidate receives a majority of the projected Electoral College votes, this market will be settled on the person chosen as President in accordance with the procedures set out by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution'

That seems clear enough to ,me, Biden now has a majority of 'projected electoral college votes' and we don't have to wait 'til the college meets on 14th of December.

rottenborough

RochdalePioneers said:

#letsgetdrunk

Open the pubs!!!

ThomasNashe

TheScreamingEagles said:

I haven't been this happy since, *checks notes*, the 25th of June 2020.

It took almost as long!

TheScreamingEagles

https://twitter.com/mrjohnofarrell/status/1324764861147078658

FrancisUrquhart

CorrectHorseBattery said:

This isn't my 1997 moment yet but it's not far off, I can imagine.

Hope and competence trumps hatred and fear. We're coming for you next Boris.

You weren't excited by the hope and promise of Obama?

Philip_Thompson

ping said:

A sad end for trump

Made even sadder by his total debasement and lack of dignity. LOSER! SAD!

Mysticrose

rcs1000 said:

Mysticrose said:

1st

You are Joe Biden???

Haha! I'm rather proud to have been 1st on this rather historic moment. Little things and all that

rottenborough

I so wish there was a webcam streaming live from Trump's TV room.

HYUFD

Congratulations to President elect Biden and I hope he does a good job for the USA and the world

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1325116305540780032

FrancisUrquhart

rottenborough said:

I so wish there was a webcam streaming live from Trump's TV room.

Isn't he on the golf course?

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1325116311576465415

ThomasNashe

CorrectHorseBattery said:

This isn't my 1997 moment yet but it's not far off, I can imagine.

Hope and competence trumps hatred and fear. We're coming for you next Boris.

1997 was great, but this is much, much better. The values of humanity and civility (which John Major shared, but Trump doesn’t) have triumphed.

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1325116308711759877

CorrectHorseBattery

You're next Keir.

kle4

Philip_Thompson said:

ping said:

A sad end for trump

Made even sadder by his total debasement and lack of dignity. LOSER! SAD!

Trump got by on bluster and self confidence so strong it saw him through time and time again. Now, even if he genuinely believes he has been cheated, he will only really have the bluster left.

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1325116517474824195?s=20

OnlyLivingBoy

Nice for the Americans they have had an opportunity to undo their act of 2016 populist idiocy so soon.

ping

CorrectHorseBattery said:

You're next Keir.

It’s a victory for centrism

Philip_Thompson

CorrectHorseBattery said:

This isn't my 1997 moment yet but it's not far off, I can imagine.

Hope and competence trumps hatred and fear. We're coming for you next Boris.

Boris is nothing like Trump. Doesn't even like Trump.

https://youtu.be/p4EAc0QFubs

Mal557

Boris on the phone already ' I never doubted it for a minute Joe,,,now about that Trade Deal'

rottenborough

TheScreamingEagles said:

https://twitter.com/mrjohnofarrell/status/1324764861147078658

Why do you think he has had to start a new party?

CarlottaVance

CorrectHorseBattery said:

You're next Keir.

Next but one, I suspect.

Alistair

Never. In. Doubt.

Sunil_Prasannan

Not so sleepy Joe exceeds 75 million votes!

IshmaelZ

CorrectHorseBattery said:

You're next Keir.

I don't expect his defeat to be quite as humiliating as Trump's.

rottenborough

I'm partly relieved I didn't miss the moment after days of watching CNN.

Mysticrose

Trump clearly decided to get onto the links for when the calls were made.

Which may give us some hope that he'll bugger off now.

If the GOP have any sense they will drop him faster than a burning coal.

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1325114004080111618

What a great moment.

ping

Mal557 said:

Boris on the phone already ' I never doubted it for a minute Joe,,,now about that Trade Deal'

Lol

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1325117280670388226?s=20

eek

FrancisUrquhart said:

rottenborough said:

I so wish there was a webcam streaming live from Trump's TV room.

Isn't he on the golf course?

And he will hit par even after taking 100+ shots..

ping

Farage £10k poorer

glw

This is great news, but Trump is still in office for over ten weeks.

FrancisUrquhart

CorrectHorseBattery said:

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1325116308711759877

What shouldn't be forgotten is nearly as many voted for Trump. I think it is worth asking oneselves why. Yes there are a loud minority of deluded nut jobs that believe every word Trump says, but I think everybody should be taken aback that even after 4 years of Trump, even after mishandling of COVID, and all the other stuff, this is no landslide that all the polls predicted. They continued to quietly vote for Trump, I believe despite Trump.

Alistair

Philip_Thompson said:

Incredible of Fox not to have called PA yet. This has been over since crossover.

It was over 9:30 Wednesday morning when I made the call.

TheScreamingEagles

Alistair said:

Never. In. Doubt.

Indeed, thanks to the market going to 3 and 5 in the early hours of Wednesday.

Pulpstar

Networks calling it together perhaps preplanned, makes Trump look illegitemate now if he tries to cling on through legal chicanery

CorrectHorseBattery

Philip_Thompson said:

CorrectHorseBattery said:

This isn't my 1997 moment yet but it's not far off, I can imagine.

Hope and competence trumps hatred and fear. We're coming for you next Boris.

Boris is nothing like Trump. Doesn't even like Trump.

https://youtu.be/p4EAc0QFubs

Nah, that's London Mayor Boris, he's morphed like the charlatan he is into mini Trump now.

He's been left exposed in the world and his gamble on a US trade deal has failed. And failed badly.

His days are numbered. Change is coming.

kle4

Shame Biden didn't get the Senate as well, but you cannot have everything. It will be fascinating to see what he comes up with in his first days in office next year, there's a lot of quick wins he can enforce.

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1325117748104622080?s=20

Alistair

ping said:

CorrectHorseBattery said:

You're next Keir.

It’s a victory for centrism

At about 3 in the morning I distinctly recall it was Biden's embrace of far left radical policies and that had destroyed his chances.

TheScreamingEagles

This has got to sting for Trump.

https://twitter.com/SophieWarnes/status/1325117219580350466

IanB2

Bozo is now yesterday’s clown

Chris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av7KJkiLYLI

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1325117865322827777

Hope and decency are back.

algarkirk

DeClare said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

DeClare said:

BBC has just called it as well, the big three networks in the US must have as well.

Settle up Betfair.

I'm resigned to them not paying out until December, and maybe even until January 20th.

Their rules state:


'This market will be settled according to the candidate that has the most projected Electoral College votes won at the 2020 presidential election. Any subsequent events such as a ‘faithless elector’ will have no effect on the settlement of this market. In the event that no Presidential candidate receives a majority of the projected Electoral College votes, this market will be settled on the person chosen as President in accordance with the procedures set out by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution'

That seems clear enough to ,me, Biden now has a majority of 'projected electoral college votes' and we don't have to wait 'til the college meets on 14th of December.

That's nicely ambiguous as to what happens if there is a court challenge in process which could change the number of projected EC votes.

TheScreamingEagles

DeClare said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

DeClare said:

BBC has just called it as well, the big three networks in the US must have as well.

Settle up Betfair.

I'm resigned to them not paying out until December, and maybe even until January 20th.

Their rules state:


'This market will be settled according to the candidate that has the most projected Electoral College votes won at the 2020 presidential election. Any subsequent events such as a ‘faithless elector’ will have no effect on the settlement of this market. In the event that no Presidential candidate receives a majority of the projected Electoral College votes, this market will be settled on the person chosen as President in accordance with the procedures set out by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution'

That seems clear enough to ,me, Biden now has a majority of 'projected electoral college votes' and we don't have to wait 'til the college meets on 14th of December.

Some of us still scarred by their behaviour over the Theresa May exit markets.

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/krishgm/status/1325118214448230406

Johnson rapidly trying to cultivate a relationship now the Donald gamble has failed.

Now for the Brexit capitulation.

eek

ping said:

Farage £10k poorer

And without any source of work - no wonder he's rebranding the Brexit Party...

kle4

CorrectHorseBattery said:

Philip_Thompson said:

CorrectHorseBattery said:

This isn't my 1997 moment yet but it's not far off, I can imagine.

Hope and competence trumps hatred and fear. We're coming for you next Boris.

Boris is nothing like Trump. Doesn't even like Trump.

https://youtu.be/p4EAc0QFubs

Nah, that's London Mayor Boris, he's morphed like the charlatan he is into mini Trump now.

He's been left exposed in the world and his gamble on a US trade deal has failed. And failed badly.

His days are numbered. Change is coming.

Change may be coming, but the December 2019 election did not return a Trump like government. It's done some awful things, but the mini Trump stuff remains lazy lazy attempts to make all those we dislike into one directly comparable mass, when life is more complicated than that. The Democrats are not the same as Labour, despite any links, and the Tories are not the Republicans, we can make comparisons but we cannot directly equate the situations to make ourselves feel better, nor presume that direction of travel in one country will be matched in the other, because they are different (I do expect Labour to be biggest party at least next time though). People search for one defining global moment, but national politics is more complicated than that.

CarlottaVance

Twitter's going to get a lot braver:

TheScreamingEagles

https://twitter.com/AlexMartin/status/1325118633685655553

CorrectHorseBattery

https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1325118629155917833

Moderate and sensible politics is the recipe of the 2020 and a return to Labour in Government, I feel it.

IanB2

Trump campaign response: this election is far from over

Legal challenges will start Monday. Accuses Biden campaign of wrongdoing and relying upon illegal votes

Mysticrose

CorrectHorseBattery said:

https://twitter.com/krishgm/status/1325118214448230406

Johnson rapidly trying to cultivate a relationship now the Donald gamble has failed.

Now for the Brexit capitulation.

He and Joe Biden have never met.

And, you're right, that probably ends the hard Brexit. In fact, I'm sure it does.

FrancisUrquhart

For all the "Boris was too close to Trump" types, I wonder if the same people will forget just how keen Macron was to be seen as BFF with him? First meeting, first state visits etc, all Macron.

ping

Poor Don.

In a minority of one, the truth is still the truth

londonpubman

👍 Joe

CorrectHorseBattery

IanB2 said:

Bozo is now yesterday’s clown

He gambled on a US trade deal, hence his actions to undermine the GFA. That's been a very poor move.

So now it's capitulation and the fracturing of the Tory base, I will grab the popcorn.

TheScreamingEagles

https://twitter.com/DaleJohnsonESPN/status/1325096586465202181

FrancisUrquhart

CorrectHorseBattery said:

https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1325118629155917833

Moderate and sensible politics is the recipe of the 2020 and a return to Labour in Government, I feel it.

I don't get this weird competition of who can get their tweet out fastest.