(Washington, DC) -- Joe Biden has won the White House. NBC News projects the Democrat will be the nation's 46th president. Biden has Pennsylvania to thank for his victory, picking up his home state's 20 electoral votes. That puts Biden's final tally at 273 electoral votes compared to 214 for President Trump. 270 votes are needed to win.
The 77-year old Biden spent decades in the Senate and chaired the powerful Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees before becoming Vice President under President Barak Obama.
Biden passed on the 2016 presidential race after the death of his son Beau, a victim of cancer.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and has spent much of his life in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden will be 78 on inauguration day in January, the oldest person to ever enter the presidency.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is shattering a lot of glass ceilings.
She's the first woman who will serve as either President or Vice President. She is also the first Black woman who will serve in one of those roles. And she's the first person of South Asian descent to be Vice President.
Harris grew up in Oakland as the child of immigrants, her father from Jamaica and her mother from India. She graduated from Howard University and earned her law degree at Hastings College. She was a deputy district attorney before becoming California's attorney general, and then senator.
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