US election 2020 results live: Biden wins, beats Trump and is elected new president

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* Presidential Election 2020: Joe Biden elected 46th President of the US

Current Electoral College votes per candidate (270 needed to win):

Joe Biden: 284
Donald Trump: 214

- A host of media outlets have now called the election for Joe Biden, who will be the 46th president of the United States.

- Biden will talk this evening about his victory

- Biden to give Trump time before he pushes forward on transition

- Trump announces press conference in Philadelphia at 11:30 ET

- Biden continues to stretch his lead in Pennsylvania, now leading Trump by nearly 29,000 votes with 96% of ballots counted. Biden is also ahead in Nevada by 1.8pp and up by 7,248 votes in Georgia, where a mandatory recount will happen

- Donald Trump leads by 76,479 votes in North Carolina remains with more than 99% counted

- White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for covid-19, and Ja'Ron Smith has resigned

- Murdoch-owned media urge Trump to show grace in defeat

- In 27 states there have been more coronavirus cases announced in the past week than in any other seven-day stretch since the pandemic began

- Donald Trump has been roundly criticised for his poisonous rhetoric Thursday night, which fellow Republican Mitt Romney described as 'damaging'