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 Joe Biden (1942-) was declared  the president-elect of the United States on November 7, 2020 following an initially tight electoral college contest against incumbent President Donald Trump and four days of vote-counting. In an election carried out during a pandemic, as well as a national reckoning over racial injustice, Biden won over 74 million popular votes—the most in U.S. presidential election history. On December 14, 2020, the Electoral College cast a majority of votes for Biden, formalizing the presidential election in the manner set out in the Constitution.

On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Biden is expected to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, alongside his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, who will become the first woman and woman of color to serve as U.S. vice president. At age 78, Biden will become the oldest President in U.S. history.

Prior to his run for the nation's highest office. Biden served 36 years as a U.S. senator from Delaware and went on to serve as vice president of the United States with President Barack Obama. As a two-term vice president, Biden focused largely on economic and foreign policy issues. 

In an April 2019 ,announcing his bid for the presidency, Biden characterized the 2020 U.S. election as a "battle for the soul of this nation." He highlighted President Trump's words claiming there were "very fine people on both sides" of the violent, racially charged clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, saying he knew then that "the threat to our nation was unlike any I’d ever seen in my lifetime."