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U.S. News & World Report logoElectoral College Makes Joe Biden’s Presidential Win Official
It's really over. Yet again.
Joe Biden wearing a suit and tie: WILMINGTON, DE November 25, 2020: President- elect Joe Biden gives a before thanksgiving speech at the Queen in Wilmington, DE on November 25, 2020. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)© (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post/Getty Images) WILMINGTON, DE November 25, 2020: President- elect Joe Biden gives a before thanksgiving speech at the Queen in Wilmington, DE on November 25, 2020. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
All six states where President Donald Trump and his supporters sought to undo the victories there of President-elect Joe Biden formally codified the Democrat's win by Monday afternoon, with their Electoral College members casting their ballots for Biden. California put Biden over the 270 Electoral College vote threshold in late afternoon.
In another defeat for Trump, who already has lost more than 50 court cases, including one on Monday in battleground Wisconsin seeking to throw out Biden votes and overturn the election. The Electoral College votes, normally a barely noted procedural process after the November presidential elections, sealed Trump's losing fate.
In a speech scheduled for prime time, Biden was to call for healing and unity after a wrenching campaign and post-election period.
"In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed. We the people voted. Faith in our institutions held. The integrity of our elections remains intact," Biden was set to say, according to excerpts of his speech released by the transition.
"And so, now it is time to turn the page – to unite, to heal. As I said through this campaign, I will be a president for all Americans. I will work just as hard for those of you who didn't vote for me as I will for those who did," Biden was set to say, calling for a united effort to get the pandemic under control and for bolstering the economy.
Even as Trump supporters in and out of government vowed to find some path to keep Trump in office – one state officials and jurists all the way to the Supreme Court have said definitively does not exist – states went ahead with the process to formalize Biden's victory. Michigan did so without allowing the public in the room, since threats of violence forced state officials to close the Capitol for safety.
They had different styles and different tones: Nevada held their meeting by Zoom (electors masked nonetheless) and filled out their paperwork with all the drama of a small town sewer committee hearing.
In Arizona, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs took the occasion to castigate those who attacked the integrity of the Grand Canyon State's election. Biden was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Arizona since 1996.
Hobbs congratulated the state and its residents for holding such a high-turnout election in the midst of a pandemic.
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"But this year's proceeding … has unfortunately had an artificial shadow cast over it, in the form of baseless accusations of misconduct and fraud, for which no proof has been provided and which court after court has dismissed as unfounded," Hobbs said. She noted that she and poll workers have faced threats to their safety and lives – but that it would not stop her from exercising the constitutional procedure of electing a president.
"It is patently un-American and unacceptable that today's events should be anything less than an honored transition held with pride and celebration," she said.
Wisconsin electors joked around as they completed the process.
"I thought we'd have T-shirts, or something," Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said, a comment on the highly charged election in the state, one where Trump had challenged the results and where the state's highest court that day had denied yet another Trump effort to wrest from Biden Wisconsin's 10 Electoral College votes.
In Michigan, where Trump paid for recounts in two counties with high Black populations (resulting in an 87-vote pickup for Biden), the proceedings opened with two young girls performing the African American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
The joyful opening to the proceedings belied the tension underlying the event, with police escorting electors into the Capitol and one elector acknowledging she was in a bulletproof vest.
A state legislator, GOP Rep. Gary Eisen, was stripped of his committee assignments for the rest of the year after saying on morning radio that he could not guarantee safety in Lansing on Monday.
[READ: Democracy Demographics: The data behind the votes.]
Inside, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who herself was the target of a kidnapping plot, called on Michiganders to accept the reality of President-elect Biden.
"After today, the results will be final," she told the assembled electors. "It's time to move forward together as one United States of America. Now is the time to put this election behind us" and "to defeat our common enemy, COVID-19," she said.
In Georgia, former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, an elector, served as presiding officer during the proceedings and made no secret of her joy over the incoming administration of Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
"This is a moment for me that I have dreamed about," said Abrams, noting that she had moved from state to state, and they had moved more Republican while she was there. "I planted my flag and my feet here in Georgia," she said, reveling in the fact that the Peach State voted for the Democratic presidential nominee for the first time since 1992. "This is not a moment of partisanship. This is a moment of patriotism."
Pennsylvania Democrats talked about the historic nature of the election for women, with secretary of state Kathy Boockvar noting that the 2020 presidential election occurred 100 years and one day after women were first allowed to vote in a U.S. general election. As the electors went about the business of delivering the Keystone state's 20 electors for Biden, Boockvar said, "the people have spoken and we respect the majesty of the democratic system."
Pennsylvania Republicans, meanwhile, elected their own rogue slate of electors, noting in a press release that they did so at the request of Trump. That effort appeared destined to go the way of the president's myriad other, failed, schemes to remain in office after Jan. 20.
