Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

Now that we have a projected result, the questions about whether this was a mandate will be everywhere. Biden started building up this narrative Friday evening. He suggested that “the people spoke … loudly for our ticket,” and he listed the issues that his administration would focus on. This resembled the kinds of mandate claims that Bill Clinton made after winning the 1992 election — he said in his 1993 inaugural that the voters had raised their voices “in an unmistakable chorus.” This is different from Obama’s approach — he tended to speak about the 2008 election as a rejection of Republican ideas.

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny says Biden will speak this evening in Wilmington, where there will also be a fireworks and light show.

I’m 42 years old and have voted in every election since 1996. But this will be the first of the seven presidential elections I’ve voted in — and the first election generally since 1992 — when an incumbent president lost. In 1996, 2004 and 2012, the incumbent won.