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

Trump becomes the 10th president in U.S. history to lose reelection, after John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.

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.