US Election 2020 updates: Modi, Biden to speak with each other in due course

By Anuj Cariappa

Updated: Friday, November 13, 2020, 0:48 [IST]

Washington, Nov 12: Of the countless challenges President-elect Joe Biden will face when he assumes office, few will be as daunting as reversing President Trump's legacy of bulldozing multilateral institutions, ripping up past international agreements, shattering norms and undermining longstanding alliances.

US Election 2020 Live Updates: Trump vs Biden? Americans across 50 states set to choose 46th preside

Nov 13, 2020, 12:48 AM IST

Former Obama officials Morell, Haines likely candidates for Biden spy jobs: Sources

Nov 13, 2020, 12:47 AM IST

Trump's refusal to concede the election is affecting national security, according to American experts, with the President's focus on vote recounts, the dismissal of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and doubts about CIA Director Haspel's job have left the country in limbo.

Nov 13, 2020, 12:47 AM IST

Irish PM says Biden wants a Brexit deal so Johnson should knuckle down

Nov 13, 2020, 12:47 AM IST

In a telephonic conversation, Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga and Biden reaffirm importance of their countries' alliances and agree to deepen it in face of China's growing influence and North Korea's nuclear threat.

Nov 13, 2020, 12:46 AM IST

Modi and Biden will speak with each other in due course at a mutually convenient time, says MEA.

Nov 13, 2020, 12:46 AM IST

Few legal wins so far as Trump team hunts for proof of fraud

Nov 12, 2020, 5:24 PM IST

The Trump campaign has filed at least 17 election-related lawsuits. Most make similar claims with no proof they would have affected votes. Here is a look at those efforts in six states.

Nov 12, 2020, 4:16 PM IST

Control of the Senate won't be decided until January runoffs in Georgia after neither party Wednesday locked down a majority, launching a mammoth battle to shape President-elect Joe Biden's agenda and determine the balance of power in Washington.

Nov 12, 2020, 4:15 PM IST

Facebook, swamped with misinformation, extends post-election US political ad ban

Nov 12, 2020, 4:15 PM IST

Republican Georgia secretary of state says no sign of widespread fraud in vote count

Nov 12, 2020, 12:41 PM IST

This year's election was not the last step in selecting Joe Biden as the next American president. Under a system that's been tweaked over two centuries, there is still a weeks-long timeline during which the 538-member Electoral College picks the president.

Nov 12, 2020, 8:53 AM IST

Nov 11, 2020, 10:57 PM IST

Trump has spent the last several days holed up at the White House tweeting angry, baseless claims of voter fraud after his election loss. He's made no public comments since President-elect Joe Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes on Saturday needed to win the presidency.

Nov 11, 2020, 10:57 PM IST

President Donald Trump will participate in the Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Ceremony on Wednesday, emerging in public for the first time since his failed reelection bid to take part in the annual presidential rite.

Nov 11, 2020, 10:54 PM IST

President-elect Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes in the state.

Nov 11, 2020, 10:54 PM IST

After results from the hand recount are certified, the losing campaign can then request another recount, which will be performed by machine, Raffensperger said.

Nov 11, 2020, 10:54 PM IST

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a news conference Wednesday that his office wants the process to begin by the end of the week and he expects it to take until Nov. 20.

Nov 11, 2020, 10:54 PM IST

Georgia election officials have announced an audit of presidential election results that will trigger a full hand recount.

Nov 11, 2020, 10:22 PM IST

US President Donald Trump defeated President-elect Joe Biden in Alaska, Edison Research projected on Wednesday.

Nov 11, 2020, 5:19 PM IST

US Supreme Court justices signaled they are unlikely to strike down Obamacare, in a legal challenge brought by Texas and other Republican-led states and backed by President Donald Trump's administration

Nov 11, 2020, 4:14 PM IST

Each vote for Biden states that health care should be a right, not privilege, says Kamala Harris

Nov 11, 2020, 4:14 PM IST

The leaders of close US allies on Tuesday telephoned President-elect Joe Biden and pledged to work together but in an extraordinary break, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo insisted that Donald Trump would remain in power.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel all offered congratulations in calls to Biden, who a week earlier edged out Trump in the presidential election.

Nov 11, 2020, 1:46 PM IST

Republicans held on to a seat in the US Senate after a close race in the state of North Carolina, dealing another blow to Joe Biden's Democrats in their bid to take control of the chamber.

Nov 11, 2020, 1:32 PM IST

Republicans held on to a seat in the US Senate after a close race in the state of North Carolina, dealing another blow to Joe Biden's Democrats in their bid to take control of the chamber.

Nov 11, 2020, 12:51 PM IST

President-elect Joe Biden's transition teams for the Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department will be run by several agency alumni who served under President Barack Obama and helped craft regulations like the Clean Power Plan and tougher fuel economy standards for vehicles.

Nov 11, 2020, 12:03 PM IST

Nearly 80% of Americans, including more than half of Republicans, recognize President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the Nov. 3 election after most media organizations called the race for the Democrat based on his leads in critical battleground states, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Nov 11, 2020, 11:16 AM IST

The Biden campaign's lawyer is dismissing President Donald Trump's legal challenges to Joe Biden's victory as ``theatrics'' that are intended ``to instill in the minds of some portion of the populace that the election was illegitimate.``

Nov 11, 2020, 10:13 AM IST

TikTok says it has filed a petition in an appeals court challenging a Trump administration order set to take effect on Thursday: Reuters.

Nov 11, 2020, 9:24 AM IST

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called President Donald Trump's refusal to concede his election loss an "embarrassment" but dismissed the standoff as unimportant."I just think it's an embarrassment, quite frankly," Biden said when asked what he thinks about Trump's refusal to acknowledge defeat in the November 3 election.

Nov 11, 2020, 8:59 AM IST

Republicans are making more demands of Georgia's chief elections officer as they seek to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's 12,000-vote lead in the state's presidential race.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:04 pm IST

Donald Trump says he will win anyway.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:05 pm IST

Trump has sought to recapture the spirit of his shock win four years back. You elected an outsider are president who is finally putting America first. Get out and vote, that is all I ask, he said.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:06 pm IST

Americans have rushed to vote early, already casting nearly 92 million mail-in ballots that could take days or weeks to be counted in some states - meaning a winner might not be declared in the hours after polls close on Tuesday.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:20 pm IST

America cannot afford four more years of Trump, says Kamala Harris

Nov 03, 2020, 12:21 pm IST

According to data published by the New York Times, the highest volume of misinformation regarding in-mail voting has been floating in the battleground states. These states saw the most distortions and falsehoods about voting by mail between Sept. 1 and Oct. 29, according to Zignal Labs, a media insights company that tallied the likely misinformation mentions across online news outlets.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:23 pm IST

The social media post of President Donald Trump in which he called a US Supreme Court decision in the battleground state of Pennsylvania very dangerous has flagged by both Twitter and Facebook.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:28 pm IST

Americans vote Tuesday in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trump and his uniquely brash, bruising presidency that Democratic opponent and frontrunner Joe Biden urged supporters to end, restoring "our democracy." The United States is more divided and angry than at any time since the Vietnam War era of the 1970s -- and fears that Trump could dispute the result of the election are only fueling those tensions.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:36 pm IST

Fearing poll-related violence, White House, US businesses take additional security cover.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:48 pm IST

A record number of nearly 10 crore Americans have already exercised their franchise in the presidential election, with another six crore likely to vote on the real election day on Tuesday.

Nov 03, 2020, 12:51 pm IST

The first ballots have been cast in Dixville Notch and Millsfield towns of northeastern state of New Hampshire. In the make shift Ballot Room at Dixville Notch's Balsams Resort, Les Otten, one of the only five local registered voters, cast the first ballot.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:00 pm IST

An estimated 16 crore people casting their votes in a presidential election is a record in itself in terms of turnout after 1900, according to Michael P McDonald, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, who leads the US Election Project that tracks early voting.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:07 pm IST

An estimated 23.9 crore people are eligible to vote, according to the US Election Project. "It appears likely that around 100 million early votes will be cast by the time Tuesday morning reports are processed," McDonald said on Monday on the eve of the crucial election. The voter turnout, he said, will be higher than 2016, because some states have already exceeded their 2016 turnout or are close to doing so.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:07 pm IST

Three states -- Hawaii, Texas and Montana -- have already exceeded their 2016 voter turnout. Other states such as North Carolina, Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada and Tennessee have already witnessed a record early voting that has crossed more than 90 per cent of their 2016 turnout.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:07 pm IST

Irrespective of the outcome of the November 3 presidential elections, relationship between India and the US is expected to continue at the same pace as it has in the last two decades and strengthen further, policy documents and remarks from the two campaigns indicate.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:16 pm IST

President Donald Trump, in the first term of his presidency, has emerged as the best friend of India at the White House taking the relationship to a new level and his friendship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is well known, which was reflected in the two addressing massive two joint rallies in the US and India in less than a year.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:21 pm IST

Former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, has a strong track record of being an ardent advocate of a strong India-US relationship both as a Senator from Delaware for over three decades and then as deputy of President Barack Obama for eight years.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:28 pm IST

The national polls have given a firm lead to Joe Biden. However the race is closer in the states that could decide the outcome.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:46 pm IST

To be elected a candidate would need at least 270 votes in what is called the electoral college. Each state gets a particular number of votes partly based on its population. There are a total of 538 up for grabs.

Nov 03, 2020, 1:49 pm IST

Joe Biden won in the tiny town of Dixville Notch in New Hampshire in a sweep. He got all five votes. In the nearby town of Millsfield Donald Trump won by 16-5 lead over Biden.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:11 pm IST

Nearly 100 million people have already casted their votes, a tally by the US Elections Project at the University of Florida revealed. This record has been facilitated by the sharp increase in mail-in and early -in-person voting.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:13 pm IST

Joe Biden concludes his campaign with short Twitter note to his supporters, “Let's bring this home”.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:15 pm IST

In the final hours before results of the US election start coming in, a Reuters report says that Joe Biden appears to be in the lead in the key state of Florida.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:26 pm IST

In a live telecast on state TV on this morning, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that the US election result has “no impact on our policies.”

Nov 03, 2020, 2:30 pm IST

November 3 is trending on Twitter as Election Day in the United States begins. Some users are simply urging everyone to vote, while others wait eagerly for the results.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:36 pm IST

Tamil Nadu: Posters showing support for US vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris put up in her native village Thulasendrapuram.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:44 pm IST

The social media post of President Donald Trump in which he called a US Supreme Court decision in the battleground state of Pennsylvania very dangerous has flagged by both Twitter and Facebook.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:51 pm IST

Even before Election Day, the 2020 race was the most litigated in memory.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:54 pm IST

President Donald Trump is promising more to come. The candidates and parties have enlisted prominent lawyers with ties to Democratic and Republican administrations should that litigation take on a new urgency if a narrow margin in a battleground state becomes the difference between another four years for Trump or a Joe Biden administration.

Nov 03, 2020, 2:58 pm IST

Since the 2000 presidential election, which was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, both parties have enlisted legal teams to prepare for the unlikely event that voting wouldn't settle the contest. But this year, there is a near presumption that legal fights will ensue and that only a definitive outcome is likely to forestall them.

Nov 03, 2020, 3:00 pm IST

A Pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court pits Donald Verrilli, who was President Barack Obama's top Supreme Court lawyer, against John Gore, a onetime high-ranking Trump Justice Department official.

US Election 2020 updates: Modi, Biden to speak with each other in due course

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