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    Trump May Not Accept The Outcome, And 4 Other Takeaways From The 2020 Election

    Record turnout, a president who won't accept the outcome and likely divided government. Beating President Trump may turn out to be easier than governing for President-elect Biden.
    by Domenico Montanaro Nov 09, 2020 5 minutes
    There are a lot of lessons from this election, and given the results, governing won't be easy for President-elect Joe Biden.

    The tumultuous and chaotic Trump presidency is coming to an end — even if President Trump himself hasn't accepted it yet.

    Democrat Joe Biden is now the president-elect, according to calls from The Associated Press, which NPR relies on for race calls, as well as all the other broadcast networks.

    Biden is currently at 290 electoral votes, 20 more than needed thanks to Pennsylvania, which was called Saturday. Biden is on track to win 306 electoral votes, if his slim lead holds in Georgia.

    It wasn't the timeline many Americans were expecting, given Election Day was Tuesday, but we warned that counting an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots might take a while — and it's still going. There was record turnout and both Biden and Trump got the most votes of any presidential candidate in history.

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