US Election: Joe Biden wins presidency

The Democratic nominee Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 presidential election early Friday, as voters rejected President Donald Trump's chaotic and deeply polarizing first term.

According to projections by Decision Desk HQ, Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House by flipping the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Decision Desk HQ and Insider made the call at 8:49 a.m. ET on Friday, November 6. The AP, NBC, CNN, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the BBC called Biden's election shortly after 11 a.m. ET on Saturday.

Biden had over 4 million more votes than Trump as of early Saturday, a lead that's likely to grow as states finalize their results in the coming days and weeks.

In a speech on Friday evening at his campaign HQ in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden did not declare victory but said he was confident in winning once more votes had been tallied.

With Biden's victory, Trump becomes the 13th president to lose reelection and just the fourth to do so since World War II.