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PRESIDENTIAL REPORT:
BIDEN'S WIN AND A TUMULTUOUS TRANSITION TO POWER by Ray Manzari
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n November 7, four days after the election, the Associated Press declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election and the 46th president of the United States. People around the country, including hundreds in the deeply blue city of Denver, poured into the streets to celebrate the victory. However, months later, the incumbent Trump administration, as well as select republicans, continue to fight election results. The counting of ballots lasted a nail-biting four days, with some states being barred from opening mail-in ballots until election day. A recordbreaking 66.8 percent of the 239.2 million eligible American voters turned out for an incredibly close race, making this the highest voter turnout since 1900. 1 2 OFM J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1
Key battleground states such as Arizona (D), Florida (R), Georgia (D), and Michigan (D) were hard-won by small margins. Voters and analysts kept a close eye on Nevada and Pennsylvania, both of which Biden took with just over 50 percent of the vote, coming mostly from the metropolitan areas of Philadelphia and Las Vegas. Biden took Colorado with just over 400,000 votes, with counties like Denver and Pueblo remaining blue despite the surrounding sea of red. The election results depict a country deeply divided, an issue Presidentelect Biden addressed in a speech given after his election was called. “Today, once again, we are a house divided, but that, my friend, can no longer be. We are facing too many crises. We have too much work to do. We have too bright a future to leave it shipwrecked on the shoals of anger and hate and division.�
