Biden broke the record

In 2008, Barack Obama earned 69,498,516 votes in the presidential election, the
most ever. Now, Obama's former vice president, Joe Biden, has far surpassed that
tally [ˈtæl.i], setting a new record with more than 81,000,000 votes (51.3% of the
total) in the 2020 election.

With voter turnout in record territory, President Donald Trump also exceeded
Obama's record, with over 74,000,000 votes (46.9%).

On Saturday morning, November 7, CBS News projected Biden will be the 46th
president after winning the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Trump won several large battleground states, including Ohio, Florida and
Texas, which Democrats had hoped could flip blue this year. But Biden prevailed
in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, three key states Trump turned red in
2016.

Speaking at the White House in the early hours after election night, President
Trump falsely claimed he had won the election and vowed to challenge the
outcome all the way to the Supreme Court. Biden's campaign called the remarks a
"naked effort to take away the democratic rights of American citizens." Over the
next several weeks virtually all of the Trump campaign's legal challenges were
defeated in court or dismissed.

ACROSS THE USA 

Election 2020 led to protests in numerous cities across the USA. Most
demonstrations were large, peaceful events organized by progressive groups, but
some grew tense and even violent. Dozens of arrests were made.

Demands depended on circumstances, with some demonstrators insisting every

vote be counted (Biden’s supporters) and others that vote counting be stopped
(Trump’s supporters). 

And now I’ll tell about some of the cities where the protests broke out.

In Phoenix (Arizona) a group of pro-Trump protesters [prəˈtes.tər], some of them

armed, gathered for a third straight day in front of the elections center in Phoenix,
where hundreds of workers were processing and counting ballots [ˈbæl.ət]. “Arrest
the poll workers!” the crowd chanted [tʃɑːnt], demanding four more years in office
for Trump. Sheriff’s deputies were guarding both the outside of the building and
the counting inside. Many wore “Make America great again” hats.

In Chicago (Illinois), protesters [prəˈtes.tər] who worried that Mr. Trump would
stop the counting of remaining votes in battleground states marched through the
downtown area as part of a "Defend the Election" rally. The group marched along
downtown streets before surrounding Trump Tower. Demonstrators expressed their
unified anger towards President Trump's remarks, when he called for all "voting to
stop," claiming Democrats would use mail-in ballots to "steal the election." While
arrests were reported in other major cities, police said the demonstration in
Chicago was peaceful.

In Portland (Oregon) police declared riots, arrested 11 people and seized fireworks,
hammers and a rifle, as Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown activated the national
guard. 

Many of these events were organized by local groups affiliated [əˈfɪl.i.eɪ.tɪd] with
Protect the Results, a coalition of grassroots organizations and labor unions.

On Tuesday night, scattered [ˈskæt.ər] protests broke out after voting ended,
stretching from Washington DC to Seattle. 

WASHINGTON 

On the 6th of Jan. hundreds of law enforcement officers have mobilized across
Washington as thousands of supporters who refuse to accept President Donald
Trump's election loss flooded the nation's capital in protest, as Congress gathered
to put the final stamp on President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Thousands of
protesters gathered around the Washington Monument Wednesday morning,
hundreds of them carried flags.

Trump traveled a short distance from the White House to the rally Wednesday
morning. He addressed a large and tightly packed crowd of supporters on the
Ellipse. Trump was railing against the media and his speech included calls for his
vice president to step outside his constitutional bounds and overturn the results of
the election.

"Hope Mike is going to do the right thing," Trump said at a rally on the Ellipse. "If
Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election." (Mike Pence Vice President
2017-2021)

However, Pence released a letter he wrote to congress Wednesday just after noon,
saying he wouldn't object to Biden's victory.

Nevertheless, when President Trump railed against the election results from a stage
near the White House on Wednesday, his loyalists were already gathering at the
Capitol. Soon, they would storm it. A group of angry Donald Trump supporters
stormed Capitol Hill and clashed with police in violence that left four people dead.
They were attempting to prevent the confirmation of Joe Biden's election victory.
They descended on the US Capitol after Trump made a speech to his supporters,
imploring them to "fight'' to stop the "steal"' of the election.

Clashes begin outside Capitol

Now I’ll tell you about the Capitol storm. Chanting [tʃɑːnt] crowds started to
gather on both sides of the building, grappling with police at the metal barricades
[ˈbær.ɪ.keɪd]. Tear gas and pepper spray were used to try to keep the protesters at
bay.

Police officers struggled to maintain control of the situation as protesters advanced

on the building on multiple fronts. On the east side, the crowd forced their way
through barricades [ˈbær.ɪ.keɪd] on the Capitol Plaza and moved on the main
entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda [rəʊˈtʌn.də]. Once inside,
they headed for the House and Senate chambers.

Senators were forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's

victory and the building went into lockdown. The doors of the House chamber
were locked and a makeshift barricade was erected in front of them. Security
officials guarded the entrance, guns drawn. Within an hour, protesters had also
broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the
building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.

Shots fired
Shortly before 3 p.m., gunshots were heard inside the building.
Photos and video footage later showed a female protester being shot as she tried to
break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.

After growing condemnation [ˌkɒn.dəmˈneɪ.ʃən] of the riots, President Trump

eventually called for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: "Go home. We
love you, you're very special." By 5:40 p.m., the building was cleared.
Several thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service were
deployed to help. More than six hours after the storming of the building, senators
returned and resumed the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020
presidential election.
At 3:41 a.m. on Thursday, Congress confirmed President-elect Joe Biden will
succeed President Trump on the 20th of January.