US Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Jared Kushner has approached Trump about conceding, says report

4 min readNov 8, 2020

US Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has approached the President about conceding the closely-fought election to his Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to media reports on Sunday. Kushner has approached the President about conceding the election, CNN quoted two unidentified sources as saying. Kushner has told others that he has urged the president to accept the outcome of the race — even if Trump won’t come to terms with how it was reached, the Associated Press also reported on Sunday.

Forty-eight years to the day after he was first elected a senator from Delaware, Joseph R. Biden Jr. addressed the nation for the first time as president-elect on Saturday night. In his victory speech, he emphasised on a message of unity and said the time has now come to “heal and restore the soul of America.” “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but to unify. For all those of you who voted for President Trump, I understand the disappointment tonight. Now let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again. Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end — here and now,” he said.

Kamala Harris, the first Black woman and first South Asian American woman to become vice president-elect, began her victory speech by quoting the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who said, “Democracy is not a state, it’s not an act.” She also remembered her late mother and said, “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last.” “When our very democracy was on the ballot in this election and the very soul of America was at stake and the world watching, you ushered in a new day for America,” she added. [So what does President Joe Biden mean for India and its relationship with the US? Read our explainer]

US Election 2020 Results Live Updates: Joe Biden has won the US presidential elections after he defeated President Donald Trump; He is projected to become the 46th US president. Kamala Harris will be the first woman vice-president ever. Read latest news and updates below

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The Biden administration is expected to reverse course quickly on parts of Trump’s foreign policy agenda by rejoining the Paris climate change agreement, working more closely with other countries to combat Covid-19 and trying to breathe new life into the Iran nuclear accord. NATO allies like Germany and France won’t be berated so publicly, and leaders of adversaries like Russia and North Korea won’t be showered in praise. Read full story from Bloomberg

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When Biden spoke of distant relatives living in Mumbai

When US President-elect Joe Biden was in India’s financial capital in 2013, he had told an audience that his distant relatives live in Mumbai. Biden reiterated his claim two years later at an event in Washington, saying there are five Bidens living in Mumbai. With the 77-year-old Democrat set to take oath as the 46th US President in just over two months, nobody in Mumbai has so far turned up to claim that he is Biden’s relative. Decades after he received a letter from someone by the last name of Biden from Mumbai, soon after becoming a senator, Biden learned that his “great, great, great, great, great grandfather” had worked in the East India Company. — PTI

16:59 (IST)08 NOV 2020

Kamala Harris’ native villages in Tamil Nadu celebrate her win in US

On Sunday, the ancestral villages of US Vice-President elect Kamala Harris in Tamil Nadu were overjoyed with the Democrat Senator’s elevation and welcomed an early Deepavali with fireworks and sweets to celebrate her win. The joy of locals in Thulasenthirapuram and Painganadu villages in this Cauvery delta district knew no bounds as they celebrated the victory of “the woman of our house”, reported PTI.

US Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Jared Kushner has approached Trump about conceding, says report

US Election 2020 Results Live Updates: Joe Biden has won the US presidential elections after he defeated President Donald Trump; He is projected to become the 46th US president. Kamala Harris will be the first woman vice-president ever. Read latest news and updates below

Written by Jose E. Thompson