Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and President-elect Joe Biden with their extended family at the victory speech on Saturday, November 7, 2020 (Credit: Kamala Harris/Facebook)

After almost a week of painstaking ballot counting, Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president of the United States on Saturday, November 7, 2020. The Associated Press — which bases its determination on freelance local reporters who accumulate vote counts from clerks in every county of the 50 states — announced that the former vice president had secured 290 electoral college votes, 20 more than the 270 needed to be selected the country's president.