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I don't understand why this is flagged. It's highly relevant to tech (particularly given trump's moves on Chinese tech firms and his treatment of social media) and from a legitimate source.


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Everyone who feels strongly on a topic always feels that way. The opposite types think the mods are the opposite opposite types.

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Yeah, I'm not sure, the one from 2016 where Donald Trump won had a very nice discussion on it.



Headline is inaccurate. He's not president elect until a joint session of congress counts the certificates of votes from the electoral college and declares him as such.

Yeah, Biden likely will be president elect. But the news media's call of what they think is likely is in no way official.

Edit: When I wrote this, the headline was along the lines of "Joe Biden is President-Elect."


Technically it’s false because one doesn’t become President-Elect until vote counts are officially certified.


No, one becomes the president elect after the electoral college votes, which is still a month away.


Yea, but we've always referred to them as president elect once it's obvious they will win.


Biden will now begin to receive intelligence briefings. He is the President-Elect (which is not a legal term - it is a media one - so it is silly to insist your definition is correct)




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