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According to Twitter, all existing tweets on those accounts will be archived and Twitter will transfer the accounts -- reset to zero tweets -- to Biden.
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The current tweets posted during the Trump administration will be archived, and the account will be reset to zero tweets.
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Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation's history, displacing Ronald Reagan, who left the White House in 1989 when he was 77 years and 349 days old.
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Trump has refused to accept his loss on November 3, despite his opponent getting over six million more votes.
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The move was immediately opposed by the Opposition Democratic Party of the President-elect Joe Biden, whose lawmakers described it as a threat to national security.
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China was previously among a handful of major countries including Russia and Mexico that had not congratulated the president-elect.
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Harris, 56, is set to make history becoming the first woman - and the first woman of colour - to occupy the office.
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Bush, as president and Biden then as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had worked together on a number of issues during the Bush administration.
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Netanyahu said he and Biden had "a long and warm personal relationship for nearly 40 years, and I know you as a great friend of Israel."
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Biden defeated incumbent Republican US President Donald Trump in the closely-fought presidential election, according to the American media.
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Biden, 77, and Harris, 56, would be sworn in as the president and vice president of the United States on January 20, 2021.
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Harris vowed to fight to "root out systematic racism" but, like Biden, made a broad appeal to unity, saying that Americans "have elected a president who represents the best in us."
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Promising "not to divide but unify," Biden reached out directly to Trump supporters, declaring "they're not our enemies, they're Americans."
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The November 3 election saw a record voter turnout of 66.9 per cent, which is the highest turnout rate since 1900. The 1900 election had recorded 73.7 per cent voter turnout.
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According to Trump, Democrats were using "illegal votes" to "steal the election from us." "If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he claimed.
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On November 4, the US formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago.
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Biden surpassed the popular vote record of 69,498,516 set by Obama in 2008.
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US media organisations called Michigan for Biden where he had a lead of some 120,000 votes.
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"We did win this election," Trump said in an extraordinary speech from the ceremonial East Room of the White House.
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When last reports came in Biden had received 237 electoral college votes as against 213 of incumbent President Donald Trump of the Republican Party.