Democrat Salud Carbajal, Santa Barbara’s representative in Congress, issued a public congratulations to former vice president Joe Biden after the AP news service declared Biden the winner in Pennsylvania, giving him that state’s 20 electoral ballots, 14 more than Biden needed to achieve the 270 electoral vote threshold for victory.
In addition, Biden picked up another six electoral votes from Nevada, giving a total of 290 at this point.
The outcome in Georgia remains unresolved. While Biden also won the popular vote — by about 4 million votes or three percentage points in an election that witnessed a record number of votes cast — the Trump Campaign has vowed to challenge the results in court. Trump has alleged wholesale voter fraud and irregularities, though his legal team has yet to provide the substantiating evidence to give credibility to such claims.