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  • Zero All 50 states formally cast their votes in the Electoral College on Monday, confirming President elect Joe Biden's election victory and effectively ending President Donald Trump's failing attempt to overturn his loss.

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  • Biden has received 16 votes for president the United States in Atlanta.

  • Democratic activists Stacey Abrams, who lost a race for Georgia governor in 2018, announced the official results for her state, where lawsuits and recounts launched by Trump failed to change the election outcome.

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  • Biden for president electors in battleground state.

  • Nevada conducted their vote in a socially distanced zoom session.

  • The tellers agree in their count in Pennsylvania, another key state where Trump unsuccessfully tried to challenge Biden's victory in court, all of the state's 20 Electoral College votes were cast for Biden.

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  • And in the very latest blow to Trump, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit to reverse his election loss about an hour before electors cast the state's 10 votes for Biden.

  • We made it state by state votes.

  • Traditionally perfunctory sessions that passed without fanfare were televised all day on major news networks, taking on new significance because of Trump's unprecedented assault on the democratic process, which his critics have said inspired outright threats of violence.

  • Now is the time for us to put this election behind us.

  • In Lansing, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who was the target of a kidnapping plot by a far right militia group during the election campaign, said her state's electors had to cast votes in a closed and heavily guarded Capitol building due to what a spokesperson for the state's Republican Senate majority leader called credible threats of violence.

  • A group of Trump supporters on Facebook called for protests all day outside the state Capitol.

  • But by early afternoon on Lee, a handful of people had gathered.

  • Trump on Monday continued to push false claims of widespread fraud on Twitter.

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