Joe Biden has gotten another step closer to being declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election.Tuesday marked the “safe harbour” deadline in federal law that states had to meet to ensure Congress would be essentially required to accept their certified election results.Other than Wisconsin — where a lawsuit from President Donald Trump and his campaign is pending — every state in the country appears to have met that deadline, which comes six days before members of the Electoral College meet to cast their votes.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Republican bid to halt Biden’s win in Pennsylvania Those votes will definitively elect Biden as the country’s next president, despite Trump’s efforts to persuade everyone from state legislators to.