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US Presidential Electors Set to Confirm Joe Biden's Victory

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Presidential electors across the United States are voting
   in the Electoral College on Monday, set to officially confirm that
   former Vice President Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in last
   month's election for a new four-year term as the American leader.

   Biden, a Democratic fixture on the U.S. political scene for nearly a
   half century, is likely to win the Electoral College vote by a 306-232
   margin, making Trump, a Republican, the fifth U.S. president in the
   country's 244-year history to lose a bid for re-election after a single
   term in the White House.

   The Electoral College vote is normally a routine formality in the
   quadrennial U.S. presidential election calendar. But since the November
   3 national vote, Trump has repeatedly claimed without credible evidence
   the vote in key battleground states he lost to Biden by varying amounts
   was fraudulent, costing him re-election.

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