It's Biden time!

Kamala Harris to become first woman to serve as vice president

Voters have elected Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States. (Facebook)

By Ted Cox

Joe Biden is president-elect of the United States.

Storming back in late counts of mailed-in and hand-delivered ballots in state races across the nation, the former vice president under Barack Obama and longtime Delaware U.S. senator moved past 270 votes in the Electoral College with wins announced Saturday in Pennsylvania and Nevada, confirmed by major U.S. news media across the country.

With the final votes being counted, Biden topped President Trump in the national popular vote by 4.3 million, with a record total of 74.9 million, topping the 69.5 million he collected along with running mate President Barack Obama in 2008.

In doing so, his own running mate, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California, was slated to become the first woman to serve as vice president, as well as the first Black and first Asian American to assume the office.

President Trump issued no concession and continued to try to sew doubt in the election process, but he was repeatedly rebuffed by state courts and was being abandoned by many Republicans.