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After acknowledging his family and the family of his running-mate, Biden praises the coalition - bipartisan, young, old, urban, rural, different races - who helped his campaign.

He then addresses those who supported Trump.

"Let's give each other a chance," Biden says. "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again...stop treating our opponents as enemies."

He quotes the Book of Ecclesiastes, saying "there is time" for everything. He emphasises to honks: "This is the time to heal in America."

"I will work as hard for those who didn't vote for me as for those who did," he says.

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"I am humbled by the trust and confidence you've placed in me," Biden continues.

"I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify; who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the United States. To work with all my heart to win the confidence of all of you. "

America, he adds, is about people.

"I sought this office to restore the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class and to make America respected around the world again, and to unite us here at home."

He says it's the honour of his lifetime that so many have voted for that vision - and now it's "the task of the time".

He thanks African American voters in particular for lifting his campaign when he was behind in the primary contest.

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Biden greets the crowd - highlighting the various senators and family in the crowd.

"Folks, the people of this nation have spoken. They delivered us a clear victory - a convincing victory, a victory for we, the people."

He notes he's won with the most votes ever cast in a US presidential election - 74 million.

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Harris wraps up her comments by saying she's ready to go to work. She and Biden will tackle the pandemic, address the ongoing issues of racism.

She says Biden will be president for all Americans.

And with that, she introduces Joe Biden, who jogs onto the stage.

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From talking about Biden's family, Harris moves into discussing her own - and what this moment means for women.

Harris says her mother "believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible."

She says she's thinking about her mother - who raised Harris and her sister as a single parent - and the other generations of black, Asian, white, Latina, and native women who have "paved the way for this moment tonight".

"They are the backbone of our democracy," Harris says, these women who fought 100 years ago for the 19th amendment, 55 years ago for the voting rights act, and now in 2020 as the next generation of women cast their votes.

"Tonight I reflect on their struggle, their determination, and the strength of their vision to see what can be unburdened by what has been. And I stand on their shoulders."

Harris praises Biden for having the "audacity" to break barriers and select a woman as his vice-president.

"While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last."

"You chose hope, and unity, decency, science and yes truth," Harris tells the crowd. "You chose Joe Biden as the next president of the United States."

The audience once again erupts in honks and hollering.

"Joe's a healer," she continues. "A person whose own experience of loss gives him a sense of purpose that will help us as a nation reclaim our own sense of purpose."

Harris is hearkening back to the Biden campaign's theme of the 2020 race as a "battle for the soul of the nation" here. She continues, describing Biden's love for his family and touts his character.

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Kamala Harris is now delivering her first remarks as vice-president-elect. In the crowd, supporters are waving flags and glowsticks from their cars, honking and cheering.

"Congressman John Lewis, before his passing, wrote: 'democracy is not a state. It is an act'. And what he meant was that America's democracy is not guaranteed - it is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it," she begins.

"There is joy in it, there is progress. Because we the people have the power to build a better future," Harris continues, invoking the Biden 2020 slogan.

"You ushered in a new day for America."

For the first time, America's vice-president-elect has just taken the stage.

Kamala Harris will speak first and introduce Joe Biden.

Outside the Chase Center, where Biden and Harris will appear, flags, lights and inflatable Trump balloons are awaiting the arrival of the president-elect and vice-president-elect, who are en route to deliver an expected victory speech.

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There is a party atmosphere in Wilmington, Delaware, where Joe Biden is due to speak any moment - and outpours of emotion around the US could be seen throughout the day after the election winner was projected.

Here is how the moment unfolded - a bit more staidly - on air earlier today, live to BBC viewers all around the world.

While we're waiting for Biden's first speech to the public as the president-elect, here's how a few of Europe's newspapers are reporting his projected win on Sunday's front pages.

In Poland, regional daily Dziennik Zachodni has this striking illustration.

Politiken newspaper in Denmark simply says: "Winner."

And the French newspaper Le Dauphine declares: "It's done!"

White House spokesman Judd Deere has issued a response about how the Trump administration would handle a transition to the next administration.

"The President will accept the results of a free and fair election," the statement reads.

"The Trump Administration is following all statutory requirements."

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Kamala Harris, the vice-president- elect, is expected to speak tonight, alongside Joe Biden.

Gil Duran, a former communications director for Harris, says the history-making result in the election marks "a big reversal of fortune" for his former boss.

"Many people didn't think she had the discipline and focus to ascend to a position in the White House so quickly... although people knew she had ambition and star potential. It was always clear that she had the raw talent,” he says.

Before her national turn, Harris was the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco before being elected the first woman and the first black American to serve as California's attorney general.

She gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her election as California's junior US senator in 2017.

Duran worked as Harris's communications director in 2013 and had critiqued her run last year for the Democratic presidential nomination.

She was "someone with a law enforcement background, and perceived in her own state as being insufficiently progressive... and trying to project an inauthentic self," he says.

But he adds: "That looks very different in a vice-presidential slot".

Harris is the first woman, and the first black and Asian American, to be vice-president-elect.

Read the full story here.

Joe Biden is expected to address the nation from Wilmington, Delaware in about 15 minutes, along with Kamala Harris

We'll be reporting the event here, live.

Social media has been awash with people celebrating America's milestone of having a woman as vice-president-elect.

The bipartisan group advocating for more women candidates, She Should Run, participated in the fun by hearkening back to the women who came before Kamala Harris.

From Shirley Chisholm in 1972 to Sarah Palin in 2008 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 - here's a look at the women who paved the way.

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Within hours of hearing that Biden had won the election, the White House called a lid on the press, meaning that the president will not be holding any more public events for the day.

The BBC's Tara McKelvey in Washington DC earlier reported that Trump "seemed subdued" as he got back to the White House: "His shoulders were slumped and his head was down."

So he is not expected to make an appearance for a speech.

Instead, Trump's been tweeting - denying that Biden won the election - and filing more lawsuits alleging election fraud, a claim for which he has presented no evidence.

This map from earlier today shows where either the Republicans (red arrows) or Democrats (blue arrows) have performed better than in 2016.

It is far from a consistent picture, with both parties gaining in some areas and losing support in others.

Unfortunately for the president, his gains are concentrated in states he already won last time around - for example strongholds such as Idaho and Utah.

Narrow gains in Trump states were enough for Biden to flip Wisconsin and Michigan for the Democrats - and the blue arrows surrounding Philadelphia were key signs pointing to his victory in Pennsylvania, winning him the projected White House victory.

The show is (mostly) over in the presidential race, but there are still counts going on for House and Senate seats. And it's likely there will be two blockbuster run-off races for Senate seats in Georgia in January.

Joe Biden may be about to deliver a victory speech, but overall it's been a lacklustre week for Democrats. They had hoped to expand their majority in the House and perhaps take the Senate.

Control of both of chambers of the US Congress would empower a Biden White House, but a Senate controlled by Republicans could block big initiatives.

Expanding their majority in the House would give credence to Democrats' argument that the party has been handed a big mandate.

So far, Democrats have actually lost at least seven seats in the House of Representatives, although CNN projects that they will retain a majority.

The have also failed to flip some take in the Senate they had their eye on flipping.

But now two races in Georgia could change that.

On Friday it became clear that Republican Senator David Perdue had fallen short of the votes required to win re-election against his Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff. Rules in Georgia state that a candidate must get at least 50% to win.

The other race that will go to a run-off is between Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler and Democratic Raphael Warnock - who are vying to fill the seat of now-retired Republican Senator Johnny Isakson.

Read more about the winners and losers in the Congressional races.

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Trump has filed a barrage lawsuits in various states over the last few days, alleging irregularities in vote counting, but has not presented any evidence.

Now his campaign has filed another lawsuit in Arizona, accusing the state of wrongly rejecting ballots cast on election day.

The lawsuit claims poll workers told some voters to press a button after a machine had detected an "overvote" - and that those votes were then disregarded and new machines used.

Since the election result was announced, Trump has said Biden is "falsely posing as the winner" and insists the race is "far from over".

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Iran’s tightly controlled TV channels reported Biden's victory without significant comment - a reflection of the Islamic Republic's repeated assertion that it doesn't matter who leads the US, as the system itself is the true enemy.

In fact, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei reposted a tweet he had shared on election day, in which he called the race "the ugly face of liberal democracy" and predicted the "political, civil, & moral decline of the US regime."

One TV channel carried lengthy vox-pops from the streets that all hit upon a familiar theme - that there is no difference between Biden and Trump, and Iranians should not place any faith in American politicians but rely only upon themselves.

Russian reporting was also muted after the announcement, with the story only placing fourth in the main evening news bulletin on the popular Channel One.

"Just over an hour ago, an alert flashed across the world’s news agencies. 'Joe Biden is the next president of the United States' - from sources... What can we make of this?" host Vitaly Yeliseyev asked.

Throughout the campaign, Russian state media has appeared more sympathetic to President Trump than his Democratic rival and has repeatedly given air-time to his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.