In a further blow for Mr. Trump, China congratulated the President-elect saying “we respect the choice of the American people”. Mr. Trump is refusing to concede defeat claiming the election was “stolen” from him.
Mr. Biden had been widely projected to win Arizona’s 11 electoral votes — becoming the first Democrat to claim the southern state in a presidential race since Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996.
In an interview that will air on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, the former president said: “It’s one more step in de-legitimizing not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally, and that’s a dangerous path.” Mr. Obama has said his successor was elected because “millions of Americans were spooked by a black man in the White House”. Excerpts of his memoir A Promised Land, which is published on Tuesday, have been released in the press.
Mr. Obama wrote: “It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted. Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president.”
