Joe Biden will address the nation after Trump's convincing victory

Biden's sudden departure amid concerns about his mental keenness rocked the presidential race in July, and the Democrats tried to replace him with vice president Kamala Harris as their candidate. He wants to speak at 11:00, with local time there, the White House said.

Trump's team said that Biden had invited him to meet the White House at an indefinite time. In the following weeks, Trump will select personnel who will serve under his leadership, Reuters reports, broadcast Express.

Harris on Wednesday wanted to comfort voters who had hoped she would become the first woman to win the White House. She, like Biden, has vowed to help Trump's transition ahead of its inauguration on January 20th, but she urged the Democrats to continue to fight for what they believe.

Some Democrats worried that the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election showed that their left-minded values, in the liberal social sense, were already a minority imposed among Americans in a divisive campaign. The others were frustrated with the party leadership, who said they had lost touch with most of the electorate seeking assistance with increasing the cost of living.

Trump's victory, surprisingly convincing after opinion polls that had shown a head-to-head race, underlined how disappointed Americans had become with the economy, especially inflation, border security and management of its country and culture.

Hispanics, voters traditionally Democrats and families with lower incomes hit mostly by inflation helped win. Harris' campaign issued the message that Trump was not fit to serve as president again, as a convicted criminal and whose false claims of voter fraud after his fall in 2020 to Biden prompted a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol.

The former president will face far fewer restrictions on his power in his second term at the White House, as head of a Republican Party that he has remaked his image over the past eight years.

The Republicans took over the US Senate from Democrats in Tuesday's vote, ensuring Trump will control at least one room of Congress next year.

Trump prevailed in five of the seven countries of the battlefield to push him through the 270 votes of the Electoral College needed to win the presidency and was at the helm in the other two, Arizona and Nevada, where votes were still being counted.

Trump was also on track to become the first republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since George W. Bush two decades ago. He lost popular vote on Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, but secured enough electoral votes to win the White House.