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Yeah, I'm not sure, the one from 2016 where Donald Trump won had a very nice discussion on it.

It wasn't flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12909752

Headline is inaccurate. He's not president elect until a joint session of congress counts the certificates of votes from the electoral college and declares him as such.

Yeah, Biden likely will be president elect. But the news media's call of what they think is likely is in no way official.

Edit: When I wrote this, the headline was along the lines of "Joe Biden is President-Elect."

Technically it’s false because one doesn’t become President-Elect until vote counts are officially certified.

Yea, but we've always referred to them as president elect once it's obvious they will win.

No, one becomes the president elect after the electoral college votes, which is still a month away.

Biden will now begin to receive intelligence briefings. He is the President-Elect (which is not a legal term - it is a media one - so it is silly to insist your definition is correct)