 Welcome back to Place TV Africa, the breakfast time for us to tell you what happened today in history that 2020. Now today in 2020, that today will be the 3rd of November, what happened was the US presidential election, the US presidential election between Democratic Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump who was the incumbent president at the time and on November 7 Biden was declared the wiener. So yes that happened on 2020, United States presidential election was held on Tuesday November the 3rd 2020, the Democratic ticket for former Vice President Joe Biden and the junior US senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Mack Pence. The election took place against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 recession. It was the first election since 1992 and the 15th of the past century in which the incumbent president failed to win the second term. The election saw a recorded number of ballot cast votes by mail due to ongoing pandemic and you also had many more Democrats voted by mail than the Republic. As a result of large number of the mail in ballots some swing states saw delays in vote counting and reporting. November 3rd ended without a clear winner as many state results were too close to call and millions of votes remain uncounted. Now some Trump supporters expressed concern of possible fraud after seeing the president leading in some of the states on election night. Only to see Biden takes the lead in subsequent days. I remember vividly how my dreams are very keen about that particular election of course it should be keen because when you talk about world democracy the United States you always call. So yes we're looking out you know for what was going to happen how fair and credible that election was going to be and I think that we really had a lot of Democrats no Republicans in Nigeria. The Nigerian Republicans. We had a lot of Republicans you know that in the United States of America it was really awesome. I remember also that there were there were certain church groups you know that were doing their procession for Donald Trump you know the Donald Trump support group here in Nigeria and of course yes the Nigerian Republican and the Nigerian Democrats group. I think I was a Democrat. And then you know a lot of people had you know some reason why anyone Joe Biden to win because some of the policies or some of the things he would stand for. They didn't know what you were talking about the Nigerians now. The Nigerians. Please. So but I think it was a pretty interesting election. The mailing ballots aspect you know where you know like you mentioned you know at night you know it seems like Donald Trump is winning you know by the next morning things are different because mailing ballots you were coming in you know in droves and changing the numbers. The electoral college and you know I think it was also the first time that I got to actually understand how the electoral process in the United States works. So it's not about the number of votes that you get. It's the number of electoral college. What's the word now? Whatever. Electrical college for each county or each state or whatever. I don't know how to say it. But I understood it better you know how the whole process worked in the United States which was very very interesting to see. I also remember that this also led to the build up to the attack on the Capitol on the 6th of November or 6th of January sorry the following year. But it was interesting. Very interesting. On this day Joe Biden of course eventually got to defeat Donald Trump in the U.S. elections. That's today in history we'll be back after the short break to give you updates on the collapse of a building in Iqoyi here in Lagos.