When will we find out who won the presidential election?
In the 2020 presidential election, AP declared Joe Biden the winner four days after Election Day – at 11:26 a.m. ET on Saturday, Nov. 7. In 2016, AP called the race for Donald Trump at 2:29 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, November 9, after determining that Trump had won Wisconsin, thereby exceeding the necessary 270 electoral votes.