Most networks project Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., sometimes referred to as New Jersey’s third Senator for his many appearance in the state while representing next-door Delaware in the United States Senate for 36 years, has been projected as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Biden, 78, was called the winner in his bid to unseat President Donald Trump after narrowly capturing Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes.

Trump has not conceded the election.

“The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor,” he said in a statement today.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy predicted that Biden would “lead with moral courage, personal conviction, and facts.”

“It is no exaggeration to say that changing the way our country approaches this ongoing pandemic will save lives,” said Murphy, who used his statement on the projection of Biden’s election to plug funding for the Gateway tunnel project under a Biden administration.

MSNBC rock star Steve Kornacki suggested that Biden would also win Arizona, Georgia and Nevada and wind up with 306 electoral votes.

In New Jersey, early and unofficial results have Biden leading Trump by a 59%-40% margin, with hundreds of thousands of votes still uncounted.

Biden is currently leading in red counties like Morris and Monmouth, and will score 14 electoral votes from the Garden State.

Trump is leading in six of New Jersey’s 21 counties: Cape May, Hunterdon, Ocean, Salem Sussex and Warren.

In heavily-Republican Hunterdon, Trump’s lead is just 2,333, 51%-48%.

The results in New Jersey were never in question.  The state has not voted Republican in a presidential election since George H.W. Bush carried it in 1988 over Michael Dukakis.  Trump did not contest New Jersey.

Biden’s first New Jersey political appearance was on October 4, 1973 when he stumped for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brendan Byrne at a $20-per-person Morris County Democratic fundraising dinner in Mountain Lakes.

The ties between the apparent new administration and New Jersey don’t stop with Joe Biden.

The spouses of Biden and Kamala Harris have New Jersey roots: Jill Biden was born in Hammonton, and Doug Emhoff grew up in Matawan, where he attended Hebrew school at Temple Shalom.