US election 2020 live: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris speak after election victory

Members of Donald Trump's family, including his son-in-law, have reportedly approached the president and urged him to concede the election. 

Welcome back to our live coverage of the US election.

We're into day five now, and at long last, we have a result. Joe Biden has won.

Mr Biden's lead surged past 30,000 votes in Pennsylvania today, prompting the news networks to call the state for him. That pushed him past the 270 electoral votes he needed to become America's next president.

A short time later, Nevada reported a new batch of votes from Clark County, and it was enough for multiple networks to call that state as well.

The other undecided states technically don't matter now. Mr Biden no longer needs them. But if he can win them, pushing his margin of victory beyond a single state, it will insulate his victory from the possibility of legal action from Donald Trump.

Mr Biden's lead in Georgia, which hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1992, has grown to 10,195. But we already now there will be a recount there, so don't expect the networks to call it for some time yet.

The Trump campaign remains convinced it will end up winning Arizona, though Fox News and The Associated Press both stand by their decision to declare Mr Biden the winner there. He leads by 29,000, and the President needs about 60 per cent of the outstanding vote to catch up.

Then there's North Carolina, where Donald Trump is up by a fairly comfortable 75,000 votes, but we aren't expecting any significant updates for a few days yet.

In his first address to the nation as President-elect, Mr Biden made an appeal for unity. 

"I'm a proud Democrat. But I will govern as an American president. I will work as hard for those who didn't vote for me as those they didn't. Let this grim era of demonisation in America begin to end here and now," he said.

"Let us be the nation that we know we can be. A nation united, a nation strengthened, a nation healed."

Meanwhile, members of Donald Trump's family, including his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, have reportedly approached the president and urged him to concede the election.

Mr Trump's refusal to concede "creates this conversation about who is going to be the person that’s going to reckon with the president and tell him that his time in office could be coming to an end", CNN's White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins said. 

“That’s a conversation that I’m told the president’s allies are still having, they’re not sure who that person is going to be. They’ve talked about Jared Kushner, someone like an Ivanka Trump, but they haven’t figured out who it is to bring the president to terms with reality." 

Read on for all the latest news.