Former Vice President Joe Biden will shortly be President-elect Joe Biden, with leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania and on track to get to 306 electoral votes—a number we’ve heard often over the last four years, but one that this time will also come with a large popular vote margin.
Unfortunately there has to be a major concern for Biden’s safety, with recent weeks having seen police arresting people with guns planning to disrupt vote counting in Philadelphia and for death threats against Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris. But Biden is already getting increased Secret Service protection, The Washington Post reports. As the Democratic nominee, Biden already had a Secret Service detail, but it wasn’t at the level of a president-elect.
Additional agents are reportedly being added Friday to the team protecting Biden.
That full protection may still be delayed if Donald Trump refuses to concede, though: “If Biden is considered the clear winner and Trump does not concede, the Secret Service could wait under agency protocol until the electoral college meets in mid-December to certify the vote results before officially treating Biden as the president-elect,” the Post reports.
The airspace over Biden's home in Delaware is now considered National Defense Airspace, however. So things appear to be moving in the right direction for Biden to get the protection his position merits, and the threat of Trump’s supporters demands.