The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the No Muslim Ban Ever grassroots coalition have congratulated Biden, while urging him to follow through on his pledge to end the so-called Muslim ban.

“President-elect Biden has pledged to end the Muslim ban on his first day in office, include Muslims at every level of his administration and address issues of racial and religious discrimination,” said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.

“We plan to join other American Muslim leaders and organisations in ensuring that the Biden administration fulfils these promises. We also plan to continue holding our government accountable when it errs,” he said.

In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld a Trump policy that banned travellers from several Muslim-majority countries, saying it was allowed if done for national security. Trump’s initial 2017 order separated families and left travellers stranded around the world, and has been derided as Islamophobic.


The Democratic candidate is now set to become the 46th president of the US.

“I am honoured and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect [Kamala] Harris,” Biden, 77, said in a statement a few minutes after the projections were announced some four days since the polls closed.

With people across the US and in different parts of the world closely following the presidential race, Twitter was set ablaze as soon as the news broke.

Unsurprisingly, many social users reacted to the projections by citing Trump’s famous dismissal of contestants on his television show, The Apprentice: “You’re fired!”

Other social media users posted humorous tweets over Trump’s refusal to concede defeat. Trump’s campaign has vowed to launch legal challenges in a number of battleground states.