Trump Vs Biden: Millions of votes still being counted as contest
Millions of legally cast votes are being counted in elections offices around the country as the presidential race. It was between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. And comes down to a handful of battleground states.
Biden holds the lead in the Electoral College at this stage in the night, 224-213; 270 electoral votes are in need to become president.
Experts had warned for months that a result may not be known on election night, or even days afterward. As voters voted by mail in record numbers. As of early Wednesday morning, it was still too close to call in Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Georgia and the potentially critical state of Pennsylvania.
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Trump won a close race in Florida, which was one of the states Biden had hoped to peel away from the President’s 2016 map. And has a narrow edge in North Carolina. The former vice president has taken the lead in Wisconsin and is hoping that Arizona, where he has a 5-percentage point lead with 82% of the ballots counted, could be his first victory of the night that turns a red state blue.
With more than 90% of the vote counted in Wisconsin, Biden holds a narrow lead over Trump in that state of just more than 20,000 votes, with all of Milwaukee’s vote counted.
The state of Nevada, which Clinton won by a slender margin in 2016. Also appeared to be a much closer race than Democrats had expected. With 85% of the votes counted in that state, Biden leads by less than a percentage point.
Increasingly, it appears that the result of the entire election could hinge on whether Biden can restore the Democratic “blue wall” in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, a scenario that could stretch into the coming days as large numbers of mail-in votes are counted.
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Biden pulled ahead by a slight margin in Michigan Wednesday morning with 90% of the vote counted.
The clerk of the key suburban Michigan county of Wayne, Cathy Garrett, told election officials are still counting votes. And she would not estimate when officials may conclude. The county is reporting that more than 64% of those cast there counted. Wayne County is the largest county in Michigan and includes Detroit and its metro area.
Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a tweet Wednesday morning that “hundreds of thousands of ballots in our largest jurisdictions are still being counted including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint, Warren & Sterling Heights.”
The night unfolded as the most unorthodox election night in modern memory. At times it appeared like one candidate or the other was heading for an early win in important states. But batches of mail-in and early votes meant the count often dramatically shifted one way or the other.
Polls are now close across the US on a nerve-jangling night. A night that will set the nation’s course for the next four years. And cast judgment on the most tumultuous presidency of the modern age. Results are flowing in from battlegrounds and it’s too early to make a projection in many key states.
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The sources projects Biden will win Hawaii, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Virginia, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Delaware, Washington, DC, Maryland, Massachusetts and one of Nebraska’s five electoral votes. Nebraska awards two electoral votes to its statewide winner and divides three others over its three congressional districts.
The sources projects Trump will also win in Montana, Texas, Iowa, Idaho, Ohio, Mississippi, Wyoming, Missouri, Kansas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee and four of Nebraska’s five electoral votes.