US Election 2020 Results highlights: In-person voting has concluded. Results are pouring in from across the United States. Democratic Party candidate and former vice president Joe Biden is taking on Republican Party’s nominee and incumbent President Donald Trump. California Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence are their respective running mates. Biden is leading Trump marginally in the overall Electoral College vote tally. But, things can change quickly. Yet, Trump has already claimed victory and has said he'll move the Supreme Court to dispute the counting process. Voters were urged to vote early this time, especially through mail-in ballots, to avoid queues amid the coronavirus pandemic. More than 101 million early votes had been cast. Additionally, about 26.8 million mail ballots are yet to be returned to polling authorities. Thus, over 101 million votes would have been cast and recorded even before the Election Day. Voters had already cast about 73.4 percent of the total votes counted in the 2016 presidential election, even before Election Day. But counting of mail ballots is more laborious and that is delaying the result.
Who's leading in the battleground states (as of 3.35 pm IST)?
> Biden is leading in Arizona, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
> Trump is leading in Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
US Election 2020 News LIVE Updates | And now, The Associated Press has calledWisconsin for Joe Biden. This is the second state to be flipped from Republican to Democrat after Arizona. That is not considering the lone electoral vote from Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, which Biden has managed to flip as well.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | U.S. Supreme Court may not have final say in presidential election, despite Donald Trump's threat
While President Donald Trump has promised to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a presidential race that is still too close to call, the nation's top judicial body may not be the final arbiter in this election, legal experts said.
Election law experts said it is doubtful that courts would entertain a bid by Trump to stop the counting of ballots that were received before or on Election Day, or that any dispute a court might handle would change the trajectory of the race in closely fought states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.
A handful of closely contested states could decide the outcome in the coming hours or days, as a large number of mail-in ballots cast amid the coronavirus pandemic appears to have drawn out the process.
However, legal experts said that while there could be objections to particular ballots or voting and counting procedures, it was unclear if such disputes would determine the final outcome. (Reuters)
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Meanwhile, CNN has calledWisconsin for Joe Biden. There are 10 electoral votes at stake in the state. Donald Trump had wonWisconsin back in 2016.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Donald Trump's campaign files law suit to 'halt counting' in Michigan
Donald Trump's campaign has filed a law suit to "halt counting" in Michigan, where Joe Biden is leading with a narrow margin, The Guardian has reported.
"President Trump’s campaign has not been provided with meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process, as guaranteed by Michigan law. We have filed suit today in the Michigan Court of Claims to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted," Trump's campaign managerBill Stepien said in a statement, according to The Guardian.
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Donald Trump's lead over opponent Joe Biden has narrowedin Pennsylvania and Georgia, CNN is reporting.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Joe Biden to speak on election Wednesday afternoon
Joe Biden will address the election results Wednesday afternoon, The Associated Press reported.
The Democratic presidential candidate will issue a televised address in Wilmington, Delaware. He’s been watching the returns come in with family from his home there.
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President Donald Trump wins Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, picking up the district’s single Electoral College vote over Joe Biden. Biden won the statewide vote, reports Associated Press.
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CNN is reporting that Joe Biden campaign's senior advisor Anita Dunn has said that Biden might declare victory once the campaign believes that they have reached the 270 number. When asked if that holds true even if all the states' results have not been called, she said, "If we feel comfortable that he has 270 electoral votes, yeah".
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Many Donald Trump voters skeptical of vote count
Trump for months has sought to sow doubts about how the vote-counting — especially of mail-in ballots, which take longer to count and tend to favor Democrats —claiming without evidence that the process was ripe for fraud and that Democrats would try to steal the election.
According to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate, his voters seem to have been listening.
Trump supporters were more likely to distrust the vote-counting process, though voters for both candidates had their doubts. About 7 in 10 voters were confident that votes would be counted accurately, though only about a quarter of voters were “very confident."
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Donald Trump to ask for recount in Wisconsin: campaign manager
Donald Trump's campaign manager has said that he plans to ask for a recount inWisconsin, which hasn't been called by Associated Press yet, though an earlier report by NBC News had said that Joe Biden has won the state by over20,697 which, if it holds, is quite a margin.
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According to CNN, Donald Trump's campaign is signaling to its allies that they will take the legal route in states with slim vote margins, including battleground states ofWisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. According to a source who spoke to CNN,Trump's campaign manager Bill Stepien said that campaign lawyers are already in those states in anticipation of filings.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Judge skeptical of ballot counting challenge in suburban Philadelphia county
A federal judge in Pennsylvania appeared skeptical of arguments by Republican officials seeking to stop a suburban Philadelphia county from counting mail-in and absentee ballots that voters had been permitted to correct, news agency Reuters reported.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Which U.S. states are still counting votes and when will they be done?
Let's take a look at that question, one state at a time. Next up,Nevada:Long seen as a solid Biden-leaning state, Nevada now appears in play. Edison Research data cited by Reuters shows 86 percent of the expected vote is in and Biden's lead is just 49.3 percentto 48.7 percentfor Trump.Clark County, the state's largest and home to Las Vegas, has tallied 84% of expected votes so far and Biden is ahead there 52.9% versus 45.4% for Trump.
North Carolina:The margin between Trump and Biden is less than 2 percentage points as the president clings to a lead of 50.1% to 48.7% for the Democrat, with 95% of the expected vote counted.The state allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Tuesday to be counted if they are received by Nov. 12. On Wednesday morning, the Biden campaign said they expect a final result to take several days.
Pennsylvania:Of the battleground states, Pennsylvania has the furthest to go in counting votes, and Trump so far maintains a large lead. With 79% of the expected vote counted, Trump is up 53.9 percentto 44.8 percentfor Biden.Officials there can accept mailed-in ballots up to three days after the election if they are postmarked by Tuesday. About 1 million votes remain to be counted, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said.If the margin of victory is within half of 1%, state law requires a recount. (2/2)
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Which U.S. states are still counting votes and when will they be done?
Let's take a look at that question, one state at a time. First up, Alaska:Trump has a wide lead and is broadly expected to carry the state. Still, just 36% of the expected vote has been counted, with Trump ahead by 61.4% to 34.7 percent.
Then,Georgia:Trump is holding onto a narrow lead, but several of the large counties around Atlanta that lean Democratic have substantial numbers of ballots still to count. With 92% of the expected vote counted, Trump is ahead with 50.5 percentversus 48.3 percentfor Biden.The count in those key locations has resumed this morning, with vote tallies expected around midday. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he hoped to have a result by the end of Wednesday.
Michigan:Biden has a razor-thin margin, with Wayne County - the state's largest and home to Detroit - still a long way from finished with just 76.1 percentof expected votes counted. Statewide, with 92 percentof the expected vote in, Biden has an edge of 49.5% to 48.9 percent. (1/2)
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Even as the battle for the key states continues, CNN is reporting that Donald Trump's campaign has started raising funds to wage legal battles against the election result. According to CNN, the campaign has sent over six emails to supporters since midnight ET asking for money.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Michigan secretary of state says expects unofficial vote count by end of day
Michigan, a key battleground state that will help determine who wins the U.S. presidential election, is still counting "tens of thousands" of ballots and expects to have an unofficial tally by the end of the day, the state's secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, told reporters.
"We know that tens of thousands of ballots are still outstanding and need to be tabulated," she said in a news conference, including in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint, Kalamazoo and other cities.
Benson said she is optimistic the majority of ballots cast on or before Election Day will be tabulated in an unofficial count by the end of the day. (Reuters)
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | 'They are finding Biden votes all over the place... so bad for our country', tweets Donald Trump
"They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!" President Donald Trump has tweeted.
"They are working hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear — ASAP. Likewise, Michigan and others!" Trump added. His last two tweets on ballot irregularities were flagged as 'misleading' by Twitter.
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Meanwhile, some update from Georgia, whereSecretary of State Brad Raffensperger has said that there are about200,000 ballots that are left to be counted. He added that "every legal ballot will be counted", according to CNN.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Joe Biden wins battleground state of Wisconsin: Report
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator tellsNBC News that all the ballots have been counted and Joe Biden has wonWisconsin state by 20,697 votes.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Joe Biden receives more votes than any other presidential candidate in US history
Joe Biden has now received more votes than any other US presidential candidate in history, The Guardian has reported. According to the newspaper's blog, Biden's current tally of69,759,833 votes surpasses BarackObama's 2008 record.
Meanwhile, Trump’s tally, at 67,160,663is also more than the votes he hadpolled in 2016.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Joe Biden widens his lead in Michigan
Joe Biden has widened his lead in the battlegroundstate of Michigan againstDonald Trump, CNN is reporting. He is now leadingwith 32,565 more votes than Trump.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | USPS says it completed ballot sweeps required by judge
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) completed required sweeps of mail processing facilities late Tuesday in about a dozen states after it had earlier said it could not meet an afternoon deadline to complete the checks, a spokesman for the agency said.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Tuesday had ordered the sweep in response to lawsuits by groups including Vote Forward, the NAACP, and Latino community advocates. Sullivan is holding a 12 p.m. status conference on the lawsuits. USPS data showed as of Sunday about 300,000 ballots that were received for mail processing did not have scans confirming their delivery to election authorities. (Reuters)
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Twitter labels Trump comments on ballot irregularities 'misleading'
Twitter haslabeled as "misleading" a tweet from President Donald Trump claiming ballot irregularities, as a tight vote count in the presidential election was evolving.
Trump alleged that there had been "surprise ballot dumps" in states where he had been leading Democrat Joe Biden in the race for the White House.
Twitter had also taken a similar action against an earlier tweet by the president. (AFP)
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PennsylvaniaGov. Tom Wolf, meanwhile, said that there are"millions of mail-in ballots that are being counted" and that "we may not know the results even today".
"But the most important thing is that we have accurate results.Again, even if that takes a little longer than we are used to," he was quoted as saying by The Guardianduring a press conference.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Joe Biden's campaign says he is on track to win U.S. election
Democratic candidate Joe Biden's campaign said on Wednesday the former U.S. vice president was on track to win the 2020 election against President Donald Trump, with expected victories in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon said she expected Biden will have more than 270 electoral votes later on Wednesday. She told reporters she believed Biden has already won Wisconsin and was expected to win Nevada.
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"It's gonna take some time to count the votes, we are approaching about 50% of the votes to be counted. But there's gonna be a lot of updates in the coming hours,"Pennsylvania Secretary of State has said while giving an update about the voting in the state.
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Meanwhile, the Donald Trump campaign is also skeptical about Arizona call and have expressed confidence that they can still win the state, according to reports. The Guardian reported that the Trump campaign believes Arizona was called too early for Joe Biden.
US Election News 2020 LIVE Updates | Donald Trump's campaign says it's in 'very, very, very good position' to win the election
CNN is reporting that the Donald Trump campaign is saying it is in "very, very, very good position" to win the election.
"We are confident on our pathway. We are confident in our math. We are viewing some of these races as math equations,” CNN quoted campaign manager Bill Stepien as saying, adding, “We project with confidence because of the math we believe is in front of us.”
US Election News 2020: LIVE Updates | Donald Trump, in another tweet, says:
How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Joe Biden says 'won't rest until every vote counted'
Joe Biden said thathis campaign would not "rest until every vote is counted" in the US election afterDonald Trump sought Supreme Court intervention to halt the counting process.
"We won't rest until everyone's vote is counted,"Biden said on Twitter.
US Election News 2020: LIVE Updates | The million dollar question: When are the final results going to be in?
It is difficult to know an exact time at this point. However, here's how things stand in the key states which will decide who, eventually, wins the presidency:
Wisconsin:Joe Biden is leading here with fivepercent votes yet to be counted.
Georgia:Donald Trump leading with six percent votes left to count.
Michigan:Biden leads here with six percent votes yet to be counted.
Pennsylvania: Trump in lead with 36 percent votes left to count.
Nevada:Biden leads with 33 percent votes left to count.
North Carolina:Trump in lead with six percent votes left to count.
Alaska:Trump leading here with 55 percent votes yet to be counted.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | Donald Trump has tweeted:
Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!
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Odds of a rerun of the 2000 Al Gore vs George Bush race if Donald Trump moves court
Twenty years after the George Bush versus Al Gore case to decide the presidency of the United States, Americans are afraid that the 2020 USelection may result in a similar impasse. The situation would arise if neither Republican incumbent Donald Trump or Democrat candidate Joe Biden would win by a clear majority of 270 electoral college votes.
What would happen in such a case, or in the event of Trump moving the Supreme Court if he is dissatisfied with the US 2020 election result? The President has already made public remarks calling into question the vote-counting in the election and saying he would move the Court to get his way.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | AP projects Joe Biden to win at least 3 of Maine's 4 electoral votes
Fox News and Associated Pressproject Joe Biden to win at least three of Maine's four electoral votes. It's one of two states, along with Nebraska, whose electoral votes can be split. (Reuters)
US Election News 2020: LIVE Updates | Things are moving to a conclusion – and moving to a conclusion in our favor: Official from Joe Biden's campaign
An official from Joe Biden's campaign told CNN that things are "moving to a conclusion– and moving to a conclusion in our favor". The official also said that the campaign is confident of a win inWisconsin andPennsylvania with a cance inMichigan.
"We feel good," the official said, adding that they are going to win today.
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Asenior state official said that even as President Donald Trump has a sizable lead inPennsylvania, the outcome there seems to befar from certain.
"Pennsylvania is definitely in play,"a senior official in Gov. Tom Wolf's administration toldCNN. "We hope to push counties, this morning, to work, non-stop, until every last ballot is tabulated, beginning this morning," the official added.
US Election News 2020: LIVE Updates | Joe Biden leading in Michigan
Democratic nominee Joe Biden is leading in Michigan, CNN has projected. Michigan is one of the key battlegroundstates where counting is still on and which might decide who, eventually, will be the President.
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The presidential race in Georgia remains too close to call, CNN has reported. While Donald Trump is leading in the state, the outstanding votes almost entirely come from parts of Joe Biden-friendly Atlanta and its suburbs. Contrary to Trump's claim earlier today, the race in Georgia still hangs in balance.
US Election News 2020 LIVE Updates | Wall Street on course for sharp gains as election hangs in balance
Wall Street's main indexes were set to open sharply higher on Wednesday as the race for the White House went down to the wire, although investors remained worried about the prospect of a contested result.
The knife-edge election and the prospect of an acrimonious legal battle to determine the winner sent S&P e-mini futures tumbling 1.15% earlier, but they recovered to trade up 1.7% by 08:43 a.m. ET.
Investors have said they favor a definitive, fast resolution to the election as that would clear the way for a deal on a stimulus package to help the damaged domestic economy. Analysts have also said the market will be comfortable with a clear Trump victory. (Reuters)
US Election 2020 LIVE Updates | Republican Senator Marco Rubio in a tweet:
The result of the presidential race will be known after every legally cast vote has been counted.
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Meanwhile, here's an update on who is leading in which state:
Arizona:Biden
Wisconsin:Biden
Pennsylvania:Trump
Georgia:Trump
North Carolina:Trump
Michigan:Trump
Alaska:Trump
Maine:Biden
Nevada:Biden
Note: Arizona has been called by AP for Biden, notching his tally up to 238.
US Election Result 2020 LIVE Updates | Former Donald Trump NSA John Bolton calls President's premature victory decleration a 'disgrace'
Former National Security Adviser (NSA) to Donald Trump, John Bolton, has called the President's comments 'a disgrace', according to Sky News. He said that the President's statements were"the most irresponsible comments a president has ever made".
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Ambiguity over US election result will keep market on tenterhooks, say experts
The uncertainty over the result of the US presidential election, which is far closer than predicted, will likely keep the market volatile for some time but the focus will eventually shift to local issues, experts have said.
As the outcome is not clear at the moment, the tight race may keep investors away from riskier equities.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | How things stand:
Some are holding their breaths while others are holding on to their positions. Most of us are bracketed in the former while Joe Biden and Donald Trump are included in the latter. So what are the positions that they have been holding on to this election?
> As it stands, there are several key states still left uncalled, including major prizes such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- meaning both Trump and Biden still have a path to victory.
> US media outlets have projected wins for Trumpin 23 states including big prizes Florida and Texas, as well as Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio -- all states he won in 2016.
> Biden has captured 20 states including his home state Delaware and big prizes California and New York, as well as the US capital. The former vice president has flipped one state won by Trump in 2016 -- Arizona, in the southwest.
> So far,Biden has 238 electoral votes and Trump 213.
US Election 2020 News: LIVE Updates | US vote result won't impact trade with Europe, France says
The outcome of the presidential vote will have little impact on US-Europe trade relations, France's finance chief claimed Wednesday, saying Washington is unlikely to drop its confrontational stance whether Donald Trump wins or not.
"Let's not kid ourselves: The United States has not been a friendly partner to European states for several years now," Bruno Le Maire told Radio Classique.
"Whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump is elected by Americans tonight or tomorrow, nothing changes this strategic fact," he said. "The American continent has detached itself from the European continent." (AFP)
US Election News 2020: LIVE Updates | Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Secretary of State has tweeted:
Election officials worked through the night to #CountEveryVote. That work continues. Hundreds of thousands of ballots in our largest jurisdictions are still being counted, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint, Warren & Sterling Heights. Every vote will count.
US Election News 2020: LIVE Updates | What next for Joe Biden and Donald Trump?
Which state (s) is/are the key to Donald Trump's victory lap to the White House?
Pennsylvania, most likely. According to news agency Reuters, if Trump wins inPennsylvania, he will have to win three of the other battleground states. Which is beter than if he losesPennsylvania, in which case he will have to win five of the other key states. Trump is, however, leading inPennsylvania, so that is working for him right now.
Which state (s) is/are the key to Joe Biden's victory lap to the White House?
Right now, it seems Nevada andWisconsin might hold the path to victory. If Biden wins those states, victories in Georgia, Michigan or Pennsylvania would give him enough to win the overall race.
US Election News 2020: LIVE Updates | Trump ally Chris Christie says the President 'undercut his own credibility' by declaring premature victory
Top Donald Trump ally and former New JerseyGovernor Chris Christie has said that by prematurely declaring victory, Trump "undercut his own credibility", reports CNN.
"There’s just no basis to make that argument tonight. There just isn’t. All these votes have to be counted that are in now,” Christie said, according to CNN.
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As many as 1.4 million ballots still remain to be counted, CNN has reported. This could mean that while results from states might become clear today, some states might potentially take days to report them.
