US Presidential Election 2020 Results: All Updates

Donald Trump's lead over Biden in Georgia shrinks to 665 votes

Moscow/Sputnik: Incumbent US President Donald Trump retains the lead in the state of Georgia, but Democratic challenger Joe Biden is only 665 votes behind, with 99 percent of the votes counted, AP results showed Friday.

The election was held on Tuesday, but there was a large number of mail-in ballots and plenty of people voted in advance amid the coronavirus pandemic, so the counting could be particularly complicated.

The winner has not been projected for four swing states yet, and the race remains tight. Some news organizations count Arizona as undecided as well, although others have given it to Biden.  

Donald Trump's lead over Biden in Pennsylvania decreases to 0.8 percentage point

Washington/Sputnik: The lead of US President Donald Trump over his contender, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, in the battleground state of Pennsylvania has sunk to 0.8 percentage point, Fox News reported.

After the count of 90 percent of ballots, Trump has 49.8 percent of votes, while Biden 49 percent. At the moment, the incumbent president has gained 51,000 votes more than his opponent in this battleground state.

Philadelphia is one of five states that have not announced the results of the vote count yet.

On Thursday, Philadelphia temporarily halted the vote count over the lawsuit of Trump, who demanded that his campaign observers must get access to the process. Later, the vote count has been resumed, while the Trump campaign has filed a federal lawsuit to suspend the process.  

Donald Trump's campaign says President will win Arizona after votes counted

Washington/Sputnik: Donald Trump's campaign expects him to overtake Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the crucial state of Arizona when the vote counting is finished, campaign's deputy manager David Bossie said in a press conference in Phoenix.

"If the current trends continue, as we have seen, because we follow the science, President Trump is going to overtake Joe Biden, and we're going to win Arizona," Bossie said on Thursday.

According to the campaign officials, Arizona still has thousands of uncounted votes favoring the president.

"The news organizations have prematurely called Arizona… What we're going to do is prove them wrong," Bossie stated.

Fox News and the Associated Press have made a projection in Arizona placing Biden ahead of Trump in the presidential race.

According to Fox, Biden is leading in the state, which carries eleven electoral college votes, 50.5-48.1% after 88 percent of the ballots have been counted.  

Donald Trump says US election could be decided by Supreme Court, lots of litigation expected

Washington/Sputnik: US President Donald Trump in a news conference said the 2020 presidential election could be decided by the Supreme Court, adding that a lot of litigation is expected.

"We think we will win the election very easily, we think there's going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof and it's going to end up perhaps at the highest court on the land," Trump said at the White House on Thursday.  

Joe Biden increases lead in Nevada

Joe Biden's lead in Nevada has increased up from 7,647 to more than 11,000.

Biden holds 49.5% of the vote, while Trump holds 48.5%.

Counting in Pennsylvania paused until Friday

The counting in Pennsylvania has been paused following disputes over the arrival time of the voting ballots on Nov 3.

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, will not count anymore ballots until tomorrow because of a court agreement over some 29,000 disputed ballots, CNN reported quoting County Councilwoman Bethany Hallam.

The agreement stems from a legal challenge over misprinted ballots that had to be reissued to some voters. The county agreed not to count the potential pool of reprinted ballots until Nov. 6 at 5 p.m. ET – the deadline for receiving mail-in votes that were sent by Election Day.

They will resume counting on Friday.

All of Biden claimed states will be legally challenged: Donald Trump

Amid the ongoing counting in the competitive race for the White House, US President Donald Trump tweeted that: "All of the recent Biden claimed States will be legally challenged by us for Voter Fraud and State Election Fraud. Plenty of proof - just check out the Media. WE WILL WIN! America First!"

Meanwhile, amid the counting of votes in Pennsylvania, Trump, who is leading, claimed to have won the state.

He earlier also demanded to stop the vote count.

Every vote must be counted: Joe Biden

As vote counting is still going on, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tweeted: “Every vote must be counted."

The tweet included a short video showing people who, presumably, voted.  

Republican supporters gather outside Arizona vote count centre

Several Republican supporters have gathered outside the Arizona vote count centre following a claim on social media that the votes for Republican nominee Donald Trump will not be counted, BBC News reported. 

Joe Biden inches towards 270 electoral college votes

Democratic nominee Joe Biden is inching towards 270 electoral votes, the figure required to become the US President. 

As per BBC News, Biden is having 243 electoral college votes as opposed to US President and Republican nominee Donald Trump's 214. 

According to CNN, Biden is having 253 electoral college votes as opposed to Trump's 213. 

Joe Biden wins Wisconsin, Michigan

Democratic nominee Joe Biden is now projected to win both Wisonsin and key state Michigan, BBC reported. 

Trump campaign files lawsuit to stop counting of ballots in key state of Georgia: Reports

Washington/Sputnik: The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit in the battleground state of Georgia to halt the counting of ballots, the Associated Press reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Trump campaign filed similar lawsuits in the key toss-up states of Michigan and Pennsylvania in order to stop the counting of ballots as well.

The Trump campaign is arguing that its observers were unlawfully denied access at the polls. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is currently leading President Donald Trump 264 - 214 on the electoral map and could win the election if he secures a win in the swing state of Nevada, according to results from Fox News.

We are winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes for winning presidency: Joe Biden

Democratic nominee Joe Biden while making an address to the nation at Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, said "Democracy is still alive. America has come a long way. Here, the people rule. Power can't be taken or asserted. It flows from the people," Biden said.

"And it's their will that determines who will be president of the United States and their will alone," he asserted in his speech.

"And now after a long night of counting, it's clear that we are winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency," Biden added.

Biden will declare victory once campaign believes they reached 270 electoral votes: Adviser

Joe Biden's campaign senior adviser Anita Dunn stated that they are confident of recieving 270 electoral votes.

She added that Joe Biden will declare victory once the campaign believes they have reached that number, regardless of whether news outlets have called those races.

"I think that at the end of the day we always said that the goal was to get 270 electoral votes and we feel very confident that after the vote’s been counted, that’s where the vote is going to be: above 270. And that’s how you win the presidency," Dunn told reporters.

Asked if Biden would declare victory even if all the states' results had not yet been called by the networks, she replied, "If we feel comfortable that he has 270 electoral votes, yeah."

Donald Trump campaign says it will request Wisconsin recount

The Donald Trump campaign said that it will “immediately” request for a recount of votes in Wisconsin.

But under Wisconsin law, a campaign can’t petition for said recount until the Wisconsin Election Commission completes the canvass from county election boards, CNN reported.

"Despite ridiculous public polling used as a voter suppression tactic, Wisconsin has been a razor thin race as we always knew that it would be. There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results. The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so,” Bill Stepien, Trump campaign manager, said in a statement.