US Presidential Election Results- Tooth & Nail Fight Down To 3 States

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The race to the White House is now down to the wire with US President Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Joe Biden battling it out in the key states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. While Biden is marginally ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan, Trump is leading in Pennsylvania, says media reports

Democrats typically outperform Republicans in mail voting, while the GOP looks to make up ground in Election Day turnout.

The Final Push

The Democrats are banking on mail-in votes, largely in favour of Democrats, to give Biden the final push to the 270 electoral vote mark. Several states have allowed mail-in votes to be accepted after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. Democrats typically outperform Republicans in mail voting, while the GOP looks to make up ground in Election Day turnout.

Meanwhile, Biden’s campaign said Wednesday it has legal teams standing by if Trump follows through with his threat to move court to stop the counting of votes. Trump, accusing Biden campaign of fraud, claimed he had already won the elections and further counting of votes was like committing a “fraud on the American public”.

Trump has won Florida, Texas, Iowa and Ohio. Biden, on the other hand, is projected to win Arizona. Biden, as of 7 PM IST had 238 electoral votes against Trump’s 213, according to The Associated Press (AP). A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

So far, Trump is projected to win Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wyoming, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah. Biden, meanwhile, has taken Democratic-leaning states like California, Colorado, Columbia, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

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  • Republican Donald Trump is leading from Alaska, AP reports. After 45% of vote counting, Trump has 62.9% electoral vote count as opposed to Biden who is at 33%.

(Source: AP)

 

  • Biden also picked off states where Trump sought to compete including New Hampshire and Minnesota

  • Trump kept several states, including Texas, Iowa and Ohio, where Biden had made a strong play in the final stages of the campaign. But Biden also picked off states where Trump sought to compete including New Hampshire and Minnesota. But Florida was the biggest fiercely contested battleground on the map with both campaigns battling over the 29 Electoral College votes that went to Trump.

 

  • Trump inches ahead of Biden in Pennsylvania

Republican Donald Trump is leading from battleground state Pennsylvania, AP reports. After 64% of vote counting, Trump has 54.5% electoral vote count as opposed to Biden who is at 44.4%.

 

Here’s where Trump and Biden stand on swing states

 

Based on AP tally, here’s where the Presidential race stands

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The Poll Battle

Adding fears in an already chaotic environment, misinformation regarding in-mail voting that led to false claims that ballots have been tampered with is on the rise. According to data published by the New York Times, the highest volume of misinformation regarding in-mail voting has been floating in the battleground states. Of the 1.1 million total voting-by-mail falsehoods that Zignal tallied, Pennsylvania topped the list with 227,907 of them. This comes after Trump’s repeated attacks on the credibility of the system.

The issue of voter fraud was brought up on the last day of campaigning as US President Donald Trump sought to know the results on time. “The Election should end on November 3rd., not weeks later!” he tweeted on Friday.

With Trump threatening legal battles over the declaration of results, several Democratic and Republican lawyers have already gone to court over these issues in the run-up to Tuesday’s election. Both sides say they’re ready, with thousands of lawyers on standby to march into court to make sure ballots get counted, or excluded.

In the national polls, Trump continues to trail Biden with a 42 per cent chance, according to the latest Reuters poll. Similarly, a poll by The New York Times showed Biden holding a clear advantage over 4 important swing states — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona. Biden’s electoral position appears to put him in a stronger position than any presidential candidate since 2008.

Meanwhile, Indian-American supporters of both President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden on Sunday intensified their campaigns, particularly in battleground states, asking the community members to get out and vote and support their respective leaders.

Earlier in the day, Americans were seen voting in large numbers in one of the most divisive bitter elections in decades in which incumbent Republican Donald Trump is challenged by Democrat Joe Biden. Some 239 million people are eligible to vote this year. The mail-in ballots could take days or weeks to be counted in some states, meaning a winner might not be declared in the hours after polls close on Tuesday local time.

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