MILLIONS of votes are still being counted on Wednesday as the 2020 presidential election between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden hinges on a handful of battleground states.
The race is still too early to call in those states and neither candidate is at the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency despite early victories in some important swing states.
Trump won Florida, Ohio, Texas and others, while Biden carried Arizona, Minnesota and New Hampshire, according to the Fox News Decision Desk.
The race now appears to hinge on Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Those states all have some votes yet to be reported which, despite narrow leads for one candidate or the other, remain critical to what the final result will be in those states, and by extension, the presidential election.
Meanwhile, Trump is lashing out against the counting of these ballots while the Biden campaign is expressing confidence in its chances to reach 270.
“They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!” Trump said in one tweet Wednesday.
He added: “They are working hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear — ASAP. Likewise, Michigan and others!”
The Biden campaign harshly condemned Trump for comments early Wednesday morning that were similar to his more recent tweets.
“The president’s statement tonight about trying to shut down the counting of duly cast ballots was outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect,” Biden Campaign Manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said. “It was outrageous because it is a naked effort to take away the democratic rights of American citizens.”
Meanwhile, a Biden campaign official told Fox News that the race “is moving to a conclusion — and moving to a conclusion in our favor.”
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While Pennsylvania could take days to produce a final result, the Trump campaign has also said it will request a recount in Wisconsin, throwing the timing of when an election result may be final further into question.
Still, votes are expected to be reported through the day Wednesday which could provide more clarity — though not necessarily a final projection — in some states.
Here’s the latest in the uncalled battlegrounds:
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said Wednesday morning that the Keystone State has more than 1 million mail-in ballots to count.
“I promised Pennsylvanians that we would count every vote and that’s what we’re going to do,” he tweeted.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar added Wednesday morning that there are “still millions of ballots left to be counted … the counties are working incredibly hard.”
“We are going to accurately count every single ballot,” Boockvar said, continuing that election counts are “never done on the day of Election Night.
As of Wednesday morning, Pennsylvania had reported 64% of the vote. Officials have previously said they expect most votes to be counted by Friday, Nov. 6.
Early returns indicate that Trump leading significantly by hundreds of thousands of votes. But large swaths of mail votes remain to be counted in areas favorable to Democrats like Philadelphia County, Montgomery County and Allegheny County.
Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes.
Michigan
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said on CNN Wednesday morning that there will be a “much more complete picture” of the results in the state by the end of the day Wednesday. The candidates are separated by less than 50,000 votes as of late Wednesday morning.
She added in a tweet that further absentee ballots had been reported in areas including Livonia and Dearborn.
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More than 95% of votes have been counted in Michigan, but many ballots in Wayne County, which is where Detroit is located, have not been tabulated. Meanwhile, many votes in Monroe County, which is currently leaning heavily toward Trump, also has some votes yet to be reported.
Michigan has 16 electoral votes.
Wisconsin
Biden and Trump appear locked in a virtual tie in Wisconsin with nearly all votes counted as of Wednesday morning. Biden is leading Trump by about 30,000 votes.
In 2016, Trump won Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes.
Wisconsin Election Commission Administrator Megan Wolfe said on Wednesday that all votes in the state had been counted and reported except for “one tiny township with less than 300 voters.”
“The election has gone according to law. Every step is publicly observable,” Wolfe added.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has already said that it will request a recount in Wisconsin.
“here have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results,” Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in a statement. “The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so.”
Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes.
Nevada
The state has reported 67% of its ballots as of late Wednesday morning and shows Biden with a slim lead.
The state’s election division announced Wednesday morning that no more results would be updated until noon Eastern Time on Thursday. Votes that still need to be counted include mail-in ballots received on Election Day.
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North Carolina
Trump holds a slim lead in North Carolina, which has 15 electoral votes, as of Wednesday morning.
North Carolina allows ballots that are mailed by Election Day but received up to nine days later to be counted, meaning if the margin remains razor-thin it could take time for a call to be made in the Tar Heel State.
North Carolina is considered critical to Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes. Four years ago, Trump won the state by a margin of 3.7 points.
Georgia
The president as of Wednesday morning held a narrow lead in Georgia. But most of the outstanding votes appear to be in Fulton County, a populous Democratic stronghold where Atlanta is.
Vote counting in Fulton County was paused late Tuesday night but will resume Wednesday.
“By midday we should be pretty much through it,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told ABC on Wednesday morning, indicating the race in that state may be barreling toward a conclusion.
“We’re doing fine,” he added in a press conference later in the day, expressing confidence that Georgia would soon finish its vote-counting. “We’ll be off everyone’s radar and they’ll be worried about the states up north.”
(SOURCE: FOXNEWS)
