With a global pandemic and biting recession as a backdrop, the election has been nothing like previous races featuring presidents seeking reelection. Instead of a tame, colorless race controlled by the incumbent, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have sparked a record-setting early run on the polls.
Interest in the race skyrocketed this fall with over million early votes cast nationwide and several states surpassed their vote totals ahead of Election Day. Kennedy over Nixon in As it turns out, Trump will get the opportunity to make good on his repeated threats after a back-and-forth Election Night. After a tense start for the president in which Biden jumped ahead in critical areas like Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Trump rebounded in each of the coveted states.
In what would be the first major domino to fall, Decision Desk called Florida for Trump. The outcome in Florida could mean an early indication that Trump will stay in the White House or a drawn out process that could extend for days. Raphael J. Trump narrowly lost Nevada in Bush was the last Republican to win there, in Ballots left to count. Trump also said he planned to contest the U. It was unclear, exactly, what legal action he might pursue. Though Trump is correct that he held a nearly 77,vote lead, which he maintained Thursday morning, the race is too early to call with up to , mail ballots left to count, as well as about 41, provisional ballots statewide.
As long as those ballots are postmarked by Nov. This year, according to the United States Election Project, more than million Americans cast early votes , either on early voting days or using mail-in ballots. Of the races still being decided, the presidency most notably hangs in the balance, as key states, including Georgia and Pennsylvania continue to count votes.
Down the ballot, key Senate races are similarly still being decided. President Donald Trump is projected to take the battleground state of Florida, but Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia still hang in the balance as a possibility for former Vice President Joe Biden as of Friday morning. Georgia: Georgia's race is not yet projected. Why not? Gabriel Sterling, who oversees the statewide voting system in Georgia, told ABC News that election officials are still counting thousands of votes.
Military and overseas ballots can still come in on Friday, according to Sterling. North Carolina: North Carolina's race is not yet projected. North Carolina counts absentee ballots that arrive as late as Nov. Frankly, we did win this election," Trump said, before launching an extraordinary attack on the electoral process by a sitting president. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we'll be going to the US Supreme Court.
We want all voting to stop. Trump provided no evidence to back up his claim of fraud and did not explain how he would fight the results at the Supreme Court, which does not hear direct challenges. Voting concluded as scheduled on Tuesday night, but many states routinely take days to finish counting ballots.
Huge numbers of people voted by mail because of the pandemic, making it likely the count will take longer than usual. The close election underscored the political polarization in the United States.
The next president will take on a pandemic that has killed more than , Americans and left millions more jobless at a time not only of gaping political divisions but of racial tensions and differences between urban and rural Americans. The trio of "blue wall" states that unexpectedly sent Trump to the White House in — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — remained too close to call. Officials in Nevada said they would not update the count until Thursday.
A win for Biden in either one would narrow Trump's chances considerably.
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