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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the battle states of Pennsylvania and Georgia for the first time on Friday, putting him on the brink of winning the White House.
Three days after the polls close, Biden has a 253-214 lead in the Electoral College vote state-by-state that determines the winner, according to most major television networks. Winning Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes would put the former vice president over the 270 he needs to secure the presidency.
Biden would also win the election if he prevails in two of the other three key states in which he held a narrow lead on Friday: Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. Like Pennsylvania, all three were still processing ballots on Friday.
With his re-election chances disappearing, Trump stepped up his baseless attacks on the results, appearing at the White House Thursday night to falsely claim that the election was “robbing” him. His campaign is pursuing a series of lawsuits across the battlefield states that legal experts described as unlikely to alter the outcome of the election.
In both Pennsylvania and Georgia, Biden surpassed Trump thanks to mail-in ballots cast in urban Democratic strongholds like Philadelphia and Atlanta.
In Pennsylvania, Biden led Trump by 5,587 votes on Friday morning, while in Georgia, he had opened a 1,097-vote lead. Both margins were expected to grow as the additional votes were tallied.
Biden, 77, would be the first Democrat to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992.
In Arizona, Biden’s lead had dropped to about 47,000 votes Thursday, and in Nevada he was ahead by about 11,500.
Pennsylvania, one of the three traditionally Democrats, had long been considered crucial to the 2020 race, and both candidates squandered huge sums of money and time in the state.
As the country held its breath for a result in the race for the White House, Georgia and Pennsylvania officials expressed optimism that they would finish counting on Friday, while Arizona and Nevada were still expected to take days to complete their vote totals. .
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