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Biden, in Pennsylvania, received more than 14,000 votes, with 98 percent of the votes counted.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden is ahead of his Republican rival, incumbent President Donald Trump, in Pennsylvania, one of the crucial states in the US presidential election, according to the latest results.
Biden received more than 14,000 votes, after counting 98 percent of the votes, and if he got the votes from the state, he would win the presidency.
Before that, Biden had advanced on his rival Trump in Georgia, another key state, but a recount was decided in the state.
The Trump campaign said, “These elections are not over yet.”
Matthew Morgan, a Trump campaign attorney, said there had been fraud at the ballot box in Georgia, without providing evidence of his claim, and that observers in Pennsylvania had not had a “full opportunity” to monitor the counting process. .
“We have said from the beginning that all legal votes must be counted, and that all illegal votes must not be counted,” said a statement subsequently issued by Trump, “However, each time we have faced opposition from Democrats to this basic principle “.
“We will follow this path in all its legal aspects to ensure the confidence of Americans in our government. I will not stop fighting for you and our nation,” he said.
CBS News quoted a senior Trump administration official as saying that Trump does not intend to admit defeat if Biden declares victory.
Reports from Biden’s Delaware campaign said he would deliver a speech to the nation Friday night if the presidential race was declared.
What The Establishing elections currently?
Biden received 253 electoral votes, while Trump obtained 214 votes. The candidate must gather 270 votes to win the presidency.
Some outlets gave Biden a higher number of votes as they expected him to win in Arizona, but the BBC believes that resolving the Arizona issue is premature.
And Pennsylvania, where Biden was born, has 20 electoral votes if the Democrats get them, they are guaranteed 273 votes. Election supervisors said the count would take days.
Pennsylvania has always been an important political battleground. The state used to vote Democrats in six consecutive elections before shifting its allegiance to Trump in 2016.
Biden currently leads Georgia with more than 1,500 votes, with 99 percent of the votes counted. Election supervisors said the state decided to recount the votes because the difference between the contestants is so small.
Georgia is a stronghold of Republicans and has not voted for a Democratic candidate in the presidential election since 1992.
Trump’s team believes court objections and a recount will favor the Republican candidate.
Biden’s attorney, Bob Bauer, described the lawsuits as “legally worthless.”
The rivalry remains intense in Nevada and North Carolina.
Biden would be enough to win Pennsylvania or two of the remaining states to secure the presidency.
As for Trump, he must win in Pennsylvania and three of the remaining states to ensure he remains in the White House.
Here’s the latest news on the remaining key states:
Trump reduced the gap between himself and Biden in Arizona (11 votes in the electoral college) to 40,000 votes, after 93 percent of the votes were counted. CBS, the BBC’s US partner, classified the state as “closest” to Biden.
Trump led by more than 76,000 votes in North Carolina (15 electoral college votes), with 96 percent of the votes counted.
And in Nevada (6 electoral college votes), Biden leads more than 20,000 votes with 90 percent of the votes counted.
Biden is ahead of Trump in Georgia, but also in Pennsylvania.
And the state of Georgia (16 votes in the electoral college) is enough to ensure a tie in the number of caucuses at least, pending the rest of the states. And Pennsylvania is expected to hand over the keys to the White House to the Democratic candidate if he wins.
Trends in both states indicate Biden’s leadership over Trump, and that progress will continue. The count has been announced in Georgia.
Biden is expected to win more votes in Pennsylvania than Trump in 2016.
The last few days in the state were exciting due to the counting process that began with the vote of the current electorate tilted toward Trump, followed by mail-in votes that tilted Biden.
What did the two candidates say?
Trump said Thursday: “If we count the legal votes, I will win easily, and if we count the illegal votes, they can take the election from us.”
But the Trump campaign did not present any evidence of violations of the law or electoral fraud.
The president added: “We were way ahead in all the major states, and then our numbers began to secretly decrease … There have been many violations and we will not accept that in our country.”
Trump had driven his supporters away from voting by mail, and Biden urged voters to cast their ballots by mail, which are the votes that are counted in the major states.
Analysts downplay Trump’s claims that Democrats are rigging the election because Republicans have fared better than expected in congressional elections.
On Friday, Senator Mitt Romney joined several Republicans who had criticized Trump’s remarks and wrote on Twitter: “He was wrong to say the election was rigged.”
As for Biden, he asked for calm and once again expressed his confidence that he would be the winner.
He said in a televised statement: “Democracy can be chaotic at times, and requires a little patience at other times.”
“The system is working, the selection process is underway and we will know the results soon,” he added.
With the initial results coming out, protests arose from both sides against the counting process.
What are the demands presented by the president?
Trump has filed a series of lawsuits complaining of wrongdoing and a lack of transparency.
The president called for a recount in Wisconsin, which is each candidate’s right behind his opponent for 1 percent of the vote.
But Biden was ahead of nearly 20,000 votes in the state. Analysts said the vote count on previous occasions did not change the result by more than hundreds of votes.
Courts in Michigan and Georgia rejected calls from Trump’s team.
But the Trump campaign won a court battle in Pennsylvania when an appeals court judge said Republicans had a right to take a closer look at the voting process.
The Nevada Republican Party said it had submitted a report to the Justice Department “of at least 3,062 cases of fraud.” He added that thousands of people were caught breaking the law while voting after leaving the state.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford told the BBC that all evidence showed the state conducted “free, safe and fair” elections.
