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The outcome of the US presidential election is on a razor’s edge, with Donald Trump and his rival Joe Biden side by side in key states.
Neither candidate can credibly claim to have won so far, and both campaigns said they had potential paths to victory.
Biden’s campaign said the race was “moving toward a conclusion in our favor.”
But Trump, a Republican, claimed to have won and promised to launch a Supreme Court impeachment, without providing evidence of fraud.
Several key states are expected to finish counting by the end of Wednesday, but the election may not be decided for days.
The Biden campaign said it hoped to win because multiple states would be called up for them on Wednesday or Thursday, but the Trump campaign said it was confident the math was in its favor.
The United States is on track to achieve the largest voter turnout in a century. More than 100 million people cast their votes in early voting before Election Day, and tens of millions more added their vote on Tuesday.
What are the results so far?
Trump has defied pre-election polls to do better than anticipated, but Biden has a limited lead in several key states.
In US elections, voters decide contests at the state level rather than a general, single, and national one.
To be elected president, a candidate must obtain at least 270 votes in what is called an electoral college. Each US state gets a certain number of votes in part based on its population and a total of 538 are up for grabs.
The vote counts on the Rust Belt battlefields of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which propelled Trump to the White House four years ago, are very close.
But Biden is currently in the lead in Wisconsin and Michigan and a Trump lead in Pennsylvania could still be overturned by mail-in ballots.
Biden could also snatch Arizona, a once reliably conservative state, and it is ahead in Nevada, though the count is not expected to resume until Thursday.
However, the president is expected to have occupied the must-win state of Florida and another conservative state, Texas, where Biden’s campaign had dreamed of an unexpected victory.
Source: GNA
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