The United States is witnessing the counting of votes for this year’s presidential election. Democrats and Republicans have given their all to take the seat of power during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic that has hit the United States very hard.
The other issues that have dominated these elections are racial assassinations, the economy, and foreign diplomacy.
It takes two hundred and seventy electoral college votes to rise to power, and trends are that Joe Biden is closer to the middle of the road, but Donald Trump is not far behind either.
Trump, who has already secured leadership in most of his 2016 states, is ahead of Biden in Pennsylvania, a state considered the most crucial in the electoral race. Biden is guarding Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin, among many others.
With clear uncertainty as to who would rise to the throne after these elections, here are the latest updates on what has happened so far:
1. Nevada suspends the update of results until Thursday morning
Nevada has suspended updating the presidential election results until Thursday morning, the Nevada Secretary of State’s Elections Division said.
“That’s it for the election results updates until 9 am on November 5. Here’s what has been counted so far: All early votes in person; all votes in person on Election Day and all votes by mail until November 2, ”he tweeted.
Joe Biden leads incumbent President Donald Trump by a 0.6 percent margin, at 5.45 a.m. ET, according to CNN.
2. Twitter describes President Trump’s comments on ballot irregularities as “misleading”
Shortly after President Donald Trump took to Twitter and said the states he led in began to magically disappear as surprise dumps were counted, the social media giant called his ballot irregularities misleading.
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3. Biden falls behind in Alaska
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is far behind Donald Trump in Alaska. After 45% of the vote count, Biden is at 33%, while his rival is at nearly 63%, the Associated Press reported.
4. Trump is ahead of Biden in Pennsylvania
President Trump is ahead of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in Pennsylvania. According to the Associated Press, Trump has an electoral vote count of 54.5% compared to Biden, who has 44.4%.
Earlier, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Secretary Kathy Boockvar addressed a briefing and said this year’s elections have been the most fluid in a long time, adding that each ballot will be accurately counted.
5. Joe Biden on track to win this election, says campaign manager
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Joe Biden’s campaign manager, said Wednesday that the former US vice president would emerge the winner and become president. Dilion, who addressed a virtual conference on the election update, said Biden was on track to win Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
6. Biden’s campaign criticizes Trump’s claim of victory as “scandalous, unprecedented and incorrect”
Joe Biden’s campaign focused on the claim of Donald Trump’s victory before the actual results declaration as “outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect.” The current president of the United States previously said that he had won the elections on Wednesday (local time) and thanked the American people for their tremendous support and said that the results of the polls have been “phenomenal.
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