Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the states of Georgia and Pennsylvania on Friday, setting him up for more than the 270 electoral votes needed to become the next president of the United States.
In Pennsylvania, Biden led Trump by 8,867 votes, while in Georgia, he had opened a 1,096-vote lead. However, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, said there will be a recount in the state. Biden also leads in Nevada and Arizona. Currently, the former vice president has a 253-213 lead in the state-by-state Electoral College vote determining the winner.
Earlier in the day, Trump again made unsubstantiated claims that Democrats had tricked him into winning the election. The president’s campaign also lost court rulings in the states of Georgia and Michigan. In Michigan, the campaign had tried to stop the counting of absentee votes, while in Georgia it had alleged that even incorrect votes were counted.
(All timestamps are in Indian Standard Time).
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