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Updated 20 minutes ago
After a grueling 24 hours, it looks like there will soon be a result in the US presidential election, as the count continues this morning.
Joe Biden, who last night said he believes he will win and become the 46th president of the United States, has 264 votes in the electoral college and needs to secure one from Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina or Pennsylvania to reach the magic number of 270.
Trump, who yesterday denounced fraud, has taken legal action in three of those states to stop counting or insist that his team have greater access to scrutinize the process. The president needs to win all four states to win a second term, but his path to victory has narrowed more and more.
Here is a summary of the key things to know from the results so far:
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Biden has said that he believes he will win and become the 46th president of the United States of America.
- Biden took the states of Michigan Y Wisconsin yesterday afternoon.
- Counting on Georgia, which has 16 electoral college votes, is 95% complete with Trump leading 23,000 votes.
- So far, Trump is projected to win 23 states, including Texas, Ohio and Florida, having beaten pollsters’ predictions.
- The Trump campaign said it will request a recount in Wisconsin after Biden won the state by less than 1% of the vote. He also sought to stop the count in Michigan.
- Overall turnout in elections is expected to be highest in 120 years 66.9%.
- Dozens of Trump supporters began protesting outside a Detroit vote counting center last night chanting “stop the count.”
- A group of international observers found that the US presidential elections were “competitive and well-run,” but condemned Donald Trump’s “baseless allegations” of systemic fraud, saying they undermine public trust in democratic institutions.
- Here are the projections of state results at this time.
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Trump said in the early hours of yesterday morning that he will go to the Supreme Court with his team launching several legal offers to stop counting later that day.
- We will update our live blog here with all the latest as it happens.
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