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It seems like a tough nail-biting path to the White House as the American election count continues today.
Democrat Joe Biden may be closing in on victory in the presidential race, but the result will come down to just a handful of states.
There was an increase in mail-in ballots nationwide due to the pandemic, and in most states, it is these votes that are still being counted.
The bottom line will come down to the states not yet declared: Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
As it stands, Edison Research has given Joe Biden a 243-213 lead over Donald Trump in Electoral College votes, which are largely based on a state’s population. To win, a candidate needs 270 votes.
Pennsylvania: 20 votes
All eyes are still on the state of Pennsylvania today, where the Trump campaign has asked to intervene in a pending US Supreme Court case on whether to allow the key state, which is still working. in hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. accept late-arriving ballots that have been marked for Election Day.
The state narrowly voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 and his 20 electoral college votes mean Trump needs this state if he wants to return to power.
But his rival Joe Biden hails from Pennsylvania and Donald Trump seems to be fighting more here than when he took over the state four years ago.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has promised that “every vote will count” in this state. He said, “I’m going to fight like hell to protect the vote of all Pennsylvanians. I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure every vote counts.”
He added: “Our election officials at the state and local levels must be free to do their jobs without fear, without intimidation, without attack. These attempts to subvert the democratic process are simply shameful.”
* With 91% of the estimated vote counted so far, Trump has 50.4%, Biden has 48.3%
Wisconsin: 10 votes
This status would be key to winning if Joe Biden is to make it to the White House and some US networks gave this status to Biden last night, predicting a Democratic victory here.
Donald Trump caused a stir in Wisconsin in 2016 by beating Hillary Clinton there by less than 30,000 votes.
For Donald Trump it is a critical state too if he wants to win another four years in office.
Michigan: 16 votes
Both CNN and Edison Research have declared that Joe Biden is the winner in Michigan, but the state continues to count “tens of thousands” of votes, according to a senior official.
President Donald Trump narrowly won here in 2016 and his team filed a lawsuit to stop the ballot counting yesterday.
“We have filed suit today in the Michigan Claims Court to stop counting until meaningful access has been granted. We also demand to review ballots that were opened and counted while we had no meaningful access,” the campaign said in a statement.
Last night, city election officials in downtown Detroit prevented about 30 people, mostly Republicans, from entering the vote counting room at the TCF Center due to capacity restrictions to combat the spread of Covid-19. .
Many of the blocked people stood outside the room expressing their protest and chanting “God bless America” while a second group of Republican contenders, who had been denied entry, gathered in a prayer circle outside the center of conventions and also chanted “Stop the Vote”. and “Stop the count”.
Greg King of the Trump campaign said the problem arose when people went to lunch and did not close the session, so when they returned it created the appearance of too many people in the room.
A Democratic observer of the poll, Liz Linkewitz, said that she and other Democrats had also been excluded and that it was not a partisan issue.
Detroit police were called in to enforce the decision and some of those excluded from the hall were agitated as election officials blocked the windows with pizza and cardboard boxes to prevent challengers from seeing inside.
Nevada: 6 votes
Joe Biden has a small and shrinking lead here and the count was suspended yesterday.
State officials expect the remaining votes, mostly mail ballots, to be counted this morning and there are an estimated 200,000 of them.
When the counting stopped yesterday, Joe Biden had 49.3% of the votes and Donald Trump 48.7%, so Donald Trump would have to win many of the remaining votes for a victory here.
Earlier today, Biden was leading Trump by fewer than 8,000 votes out of the 1.17 million cast so far, with 14% of the votes remaining.
Georgia: 16 votes
Georgia is currently balanced on a razor’s edge, making this state too close to convene any of the candidates.
This morning, Biden fell behind Trump by 18,590 votes with about 99% (4.85 million votes) counted. But the president could get most of the final votes, making the race even.
Georgia, which has not voted for a Democrat for president since Bill Clinton in 1992, was expected to finish its count around 6 p.m. Irish time today.
The latest totals from the Secretary of State’s website show Trump leading Biden by 18,144 votes, or 0.37%.
* With 96% of the estimated votes counted so far, Trump has 49.6%, Biden has 49.2%
North Carolina: 15 votes
Donald Trump has held onto a narrow lead in North Carolina and this is another must-win state for him.
The state allows mail-in ballots to be counted postmarked through Tuesday, November 3 if received by November 12, so the final result here could take some time.
Arizona: 11 votes
With narrow margins here too, “turning” Arizona from red to blue would be a historic victory for Democrats. Excluding Bill Clinton in 1996, the state has voted Republicans since 1952.
Republican protesters gathered in Phoenix last night to demand that they be allowed into the election building where the votes were counted. Joe Biden has a significant lead here with the Associated Press and Fox News already calling the state for the Democratic nominee.
* With 86% of the estimated vote counted so far, Trump has 48.1%, Biden has 50.5%
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