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Welcome to our live updates as Americans go to the polls in one of the bitterest presidential campaigns in history.
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1 NEWS details how the terms red state and blue state arose and why they are associated with each party. Source: 1 NEWS
Will Donald Trump get four more years or will former Vice President Joe Biden take over the top job?
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College Election Totals: Donald Trump 25 – Joe Biden 16 – Candidates must reach 270 to win
1.58 pm: Trump just called South Carolina, adding another 9 to his electoral college total.
1.51pm: At 2 pm a new wave of polls will close in the US There are just over 170 polling station votes at stake in those races.
13.45 h: Worrisome signs for Biden’s campaign in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where he expected a big win. The New York Times currently has Trump at a 95% chance of winning Florida.
13:40 h: Associated Press has called Virginia for Joe Biden, gets 13 electoral college votes.
13:37 h: The Associated Press has called West Virginia for Donald Trump, adding another 5 polling station votes to its total.
1.30 pm: As more votes roll in, Trump and Biden are now exchanging leadership in Florida. At the time of writing, Biden is back at the helm, but that could change by the time this is published …
As it was in 2016 a true nail biter in the state of Orange.
1:25 pm: Biden is doing well in Georgia too, albeit very early on, a state won by Trump in 2016 that has a decent number of electoral college votes of 16.
This is with only 4% of the votes counted for the road ahead.
13:19: Early results from Florida’s key battlefield state show Biden with a decent lead, nearly 100,000 votes ahead of Trump.
CNN reports these results with almost 36% of the votes counted there.
Florida is a grand prize with 29 electoral college votes and helped propel Trump to victory in 2016
1:15 pm: Biden scored his first win of the day, and the Associated Press reported a win for him in Vermont. The Democratic candidate will get three votes from the state electoral college.
1.05 pm: CNN projects that President Trump will control Indiana, a traditionally red state. It comes with 11 electoral college votes. 270 votes are needed to win the election.
12.55 pm: President Trump remains optimistic.
12.30 pm: President Donald Trump convened radio shows in the battlefield states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin just hours before the polls closed. Trump today projected confidence that he will win key states like North Carolina and Florida and said he expects a “great” night. He was ready to call conservative host Mark Levin’s show minutes after the first two interviews, but Levin abruptly said that Trump would not appear.
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden made appearances today as the remaining Americans who have not yet voted make it to the polls. Source: BBC
12:00 h: The first polling stations in Indiana and Kentucky are beginning to close, while those in Florida’s key battlefield state will put up closing signs shortly.
