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The fate of the United States presidency was at stake this morning when Democratic challenger Joe Biden scored a victory in Wisconsin while battling President Donald Trump in other battle states that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, arrives to speak to his supporters. Source: Associated Press
Neither candidate approved the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, and the margins were tight in several other battle states.
Top advisers to Biden and Trump this morning expressed confidence that, respectively, they had the most likely path to victory in the leading states.
The AP called Wisconsin for Biden after election officials in the state said all pending ballots had been counted except for a few hundred in one municipality and an expected small number of provisional ballots.
The Trump campaign has requested a recount.
State counts in Wisconsin have historically changed the vote count by only a few hundred votes; Biden leads by 0.624 percentage points out of nearly 3.3 million ballots counted.
It was unclear when or how quickly a winner could be determined. The latest vote counts in Michigan and Wisconsin gave Biden a slight lead in those states, but it was still too early to call the races.
Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, said the president would formally request a recount in Wisconsin, citing “irregularities in several Wisconsin counties,” and the campaign filed a lawsuit in Michigan to stop the ballot counting because it maintained that no it gave him “meaningful access” to observe the opening of the ballots and the counting process.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of votes still remained to be counted in Pennsylvania.
