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Relive 1 NEWS live updates as President Donald Trump today launched legal challenges against a potential Joe Biden victory.
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The president of the United States is said to be weighing a national legal challenge to the validity of ballots in several states. Source: BBC
College Election Totals: Donald Trump 214 – Joe Biden 264- Candidates must reach 270 to win
20.50 h: That wraps up for tonight’s live updates, keep visiting the 1 NEWS homepage for the latest updates and results.
Georgia will count through the night, Pennsylvania’s results are also slowly seeping in, so there is a slim chance of an overnight New Zealand time result.
8:45 pm: The latest results from Arizona’s Maricopa County have finally arrived.
Trump got 10,783 votes over Biden in the overall state of the 62,000 votes that came in.
This means that in Arizona Trump follows Biden by 69,000 votes with 88% of the votes.
Trump may realize that, but he will put a big twist on the remaining votes.
8.30 pm: Except for a small series of tweets earlier today, President Trump has been strangely quiet.
A CNN source reported that Trump and his team are slowly coming to terms with the fact that the race is likely lost and the mood is bleak in their camp.
20.10 h: No new results yet, it is currently early morning for much of the US, which could explain the slowness of tonight’s reports.
19:41 h: Another Arizona voting delay … expected around 8pm now, but take it with a grain of salt.
The delays are not due to protesters outside the voting centers, officials say.
19:15 h: While we await more results from Arizona, which have been delayed until 7.30pm, Georgia has shrunk again.
6.35 pm: An update on Arizona’s vote count will be posted at 7pm New Zealand time. Counting has resumed in Maricopa County, however, the press has been told to leave the building as protests continue.
The new figures are unlikely to be definitive enough for either side to claim victory there. The Associated Press called Arizona for Biden yesterday, which is why he is included in the totals from previous polling stations.
18:15 h: Tensions continue to rise in battle states, with CNN reporting that protesters have led to the closure of an Arizona polling station.
Supporters of President Donald Trump gather Wednesday, Nov.4, 2020, in front of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in Phoenix. Source: Associated Press
5.34 pm: There are more results from Georgia and the gap continues to close.
17.00 h: A small but vocal protest outside a polling station in Arizona.
4.35 pm: It has been revealed that 90,000 votes remain to be counted in Georgia with just over 30,000 votes separating the two presidential candidates.
If trends continue, Biden should just step in and claim all 16 electoral votes, essentially denying Trump any chance of winning.
Pennsylvania is also very slowly announcing more results, with Biden continuing to trim Trump’s lead.
The president of the United States has been silent on Twitter for the past few hours and has not appeared in the media today.
4.15pm: The right wing is organizing protests in battlefield states that are still counting votes tomorrow.
4.05 pm: More votes have come to Georgia and Tump’s lead has shrunk to just 32,858 votes.
The state has registered 98% of all votes and has 16 electoral college votes at stake.
At one point in the race, it seemed like Trump had an insurmountable lead, yet with mail-in ballots yet to come, Biden is now the small favorite to advance there as he did in Michigan and Wisconsin.
3.50 pm: Considering that Trump is behind in Michigan, would you think that his supporters would not be against counting more votes?
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Dozens appeared chanting “stop voting” shortly after Joe Biden was declared to have won the state. Source: Associated Press
15: 40h: More results coming from Pennsylvania keep the race going.
Donald Trump: 3,202,481
Joe Biden: 3015, 721
The gap is now less than 200,000 after Trump had a 700,000 vote lead in one stage last night.
David Gabig, right, of Pittsburgh, holds up a sign as he stands on the steps of the City-County Building. Source: Associated Press
There is still 11% of the votes to come from the battlefield state.
15.15 h: An Arizona state official just told CNN that the final vote count for the state may not be known until Saturday New Zealand time.
More votes from Arizona will be received in about three hours.
3.05 pm: The new vote totals for Arizona and Biden’s lead have dropped slightly to 79,000 votes.
Arizona: Joe Biden 50.7%
Donald Trump 47.9%
2.55 pm: Twitter reports from US journalists that the 3:00 pm Arizona results will be just another 50,000 votes out of the roughly 400,000 votes pending.
Biden currently has a nearly 100,000 vote lead in Arizona, which has already been called up by the Associated Press and Fox News for Biden.
2.35 pm: A reminder that Georgia is still up for grabs for both Trump and Biden with 16 electoral votes. Trump’s advantage there has been slowly diminishing, results are expected today.
2.30 pm: Signs of what may be more trouble to come as the votes are counted in Detroit, Michigan.
2.25 pm: The United States has reached another grim milestone amidst electoral turmoil, as it recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases in one day.
Worldometers it has the number at 106,263 cases and 1,192 deaths.
The Associated Press reports that the increase in cases and hospitalizations reflects the challenge President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will face in the coming months due to the pandemic, with winter and the holidays approaching.
2:20 pm: President Trump is not giving up on Michigan, which Biden has been asked of, making more unsubstantiated claims about the election process on Twitter.
“We have claimed, for the purposes of the electoral vote, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which will not allow legal observers), the state of Georgia and the state of North Carolina, each of which has a BIG Trump advantage. Also, by We hereby claim the state of Michigan if, in fact, there were a large number of votes cast in secret as has been widely reported. “
Twitter flagged the tweet for misinformation.
2.05 pm: More Arizona votes will be received at 3pm New Zealand time. The state has already been called up for Joe Biden by the Associated Press, but Trump is clinging to hope the late count will break Republicans and stop one of Biden’s paths to victory.
However, the majority of the votes that will be received are from the counties that Biden is winning, and Trump needs to regain about 80,000 votes to reduce Biden’s lead there.
1.55 pm: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been asked for her opinion on the US elections and Trump’s controversial response to the process.
“This is the democracy of another country and we have to step back and let it run its course
“That means that all votes must be heard.”
13:40 h: Australian sportsbook Sportsbet just paid early on a Joe Biden win.
The total amount paid is $ 23 million, which means it will really be out of your pocket if Trump somehow achieves victory.
1.30 pm: Associated Press Report: President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Georgia Republican Party have filed a lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Elections asking a judge to order the county to insure and count ballots received after 7 p.m. on election day.
State Party Chairman David Shafer said in a statement today that they planned to sue in a dozen counties.
The lawsuit alleges that a Republican observer observed a poll worker taking unprocessed absentee ballots from a back room and shuffling them into processed absentee ballots awaiting tabulation.
In Georgia, ballots must be received by 7 pm on Election Day in order to count. Chatham County contains Savannah and leans toward Democrats.
The Trump campaign is also taking legal action in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
1:25 pm: Bernie Sanders was correct in a prediction he made about Election Night on late-night television before it unfolded.
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The Vermont senator said Trump was likely to denounce fraud after mail ballots began to be counted. Source: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
13.20 h: Race Status: The Associated Press reports that Democrat Joe Biden is six electoral votes short of winning the White House after switching to Michigan.
Biden also won Arizona and Wisconsin, two other states that Republican Donald Trump edged out Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The states still up for grabs are Nevada (6 electoral votes), Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), and Georgia (16 electoral votes).
