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WASHINGTON: Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s campaign said on Wednesday (November 4) that the former US Vice President was on track to win the 2020 election against President Donald Trump, with victories expected in the battle states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Campaign manager Jennifer O’Malley Dillon said she expected Biden to have more than 270 electoral votes later Wednesday. He told reporters that he believed Biden had already won Wisconsin and was expected to win Nevada.
The excruciating election continues to hang by a thread, with Biden opening narrow lanes in Wisconsin and Michigan Wednesday morning, according to Edinson Research, as the two Midwest battle states the Republican president won in 2016 continued to count the ballots by email that emerged in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Along with Nevada, another state where Biden had a small lead with votes yet to be counted, those states would give Biden the 270 votes needed in the Electoral College state by state to win the White House. But Trump still had a path to victory with those officially undecided states.
LEE: Trump alleges ‘surprise ballot dumps’ in the states where he led
Opinion polls had given Biden a strong lead across the country for months, but they had shown tighter races in battle states, and the vote did not produce the overwhelming verdict against Trump that Democrats had wanted.
On Wednesday, Trump alleged there had been “surprise ballot dumps” in the states where he had been leading Biden.
Trump offered no evidence for his “ballot” allegation and there have been no reports of wrongdoing.
Twitter has called Trump’s comments “misleading.”
The Trump campaign said it would go ahead with legal efforts to ensure that those legally cast were counted, and not those cast illegally, and said it hoped to win even as ballots continued to be counted in key states.
“If we count all the legal votes, we win, the president wins,” Bill Stepien told reporters on a conference call.
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On Wednesday, Biden tweeted that his campaign will not “rest until every vote is counted.”
Trump will suffer a great loss if he follows through on threats to challenge electoral vote counts in the US Supreme Court, said a campaign attorney for Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump “will face one of the most embarrassing defeats a president has ever suffered before the highest court in the country” if he asks him to invalidate the ballots counted after Election Day, former White House attorney Bob Bauer said.
