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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Joe Biden is expected to win the US presidential election, according to major US media.
But all outlets have yet to project a final winner in four US states, starting Monday (November 9): Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina.
Biden needs at least 270 votes in the Electoral College, which ultimately decides the presidency. Those 538 votes are distributed among the states and chosen in individual state contests on Election Day, usually on a winner-takes-all basis.
Biden currently has at least 279 electoral votes. Acting Republican President Donald Trump has only 214; even if you win the remaining four states, you can’t reach 270.
Arizona (11 electoral votes)
Biden has received 49.5 percent of the vote, compared to 49 percent for Donald Trump, a narrow margin of 16,985 votes, with 98 percent of the ballots written.
Fox News and the Associated Press (AP) rated the race in the western state in favor of the Democrat on election night, drawing ire from Trump.
Other outlets, such as The New York Times and CNN, have so far refrained from declaring a winner in Arizona, a traditionally Republican stronghold.
Georgia (16 electoral votes)
More than 98 percent of the votes have been counted in this southeastern state, which has consistently voted Republican since 1996.
Trump’s initial lead dissipated when mail-in votes in major urban areas like Atlanta were counted, and Biden surpassed it.
The Democrat currently has an advantage of more than 10,350 votes, according to state election data.
North Carolina (15 electoral votes)
About 98 percent of the votes have been counted in this traditionally Republican southeastern state.
At the moment, Trump is ahead of Biden by about 75,000 votes, with a total of about 50 percent of the vote compared to 48.6 percent for his rival.
Alaska (3 electoral votes)
Only 56 percent of the votes have been counted in Alaska, due to the complicated logistics of collecting ballots in the vast state and the cross-referencing of absent ballots to ensure no one votes twice.
Trump leads with 62.9 percent of the count so far. No Democrat has won in Alaska for decades.
306 electoral votes?
If Biden wins Arizona and Georgia, as some projections suggest, he will have 306 of 538 voters, the same number that propelled Trump to victory in what the president has called “crushing” over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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