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WASHINGTON – Democratic candidate Joe Biden expanded his leads in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada on Friday afternoon (Nov. 6), approaching the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, although the presidential election remained unsanctioned.
Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, may be the state that pushes Biden beyond the threshold.
The former vice president, who had beaten President Donald Trump there on Friday morning, extended his lead to 27,000 votes Friday night. Your margin is expected to grow as ballots arrive in the mail.
In Georgia, Biden had a slim but growing lead: 4,000 votes Friday night. Still, the margin is narrow enough that state officials said a recount would occur, and the race may be close enough not to be called until after the recount.
Biden now has 253 electoral votes, or 264, including Arizona’s 11 votes, with multiple paths to victory and can afford to lose a combination of certain states.
Trump has 214 electoral votes and Pennsylvania and Georgia are crucial to his re-election.
Trump’s campaign on Friday went ahead with legal challenges in the states where he was behind.
Pennsylvania Republicans asked the Supreme Court to stop counting mail-in ballots, which most believe favor Biden, received after Election Day, and to segregate them, in case they are invalidated later.
The party seeks to reverse the court’s decision that mail-in ballots can be received three days after Election Day as long as they are postmarked Nov. 3.
The ballots are already segregated as part of the counting process, and Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said she did not believe the ballots would affect the outcome unless the race was closed.
In Arizona, Biden’s lead dropped to about 29,861 votes, but analysts said Trump did not appear to be getting enough counted votes to outpace his opponent there.
The Associated Press and Fox News have already called for the race for Biden, but the Trump campaign and protesters have challenged that call.
In Nevada, Biden doubled his lead from roughly 11,000 votes to 22,657.
The race in North Carolina where Trump is leading has yet to be called, but Biden doesn’t need the state to win the election.
Media reports said Biden was planning a primetime speech for the nation on Friday night.
Here’s the situation on key battlefields as of Friday night.
Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes)
– Biden leads Trump by 27,000 votes, or 0.4 points, as of Friday at 10 p.m.
– Approximately 98 percent of the votes are in
– About 102,500 mail ballots remain to be counted, according to the Secretary of State’s website
Georgia (16 electoral votes)
– Biden leads Trump by 4,000 votes, or 0.1 point, as of Friday at 6 p.m.
– Approximately 99 percent of the votes are in
– Up to 9,000 military and overseas ballots were mailed and could still be accepted if they arrive before Friday as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
Arizona (11 electoral votes)
– Biden leads Trump by 26,861 votes, or 0.3 points, as of Friday night.
– Approximately 95 percent of the votes are in
– Maricopa County, the largest in the state, has about 72,000 initial ballots to process and count, 5,000 early ballots to verify and 15,000 provisional ballots to process, the Washington Post said, citing the state elections department.
Nevada (6 electoral votes)
– Biden leads Trump by 22,657 votes, or 1.8 points, as of Friday at 7 p.m.
– About 87 percent of the vote is in
– There are about 150,000 mail ballots left, the Washington Post reported. The largest county in the state, Clark County, has 63,000 to count. Clark County, the largest in the state, expects most of the remaining ballots to be counted by Sunday.
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