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Joe Biden is the seeming winner from Wisconsin, a key battlefield state that would be his first Republican spin.
After a long night of counting, the nail-biting race was drawing to a close as the Democratic challenger was projected to get his 10 electoral college votes to place him at 237.
That’s just 33 fewer than the 270 needed to win the US presidency.
But Donald Trump’s campaign manager has promised to “immediately” request a recount due to “reports of wrongdoing” in some counties.
Meanwhile, the count continues in several other swing states, and the race for the White House is still too close.
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Biden is ahead in Arizona (11 electoral votes) and Michigan (16), and has already won more than 70 million votes, a new record for any presidential candidate.
While Trump leads in Georgia (16), North Carolina (15) and Nevada (6), and has had 66.8 million votes.
In an attempt to derail two potential losses, the Trump campaign has filed lawsuits to try to stop the count in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
They claim that their election observers “have not had meaningful access … to observe the opening of ballots” and that there has not been sufficient “meaningful transparency.
Biden did not make the first breakthroughs he hoped would give him a decisive advantage on election night.
States such as Ohio, Florida, Iowa and Texas remained in the red, significantly restricting the Democratic candidate’s options to reach the prized 270 electoral college votes.
That led Trump to claim victory and accuse his political opponents of “fraud of the American public,” without proof.
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He used an address to the nation to declare that he would take his fight to the Supreme Court, then released a series of tweets about the slowly progressing results in the remaining undeclared states.
“How is it that every time you count the landfills by mail they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?” I ask.
In another post, he wrote: “Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key states, in almost every case controlled and controlled by the Democrats.
“Then one by one, they began to magically disappear as the surprise dumps were counted.”
The vote totals are being updated as more votes are counted and there has been no evidence that the ballots were downloaded.
Twitter has had to step in to censor several messages, warning readers: “Part or all of the content shared in this Tweet is in dispute and could be misleading about an election or other civic process.”
