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November 5, 2020: The Trump campaign launched lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The presidential election is still too close to call in five battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
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Election Update
With race calls in 45 states and Washington, D.C., former Vice President Joe
Biden (D) has 253 electoral votes and President Donald
Trump (R) has 213.
Trump won four battleground states: Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and Texas. Biden also won four: Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin.
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The following map shows the current state of the race:
Elections are too close to call in five battleground states. Here's the status of those states as of 8:30 a.m. EST.
- Arizona: Officials in Maricopa County expect to release additional results after 9 p.m. ET on Thursday. Biden is leading by 2.4 percentage points with an estimated 86% of votes
counted.
- Georgia: Ballot counting is continuing into Thursday morning. Trump is leading by 0.4 percentage points with an estimated 96% of votes counted.
- Nevada: State election officials said they would not announce any additional results until Thursday at noon ET. Biden is leading by 0.6 percentage points with an estimated 86% of votes
counted.
- North Carolina: Mail ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 can be accepted until Nov. 12. Trump is leading by 1.4 percentage points with an estimated 95% of votes counted.
- Pennsylvania: State election officials said they expected to count most ballots by Friday. Mail-in ballots are also still being accepted in Pennsylvania until Friday. Trump is leading by 2.6 percentage
points with an estimated 89% of votes counted.
Five outlets we track—ABC News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, and The New York Times—reached a consensus on calls in two battleground states on
Wednesday:
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Biden is the projected winner of Michigan. With 99% of precincts reporting, Biden is leading Trump by 2.8 percentage points.
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Biden is the projected winner of Wisconsin. With 99% of precincts reporting, Biden is leading Trump by 0.6 percentage points.
Candidates on the Election
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Donald Trump has launched several lawsuits in key battleground states:
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Georgia: The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit with the Chatham County Superior Court requesting that the court order election officials to secure
and account for absentee/mail-in ballots received after the 7 p.m. receipt deadline on November 3.
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Michigan: The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit with the Michigan Court of Claims to provide election challengers access to view absentee/mail-in
ballot counting and other materials and requesting to stop the counting of ballots until that access is provided.
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Pennsylvania: The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of the United States over the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's order extending
the state's mail-in ballot receipt deadline to November 6, 2020, overriding the statutory receipt deadline of November 3, 2020.
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Pennsylvania: The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania requesting that the court prohibit election officials
from allowing absentee/mail-in voters to provide missing proof of identification on or after November 8 and/or prohibiting officials from counting those voters' ballots if the identification is not provided and verified by November 9.
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Joe Biden delivered remarks on the election from Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday. He said, “After a long night of counting, it’s clear that we’re winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. I’m not here to declare that we’ve won, but I am here to report that when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.”
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The Biden transition team also launched its website on Wednesday: BuildBackBetter.com
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