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November 9, 2020: Joe Biden is projected to win at least 279 electoral votes and the presidency. Races remain too close to call in three battleground states.
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Election Update
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) is the projected winner of the 2020 presidential election, according to a consensus call from ABC News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, and The New York Times.
Biden won at least 279 electoral votes, putting him over the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. President Donald
Trump (R) won at least 214 electoral votes.
Biden will be the oldest president to take office on January 20, 2021, at 78 years old. His running mate, Sen. Kamala
Harris (D-Calif.), will be the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.
George H.W. Bush (R) was the last president to lose his re-election campaign in 1992.
This will be the final issue of Ballotpedia’s Daily Presidential News Briefing, unless one of the five outlets we are tracking retracts their election call. We are continuing to follow lawsuits and recounts. Subscribe to Ballotpedia's 2020 Election Help Desk Newsletter for more information.
Next week, we will be launching Transition Tracker to follow the Biden transition team.
The following map shows the current state of the race:
Elections are too close to call in three battleground states. Here's the status of those states as of 8:30 a.m. ET on November 9:
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Arizona: Officials said a small number of provisional and other ballots remained to be processed. With 98% of votes counted, Biden leads Trump by
0.5 percentage points.
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Georgia: With more than 98% of votes counted, Biden is leading Trump by 0.2 percentage points. The secretary of state said there will be a recount in Georgia due to the narrow margin.
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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 98% of votes counted.
Elections were called in two battleground states over the weekend:
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Biden is the projected winner of Nevada. With 97% of votes counted, Biden is leading Trump by 2.6 percentage points.
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Biden is the projected winner of Pennsylvania. With 98% of votes counted, Biden is leading Trump by 0.7 percentage points.
Candidates on the Election
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Donald Trump said in a statement on Saturday, “Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the
rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access.”
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Ballotpedia is tracking litigation filed by the Trump campaign related to the presidential election.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered victory speeches from Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night. Biden said, “I ran as a proud Democrat. I will now be an American president. I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me — as those who did. Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end — here and now. The refusal of Democrats and Republicans to cooperate with one another is not due to some mysterious force beyond our control. It’s a decision. It’s a choice we make. And if we can decide not to cooperate, then we can decide to cooperate. And I believe that this is part of the mandate from the American people. They want us to cooperate. That’s the choice I’ll
make.”
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Biden also announced his transition pandemic task force on Monday. It has three chairmen: former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner David Kessler, and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith of Yale University.
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