November 4 evening updates on the 2020 election
Hello, here is the evening update on the election. The race is still on, we don’t have a clear winner yet. There’s a lot of drama.
Both Politico and Fox News say Joe Biden is at 264 electoral college votes. President Donald Trump is behind 60 electoral votes and stands at 214. Remember, to win, a candidate must get 270.
The remaining states that are still too close to call are Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, and Alaska.
Nevada is a critical state. If Biden wins Nevada, then he wins the presidency because it has 6 electoral college votes. It would add to Biden’s 264 and make it 270. But if Trump wins Nevada and Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, then he will get his second term. So it’s still competitive and Trump can make a big comeback.
Trump had a lead in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, but he has seen his lead shrivel up as more mail-in ballots are counted. As of this evening, there are still between 800,000 to a million ballots that are outstanding. So Trump could lose his lead in Pennsylvania.
President Trump’s campaign has filed several lawsuits. I’ll list them. They filed a lawsuit in Michigan to try and stop ballot counting because they felt they did not have meaningful access to observe the counting process.
The campaign filed a similar lawsuit in Pennsylvania. They also requested the Supreme Court to overturn Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court’s decision to allow the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive up to three days after Election Day (as long as they are postmarked by Election Day). Trump wants the Supreme Court to say, “no.”
The Trump campaign is demanding a recount in Wisconsin — Biden is projected to win the state by a narrow margin of about 20,000 votes.
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Georgia alleging that poll workers were allowing absentee ballots that arrived after 7 p.m. on Election Day to be mixed in with ballots that arrived prior.
Trump complained on Twitter that mail-in ballot “dumps,” when they are counted, are destructive to him.
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In Detroit, there were pro-Trump protesters who converged outside of a convention center where poll workers are counting ballots to demand them to be allowed inside and for them to stop counting.
On the other side, the Biden campaign has not filed any lawsuits or demanded a recount. Biden said today that he believes that he will win when the votes are counted.
Now, many eyes are on Nevada. Biden has a lead of just 8,000 votes over Trump. Nevada officials said they would provide an update on vote totals on Thursday at noon ET.
Many eyes are also on Pennsylvania. There, Trump has a lead of just under 200,000 votes. As I mentioned previously, they are still counting ballots. It could take until Friday to count them all. Pennsylvania is still close.
So, Biden is at the cusp of the presidency, but Trump can roar ahead and reach 270 if he wins all the remaining states. Both scenarios are possible.
That’s all for tonight. See you tomorrow. Stay with the light.
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/president/
https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/524571-new-trump-campaign-lawsuit-targets-late-arriving-georgia-mail https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/524533-trump-campaign-mounts-legal-effort-as-race-favors-biden
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/trump-campaign-files-lawsuit-in-georgia-to-pause-ballot-count
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-high-stakes-swing-state-legal-blitz-where-does-n1246424
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