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Donald Trump told supporters at the White House on election night that he had won the US presidential election, despite votes still being counted in a handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of his nail-biting race against Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Projections of the election winner may not be known for several days while mail-in ballots are counted. Legal challenges to the ballot counting, which Trump has hinted at, could delay the result further. 


 
This is the first full day of the South China Morning Post’s live updates of the US election. Read our continuing election coverage here.
 
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As it happened: Momentum shifts from Trump to Biden but margins are tight as counting continues in US election 2020

President Donald Trump addresses supporters at the White House in the early hours of November 4. Photo: AP

"I'm a Future Voter" sticker is seen on the Fearless Girl statue on Election Day outside the New York Stock Exchange, in New York City on November 3. Photo: Reuters

Results for Florida in the presidential election are seen in two photos from Times Square, New York City, on November 3. Photo: Bloomberg

A man exits a polling booth at a polling station in Manchester, New Hampshire, on November 3. Photo: AFP

File photos show President Donald Trump (left) and former vice-president Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29. Photos: AP

Florida election results are displayed on a screen in Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, on November 3. Photo: Bloomberg

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President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters after voting at the Palm Beach County Main Library, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Philippe Tanne, of France, holds a Trump 2020 flag outside the military memorabilia store he runs in the Normandy town of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont on Tuesday. Photo: Philippe Tanne via AP


US President Donald Trump claims victory in a confusing address, after Joe Biden says he is on way to a win
There are a total of 538 electoral votes; to win, a candidate needs 270




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Insight from Michael McDonald, who runs the US Elections Project, the database we've been following to track the unprecedented surge in early voting: This election may have the highest voter turnout since 1908, north of 65 per cent of eligible voters.
At more than 100 million ballots cast, the early votes represent almost three-quarters of the 2016 total.
#earlyvote morning update 11/3
  At least 100 million people voted prior to Election Day in the 2020 general election 🥳https://t.co/s8K2xFDeSA pic.twitter.com/e4uqPKq3Iz
  — Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 3, 2020




Voter turnout could break modern record

Joe Biden made an appearance at his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he “arrived to a hero’s welcome of more than 100 people cheering across the street”, AP reported. He signed one of the living room walls with the message: “From this house to the White House with the grace of God. Joe Biden 11-3-2020.”
NEW: A picture from Scranton. Joe Biden just signed this on the living room wall in his childhood home here. For context, he did this in the bedroom during the 2008 race. @axios pic.twitter.com/R9sKjG6Ktv
  — Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 3, 2020




‘From This House to the White House’

Donald Trump, who mailed in his ballot weeks ago, visited his campaign headquarters in Virginia, where he told staffers: “You know, winning is easy ... Losing is never easy, not for me it’s not.” First Lady Melania Trump cast her vote on Tuesday at a polling place in Palm Beach, Florida, close to the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort.




‘Losing is never easy,’ Trump says

Some new exterior fencing, described as “non-scalable”, is going up at the White House. Elsewhere around Washington, many CVS drug store outlets, liquor stores, restaurants and other establishments have boarded up their windows.




Extra layer of security at White House

Voters in some battleground states, including Michigan and Iowa, say they are receiving robocalls from an artificial female voice telling them to “stay safe and stay home” today. The FBI is now investigating, according to the Department of Homeland Security. 


FBI investigates suspicious robocalls

The National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan group, has a network of lawyers around the country watching for any problems at the polls. Kristen Clarke, the group’s president, says they have already received tens of thousands of complaints.
She says voting machines at a number of polling sites across Georgia were not properly calibrated. The sites tried switching to paper ballots -- until they ran out. She calls it a “crisis situation” and says her organisation wants the state to extend voting hours at the sites.
Clarke says the most complaints are coming from the swing state of Pennsylvania. She says two polling sites in Philadelphia were hours late in opening their doors. “That is not normal,” she says.


Legal watchdog reports problems in Georgia, Pennsylvania

A CNBC/Change Research poll completed over four days through Sunday and released on Monday shows Joe Biden leading 50 per cent to 46 per cent across the battleground states of Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden’s lead, however, narrowed in some states. Since the last CNBC/Change Research poll two weeks ago, Trump has picked up three points in Florida (51 per cent for Biden versus 48 per cent for Trump); two points in Arizona (50 per cent Biden vs 47 per cent Trump); and one point in Wisconsin, where Biden leads 53 per cent to 45 per cent.
Joe Biden holds narrow leads over President Trump in 6 states the president aims to defend today, according to our latest survey with @ChangePolls. #Election2020 https://t.co/FXQnabmhbh pic.twitter.com/cHnfu9eweN
  — CNBC (@CNBC) November 3, 2020
What's not working in Trump's favour is the Covid-19 pandemic. The CNBC/Change Research poll also found that two-thirds of likely battleground voters approve of the job Dr Anthony Fauci is doing handling the coronavirus, one of the top subjects on voters' minds. “Don‘t tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Florida on Sunday to a crowd chanting “fire Fauci”.


Tight races in battlegrounds

The Board of Elections in North Carolina, a battleground state, has decided to keep four polling places open longer because they opened late, which will likely delay the state's reporting of results, according to Associated Press. That means the state can’t publicly report any of its results until 8.15pm.



North Carolina extends some voting hours

Get caught up quickly on how Trump and Biden differ on their China policies here.



Trump vs Biden’s China policies

CBS12 in Florida reports that officials in Indian River County, on the battleground state's east coast, have moved voting equipment from an American Legion Hall designated as a polling place after a legion member is said to have tested positive for Covid-19.


Florida polling place relocates after Covid-19 test

Two Republicans in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania -- a congressional candidate and a local party official -- are initiating a federal lawsuit against county election officials. Their accusations: mail-in ballots were counted earlier than allowed, and voters who submitted defective ballots should not be given chances to re-vote.
Their suit comes even as a number of Pennsylvania voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected because they did not put their ballots in special “security sleeves” inside the envelope. Those voters have until the end of the day today to go to a polling site to submit a provisional ballot.
The US Supreme Court has already declined to hear a separate Republican challenge in Pennsylvania that sought to stop the state from counting mail-in ballots that were submitted by Election Day but didn’t arrive for up to three days after it. At a rally on Monday, Donald Trump lashed out at the court over the decision.


Republicans file lawsuit over vote counting

Americans are voting amid a dangerous phase of the coronavirus. The New York Times reports that US health authorities reported 93,000 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the second-highest daily number, and that more than 40 states are grappling with growing cases. The swing state of Wisconsin is seeing some of the fastest spread, with more than 100,000 cases in the past month.


Covid-19 continues to rage across US

Benchmark US stock indices rise sharply on Election Day, extending Monday’s rally, while voting continues across the nation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed up 555 points, or more than 2 per cent, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index and the Nasdaq are each up about 1.8 per cent.  
The indices are recovering from last week, which was extremely volatile leading up to the election, with the correction largely led by tech stocks. The S & P lost 5.6 per cent on Friday, in its largest single-day drop since March.




US stock markets enjoy an Election Day rally

Speaking in Philadelphia, Joe Biden dismisses Donald Trump’s demand to stop counting votes by midnight.
“Presidents don't get to decide who votes, the voters get to decide who's president,” Biden tells the local NBC affiliate.
“And so the courts have ruled that the time to count the votes is going to take more probably in Pennsylvania, and beyond the end of the day, and so we should just be patient and let the courts make the decision they've made to allow the vote to move forward.” 



Biden brushes off Trump’s insistence that vote counts stop at midnight

A judge has signed an order extending voting hours at two polling locations in DeKalb County, a suburb of Atlanta in the battleground state of Georgia. The two locations opened late this morning and hours at one have been extended to 7:40 pm ET and at the other to 7:45 pm ET.


Voting time added at Georgia sites

Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson tells CNN she expects the battleground state’s vote to be counted sooner than previously expected, with both day-of and mail-in ballot counts likely to be reported soon after polls close.
“What we've seen is such high efficiency and so little problems that I now think we'll clearly get results much sooner,” Benson tells CNN.
“We anticipate a mix of both in-person voting results and absentee voting results will be part of the results, the first results, you hear out of Michigan.”
In a tweet, Benson adds that 92 per cent of the state’s absentee ballots have already been returned.
The Midwestern state carries 16 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidential election. In 2016, Trump beat the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, by slightly more than 11,000 votes.
Update from Michigan:
  ✅ 92%+ of all absentee ballots are returned (still 4 hours to go if you haven’t dropped yours off yet!)
  ✅Absentee counting is going smoothly & very efficiently.
  ✅ Precincts are islands of calm, welcoming a steady stream of voters throughout the day.
  — Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) November 3, 2020


Michigan’s secretary of state says she expects the vote to be counted sooner than expected

The latest predictions from the UBS US Office of Public Policy released on Tuesday assign a 55 per cent probability to a “blue wave”, where Democrats capture the White House and both chambers of Congress. Donald Trump eking out a narrow victory is given a 28 per cent probability.


UBS analysts make best guess

Another Covid-19 disruption, this time affecting machine function instead of human health. An ABC affiliate in Iowa reports that hand sanitizer caused a ballot scanner to jam at a polling place in the capital of Des Moines. Kevin Hall, a spokesman for the Iowa secretary of state, says some voters’ hands were moist when they handled the ballots and the buildup of sanitizer eventually caused the scanner to stop working. The machine was fixed in about an hour. 



Gumming up the works, briefly

A federal judge has ordered the US Postal Service to send inspectors to search facilities in a number of swing states for any remaining ballots and send them out for delivery. The move follows complaints filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
District Judge Emmet Sullivan said the Postal Service must sweep its facilities in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Colorado/Wyoming, Atlanta, Houston, Alabama, northern New England, greater South Carolina, South Florida, Arizona and Lakeland, Florida.


Judge orders US Postal Service to search for ballots

Key “swing states” to watch tonight across the US - and across several time zones - include Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania in the South and East;  Michigan and Wisconsin in the Midwest; and Arizona in the Southwest.
Though closing times are delayed if voting is delayed, most of Florida’s polls are expected to close at 7pm ET; Georgia at 7pm ET; North Carolina’s at 7.30pm ET; and Pennsylvania’s at 8pm ET.
Michigan’s polls mostly close at 8 pm ET. Wisconsin’s polls close at 9pm ET.
Arizona’s polls are expected to close at 9pm ET.


Swing states and their different closing times

Voters around the nation are so far experiencing a “boring” election day, a welcome sign that the process has been going on peacefully, despite earlier fears of possible voter intimidation or even violence. 


Peaceful day at the polls, despite fears

Bloomberg reports that New York City’s police department plans to deploy thousands of officers on street patrol and rapid response teams on Tuesday evening to prevent any election-related violence.
“Don’t even try it. We know who you are and you will be arrested,” Bloomberg cites Chief of Department Terence Monahan as telling reporters outside police headquarters.
“We’re going to be out there in force with thousands of police officers in the next couple of days, making sure the city is safe.”
Polls in New York, considered a solidly Democratic state, close at 9pm ET. 




New York City to deploy extra police to deter any election-night violence

The US Postal Service failed to carry out an order from a federal judge to search facilities in a number of swing states for any remaining ballots and send them out for delivery, citing staffing shortages, possibly affecting the delivery of up to 300,000 postal ballots.
The sweeps, ordered for facilities in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Colorado/Wyoming, Atlanta, Houston, Alabama, northern New England, greater South Carolina, South Florida, Arizona and Lakeland, Florida, were meant to be completed by 4:30pm on Election Day, with all ballots found in the facilities delivered by that time.
In a response to the order, the Postal Service said the inspections would be “impractical” and would take their inspectors away from “their other pressing election mail-related responsibilities”.
“There are only one or two inspectors in any one facility, and thus they do not have the ability to personally scour the entire facility,” it added. “Given the time constraints set by this court’s order, and the fact that Postal Inspectors operate on a nationwide basis, defendants were unable to accelerate the daily review process ... without significantly disrupting preexisting activities on the day of the election, something which defendants did not understand the court to invite or require.”


US Postal Service rebuffs judge’s ballot order

The pandemic and the economy rank as top concerns among voters, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 100,000 voters. 
About 4 in 10 voters said the coronavirus pandemic is the top issue facing the nation. Roughly 3 in 10 called the economy and jobs most important. Many voters said they have been personally affected by the virus.
Voters were more likely to think the government should prioritise limiting the spread of the coronavirus — even if it damages the economy — than to say the economy should be the top priority. 
Roughly three-quarters of voters said they’ve known all along who they were supporting in this election.
The survey of 106,240 voters was conducted in English and Spanish for eight days, concluding as polls closed. It took in a random sample of registered voters and the margin of sampling error is estimated to be plus or minus 0.4 percentage points. 




Pandemic top concern among voters, says AP VoteCast survey

The US state of Iowa is a key battleground for the election. Donald Trump took the state with 51.2 per cent of the vote in 2016, but his trade war has hit the state’s farmers hard. For more on this key voting population, read this story by Mark Magnier.


On the ground: the fight in Iowa

Voters took to the polls with masks and gloves to protect themselves from the coronavirus pandemic - though many polling stations had hand sanitiser available for all.
#LIVE: As Americans head to the voting booth to cast their vote on #ElectionDay, many took precautions against the coronavirus in an election held amid the Covid-19 pandemic. #Election2020 #Elections2020 Photos: Reuters, Bloomberg, EPA-EFE, AFP https://t.co/R13uDPVkn8 pic.twitter.com/zV6EjlMZE1
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) November 3, 2020


Polling in the pandemic

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia, reports that a 63-year-old man has been charged with threatening to bomb a polling station in Norfolk.
Officers arrested the man, who has not been publicly identified, and charged him with “threat to bomb the polling station". The arrest came after a local fire department was called to the elementary school, where polling was taking place, to investigate a disturbance.


Bomb threat reported in Virginia

Among states whose polls have just closed, the battleground states of Florida, Georgia, and Virginia have started reporting numbers. NBC and CNN have called the state of Indiana for Trump.


NBC, CNN call the state of Indiana for Trump

With 46 per cent of Florida's vote counted, it's a dead heat. Trump 50 per cent / Biden 49 per cent.


Close call in Florida, according to NBC

The first two states to be called in the 2020 US presidential election: Indiana for Trump and Vermont for Biden.
Neither is a surprise. NBC calls Indiana and its 11 electoral votes for Trump, with 14 per cent of that state's vote counted. Indiana is the home state of Trump’s vice-president, Mike Pence.
NBC also calls Vermont and its 3 electoral votes for Biden, though only 3 per cent of votes are counted. Vermont’s independent senator, Bernie Sanders, ran for president as a Democrat but endorsed Biden after withdrawing.




The earliest calls: Indiana for Trump, Vermont for Biden

The US election is trending on social media in China on Wednesday morning. The top topic on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogging platform, is US president Donald Trump.
Chinese state media has been eager to cast potential chaos in the US during the election as a sign that the world superpower is in decline.
Hu Xijin, editor of the hawkish state-tabloid Global Times, posted earlier on Twitter that the feared unrest after the US election was “usually [a] complication of elections in poor countries”.
"The US is in degradation," he wrote.
Ahead of the election, some businesses in the US are boarding up their store windows fearing post-election unrest. This kind of unrest is usually complication of elections in poor countries, but people are worried it may appear in the US. The US is in degradation. pic.twitter.com/bBzPiwhVgg
— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) November 3, 2020


US election trends on social media in China

The Associated Press has called two states, one for each candidate.
South Carolina and its nine electoral votes go to Trump. Virginia and its 13 electoral votes go to Biden.
While media outlets call results and the candidates themselves may declare victories, results are certified only through a process known as the canvass, where each vote is certified, first by local counties and then by each state’s central election authority.
This process can take days, even weeks.


Two more calls: South Carolina (Trump) and Virgina (Biden)

Both CNN and Associated Press project that Trump will win Kentucky and its 8 electoral votes.
CNN also reports that the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell - who has been a senator for Kentucky since 1985 - is expected to win re-election over his Democratic rival, Amy McGrath.


Kentucky for Trump

Follow how the US votes affect America’s Electoral College with this infographic, which will be updated live as the results are called.




US Electoral College results

Donald Trump increases his lead over Joe Biden in Florida (50 vs 49 per cent), with 89 per cent of the votes counted, according to NBC. A win by Trump in Florida - with 29 electoral votes, tied with New York for third largest in the country – would give Trump a fighting chance of winning re-election.


Trump increases his lead in crucial state of Florida

Biden leads in North Carolina, a battleground state, 54 per cent to 45 per cent with 62 per cent of votes counted, according to NBC. North Carolina has 15 electoral votes.


Biden leads in North Carolina, according to NBC

According to Associated Press, Trump wins the southern states of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee as well as Oklahoma while Biden wins the northeastern states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island, as well as the midwestern state of Illinois.
These results were expected
Trump’s four states put 33 electoral votes in his column.
The seven states for Biden give him another 69 electoral votes.


Calls coming quicker: 11 more states

Biden holds strong lead in swing state of Ohio, 55 per cent to 44 per cent, with half of the votes in, according to NBC. Ohio has 18 electoral votes.


Biden leads in Ohio, according to NBC

In Hong Kong there has been particularly strong interest in the US election, with many wary of how a Biden administration or a second term for Trump would impact US policy on both the city and China as a whole.
There was a packed house at The Globe, a gastropub in Hong Kong's Central district, for an election watch party hosted by Democrats Abroad Hong Kong.
Ohio voter Max Abbott, who cast his vote for Biden, described the environment as “distracted”, since it was still early on.
“Still early,” he said. “I'm apprehensive. I fear the shy Trump voter is a real phenomenon. I know a lot of voters who fit that profile where I'm from in the Midwest.”



US election casts its spell on Hong Kong expats

Trump has won the state of Arkansas, according to the Associated Press - giving the president another six electoral votes.
The state has been reliably Republican since 1996, when it went for President Bill Clinton, a native son, during his re-election.
Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, has been re-elected, according to AP, easily defeating the Libertarian candidate, Ricky Dale Harrington.
The Democratic candidate, Josh Mahony, withdrew under circumstances that are unclear months ago and could not be replaced on the ballot.
Cotton is known for his hawkish stance against China.


Arkansas for Trump and Cotton

Biden takes early lead in key battleground state of Pennsylvania, 65 per cent to 34 per cent, with 10 percent of votes counted, according to NBC. However, election officials there have warned that it could take until Friday to count the “overwhelming majority” of ballots.


Biden takes early lead in Pennsylvania, according to NBC

Texas, a traditional Republican stronghold with 38 electoral votes, remains in play with 65 per cent of votes counted. Biden holds a slight lead there, 50 per cent to 49 per cent, according to NBC. A win for Biden in Texas would practically end the election in the former vice president's favour.




Slight lead for Biden in Texas, according to NBC

Trump holds a strong early lead in Michigan, a battleground state with 16 electoral votes. With 17 per cent of the vote counted, the president is ahead 59 per cent to 38 per cent, according to NBC.


Trump leads in Michigan, according to NBC

CNN and the Associated Press have called Connecticut with its 7 electoral votes for Biden. 
NBC has called Colorado with its 9 electoral votes for Biden. The once reliably Republican state has leaned Democrat in recent years as the population has become more diverse with the results expected.
NBC and the Associated Press have called South Dakota with its 3 electoral votes for Trump. North Dakota has been projected for Trump with 3 electoral votes, according to NBC.


Connecticut, Colorado, North and South Dakota projections

After the first two hours of polls closing in various American states, Biden has a running total of 80 electoral votes while Trump has a running total of 51 electoral votes, according to Reuters.
There are a total of 538 electoral votes; to win, a candidate needs 270. 
In the US system, it is possible to win the popular vote and not win the electoral college votes needed to become president.
Five US elections dating to 1824 involved successful presidential candidates who did not win the popular vote, most recently in 2016 when Trump lost by nearly 3 million votes to the Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton.




Two hours in, Biden leads the Electoral College vote

Donald Trump needs to hold on to the Midwest battleground states he won in 2016 – Ohio (18 electoral votes), Michigan (16), Wisconsin (10) and Pennsylvania (20) – to have a path to victory in the electoral college. 
If Joe Biden “flips” any two of those states and holds on to all the states that Hillary Clinton won in 2016, then he will surpass the 270 electoral votes needed for election.


US election victory path goes through Midwest for both candidates

Tony Rodriguez, the chairman of Republicans Overseas Thailand, says there are 50,000 Americans in Thailand. He says there’s a method to Trump’s approach to Asia.
“Trump believes American interests and our friends in Asia are best served with a strong American military and assertive foreign policy confronting countries hostile toward democracy and capitalism. This includes respecting international law regarding sea passage and intellectual rights," says Rodriguez.
But Rodriguez’s opposite number at Democrats Abroad Thailand, Paul Risley, says Americans are pumped up for a Biden-Harris victory, which will be a new start for the US.
"At long last, we will elect a leader like Joe Biden who will be the adult in the room and lead our country out of crisis."




Republicans and Democrats speak out in Thailand

Adrian Ang U-Jin, research fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, says that the US vote counts are "still very early" for the final results to be determined, although it looks as though Trump will win Florida and that North Carolina is competitive, as predicted.
"If Trump wins Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, then I think we'll go the distance," he said. "It will come down to the rust-belt states and that will take some time to fully count all the votes, especially if it's very close."
But he says that whether the election remains close or delivers a landslide, the result will not likely affect the Asian region immediately. "Everyone will just have to hold their breath and wait if it drags on for a few days or weeks."




A view from Singapore: election could ‘go the distance’

NBC has projected that Democrat challenger John Hickenlooper has beat incumbent Senator Cory Gardner, a net gain for that party, in the race for senator in Colorado.
Divided leadership in the Senate and House of Representatives since 2018 has undercut efforts to pass legislation, including recent efforts to provide stimulus for Americans hurt by the pandemic.


John Hickenlooper projected to win Colorado Senate race

Major equity markets in Asia are mostly in upbeat mood for now.
Japan's Nikkei 225 is up 1.6 per cent while South Korea's Kospi index is 0.7 per cent higher. The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia is however a shade lower by 0.8 per cent.
The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong has erased earlier losses, stocks linked to suspension of world's largest IPO Ant Group are still 3 to 8 per cent weaker. 


Asian markets mostly in upbeat mood

The Associated Press projects Democrat Joe Biden has won the District of Columbia with its three electoral votes.
The District has cast votes for president since 1964 and has voted overwhelmingly Democrat since then.
The city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, has been a big critic of President Trump and DC was among the first cities to paint “Black Lives Matter” in giant lettering on its streets, which it did in bright yellow on an avenue adjoining the White House.



AP projects Biden to win District of Columbia

Trump pulls ahead of Biden in Texas, 50 per cent to 48 per cent, with 76 per cent of votes counted, according to NBC, making a long-shot victory there for the Democrat less likely.


Trump is ahead in Texas, according to NBC

CNN’s running total of electoral votes is 89 for Joe Biden and 72 for President Donald Trump - with North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia, among others, still too close to call. The winner needs 270 out of 538 possible electoral votes to win.


Joe Biden leading in electoral votes, according to CNN

In North Carolina's Senate race, Democrat Cal Cunningham is ahead of the incumbent, Republican Thom Tillis, 49 per cent to 47 per cent, with 79 per cent of the vote counted, according to CNN. 
