Joe Biden on cusp of clinching victory

 

2020 ELECTIONS

Joe Biden on cusp of clinching victory

 

New results are expected from Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania as Trump pins hopes on Arizona.

 

 

By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO

11/05/2020 09:05 AM EST

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/05/biden-on-cusp-victory-434230

 

Joe Biden has pulled closer to President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia, expanding his pathways to victory as the campaigns brace for the release of results Thursday that could put the contest out of reach for the president.

 

Biden is on pace to overcome Trump in Pennsylvania, where Democratic elected officials expect the former vice president to finish ahead by 100,000 or more votes in a tight race. Biden already clinched Michigan and Wisconsin in overtime ballot-counting, rebuilding the Democratic blue wall and moving him to within six electoral votes of reaching the 270 threshold.

 

Elections officials in Georgia and Nevada were expecting to provide updates later in the morning and midday Thursday. Democrats are also closely monitoring highly anticipated updates out of Philadelphia, which they expect will provide a massive boost to Biden's numbers.

 

Trump's lead in Georgia fell to fewer than 20,000 votes in overnight releases. His path to reelection is considerably more narrow, and his campaign is pinning its dwindling hopes on holding Pennsylvania by roughly 40,000 votes and surging back in Arizona, which has already been called for Biden.

 

Meantime, Trump's campaign has filed lawsuits to halt vote-counting in Pennsylvania and Michigan over alleged access issues to observe mail-in ballot-counting, poll-watching and disenfranchisement. Republicans have also filed a lawsuit in Georgia, as well as a third legal challenge in Nevada.

 

In Pennsylvania, Trump's team also wants to intervene in a Supreme Court case into whether ballots received by elections officials up to three days after the election can be counted.

 

And they're gearing up for a possible recount in Wisconsin, though Republicans and elections experts acknowledge that recounting votes is exceedingly unlikely to make up the tens of thousands of votes that Trump trails by.