Nov. 5, 2020, 4:00 a.m. ET55 minutes ago
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By Jennifer Medina
Biden’s lead narrows in Arizona, but Trump still
faces an uphill battle.
PHOENIX —
The latest update from Arizona’s most populous county shows Joseph R. Biden
Jr.’s lead over President Trump further narrowing in the battleground state.
As of early
Thursday, Mr. Biden led Mr. Trump in Maricopa County by 74,514 votes, almost
11,000 fewer than the previous update on Wednesday night. About 5 percent of
the total vote remains to be counted there. Statewide, Mr. Biden leads Mr.
Trump by less than three percentage points.
Maricopa
County’s next update will come after 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.
In the two
batches of results released by the county late Wednesday and early Thursday,
totaling almost 140,000 ballots, Mr. Trump’s share of the vote was almost 60
percent, which experts have said is about what he needs to win the state and
its 11 electoral votes. But Mr. Trump would also have to receive the same
proportion of votes that remain to be counted in other parts of the state as
well, including counties that tend to vote Democratic.
Mr. Biden’s
narrow edge underscored a profound political shift in Arizona, a longtime
Republican bastion that has lurched left in recent years, fueled by rapidly
evolving demographics and a growing contingent of young Latino voters who favor
liberal policies. Scores of Trump supporters who are suspicious of the early
results favoring Mr. Biden gathered outside the Maricopa County election office
on Wednesday, delaying the final announcement of the night amid security
concerns.
2 hours ago
By
Stephanie Saul
Biden closes in on Trump in Georgia, where the
counting of votes continues.
ATLANTA —
The presidential race in Georgia appeared headed for a photo finish as former
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. steadily gained ground on President Trump.
The victor will be awarded 16 electoral votes.
Mr. Biden
had begun Wednesday morning approximately 100,000 votes behind Mr. Trump, but
as county elections workers around the state continued the laborious tabulation
of absentee ballots into Thursday morning, Mr. Trump’s lead narrowed to 24,000
votes, or 0.5 percent. Under Georgia election law, a candidate may request a
recount if the margin is 0.5 or less.
In Fulton
County, a Democratic stronghold and home to most of Atlanta, Mr. Biden narrowed
the margin by more than 18,000 votes between 5 p.m. and midnight as the work of
processing and tabulating the votes continued. In DeKalb County, also part of
the metropolitan region, Mr. Biden narrowed it by an additional 5,000. The next
update from Georgia’s secretary of state is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on
Thursday.
Brad
Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, said that as of 10:15 p.m. on
Wednesday, there were about 90,735 ballots that still needed to be counted.
More than a third of them are in Fulton and DeKalb counties.
If the
trajectory of Mr. Biden’s gains continued, it appeared he could overtake Mr.
Trump in Georgia by the final tally on Thursday. The question was whether additional absentee
votes from rural and more Republican areas would offset enough of Mr. Biden’s
gains to preserve Mr. Trump’s lead.
Republicans
in Georgia were nervously assessing the vote count and promised to file
lawsuits in a dozen or more counties aimed at knocking off votes here and
there. The first case, filed in Savannah on Wednesday, was an effort to chisel
away 53 ballots that Georgia Republicans said had arrived too late to be
counted.
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