Election officials in key battlegrounds pressed forward Thursday with presidential vote counting as Democrat Joe Biden urged patience and President Donald Trump pursued legal options, insisting the processing of ballots should be stopped.
The president spent Thursday at the White House, working the phones, and in a series of tweets, he pushed allegations of electoral misconduct and said the ongoing vote count of ballots submitted before and on Election Day should cease. Trump followed up with an all-caps official campaign statement.
“IF YOU COUNT THE LEGAL VOTES, I EASILY WIN THE ELECTION! IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL AND LATE VOTES, THEY CAN STEAL THE ELECTION FROM US!” he contended.
With millions of ballots yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 72 million votes, the most in history.
Trump’s campaign engaged in a flurry of legal activity to try to improve the Republican president’s chances, requesting a recount in Wisconsin and filing lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia. Statewide recounts in Wisconsin have historically changed the vote tally by only a few hundred votes; Biden led by more than 20,000 ballots out of nearly 3.3 million counted.
Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits there on Thursday.
Biden has already won Michigan and Wisconsin. The contests in Georgia and Pennsylvania, along with Nevada and North Carolina, were tight with votes still being tabulated.
The Trump campaign said it was confident the president would ultimately pull out a victory in Arizona, where votes were also still being counted, including in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous area.
Here’s a look at where vote-counting stands in five key states:
- Arizona: Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said Thursday morning that approximately 450,000 ballots are left for the state to count – with about 300,000 of those coming from populous Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs. Hobbs, speaking on NBC, did not have an estimate on how long it would take for the remaining ballots to be counted. She described the remaining ballots as including “early ballots that voters dropped off on Election Day at polling places.” She said workers Thursday morning were verifying signatures before the ballots could be tabulated. Eleven electoral votes hang in the balance.
- Georgia: About 47,000 ballots are outstanding in Georgia as of 3 p.m. ET, election official Gabriel Sterling said in a news conference Thursday. Trump was ahead by fewer than 15,000 votes around midday Thursday, according to the latest reports. Chatham County, which includes Savannah, had the most ballots still uncounted Thursday morning, more than 17,000 votes. Sixteen electoral votes hang in the balance.
- Nevada: It’s hard to determine how many ballots are outstanding in Nevada because the state is one of a handful that mailed ballots to all active registered voters. Election officials will count mail-in ballots received through November 10, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. Biden’s lead increased to nearly 12,000 votes in Nevada midday Thursday after an updated results release by the state. Officials in Clark County, home to Las Vegas and more than 70% of the state’s voters, said they expect to have all of their ballots counted by the end of the weekend. Six electoral votes are at play here.
- North Carolina Trump leads in North Carolina by more than 75,000 votes, with an estimated 95% reported. The state is not expected to report any additional results until next week. To finish its count, North Carolina is waiting to see if 116,000 outstanding requested absentee ballots are returned by November 12. In North Carolina, an Election Day-postmarked ballot can be counted if it is received by 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 12. But the state still does not know how many of those 116,000 voters chose to instead vote in person or drop off their ballot on Election Day, so the number of potential outstanding votes could shrink. Fifteen electoral votes are at stake here.
- Pennsylvania: In Pennsylvania, where 20 electoral votes are at stake, about 370,000 ballots remain to be counted, state officials said. And Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar said election workers could finish tallying “the overwhelming majority” on Thursday and have a clear winner. Mail-in ballots continue to arrive in Pennsylvania where state law allows election officials to receive and count mail-in ballots that arrive by Friday. Boockvar has asked counties to segregate any ballots arriving between 8 p.m. ET November 3 and before 5 p.m. November 6 in light of a possible legal challenge from the Trump campaign.
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Not to forget – AZ is still in play. It might come down to PA after all.
100% chance of Biden victory. Stop the count he has 270.
Two mistakes:
You left North Carolina out of the Cliffhanger.
You reported the numbers incorrectly. It is Trump 216 and Biden 262. Count for yourself.
Trump Biden
Alabama 9
Alaska
Arizona 11
Arkansas 6
California 55
Colorado 9
Connecticut 7
Delaware 3
District of Columbia 3
Florida 29
Georgia
Hawaii 4
Idaho 4
Illinois 20
Indiana 11
Iowa 6
Kansas 6
Kentucky 8
Louisiana 8
Maine 3 1
Maryland 10
Massachusetts 11
Michigan 16
Minnesota 10
Mississippi 6
Missouri 10
Montana 3
Nebraska 4 1
Nevada
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey 14
New Mexico 5
New York 29
North Carolina
North Dakota 3
Ohio 18
Oklahoma 7
Oregon 7
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island 4
South Carolina 9
South Dakota 3
Tennessee 11
Texas 38
Utah 6
Vermont 3
Virginia 13
Washington 12
West Virginia 5
Wisconsin 10
Wyoming 3
216 262
I see the table did not work out. I have split it up. Now you can see the correct numbers. Count them.
Biden
Arizona 11
California 55
Colorado 9
Connecticut 7
Delaware 3
Hawaii 4
Illinois 20
Maine 1
Maryland 10
Massachusetts 11
Michigan 16
Minnesota 10
Nebraska 1
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey 14
New Mexico 5
New York 29
Oregon 7
Rhode Island 4
Vermont 3
Virginia 13
Washington 12
Wisconsin 10
District of Columbia 3
262
Trump
Alabama 9
Arkansas 6
Florida 29
Idaho 4
Indiana 11
Iowa 6
Kansas 6
Kentucky 8
Louisiana 8
Maine 3
Mississippi 6
Missouri 10
Montana 3
Nebraska 4
North Dakota 3
Ohio 18
Oklahoma 7
South Carolina 9
South Dakota 3
Tennessee 11
Texas 38
Utah 6
West Virginia 5
Wyoming 3
216
Rainus; You have 2 mistakes. One is that in Maine, Biden won 3 electoral votes and Trump 1. The second is that Biden didn’t win Arizona. No less than the leftist New York Times has not called Arizona yet.
So the current numbers are Biden 253 and Trump 214.
Biden won 3 in Maine
Trump 1. So it is 264 – 214
But there is clearly fraud going on. There are vidios now plus a postal whistleblower
Guys , trump & co have proof and videos of ballots (for trump) in the trash cans , not being allowed to inspect the count , they had to be 30 feet away – the dems Lied and cheated. They can’t be trusted on any of their ballots. Sheker won’t stand ! At this point you can’t trust them on any state won- California was suddenly won before they even opened. It reeks through & through.
Someone said that they have one job every 4 years. So then why is it they’re still counting votes days later?
Why it is every 2 or 4 years, in the most important races to the Democrats, they always magically find ballots after election day, and it’s always so happens to be just enough to get their candidate elected? And always after the first count when they are losing? How come I never have heard of an election where they find a box of ballots for only one candidate (a Democrat), and it wasn’t enough to overturn the results? Why is it almost always 100%? Do we believe in coincidence now?
Again, the Republican legistlators deliberately set out to create a red mirage knowing full well majority of the democrats voted my mail. The republicans did not let the votes be counted on election day. The only result people would see tuesday night were those that voted early or that day. The Republicans in Pennsylavania have actually looked into awarding the electors to Trump regardless of the votes. Today Mark Levin tweeted this in ALL CAPS
REMINDER TO THE REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATURES, YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY OVER THE CHOOSING OF ELECTORS, NOT ANY BOARD OF ELECTIONS, SECRETARY OF STATE, GOVERNOR, OR EVEN COURT. YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY — ARTICLE II OF THE FED CONSTITUTION. SO, GET READY TO DO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY.
Trump wants to delay the count as much as possible he will lose but he will sow doubt in the process. He cannot go fast enough.
Rainus,
You have Maine’s electoral votes backwards.
Biden has 3 and Trump has 1.
Biden has 264
Your mistake is Maine. Biden got 3 and Trump 1. 214 and 264 it is.
“With millions of ballots yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 72 million votes, the most in history” (YWN).
and Trump a close second with 69,115,764