At the end of election day incumbent Donald Trump carried the battleground state of Florida while Democratic candidate Joe Biden focused on Northern industrial states as the race for the next president of the United States heated up.
Counting is still underway in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — the states could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House. Trump won this trio of states in 2016.
Trump kept several states, including Texas, Iowa and Ohio, while Biden flipped Arizona.
By early Wednesday, neither Trump nor Biden had the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win.
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In a statement at the White House, Trump made premature claims of victories in several key states and said he would take the election to the Supreme Court.
Pennsylvania Gov Tom Wolf, a Democrat, pushed back on Trump’s claims saying, “We still have over 1 million mail ballots to count in Pennsylvania.”
In Biden’s speech earlier, he said “It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who’s won this election. That’s the decision of the American people.”
The race for control of the US Senate is also neck and neck. Democrats need to net three seats if Biden captures the White House to gain control of all of Washington for the first time in a decade. The House of Representative remains under Democratic control.
(Here’s why it’s normal for votes to continue being counted even after Election Day.)
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