Election November 5, 2020

The States In Play: Campaign 2020

TALLAHASSEE, FL - NOVEMBER 03: Leon County Supervisor of Elections poll worker Jeret Madei separates mail ballots from their security envelopes for counting on November 3, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. After a record-breaking early voting turnout, Americans head to the polls on the last day to cast their vote for incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

Today could be the day that Joe Biden passes 270 electoral votes, the magic number that would win the election. Here’s the latest on the states in play.

Georgia: Donald Trump still leads early Thursday morning with thousands more votes to be counted. Those votes come from predominantly democratic-leaning areas. State officials will update the count at 10:30am et.

Major Fulton County, Georgia update 10:05 PM EST
23,066 newly-counted ballots
Trump: 4,708
Biden: 18,358
79.5% to Biden when he needs to win 68% of outstanding votes outstanding to tie the president.
— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) November 5, 2020

In Pennsylvania, Donald Trump maintains a lead over Joe Biden but that lead is shrinking. Much of the remaining count comes from mail-in votes in the Philadelphia area which is heavily Democratic. This state could flip to Biden later today. If that happens, Biden would have enough electoral votes to win regardless of what happens in other states.

Biden has won the last 600k ballots counted in Pennsylvania by 40 points, which is much bigger than the 22-point margin he needs the rest of the way out. https://t.co/U39Fdyumub
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 5, 2020

In Arizona, the race is tightening with Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump down to less than 70,000 votes. The majority of the votes that remain to be counted here come from Democratic-leaning Maricopa County, the Phoenix metro area. The Associated Press has already called the race for Joe Biden. Overnight, Trump supporters protested the vote count in Phoenix.

Trump supporters are literally outside a government building in Arizona protesting the fact that votes are being counted. pic.twitter.com/hxi6VU9ZTS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 5, 2020

In Nevada, Joe Biden holds a slim lead of less than 8000 votes. More numbers are expected by noon eastern on Thursday.

That’s it for election results updates until 9:00 am on Nov. 5. Here’s what has been counted so far:

All in person early votes
All in person Election Day votes
All mail ballots through Nov. 2

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— Nevada Elections (@NVElect) November 4, 2020