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Factbox: These states are deciding the U.S. presidential election
The U.S. presidential election will be decided by a handful of states that could swing to either President Donald Trump, a Republican, or his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
These states play a critical role in delivering the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.
Of the 13 states on this watch list, seven remain undecided, four have gone to Trump and two have gone to Biden. None of the decided states represent a change from the 2016 election.
Due to a surge in mail voting amid the coronavirus pandemic – as well as the states’ varying rules for when ballots can be counted – the final results for all the states may take days.
ARIZONA
Electoral votes: 11
Polls have closed.
Rating in presidential contest: Leaning Democratic
Other key races: Democratic challenger Mark Kelly appears to have won the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Martha McSally.
Vote counting: Two news organizations have called Arizona for Biden and for the Democrat Kelly in the Senate race. All absentee ballots had to arrive by the close of polls on Election Day. Ballots could be scanned and tabulated starting 14 days before Tuesday.
GEORGIA
Electoral votes: 16
Rating in presidential contest: Leaning Republican
Other key races: The race for one U.S. Senate seat will proceed to a two-way runoff between a Democrat and a Republican as no single candidate received at least 50 percent of the vote. The other race is considered competitive.
Vote counting: No organization had yet to call the presidential contest nor the competitive Senate race. Absentee ballots had to be received by clerks by the close of polls on Election Day. Ballots could be opened and scanned on receipt, but they could not be tallied until after the polls closed on Tuesday. Officials in Fulton County, home to Atlanta and a tenth of all Georgians, warned on Tuesday that its vote count would not be finalized until Wednesday after a burst pipe delayed absentee-by-mail ballot processing for at least two hours, according to local reports.
PENNSYLVANIA
Electoral votes: 20
Rating in presidential contest: Leans Democratic
Other key races: Competitive U.S. House contests in the 1st and 10th Districts
Vote counting: No organization had yet to call the presidential contest in Pennsylvania, nor for the close House races. Absentee ballot counting began at 7 a.m. on Election Day. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a ruling by Pennsylvania’s top court that officials in the state could accept mail-in ballots three days after Tuesday’s election, so long as they were postmarked by Election Day.
WISCONSIN
Electoral votes: 10
Rating in presidential contest: Leans Democratic
Other key races: No governor or U.S. Senate races on the ballot
Vote counting: No organization had yet to call the presidential contest in Wisconsin. The state’s election officials cannot count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Oct. 26. Ballots could not be counted until polls opened on Tuesday. The Board of Elections director in Milwaukee County, the state’s most populous, said on Tuesday evening that the county’s presidential vote count would not be completed until at least 6 a.m. EST on Wednesday due to the amount of absentee ballots received.
Vote counting: No organization has yet to call a winner in the presidential contest nor for the Senate race in Michigan. Absentee ballots had to arrive at clerks’ offices by the close of polls on Election Day. Some densely populated jurisdictions in the state, such as Detroit, began sorting absentee ballots on Monday, but the vast majority did not. Clerks could begin scanning and counting absentee ballots at 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said on Tuesday evening that she expected a fuller picture of the state’s results in 24 hours. She said absentee ballots could top 3.3 million, while estimating in-person voting at 2 million to 2.5 million.
NORTH CAROLINA
Electoral votes: 15
Rating in presidential contest: Leaning Republican
Other key races: Competitive U.S. Senate contest has not been called. Democratic Governor Roy Cooper appears to have won re-election.
Vote counting: No organization has yet to call a winner in the presidential election nor for the Senate race. Edison and three news organzations have called the govenor’s race for Cooper, the Democrat.
North Carolina absentee ballots could be scanned weeks in advance, but results could not be tallied before Election Day. In a defeat for Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to block the state’s plan to tally ballots that are postmarked by Tuesday and arrive by Nov. 12.
NEVADA
Electoral votes: 6
Rating in presidential contest: Leans Democratic
Other key races: No governor or U.S. Senate contests on the ballot
Vote counting: No organization has yet to determine a winner in the presidential election. Absentee ballots could be processed upon receipt starting 14 days before the election, but results are not released until election night. Mail-in ballots postmarked by Tuesday will be counted so long as they arrive within seven days after the election.
TEXAS
Electoral votes: 38
Winner: Trump
Other key races: U.S. Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, appears to have won re-election.
Vote counting: Edison Research and six news organizations have called Texas for Trump. Edison Research and four news organizations have called the Senate race for Cornyn.
IOWA
Electoral votes: 6
Winner: Trump
Other key races: U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican, appears to have won re-election.
Vote counting: Edison Research and six news organzitions have called Iowa for Trump. Edison Research and five news organizations have called the Senate race for Ernst.
FLORIDA
Electoral votes: 29
Winner: Trump
Other key races: Scott Franklin, a Republican, appears to have won the race for U.S. Representative of the 15th District. Carlos Gimenez, a Republican, appears to have won the race for U.S. Representative of the 26th District.
Vote counting: Edison Research and six news organizations have called Florida for Trump.
OHIO
Electoral votes: 18
Winner: Trump
Other key races: U.S. Representative Steve Chabot, a Republican, appears to have won re-election in the 1st District.
Vote counting: Edison Research and six news organizations have called Ohio for Trump.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Electoral votes: 4
Winner: Biden
Other key races: Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, appears to have won re-election.
Vote counting: Edison Research and six news organizations have called New Hampshire for Biden. Edison Research and three news organizations have called the governor’s race for Sununu.
Other key races: Competitive contests for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House in the 1st and 7th Districts
Vote counting: Edison Research and six news organizations have called Minnesota for Biden. Edison Research and three news organizations have called the Senate race for Democratic incumbent Tina Smith. Two news organizations have called the 7th House district for the Republican.
US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Vote counting in the US Presidential Elections 2020 Results is still underway in key states. Here’s what you need to know
Here’s what you need to know:
Midwest states: Millions of votes remain to be counted in key states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. These are the ballots that were cast before Election Day that have yet to be counted. The key battle state Pennsylvania has counted 39 percent of the mail-in ballots it has received.
Counting is underway in Arizona and Georgia: Joe Biden appears to have made significant gains in Arizona, a red state in 2016. Georgia will resume counting at 8 am EST.
President Trump attempted to claim victory: In his style, Trump called for a halt to legitimate vote counting that is underway around the country and sought to mislead his loyal supporters by conflating the legitimate counting of ballots with voting as he falsely claimed Democrats were trying to “steal the election,” according to a CNN report.
Biden holds the lead: Biden has 220 electoral college votes, while Trump has 213.
US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Here’s how the current election math looks like in undeclared states
Current election math (Trump vote share mentioned first) Undeclared states:
Pennsylvania: 55.8 vs 43.1 @ 64% reporting
Michigan: 52.2 vs 46.2 @ 77%
Wisconsin: 51.1 vs 47.4 @ 94%
Georgia: 50.5 vs 48.3 @ 94%
Arizona: 46.8 vs 51.9 @ 80%
North Carolina: 50.1 vs 48.7 @ 94%
Alaska: 61.4 vs 34.7If Biden only wins Arizona (AZ win is likely), he ends up at 238 + 11 = 249
If he wins Arizona + Pennsylvania and loses rest = 238 + 11 + 20 = 269 – a tie
If Biden wins Arizona and loses Pennsylvania, he will need to win both Michigan (16) and Georgia (16) = 238 + 16 + 16 = 270
And then there is one seat (District 2) in Maine, where Trump is leading by only 21k votes, which could decide the winner in case of a tie
US Elections 2020 Explainer: Indian-American Republican candidate Rik Mehta loses New Jersey Senate election
Indian-American Republican candidate Rik Mehta lost his New Jersey Senate election bid to Democratic incumbent Senator Cory Booker. Mehta garnered 37.9 per cent of the votes at 1,071,726, while Booker got 60.6 per cent with 1,714,375 votes in the November 3 election. In July, Mehta had become the first Indian-American to win the Republican primary for the Senate seat from the US state of New Jersey. Mehta, a former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official, had defeated his nearest rival Hirsh Singh, also an Indian-American, by a margin of approximately 13,743 votes in the Republican primaries held in July. Mehta is a biotech entrepreneur, innovator, healthcare policy expert and a licensed pharmacist and attorney. As a small business owner and a first generation American, he’s a staunch advocate for defending our Constitutional rights, fighting against illegal immigration and Sanctuary Cities, an affordable, accessible healthcare system that’s built for generations to come, and building New Jersey’s economy for the future, his profile said. This was for the first time that a New Jersey senatorial race had candidates of colour nominees from both the parties. Booker, an African-American, had won the Democratic primary with 89 per cent of the votes. New Jersey, which has one of the highest concentrations of Indian-Americans, is considered to be a Democratic party bastion as it has been 48 years now that the state has elected a Republican as a Senator.
US Elections 2020 Explainer: S&P 500 futures surge as investors eye tight election race
U.S. stock futures jumped late on Tuesday as President Donald Trump appeared to be doing better than expected in some key states as early results in the U.S. presidential election revealed a very tight race. S&P emini futures EScv1 were last up 1.3%, extending a rally during the official trading session in which the S&P 500 delivered its strongest one-day gain in almost a month. Nasdaq 100 emini futures jumped 3%, with some investors pointing to a lower threat of antitrust scrutiny for major technology companies under Trump than under a Biden presidency.
US Elections 2020 Explainer: Why a bitter fight is likely for kingmaker Pennsylvania
It’s as tight it gets. According to the Associated Press at 1:55 pm IST, Joe Biden has 238 electoral college votes while incumbent US President Donald Trump has 213. Trump has won Florida, and the focus is now firmly on the three Northern industrial states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House. In the final sprint of the presidential campaign, both the Biden and Trump camps set their eyes on Pennsylvania, also referred to as the Keystone State, a crucial contest that may determine the next president of the United States. The state holds 20 electoral votes which in all likelihood, will be key to deciding to touches the magic figure of 270.
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