11:44 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Trump wins Texas with 38 electoral votes, says AP
President Donald Trump has won Texas and its 38 electoral votes despite a furious, late push by Democrats to turn America’s biggest red state blue.
An avalanche of early votes fed Democrats’ high hopes of ending decades of losses in Texas, where polls showed Joe Biden running unusually close. But Trump carried Texas for a second straight year.
11:38 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Biden wins at least 1 electoral vote from Maine
Joe Biden has won at least one of Maine's four electoral votes in his bid to unseat President Donald Trump.
Biden won Maine's 1st Congressional District, good for one electoral vote. The statewide vote, which is worth two electoral votes, and the 2nd Congressional District, which is worth one electoral vote, still have not been called.
Maine split its electoral votes four years ago, awarding three to Democrat Hillary Clinton and one to Trump, who won the more rural and conservative of Maine’s congressional districts.
Maine is one of only two states that divides its electoral votes. The other is Nebraska.
11:35 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
AP calls Florida for Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has won Florida and its 29 electoral votes, the biggest prize among the perennial battlegrounds and a state crucial to his reelection hopes, projected The Associated Press.
A victory in Florida means reelection is within Trump’s grasp. A loss in the state would have made it nearly impossible for Trump to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to retain the White House. Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign had hoped the devastating toll of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly among older adults, would put him in a strong position in a state popular with retirees."
11:26 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Trump to make a statement tonight
Donald Trump said he would be making a statement tonight. "We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the polls are closed!" tweeted Trump.
I will be making a statement tonight. A big WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
11:21 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
'Keep the faith': Joe Biden says in address from Delaware
Thanking the people for the patience, given the early voting and mail-in voting, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden said, "I believe we're on track to win this election."
He said he is "feeling good" about Arizona and thanked the people for Wisconsin and Michigan. He also expressed confidence about winning Pennsylvania and said Democrats are still in the game in Georgia.
"We could know the results as early as tomorrow morning. It is not my or Trump's decision to announce results, but that of the American people," he further said, calling out to the people to "keep the faith".
11:09 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Biden wins Minnesota
Joe Biden bagged Minnesota and its 10 electoral votes, retaining the state which was narrowly won by Trump's 2016 challenger Hillary Clinton.
11:01 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Joe Biden to make statement shortly
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden will deliver remarks in Wilmington at 12.30 am ET.
10:43 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Trump wins in hotly contested Ohio: Reports
President Donald Trump on Tuesday prevailed in the hotly contested Rust Belt state of Ohio - one he seized in 2016 and which is key to his efforts to win reelection over Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Fox News and NBC News called the Midwestern state - which has 18 electoral votes - for the incumbent.
10:30 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Trump will win Ohio, says Fox News
According to Fox News projections, Donald Trump will win Ohio, a state that was viewed as a must-win for the president.
The Associated Press has not yet called a winner in Ohio, but Trump’s lead there is an encouraging sign for the president.
Fox News projects Trump wins the pivotal state of Ohio, clearing a major electoral hurdle in his quest for a second term.https://t.co/jc9GzdILdt
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 4, 2020
10:26 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Biden now leading in Arizona, says CNN
Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads in Montana, and the former vice president now also has a lead in Virginia, according to CNN projections. Biden is also leading in Arizona which has 11 electoral votes.
10:23 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets 2nd term in US House
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been re-elected to a second term in the US House of Representatives.
Ocasio-Cortez was called the winner by The Associated Press (AP) news agency, defeating her Republican challenger John Cummings after taking a nearly 40-percentage point lead with two-thirds of the vote counted. She was all but assured of winning re-election in the heavily Democratic New York 14th congressional district which includes parts of New York City boroughs, The Bronx and Queens.
10:10 (IST)
2020 US election results LATEST Updates
Hundreds gather in Black Lives Matter Plaza
Several hundred people have gathered in Black Lives Matter Plaza, just one block from the White House, holding signs and chanting about democracy.
It was a generally festive atmosphere Tuesday night as election results came in, with a few scuffles along the edges. There were fears of widespread unrest connected to the election, and authorities around the country were on alert in their communities.
09:43 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Biden at 209 electoral votes, Trump at 116
Joe Biden has won California, Oregon and Washington state, while Donald Trump has won Idaho, projected the Associated Press.
With those four states in, the electoral college count stands at 209 votes for Biden and 112 votes for Trump.
09:30 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Roy Cooper gets another term as North Carolina governor
Democrat Roy Cooper has won another term as the governor of North Carolina, the Associated Press just announced.
Cooper is running ahead of Joe Biden and Senate candidate Cal Cunningham in North Carolina.
With 92% of the vote in, Cooper is leading by about 5 points, while Biden is trailing by 1 point and Cunningham is trailing by 1.4 points.
09:24 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump wins Missouri with 10 electoral votes, says AP
US President Donald Trump is projected to win the state of Missouri, said the Associated Press. The Republican nominee on Tuesday was awarded its 10 electoral votes.
In 2016, Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in the state by 18 percentage points.
09:08 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Democrats retain control of House of Representatives
The Democratic Party will maintain control of the US House of Representatives, Fox News and NBC projected. This is good news for Nancy Pelosi, who will have another two years as Speaker.
Democrats had a 232-197 advantage going into the election.
09:05 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Why is Pennsylvania one of key battleground states?
Pennsylvania was one of the largest states to swing to US President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. He won the state by a margin of just 0.7 percentage points, turning it Republican for the first time since 1992.
09:01 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Republican gets Senate seat in Alabama, says AP
Republican Tommy Tuberville has been declared the winner of the Alabama Senate race, defeating Democratic incumbent Doug Jones, projected The Associated Press.
Jones had been widely expected to lose his race, after narrowly winning the seat in a 2017 special election.
BREAKING: Republican Tommy Tuberville wins election to U.S. Senate from Alabama, beating incumbent Sen. Doug Jones. #APracecall at 9:10 p.m. CST. #Election2020 #ALelection https://t.co/lGfinjTqT4
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 4, 2020
08:48 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump leading in Florida, says CNN
President Donald Trump is leading in the swing state of Florida, CNN said, according to early counting trends. Democrat Joe Biden wins Connecticut which has seven electoral votes, while Trump takes South Dakota with three electoral votes, according to CNN projections.
Trump is leading in Louisiana, Virginia and Nebraska.
08:35 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump wins Kansas, projects AP
The Associated Press predicted win for US President Donald Trump in the state of Kansas. The Republican nominee on Tuesday was awarded its six electoral votes.
In 2016, Trump coasted to victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton by 20 percentage points in the state.
08:16 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Biden wins Colorado
The AP has declared Joe Biden to be the winner of Colorado and its nine electoral votes.
The state, which went for Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago, has trended sharply to the left since President Donald Trump’s 2016 election.
Biden’s electoral vote count now stands at 131, meaning he is about halfway to the 270 votes needed for victory.
08:05 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump takes Nebraska, North and South Dakota
US President Donald Trump has taken Nebraska, Louisiana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota, according to the latest projections put out by The Associated Press.
08:02 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Ohio results and Trump-LeBron drama
Ohio, with 18 electoral votes, is another State that is a toss-up between the two candidates. Donald Trump had famously crossed swords with the State's star NBA player LeBron James, after the latter called the US President "divisive."
In classic Trump fashion, he took to Twitter to express his displeasure. "Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon," Trump posted. "He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do."
Don Lemon is an American television journalist.
07:56 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
All eyes on Florida
As projections are released for the smaller states which usually vote along either Republican or Democrat, all eyes are now on the swing states. Trends are coming in for Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, and it looks too close to call.
The New York Times reported "Florida is a critical part of almost any Electoral College pathway for Trump to hit the 270 votes needed to secure re-election. Biden is seen to have multiple paths without the state."
07:36 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Biden wins New York, New Mexico, projects AP
President Donald Trump has won Louisiana, Nebraska, Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, while Democrat Joe Biden has won New Mexico and New York.
Nebraska, one of two states that divides its electoral votes, has five total electoral votes up for grabs. Trump won the statewide vote, which is good for two electoral votes. He also won the 3rd Congressional District, which nets him a third vote.
07:34 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Polls close in more than a dozen states
Polls have now closed in more than a dozen states, including the key swing states of Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Joe Biden had a polling advantage in Michigan and Wisconsin, but it may take a while to count absentee ballots in those two states. Arizona is expected to post results more quickly.
07:18 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Republican Phil Scott wins reelection in Vermont
Republican Governor Phil Scott has won reelection in the traditionally Democratic state of Vermont, the AP announced.
Scott has distanced himself from Donald Trump, previously announcing he intended to vote for Joe Biden. Explaining his Biden vote earlier today, Scott said, "We need someone that can pull us together. Our country needs to heal."
"We need someone that can pull us together."
— ABC News (@ABC) November 3, 2020
Vermont's Republican Gov. Phil Scott explains why he voted for Joe Biden, adding that "our country needs to heal." https://t.co/bMrqNVtaLc pic.twitter.com/f4WiWRvzb5
07:13 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump gets Alabama, Mississippi: US media
President Donald Trump has won Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee, while Democrat Joe Biden has won Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
The results were not a surprise. Biden is very strong in the states that went for him, just as Trump is strong in the states he won.
Trump takes 33 electoral votes for winning those four states, while Biden adds 69 electoral votes to his total for winning seven states.
07:09 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump wins Arkansas, says AP
President Donald Trump is projected to win the state of Arkansas. The Republican nominee on Tuesday was awarded its six electoral votes.
Arkansas is a reliably Republican state that hasn’t gone for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996.
06:53 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Republican Mitch McConnell wins reelection in Kentucky
Senate leader Mitch McConnell has won the re-election race, defeating Democratic candidate Amy McGrath, according to US media. McConnell, who won from Kentucky, is one of the many senators who have been re-elected.
The Democratic incumbents who won are Chris Coons of Delaware, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Jack Reed of Rhode Island. On the GOP side, James Inhofe of Oklahoma has also won reelection.
06:42 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump picks up four states while Biden wins seven others
Joe Biden has won seven states, including his home state of Delaware. The Democratic nominee won Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware and Connecticut.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has won the states of Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
Again, none of these states are battlegrounds, so the results are not surprising. The major prizes of the night remain up for grabs.
BREAKING: Donald Trump wins Alabama. #APracecall at 7:00 p.m. CST. #Election2020
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 4, 2020
06:38 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Donald Trump set to win South Carolina, projects AP
Donald Trump is projected to win the state of South Carolina by winning its nine electoral votes, the AP announced.
Trump was expected to win the state, but South Carolina’s key Senate race between Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham and Democrat Jaime Harrison remains too close to call.
BREAKING: Donald Trump wins South Carolina. #APracecall at 7:56 p.m. EST. #Election2020
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 4, 2020
06:33 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Polls close in six US states
Polls have closed in six US states in a bitterly contested election between incumbent President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, including in the key East Coast battleground of Georgia.
Polling places also shut statewide in Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia in a landmark contest that saw tens of millions of American cast their ballots early amid the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN and NBC already projected a win for Donald Trump in Indiana.
06:26 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Trump takes Republican-leaning States of West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky
The first results are trickling in, with US media projecting wins for the Republican incumbent so far in Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia - all states he won in 2016. Biden has captured Vermont and Virginia.
So far, that gives Trump 24 electoral votes to 16 for Biden. The magic number is 270. Observers expect the hotly contested race for the White House to come down to a handful of key battleground states.
06:13 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Joe Biden set to win Virginia, says AP
Democrat Joe Biden is projected to win the state of Virginia by winning its 13 electoral votes.
Democrat Hillary Clinton won Virginia over Republican Donald Trump in 2016, helped in part by her choice of running mate: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.
Virginia has grown increasingly liberal over the last four years, and as a result of the 2019 elections, Democrats now control every branch of government in the state.
06:09 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Donald Trump projected to win West Virginia, Kentucky
AP projected that Donald Trump will coast to victory in West Virginia, winning its five electoral votes. The Republican nominee is set to defeat Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday in the state, which is reliably conservative, the report said.
The report also projected eight electoral votes from Kentucky for Trump.
05:52 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Joe Biden to win Vermont, reports AP
BREAKING: Joe Biden wins Vermont. #APracecall at 7:00 p.m. EST. #Election2020
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 4, 2020
05:48 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Donald Trump confident as early trends trickle in
Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday evening (local time) as polls began shutting around the country and early trends began.
WE ARE LOOKING REALLY GOOD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. THANK YOU!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2020
05:42 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
CNN projects Indiana for Donald Trump
CNN PROJECTION: Donald Trump wins Indiana https://t.co/lCnX8gH59B #CNNElection pic.twitter.com/7P94E6UM2Y
— CNN (@CNN) November 4, 2020
05:20 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
On radio, Donald Trump claims win in North Carolina and Florida
US president Donald Trump called into talk radio shows in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin just hours before polls closed. Trump projected confidence Tuesday that he will win key states like North Carolina and Florida and said he’s expecting a “great” evening.
Trump told Wisconsin host Vicki McKenna that he is expecting a strong night based on lines of people waiting to vote. Trump has sown doubts about mail voting, without evidence, and is expecting most of his supporters to turn out on Election Day.
05:13 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Joe Biden urges higher voter turnout as polls begin to close
As polls begin to close in certain parts of the country, remember to stay in line.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 3, 2020
If you’re in line at your polling place before it closes, you’re able to vote. pic.twitter.com/qUpn30B8mj
05:00 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Armed man arrested at North Carolina polling site
In North Carolina, an armed man loitering at a polling site on Election Day has been arrested and charged with trespassing, AP reported
Thirty-six-year-old Justin Dunn was legally carrying a firearm but loitered at the Charlotte site after voting Tuesday morning, which prompted a precinct official to call police over fears of voter intimidation. A precinct official accompanied by a police officer asked him to leave the site and banned him from the location.
Police say Dunn left the precinct but returned about two hours later. He was taken into custody and charged with second-degree trespassing.
Publicly listed numbers for Dunn were disconnected when a reporter tried to reach him Tuesday.
04:56 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
'Superstitious' about poll predictions, says Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden isn’t making any predictions about the outcome of the election as the final hours of voting tick down.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday outside a Delaware community center, Biden said he’s “superstitious” about offering predictions for election night but remains “hopeful", AP reported. He says he’s heard from aides that there’s “overwhelming turnout” among young people, women and older Black adults in places like Georgia and Florida.
He says, “The things that are happening bode well for the base that has been supporting me -- but we’ll see.” Still, he admitted, “It’s just so uncertain” because of how many states are in play.
04:41 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Vermont Republican governor says he voted for Biden
Vermont Governor Phil Scott says he voted for Joe Biden for president, making him the first Republican governor in the nation to acknowledge voting for the Democratic presidential candidate.
The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday after casting his ballot in his hometown of Berlin, Vermont, that he had never voted for a Democrat in his life.
“As many of you knew, I didn’t support President Trump. I wasn’t going to vote for him,” Scott said. “But then I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t enough for me to just not vote. I had to vote against.” He says he “put country over party, which again wasn’t an easy thing to do in some respects.”
04:27 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Donald Trump to watch poll results in East Wing
US president Donald Trump will reportedly watch the poll results on Tuesday (local time) in the White House's East Wing, CNN reported.
“The President’s going to be watching returns tonight with senior aides, with members of the first family from the White House, from the East Wing. He’s excited. We’ve put in the work, we’ve not taken any vote for granted, he’s been out on the trail meeting with voters, doing as many as five events a day, and we’re ready to see these results,” communications director Alyssa Farah was quoted as saying.
04:06 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Voters say pandemic top issue in election
With the coronavirus now surging anew, voters ranked the pandemic and the economy as top concerns in the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate.
Voters were especially likely to call the public health crisis the nation’s most important issue, with the economy following close behind. Fewer named health care, racism, law enforcement, immigration or climate change.
After eight months and 232,000 deaths, the candidates faced a dissatisfied electorate. Many voters said they have been personally affected by the virus. Roughly 6 in 10 said the country is going in the wrong direction.
03:42 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
FBI investigates robocalls warning voters to "stay home"
Voters across the US received anonymous robocalls in the days and weeks before Election Day urging them to “stay safe and stay home” — an ominous warning that election experts said could be an effort to scare voters into sitting out the election, AP reported.
The FBI is investigating calls that seek to discourage people from voting, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security told reporters Tuesday. Authorities wouldn't offer details.
The brief calls, which featured a computerized female voice, made no mention of the election. But given the lack of details, and the timing, the message was clear, according to Dan Doughty, a Kansas City resident who received the robocall Tuesday morning.
03:33 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Waiting for the first polls to close?
Watch the Titanic Sink in Real Time in a New 2-Hour, 40 Minute Animation https://t.co/vgJZviRNeN pic.twitter.com/RNYDh4fs6g
— Open Culture (@openculture) November 3, 2020
03:32 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Poll results largely a referendum on COVID-19 management
The US poll campaign has largely been a referendum on Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump insists the nation was “rounding the turn” on the virus. But Dr Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, broke with the president and joined a chorus of Trump administration scientists sounding the alarm about the current spike in infections.
"We are entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic," Birx wrote in a memo distributed to top administration officials. She added that the nation was not implementing "balanced" measures needed to slow the spread of the virus.
03:15 (IST)
US Election 2020 Latest Updates
Hand sanitiser causes ballot scanner malfunction in Iowa
A spokesperson for the Iowa secretary of state says hand sanitizer on voters’ hands caused a ballot scanner to jam at a polling place in Des Moines, AP reported.
Spokesperson Kevin Hall says some voters’ hands were moist when they handled the ballots and the buildup of sanitizer eventually caused the scanner to stop working. The machine was fixed in about an hour.
To prevent another breakdown, poll workers moved the sanitizing station farther back in the line so voters’ hands would be dry when they first touched the ballots.
It was a problem unique to the coronavirus era. Iowa is considered one of the tossup states in Tuesday’s election between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
US Election 2020 Results LATEST Counting and Updates: Thanking the people for the patience, given the early voting and mail-in voting, Democratic Presidential nominee said, "I believe we're on track to win this election."
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden will deliver remarks in Wilmington at 12.30 am ET. Meanwhile, Trump prevailed in the hotly contested Rust Belt state of Ohio - one he seized in 2016 and which is key to his efforts to win reelection over Biden.
Biden has captured 16 states including his home state Delaware and big prizes California and New York, as well as the US capital.
Fox News Channel on Tuesday night declared that Democrats would retain control of the House of Representatives, picking up at least five seats.
With about 91 percent of the Florida vote in, Donald Trump leads Biden by about 3 points, 51%-48%, reported AP.
Colorado, which went for Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago, has trended sharply to the left since President Donald Trump’s 2016 election.
Donald Trump has picked up North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Louisiana and Nebraska. The AP also called Indiana for Trump shortly before polls closed in some western states.
Biden has captured his home state of Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia and New Jersey, as well as the three electoral votes given to the US capital Washington (District of Columbia).
Democrat Joe Biden is projected to win the state of Virginia by winning its 13 electoral votes.
Democrat Hillary Clinton won Virginia over Republican Donald Trump in 2016, helped in part by her choice of running mate: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.
Virginia has grown increasingly liberal over the last four years, and as a result of the 2019 elections, Democrats now control every branch of government in the state.
Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday evening (local time) as polls began shutting around the country and early trends began trickling in.
US president Donald Trump called into talk radio shows in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin just hours before polls closed. Trump projected confidence Tuesday that he will win key states like North Carolina and Florida and said he’s expecting a “great” evening.
Trump told Wisconsin host Vicki McKenna that he is expecting a strong night based on lines of people waiting to vote. Trump has sown doubts about mail voting, without evidence, and is expecting most of his supporters to turn out on Election Day.
In North Carolina, an armed man loitering at a polling site on Election Day has been arrested and charged with trespassing, AP reported.
Thirty-six-year-old Justin Dunn was legally carrying a firearm but loitered at the Charlotte site after voting Tuesday morning, which prompted a precinct official to call police over fears of voter intimidation. A precinct official accompanied by a police officer asked him to leave the site and banned him from the location.
Police say Dunn left the precinct but returned about two hours later. He was taken into custody and charged with second-degree trespassing.
Publicly listed numbers for Dunn were disconnected when a reporter tried to reach him Tuesday.
Vermont Governor Phil Scott says he voted for Joe Biden for president, making him the first Republican governor in the nation to acknowledge voting for the Democratic presidential candidate.
The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday after casting his ballot in his hometown of Berlin, Vermont, that he had never voted for a Democrat in his life.
“As many of you knew, I didn’t support President Trump. I wasn’t going to vote for him,” Scott said. “But then I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t enough for me to just not vote. I had to vote against.” He says he “put country over party, which again wasn’t an easy thing to do in some respects.”
With the coronavirus now surging anew, voters ranked the pandemic and the economy as top concerns in the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate.
Voters were especially likely to call the public health crisis the nation’s most important issue, with the economy following close behind. Fewer named health care, racism, law enforcement, immigration or climate change.
After eight months and 232,000 deaths, the candidates faced a dissatisfied electorate. Many voters said they have been personally affected by the virus. Roughly 6 in 10 said the country is going in the wrong direction.
Voters across the US received anonymous robocalls in the days and weeks before Election Day urging them to “stay safe and stay home” — an ominous warning that election experts said could be an effort to scare voters into sitting out the election, AP reported.
The FBI is investigating calls that seek to discourage people from voting, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security told reporters Tuesday. Authorities wouldn't offer details.
The brief calls, which featured a computerized female voice, made no mention of the election. But given the lack of details, and the timing, the message was clear, according to Dan Doughty, a Kansas City resident who received the robocall Tuesday morning.
As America set out to vote on Election Day amid the COVID-19 pandemic, state election authorities weighed in on the situation on polling in their respective jurisdictions.
In Arizona, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said that while Joe Biden has a narrow edge over US President Donald Trump in the state, "either candidate has the possibility to win". "I try to be non-partisan, but we've seen Biden leading pretty much most of the polls that have been done here for Arizona. The margins vary, but he's been ahead," Hobbs told CNN'.
Meanwhile, the report said that voting in Minneapolis was going "very smoothly" so far "with no incidents of equipment malfunction or voter intimidation."
Additionally, in Michigan, the authorities said the vote "will be counted sooner than previously expected, with both day-of and absentee ballot counts expected to be reported soon after polls close tonight", CNN reported.
The North Carolina board of Elections extended voting in four precincts after they opened late on Tuesday, CNN reported, adding that the election results are likely to be delayed by at least 45 minutes in the state.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris urged voters to stay calm no matter what the outcome of the election is and said, "Have faith in the American people. I do strongly believe that we — whoever we vote for — will defend the integrity of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. And that there are certain lines that no matter who you vote for, they won't cross."
Speaking to reporters in Detroit, she was quoted by CNN as saying, "The path to the White House and the path to determining who will be the next President of the United States without question runs right through Michigan."
Addressing the campaign team in the bullpen of the headquarters in Virginia, Donald Trump claimed that his campaign was doing "very well" in the states of Florida, Arizona, and Texas. "I think we're going to have a great night and more importantly we're going to have a great 4 years."
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had built the world''s greatest economy, which was "horribly" interrupted by the "plague" that came from China
First Lady Melania Trump has cast her in-person vote at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach.
According to the US president's son, China, Mexico, Cuba, Liberia, the US states of New York and California along with part of India are the only places that don't want Trump to have four more years in the White House. Curiously, Jammu and Kashmir, according to Trump Jr, would prefer a Trump presidency.
News reports say that 9,069,761 people have already voted in Florida, which is roughly 95 percent of the 9.6 million total votes in the 2016 election. Registered Democrats lead registered Republicans by about 115,000 votes. Nearly 2 million people with no party affiliation have also voted, CNN reported.
In what CNN termed 'only a mildly confident view of his prospects', President Donald Trump asserted that he will call in a win, only when there's a win.
Joe Biden has started Election Day with a visit to church — and the grave of his late son, Beau. Biden and his wife, Jill, made an early morning stop at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware
At least 98.1 million people voted before Election Day, or just shy of 71 percent of the nearly 139 million ballots cast during the 2016 presidential election, according to data collected by The Associated Press. Given that a few states, including Texas, had already exceeded their total 2016 vote count, experts were predicting record turnout this year
President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign are signaling they will pursue an aggressive legal strategy to try to prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election. The matter could find its way to the Supreme Court, especially if those ballots could tip the outcome in the battleground state.
On Election day, President Donald Trump is planning to visit his campaign headquarters in Virginia on Tuesday, while Biden will travel to his birthplace of Scranton, the scrappy Pennsylvania town where Trump also visited on Monday
Polls opened at 6:00 am (4.30 pm IST) in the eastern states of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and Maine. But the first polling stations to open in the country were in two New Hampshire villages, Dixville Notch and Millsfield, starting at midnight
Election Day is finally here.
Or at least what we still call Election Day, since nearly 100 million Americans had already cast ballots by Tuesday.
That's the result of an election system that has been reshaped by the worst pandemic in a century, prompting many voters to take advantage of advance voting rather than head to polling places in person at a time when coronavirus cases are rising.
Here's what to watch as the final votes for President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are cast:
Results, Results...?
We may not know who won the presidential election on Tuesday night. And if so, it does not necessarily mean anything is broken, fraudulent, corrupted or wrong.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested a slower-than-typical result is a sign of trouble.
“I think it’s terrible that we can’t know the results of an election the night of the election,” he said on Sunday. “I think it’s a terrible thing when states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over."
It's unclear what the president thinks is a long period. But it's standard practice to continue tabulating votes after Election Day. But as it turns out that not knowing final results on the voting day itself is not an exception but the norm. The reason is simple enough, that it is physically impossible to count millions of ballots overnight as votes are cast across 51 states both in person, and by mail.
What the headlines mean, when they say that results will be delayed this year is that there may not be enough information available early enough to call out the polls in favour of one candidate over the other.
Does this mean results will come out later than usual?
Yes.
The biggest factor that may slow things down this year is clear: Millions of Americans decided to vote by mail rather than risk contracting coronavirus at a polling place. And in general, those mail ballots take longer to count.
Election workers must remove the ballots from their envelopes, check for errors, sort them and flatten them — all before they can be run through scanners the moment polls close and be tabulated. In states with well-established vote-by-mail programs, this processing happens weeks before Election Day. The results are often released quickly.
But several states did not have this system in place before this year and laws on the books prohibited election officials from processing the ballots well in advance of Election Day. Without a head start, there's virtually no way to process and count all the mail votes on Election Day, while also counting all the in-person votes.
There are three important battlegrounds with restrictions on when the mail vote can be processed — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
In those states, Republican-controlled legislatures have resisted pleas from election officials to update the laws to allow for a speedier count. (The Michigan legislature did allow processing to begin 24 hours before Election Day in cities, but election officials say that's not enough of a head start.) Instead, they will initially report in-person votes — expected to heavily favor Trump — and gradually update with the more Democratic-leaning mail ballots later.
But don't news organisations call a winner before all the vote is counted?
Yes, there's never been a presidential race in history in which all votes are counted on election night. It's just not physically possible to instantly count that many ballots — possibly as many as 150 million on the night of Nov. 3.
Media organizations, including The Associated Press, declare winners in thousands of races on election night based on the results that are in, voter surveys and other political data.
But in a close race, more of the vote may need to be counted before The Associated Press can call a winner.
Is there any hope for knowing the winner on election night?
Sure. Not all battleground states are slow-counting states. So if several key states release their results promptly, one candidate may have a majority of the electoral vote — even without knowing who won in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or Michigan.
That becomes more likely if the races in those states are not close.
It's a scenario that puts a lot of eyes on Florida. The state allows its election offices to process mail ballots 22 days before the election. It's also the biggest swing state. As long as the race isn't too close — a big “if” in a place famous for tight races — there could be a close-to-complete count by midnight. And if Trump loses Florida, it's is very difficult for him to reach the 270 electoral votes he needs to defeat former Vice President Joe Biden and return to the White House.
Two other Southern battlegrounds — North Carolina and Georgia — also can begin processing mail ballots early. They are both considered critical states for Trump. However, unlike Florida, neither state has a record of handling a large number of mail ballots. It's unclear how quickly they will count those votes.
Finally, two Midwestern states — Iowa and Ohio — also allow for early processing of mail ballots. Trump won both states handily in 2016, but Democrats believe Biden is competitive there. Results in those two states on election night could give hints about what lies ahead in the critical Rust Belt states that take longer to count.
With inputs from AP and AFP
from Firstpost World Latest News https://ift.tt/3jTzKV6
No comments:
Post a Comment