Election updates: After win in Pa., Biden captures Nevada as well

This is the latest on the presidential election between incumbent Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden:

12:13 p.m.

Biden has won Nevada, adding to his Electoral College victory over Trump.

Biden clinched Nevada on Saturday afternoon, shortly after he won the presidency by taking Pennsylvania.

Trump had made a strong play in Nevada, holding several rallies there in the final stretch of the campaign. Democrat Hillary Clinton narrowly won Nevada in 2016, and Republicans saw an opening to expand their electoral map.

The pandemic has pummeled Nevada’s tourism-dependent economy, especially, hampering Trump’s ability to make inroads in the state.

Nevada is also home to a large Hispanic population, a voting bloc that typically leans Democratic.

The last Republican presidential candidate to win Nevada was George W. Bush in 2004.

11:25 a.m.

Biden has won Pennsylvania, surpassing the 270 electoral vote threshold to take the White House and become the 46th president of the United States.

Biden also carried Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan on his path to the presidency, flipping states that Trump won in 2016.

Pennsylvania was a must-win state for Trump.

The 77-year-old Biden was born in Scranton and sought to contrast his working-class roots with the affluent Trump’s by casting the race as “Scranton versus Park Avenue.”

Biden’s victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed the processing of some ballots.

Trump is the first incumbent president to lose reelection since Republican George H.W. Bush in 1992.

11:09 a.m. Saturday

The race in Arizona is tightening.

Trump has pulled to within 20,573 votes of Biden with 90% of the precincts reporting. The Associated Press called Arizona for Biden earlier this week, but Trump continues to inch closer to his Democratic challenger.

Trump trails Biden in Nevada by about the same deficit: 22,657 votes with 87% of the precincts reporting.

In Georgia, which like Nevada is still up for grabs, Biden leads by 7,248 votes with 99% of the precincts reporting.

11:05 p.m.

Joe Biden says he is already preparing to assume the presidency even though he has not been declared the winner in his race against President Donald Trump.

“I want people to know we’re not waiting to get the work done,” he said late Friday in remarks to the nation.

Biden said he and his running mate, Kamala Harris, have held briefings on the coronavirus and the economy this week as the U.S. records record daily cases.

He noted nearly 240,000 people have died from the pandemic and said he wants those families to know they aren’t alone.

He also addressed the millions of Americans who remain out of work and are struggling to pay rent or buy food.

“We don’t have any more time to waste on partisan warfare,” he said.

The Associated Press has not yet declared a winner in the race between Biden and Trump because neither candidate has reached the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House.

6:05 p.m.

Biden is adding to his lead over Trump in Georgia.

As of early Friday evening, Biden had overtaken Trump by 4,235 votes in the battleground state, which Trump must win to have a shot at reelection.

The Democrat first surpassed Trump in the state vote count on Friday morning as votes continue to be counted.

3:10 p.m.

The federal agency that oversees U.S. election security is pushing back at unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud without mentioning that Trump is making unfounded allegations about the vote count.

A new statement from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency notes that local election offices have detection measures that “make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots.”

CISA, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, published the statement Friday on a section of its website devoted to dispelling rumors. It said it was countering a rumor about the role of DHS and CISA in the printing of ballots and auditing of results. Neither agency has a role in printing or auditing ballots. CISA principally helps local and state election departments protect themselves against cyberattacks.

CISA also put out a statement noting that the systems and processes used to tabulate votes and certify results “are protected by various safeguards that help ensure the accuracy of election results.”

2:12 p.m.

Biden has increased his lead over Trump in Nevada, leading by 20,137 votes in the battleground state.

Results released Friday from Democrat-heavy Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and three-quarters of Nevada’s population, along with two rural counties, put Biden at 627,104 votes. Trump had 606,967.

Biden’s lead nearly doubled from Thursday, when he was leading Trump by about 11,000 votes.

Clark County has an additional 63,000 mail ballots to be processed over the next few days and 60,000 provisional ballots to be processed later, Registrar Joe Gloria said. He said the county would release more results Friday afternoon but did not know how many ballots could be included.

12:55 p.m.

Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, says Trump is “damaging the cause of freedom” and inflaming “destructive and dangerous passions” by claiming, without foundation, that the election was rigged and stolen from him.

Romney lost to President Barack Obama in 2012 but was gracious in defeat. He is Trump’s most vocal critic within the Republican Party and voted to convict him in Trump’s impeachment trial early this year.

The Utah Republican offered his assessment Friday on Twitter, saying that Trump is well within his rights to challenge the results through the legal remedies available to him. But Romney says Trump is “wrong to say that the election was rigged, corrupt, and stolen from him — doing so damages the cause of freedom here and around the world.”

Biden is on the cusp of winning the presidency as he opens up narrow leads over Trump in several critical backgrounds.

12:40 p.m.

Biden’s campaign says he will give a speech during prime time Friday.

The Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign announced that he would be making an address but did not say where or what he plans to say.

Biden is on the cusp of winning the presidency as he opens up narrow leads over President Donald Trump in several critical backgrounds.

He has urged the public to be patient as vote counting continues. He was spending Friday at home in Wilmington, Del.

A stage set up since election night for a victory party outside the city’s convention center remained intact and has been secured for days by security personnel using high fencing and car barriers.

Biden campaign staffers who arrived in Wilmington for a victory party earlier in the week have been told to hold onto their hotel rooms until early next week.

12:25 p.m.

Biden doubled his lead over Trump in Nevada as officials released more election results.

Democratic-heavy Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and three-quarters of the state’s population, planned to report results from 51,000 mail ballots. It was not immediately clear if the update of 30,000 was from ballots statewide or just Clark County.

Nevada has six Electoral College votes and could be decisive as Biden closes in on the 270 needed to win the White House.

Noon

A top Georgia elections official says they are “not seeing widespread irregularities” as the vote counting continues.

Gabriel Sterling says the process is public and transparent, with many safeguards and backed up with “paperwork on top of paperwork in many cases.”

Sterling acknowledges that he’s a Republican, as is Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and says “we have people who have partisan beliefs” involved in the counting. But he says it’s the job of thousands of election workers across Georgia to “follow the law and assure that every legal vote is counted and the will and intent of the voters is met.”

Sterling says that if you look on Facebook and Twitter, you’ll think there’s millions of problems across the country. He’s urging anyone with a credible complaint and some kind of evidence to call the Secretary of State’s office. He says investigating credible complaints “is how we’re going to build back faith in the system, that the outcome of the election is correct.”

11:53 a.m.

Biden maintained a slim 1.4 percentage point lead in Arizona — 1,561,147 votes to 1,517,368 — with 90% precincts reporting.

Arizona carries 11 electoral votes.

The Associated Press called the state for Biden earlier this week, but the vote continues to be tight.

In Nevada, Biden held about a 21,000-vote lead — 626,203 to 605,655 — with 86% precincts reporting. Nevada carries six electoral votes.

Biden leads Trump, 264 electoral votes to 214.

11:42 a.m.

Biden’s narrow lead over Trump in Georgia expanded Friday morning as vote counting continued, with about 1,500 votes separating the candidates after about five million votes were cast in the state.

“With a margin that small, there will be a recount,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday.

9:15 a.m.

Georgia’s top elections official says fewer than 8,200 absentee ballots remain to be tallied as the counting continues.

The largest batch of these are in the Atlanta suburb of Gwinnett County, with about 4,800 still to count. About 8,900 unreturned ballots that were sent to military and citizens overseas could be tallied as well if they arrive by 5 p.m. on Friday.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s statement says strong security protocols are making sure that “the voice of every eligible voter is heard.” He says “It’s important to act quickly, but it’s more important to get it right.”

5 a.m. Friday

Biden is now leading Trump in the battleground state of Georgia.

By Friday morning, Biden overtook Trump in the number of ballots counted in the battleground, a must-win state for Trump that has long been a Republican stronghold. Biden now has a 917-vote advantage.

As of 5 a.m., Biden had 2,449,371 votes to Trump’s 2,448,454 — each getting 49.4% of the vote.

The contest is still too early for the Associated Press to call. Thousands of ballots are still left to be counted — many in counties where the former vice president was in the lead.

An AP analysis showed that Biden’s vote margins grew as counties processed mail ballots cast in his favor.

There is a potential that the race could go to a recount. Under Georgia law, if the margin between Biden and Trump is under half a percentage point of difference, a recount can be requested.

9:30 p.m.

Biden maintained his lead in Arizona, but Trump was gaining ground.

Biden led 50.1% (1,528,319) to 48.5% (1,482,062), a difference of 46,257 votes, with 90 percent of the precincts reporting.

The Associated Press called the state and its 11 electoral votes for Biden on Tuesday, but the gap has narrowed significantly over the past two days.

In Nevada, Biden’s lead held at about 11,000 votes — 604,251 (49.4%) to 592,813 (48.5%).

9 p.m.

It’s nearly a statistical dead heat in Georgia.

Trump’s lead has fallen to 2,497 votes — 2,447,015 to 2,444,518 — as both he and Biden had 49.4% of the vote.

The Georgia secretary of state’s office announced that there were about 16,105 absentee votes remaining to be counted. Gabriel Sterling, who has overseen the implementation of Georgia’s new electronic voting system, said the secretary of state’s office has long said counting could take several days.

“I think if anybody was going to try to rig a system they might have seen something a little less close than this,” Sterling said. “In this state in particular we take security very seriously. … We’re going to have a recount for president more than likely and the people will see that the outcome will stay essentially the same.”

The roughly 16,000 outstanding absentee ballots don’t include provisional ballots and ballots that need to be “cured” before being scanned. Sterling also noted that ballots cast before Election Day by military voters and citizens living overseas and received by 5 p.m. Friday will be tallied.

5:50 p.m.

The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee have asked an Arizona judge to let them join a lawsuit that alleges vote tabulation equipment in metro Phoenix was unable to record a voter’s ballot because she completed it with a county-issued Sharpie pen.

They argued that anecdotal accounts of potential tabulation errors resulting from Sharpies demands further review and that they should be allowed to participate in the lawsuit because it will likely affect their interests in the tabulation of votes.

5:30 p.m.

Trump’s lead over Biden in Georgia has shrunk to about 9,500 votes. Georgia is a must-win state for Trump, who has a narrower path to victory than Biden.

4:23 p.m.

Biden’s lead over Trump in Arizona stands at 1,471,024 votes (50.5%) to 1,403,118 (48.2%), with 88 percent reporting.

3:43 p.m.

With the country turning its attention to Nevada’s vote count, Biden’s slim lead over Trump grew slightly, to more than 11,000 votes, as more results were released.

While no Republican presidential candidate has carried Nevada since 2004, the state has remained a swing state. Trump fell just shy of winning Nevada’s six electoral votes in 2016, and this year he campaigned hard in the state hoping for better luck.

In Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and three-quarters of the state’s population, election officials said workers are counting tens of thousands of mail-in ballots, and the bulk should be counted by the weekend. On top of that, tens of thousands of provisional ballots need to be counted, many of which were cast by people taking advantage of a new law allowing voters to register or update their registration at the polls.

3:35 p.m.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to perform twice daily sweeps of processing centers in states with extended ballot receipt deadlines to check for mail-in votes and to expedite them for delivery.

Thursday’s order will remain in place until the end of states’ windows for accepting ballots.

According to court records, a similar order by the same judge earlier this week found just 13 ballots in a search of 27 processing hubs in several battleground areas.

2:15 p.m.

Biden held an 11,000-vote lead in Nevada with 76 percent of the precincts reporting.

The winner in the state receives Nevada’s six electoral votes. If Biden holds Nevada, he would reach the necessary 270 Electoral College votes necessary to win the White House.

Biden has received 604,251 votes (49.4%) to Trump’s 592,813 (48.5%).

1:55 p.m.

As the nation awaits results from Nevada, Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria says it could take until Saturday or Sunday before the state’s largest county finishes tallying mail-in ballots that have been returned.

Gloria said Thursday at a press conference: “Our goal here in Clark County is not to count fast. We want to make sure that we’re being accurate.”

Gloria says Clark County has at least 63,262 ballots left to count, including 34,743 returned in drop boxes on Election Day and 4,208 returned via the U.S. Postal Service. But as mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day continue to trickle in, Gloria said he had no way of knowing the total number of outstanding ballots.

Gloria says the fact that Nevada’s six electoral votes could push Biden beyond the 270 electoral vote threshold needed to win the presidency reaffirmed the need to not rush the count.

He said the last day to count ballots is Nov. 12.

1:20 p.m.

Vote counting continued in several Georgia counties Thursday as Americans watched to see whether the state gives Biden the electoral votes he needs to become president.

As of 1:30 p.m., Trump’s lead had shrunk to about 14,000 votes — 2,436,007 (49.5%) to 2,422,467 (49.2%). The Georgia secretary of state’s office announced that as of 12:45 p.m. there were 50,401 votes remaining to be counted.

“Things are getting really close,” Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs told The Associated Press. By the time all the votes are counted, “there’s a good chance that it’s literally between 1,000 votes, between the two of them,” she said.

1 p.m.

With millions of votes yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 72 million, the most in history. At an afternoon news conference Wednesday, the former vice president said he expected to win the presidency but stopped short of outright declaring victory.

“I will govern as an American president,” Biden said. “There will be no red states and blue states when we win. Just the United States of America.”

Trump, in contrast, was escalating his efforts to sow doubt about the outcome of the race. A day after falsely claimed that he had won, he voiced support Thursday for ceasing the tallying of legally cast votes in a tweet, saying, “STOP THE COUNT!” He later falsely asserted that ballots received after Election Day “will not be counted,” a move that if implemented would affect military ballots, as his campaign propagated unsupported allegations of fraud.

Elections are run by individual state, county and local governments and Trump’s public comments have no impact on the tallying of votes across the country.

10:50 a.m.

Trump’s campaign is expected to file yet another lawsuit on Thursday morning in Nevada, where the race remains too close to call, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The campaign is planning a “major announcement” in Las Vegas. Fox News reported that the lawsuit will allege 10,000 people voted in the state despite not living there.

It’s unclear what evidence, if any, there is for the claim.

The announcement is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. EST, shortly before Nevada releases an update on its ballot count.

10:42 a.m.

The Associated Press has not declared a winner in Georgia’s presidential contest because the race between Trump and Biden is still too early to call. With thousands of ballots still being tallied in counties that tend to vote blue, Democrats had reason for optimism.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that as of 9:15 a.m. Thursday there were about 61,000 ballots still outstanding.

10:38 a.m.

Arizona state officials say there are 450,000 ballots still to be counted in the Western battleground.

The AP says it is monitoring that vote count as it comes in. The AP has called the presidential race in Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden.

AP executive editor Sally Buzbee says: “The Associated Press continues to watch and analyze vote count results from Arizona. We will follow the facts in all cases.”

Biden holds a 2.35 percentage point lead over Trump in Arizona, an advantage of about 68,000 votes.

The vast majority of the ballots yet to be counted are from Maricopa County, the most populous area of the state.

10:32 a.m.

A small county in northern Michigan that typically supports Republican presidential candidates is counting ballots by hand after acknowledging “skewed results” that gave Biden a local landslide.

Jeremy Scott, deputy administrator in Antrim County, said new results were expected Thursday.

The Associated Press has called Michigan for Biden, a Democrat, as well as Democratic U.S. Sen. Gary Peters in his race. A change in the Antrim results would affect the vote totals but not the outcome of the two races.

Initial results had Biden beating Trump by 3,000 votes in Antrim. In 2016, Trump crushed Hillary Clinton in the county with 62% of the vote.

Scott said He said officials were working with the company that provides election software and hardware.

“There is no way that we flipped from 62% Trump in 2016 to upside down this time around,” said Republican state Rep. Triston Cole.

9:09 a.m. Thursday

Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump’s path.

With just a handful of states still up for grabs, Trump tried to press his case in court in some key swing states. It was unclear if any of his campaign’s legal maneuvering over balloting would succeed in shifting the race in his favor.

6:07 p.m. Wednesday

Biden has won Michigan, pushing him closer to 270 Electoral College votes and narrowing Trump’s possible path to reelection.

With Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, Biden now has 264 electoral votes, while Trump has 214. It takes 270 to win the presidency.

Only a handful of battleground states remain uncalled, including Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

An hour and a half earlier, Biden captured Wisconsin, represent parts of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago, paving the way for Trump’s election. Biden’s campaign had counted on winning back at least some of them.

4:20 p.m.

Biden says he’s not ready to declare victory as vote counting continues in the presidential election, but he says, “When the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.”

Biden addressed reporters Wednesday afternoon from Wilmington, Del., alongside his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Biden says, “Every vote must be counted.” He added, “We the people will not be silenced.”

Biden also tried to sound like a president-elect, promising to reach out to political opponents and insisting that the presidency “itself is not a partisan institution.”

3:45 p.m.

The Trump campaign said it filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in undecided battleground states that could determine whether President Donald Trump gets another four years in the White House.

2:16 p.m.

Biden has defeated Trump in battleground Wisconsin, securing the state’s 10 electoral votes and reclaiming a key part of the blue wall that slipped away from Democrats four years ago.

The Associated Press called Wisconsin for Biden after election officials in the state said all outstanding ballots had been counted, save for a few hundred in one township and an expected small number of provisional ballots.

Trump’s campaign has requested a recount. Statewide recounts in Wisconsin have historically changed the vote tally by only a few hundred votes; Biden leads by .624 percentage points out of nearly 3.3 million ballots counted.

The victory for Biden bumps him up to 248 electoral votes, while Trump has 214. It takes 270 to win the presidency.

In 2016, Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes, a breakthrough that along with wins in Michigan and Pennsylvania helped hand him his first term in the White House. Democrats were determined to reclaim Wisconsin, a state that before Trump hadn’t gone for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

2:02 p.m.

Trump’s campaign says it has filed a lawsuit trying to halt the vote count in Michigan.

The latest counts gives Biden a small lead, but the race is still too early to call.

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien says in a statement Wednesday that the campaign “has not been provided with meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process, as guaranteed by Michigan law.”

He says a suit was filed Wednesday in the Michigan Court of Claims “to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted.”

Michigan is a critical battleground state that helped deliver Trump the presidency four years ago.

1:24 p.m.

Trump has won one of Maine’s four electoral votes, just as he did in 2016.

Trump carried the state’s 2nd Congressional District, the more rural and conservative of Maine’s congressional districts.

While Biden easily carried the state itself, Maine is one of only two states that divides its electoral votes.

12:45 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien says the president plans to “immediately” request a recount in the battleground state of Wisconsin, where the race remains close.

In Wisconsin, if a race is within 1 percentage point, the trailing candidate can force a recount.

Stepien says in a statement Wednesday: “The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so.”

The fate of the United States presidency is hanging in the balance, with Trump and Biden battling for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.

12:10 p.m.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is discounting Trump’s early claim that he’d already won the election, saying it’s going to take a while for states to conduct their vote counts.

The Kentucky Republican and Trump ally said Wednesday that “claiming you’ve won the election is different from finishing the counting.”

McConnell also says he is untroubled by Trump’s vows to contest the vote count in key states, telling reporters in Louisville that “you should not be shocked that both sides are going to have lawyers there.”

He added that “the courts will decide disputes. That’s the way we do it in this country.”

Early Wednesday, Trump said, “We will win this, and as far as I’m concerned we already have won it.”

6:07 a.m.

The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as Trump and Biden battled for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.

A late burst of votes in Wisconsin from Milwaukee gave Biden a small lead, but it was too early to call the race. Hundreds of thousands of votes were also outstanding in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The two candidates, who have proposed dramatically different visions for the nation, split territory across the U.S. after polls closed Tuesday night. With neither candidate securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, Biden urged patience and vowed that every vote would be counted.

But Trump, in an extraordinary move from the White House, called for outstanding ballots not to be counted.

3:06 a.m.

Biden has won at least three of Maine’s four electoral votes in his bid to unseat Trump.

Biden won the statewide tally and the 1st Congressional District, good for three electoral votes. Trump, meanwhile, hoped to claim one electoral vote in a win in the 2nd Congressional District. The 2nd Congressional District hasn’t yet 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.

It marked the first time in state history that Maine divided its electoral votes.

Maine is one of only two states that divides its electoral votes. The other is Nebraska.

In the race to the 270 electoral votes needed to win, Biden has 238 while Trump has 213.

2:52 a.m.

Biden won Arizona and its 11 electoral votes, flipping a critical battleground state that Trump won four years ago and that could help determine which candidate wins the presidency.

The victory by Biden was a huge blow to Trump’s chances for reelection. Arizona has backed a Democratic presidential candidate only once in the last 72 years.

Biden’s campaign had focused on Arizona as part of its expanded battleground map through the Sun Belt, citing demographic changes, new residents and realignment away from Republicans among key suburban voters.

1:27 a.m.

Trump has won four of Nebraska’s five electoral votes, while Biden has won one electoral vote from the state.

The 1st Congressional District was called for Trump early Wednesday. He also won the 3rd Congressional District earlier, as well as the statewide vote. Trump gets one electoral vote for each congressional district, plus two electoral votes for winning the statewide vote.

Biden’s win in the 2nd Congressional District, which includes Omaha, is a flip from 2016, when Trump narrowly won it against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

While Trump easily carried the state itself, Nebraska is one of only two states that divides its electoral votes.

In 2016, Trump won all five of Nebraska’s electoral votes.

Biden is up to 224 electoral votes in all and Trump 189. A candidate needs to reach 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

1:06 a.m.

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 Biden running unusually close. But Trump carried Texas for a second straight year.

Trump won Texas by 9 percentage points in 2016 and all but took a win here for granted. He didn’t swing through Texas for campaign rallies or swamp television airwaves, and his conservative allies on the ground scoffed at Biden’s chances as a far reach.

Biden is up to 223 electoral votes in all and Trump 185. A candidate needs to reach 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

12:35 a.m.

Trump has won Florida and its 29 electoral votes, the biggest prize among the perennial battlegrounds and a state crucial to his reelection hopes.

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.

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.

Trump narrowly beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in the state in 2016.

12:13 a.m.

Biden has carried Minnesota, turning back a strong push by Trump and holding on to a state narrowly won by Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago.

Biden was awarded the state’s 10 electoral votes.

Biden made up for his campaign getting a late start in Minnesota compared with Trump, who held several campaign rallies in the state this election cycle. The former vice president took advantage of anti-Trump sentiment and organizing efforts by the state’s Democrats, who stressed covid-19 and health care issues.

Biden is up to 223 electoral votes in all and Trump 118. A candidate needs to reach 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

12:06 a.m. Wednesday

Biden has won the state of Hawaii.

He was awarded its four electoral votes.

Hawaii is a reliably Democratic state and last went for a Republican presidential candidate in 1984, when it was won by Ronald Reagan.

11:03 p.m. Tuesday

Biden has won California, Oregon and Washington state, while Trump has won Idaho.

California, Oregon and Washington are all liberal states, while Idaho is conservative.

California has 55 electoral votes, the biggest haul of any state. It’s also the home of Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris. She served as the San Francisco district attorney and the state’s attorney general before winning election to the Senate in 2016.

Biden nets 74 electoral votes for the three Western states, while Trump takes four electoral votes from Idaho.

10:54 p.m.

Biden has won New Hampshire and its four electoral votes, holding on to a state that President Donald Trump only narrowly lost in 2016.

The state was considered a 2020 battleground despite not going for a Republican presidential candidate since George W. Bush in 2000.

Four years ago, Democrat Hillary Clinton won the small state over Trump by roughly 2,700 votes. That’s less than 1% of the 732,000 ballots cast, and it was the second-closest margin of victory in the country.

Biden didn’t fare as well in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Democratic primary in February. He finished a dismal fifth, behind Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. But his candidacy took off after a commanding win later that month in the South Carolina primary, leading to the exits of several of his competitors.

10:31 p.m.

Trump has won the state of Missouri.

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.

Trump is up to 108 electoral votes in all and Biden 131. A candidate needs to reach 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

9:59 p.m.

Trump has won 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.

Trump is up to 98 electoral votes in all and Biden 131. A candidate needs to reach 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

9:37 p.m.

Biden has won the state of Colorado.

He was awarded 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.

The state also has a competitive Senate race between Republican incumbent Cory Gardner and the state’s former governor John Hickenlooper. Gardner is considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable senators.

9:27 p.m.

Biden has won the District of Columbia.

He was awarded its three electoral votes.

District voters have been allowed to cast presidential ballots since 1964 and have always voted overwhelmingly Democratic. Hillary Clinton’s win in the District over Republican Donald Trump in 2016 was the widest margin ever.

9 p.m.

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.

Nebraska’s 1st and 2nd congressional districts haven’t yet been called.

Trump nets 20 electoral votes from his wins in Louisiana, Nebraska, Nebraska’s 3rd, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, while Biden takes 34 electoral votes for winning New Mexico and New York.

Trump is up to 92 electoral votes in all and Biden 119. A candidate needs to reach 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

8:52 p.m.

Trump has won the state of Indiana.

The Republican nominee on Tuesday was awarded its 11 electoral votes.

Indiana is the home state of Trump’s running mate, Vice President Mike Pence.

Trump won Indiana by 19 percentage points in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

8:30 p.m.

Trump has won the state of Arkansas.

The Republican nominee 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.

8 p.m.

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.

7:56 p.m.

Trump has won the state of South Carolina.

The Republican nominee was awarded its nine electoral votes.

Trump handily won the state in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton. South Carolina hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Joe Biden’s victory in the South Carolina primary in February started a wave of wins that helped cement his status as Democrats’ presidential nominee. South Carolina Republicans didn’t hold a primary, an early sign of their support for Trump’s reelection.

7:36 p.m.

Biden has won the state of Virginia.

He was awarded its 13 electoral votes on Tuesday.

Clinton won Virginia over 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.

7:30 p.m.

Trump has coasted to victory in West Virginia, taking its five electoral votes.

The Republican nominee defeated Biden in a reliably conservative state.

The last Democrat to win a presidential race in West Virginia was Bill Clinton in 1996.

Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in West Virginia four years ago by 42 percentage points, one of his highest margins of victory in the nation. Many in the state credit him for his conservative populism and promises to help the declining coal industry, even as few expected he could bring back jobs in a dying field.

7 p.m.

Trump has won Kentucky, and Biden has carried Vermont.

They are the first two states called in the 2020 presidential election.

Kentucky is reliably conservative, while Vermont is considered one of the most liberal states.

Trump wins eight electoral votes from Kentucky, while Biden takes three for winning Vermont.