Trump vs. Biden: Live Updates of 2020 Election Results - The New York Times
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Nov. 6, 2020, 1:52 p.m. ET
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President Trump at the White House on Thursday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Republican reaction to President Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud ranged widely, from vigorous backing to sharp condemnations to carefully constructed support for the idea of fair elections without any endorsement of the president’s fabricated assertions of an election conspiracy.
Republican Senators Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey, and Ivanka Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter, all declined to echo Mr. Trump’s fraud claims in statements on the election. While Mr. McConnell and Ms. Trump’s tweets were superficially supportive of the president, Mr. Romney and Mr. Toomey directly criticized him.
In a stinging statement, Mr. Romney said that Mr. Trump, while free to request recounts and present valid evidence of fraud, “is wrong to say that the election was rigged, corrupt and stolen — doing so weakens the cause of freedom here and around the world, weakens the institutions that lie at the foundations of the Republic, and recklessly inflames destructive and dangerous passions.”
Ms. Trump, echoing what Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday night, did not include talk of conspiracy or fraud. “Every legally cast vote should be counted. Every illegally cast vote should not. This should not be controversial,” Ms. Trump wrote. “This is not a partisan statement — free and fair elections are the foundation of our democracy.”
Her words were a contrast to those of her brothers, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who have both made sweeping accusations of widespread fraud. Earlier in the morning, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the baseless claim that there is “infinitely more evidence of voter fraud than there ever was of ‘Russia Collusion’ but strangely no one in the media wants to look into it.”
And some Republicans seem prepared to defend Mr. Trump’s position without reservation.
“President Trump won this election,” Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, told the Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday night. “So everyone who’s listening: Do not be quiet. Do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes.”
Nov. 6, 2020, 1:38 p.m. ET
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. has increased his lead in Nevada to 1.6 percentage points on Friday after winning a new round of ballots in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, by about a two-to-one margin. So far, no news organization has projected the state for Mr. Biden, but the president’s path to victory there has become exceedingly narrow.
Virtually all of the remaining ballots are from Clark County, according to the Nevada secretary of state. Most of the ballots are mail absentee ballots, which broke for Mr. Biden by a wide margin in Clark County and statewide.
The other ballots are provisional ballots or from same-day registrants. Those ballots might be more competitive but are highly unlikely to significantly favor Mr. Trump in a Democratic county. The state also accepts postmarked ballots by Nov. 10, which would be expected to back Mr. Biden as well.
At a news conference, the Clark County registrar, Joe Gloria, said the county still had 63,000 ballots left to be counted. He said that the county would provide updated results by 7 p.m. Eastern.
Representative Jeff Van Drew’s race against Amy Kennedy was the last New Jersey congressional contest to be called.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
Representative Jeff Van Drew, a onetime Democrat who switched parties in December and declared allegiance to President Trump, held onto his New Jersey seat in a race against Amy Kennedy, a former teacher who married into the American political dynasty.
The race was the last New Jersey congressional contest to be decided, and one of only two in the state won by a Republican. Mr. Van Drew’s victory appeared to vindicate his politically fraught decision to cross party lines and align himself with Mr. Trump during last year’s impeachment proceedings.
The Associated Press declared Mr. Van Drew the winner on Friday. Its tally showed that he had received 51.5 percent of the votes, compared with 46.9 percent for Ms. Kennedy.
First elected to the House two years ago as a Democrat, Mr. Van Drew overcame his opponent’s lead in most polls, as well as a considerable fund-raising disadvantage and the familiarity of the Kennedy name. Ms. Kennedy’s husband, Patrick Kennedy, a former congressman from Rhode Island, is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Van Drew was a vocal opponent of Mr. Trump’s impeachment and joined the Republicans in December when it became clear that he could not count on re-election support from Democratic leaders in his South Jersey district, setting up a marquee House race infused with national angst.
Mr. Van Drew was able to overcome the stigma of switching parties, buoyed by Mr. Trump’s warm embrace in a district that the president won by about five points in 2016. Comparable results for Mr. Trump in the district this year were not available.
Nov. 6, 2020, 1:31 p.m. ET
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Supporters of President Trump outside of Detroit’s convention center on Friday.Credit...Bryan Denton for The New York Times
DETROIT — The demonstrations outside Detroit’s convention center, where absentee ballots were counted this week, grew considerably larger on Friday, with about 200 Trump supporters chanting “Stop the steal!” and repeating baseless claims of fraud in the presidential election.
Speakers stood on a wall overlooking supporters clustered on Washington Boulevard in the city’s downtown. Some were armed with handguns. One woman wore a sweatshirt with the words “Gays for Trump” on the back, and another held a “Hispanics for Trump” sign.
Brandon Straka, a gay conservative who rose to prominence in 2018 when he announced that he was leaving the Democratic Party, becoming the founder of the #WalkAway movement, addressed the crowd throughout the morning with a loudspeaker.
“Should the worst possible thing happen,” he said, referring to President Trump possibly losing the election, “we are still going to prevail in the end.”
At one point, a counterprotester showed up behind the crowd, wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt and raising his fist. The protester, who was white, was ridiculed, as some Trump supporters rushed up to him, yelling and pointing.
Police officers escorted the demonstrator away from the pro-Trump crowd, and speakers began bashing news reporters for paying attention to him, with one supporter calling media members “agents of the devil.”
Nov. 6, 2020, 1:30 p.m. ET
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Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s lead nearly doubled in Nevada on Friday, to more than 20,000 votes, putting him closer to victory there over President Trump.
About 9 percent of the state’s votes have yet to be counted, elections officials have said, and many of them are from Clark County, where Mr. Biden currently leads by 9 percentage points. The late mail and provisional ballots that remain are expected to lean Democratic.
No major news outlet has called the race in Nevada, which has six Electoral College votes. But for outlets that have already declared Mr. Biden victorious in Arizona, projecting him as the winner in Nevada would give him the 270 Electoral College votes necessary for the presidency. (Both Fox News and The Associated Press have called Arizona for Mr. Biden, but The New York Times and several TV news networks have not.)
Clark County, the state’s most populous county and home to Las Vegas, will provide an update on its results sometime before 7 p.m. Eastern time, according to Joe Gloria, the top elections official in Clark County. He added that the county had about 63,000 ballots still outstanding.
Nevada was not widely expected to be a battleground state in this year’s election. Hillary Clinton defeated Mr. Trump there in 2016 by 2.4 percentage points, and the state has moved toward Democrats.
Dave Philipps in Las Vegas
Nevada’s Clark County, home to Democratic stronghold Las Vegas, still has 63,000 ballots to be counted. So far every update from Clark has helped Biden. Next update by 7 p.m. ET.
Election Day in the United States has been a four-day marathon, with Americans glued to their TVs as they wait for the next president to be named. In a race as close as this one, and with many mail-in ballots still being counted, millions of people have been relying on minute-to-minute electoral math to keep up.
CNN’s John King, MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki and others have worked tirelessly this week, doing quick mental calculations in front of touch-screen digital maps, breaking down lead margins and the probabilities for flipping electoral districts.
Please, if you decide to profess your love for map kings John King, Steve Kornacki, et al., use the preferred nomenclature:
Mr. King, silver-haired and usually in a dark suit, has taken to zooming in on digital maps of Georgia and Pennsylvania, battleground states where mail-in votes are still being tallied, to explain where the latest vote counts are coming from and why counting has lagged. He has been in the studio seemingly from dusk to dawn; on Thursday, he told The Los Angeles Times that he’d slept only about six hours since Election Day.
Mr. Kornacki, bespectacled, sporting khaki pants and with a clipboard in tow, is the nerdier chartthrob and has earned severalwrittenappreciations this week for his steady, soothing presence (there’s even a “Kornacki Cam” for commercial breaks). His fan base assembled when it was clear that Mr. Kornacki had spent more than 10 hours live on air. On Twitter, many people expressed concern for his well-being and asked about when he had last slept (or changed his clothes).
I went to bed exhausted at 5 a.m. and Steve Kornacki was on TV explaining Michigan. I just woke up now at 10 a.m. and Kornacki is still on TV in the same clothes. Did he not sleep?
“I saw after I finally left the studio all these incredibly kind and friendly and nice messages everybody had on social media,” Mr. Kornacki said in a video MSNBC tweeted. “I just wanted to say thank you.”
The CNN anchor Abby D. Phillip has also won over viewers, chart or not, with her calm presence and clear analysis. “Not only would Black women put Joe Biden in the White House, but they would also put a Black woman in the White House as well,” Ms. Phillip said, “and that is the sort of historical poetry that I think we will live with for a long time.”
Nick Corasaniti in Philadelphia
Mayor Jim Kenney of Philadelphia said the Trump campaign “has not produced one iota of evidence” of voter fraud in the city.
Nick Corasaniti in Philadelphia
Philadelphia officials said they’d release another update of votes from the city today, between 2,000 and 3,000 votes. The remaining 40,000 votes could take a few more days.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has not spoken to Biden about a transition, telling reporters, “He doesn’t do anything until — and that, even to discuss — just until.”
Katie Glueck in Wilmington, Del.
Joe Biden plans to speak tonight during prime time, a campaign official says.
Nov. 6, 2020, 12:16 p.m. ET
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With Georgia’s 16 electoral votes likely to be decided by a tiny margin, Democrats are urging voters there to fix absentee ballots that were rejected because of invalid or missing signatures before the deadline on Friday evening.
Those who voted absentee — a group that this year has been heavily Democratic — can check online to see whether election officials have accepted or rejected their ballots. Absentee ballots are often rejected when the voter forgets to sign or uses a signature that does not match the one on file with the state. Election officials are supposed to contact voters in such cases, but are not always able to do so.
Mike Noble, a Phoenix-based pollster, told me: “That’s a wrap for the presidential contest in AZ. Trump needed almost 60% on this ballot drop, he got very low 50s. #Ballgame.”
The Postal Service found hundreds of ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina facilities on Thursday, according to data filed in federal court.
Election rules in both states allow mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted. Pennsylvania intends to count some ballots received up to three days after Election Day. For civilian absentee voters in North Carolina, the state will count absentee ballots received before Nov. 12 but postmarked on or before Election Day.
The Supreme Court cleared the way last month for Pennsylvania and North Carolina to accept absentee ballots for several days following Election Day. But on Wednesday, the Trump campaign filed a motion to intervene in a Pennsylvania case to urge the Supreme Court to review its decision.
In the Pennsylvania lawsuit, four Justices said they would have granted the application to stay a state Supreme Court ruling that allowed election officials to count late mail-in ballots. With the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Republicans could have a majority on the Supreme Court to flip the decision in their favor. If so, the fate of those late mail-in ballots delivered by the Postal Service remains unclear.
At least for now, Pennsylvania will count valid ballots postmarked by Election Day or otherwise presumed to be mailed by Nov. 3 “unless a preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that the ballot was mailed after” Election Day. Mail-in and civilian absentee ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day and before 5 p.m. on Friday must be segregated.
A federal judge ordered on Thursday that the Postal Service must conduct additional sweeps of its facilities in states with extended ballot receipt deadlines for leftover ballots. The judge, Emmet G. Sullivan of the District of Columbia, has overseen several lawsuits against the Postal Service.
Those lawsuits have produced daily logs of the Postal Service’s on-time ballot delivery, which the agency defines as one to three days. On Thursday, nearly 11 percent of ballots sent to election officials did not meet the service standards. In Philadelphia, that figure was 45.1 percent.
The Postal Service affirmed in a court filing that it had delivered ballots found in Pennsylvania and North Carolina districts to boards of election by 5 p.m. on Thursday. The presidential race has not yet been called in either state.
Police arrested the men after receiving a tip that armed people were driving to the convention center in a silver Hummer.Credit...Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Two men with guns were arrested on Thursday night near Philadelphia’s convention center, where ballots are being counted, after officers received a tip that armed people were driving to the building in a Hummer, a Philadelphia police spokesman said.
Officers first spotted the silver Hummer around 10:20 p.m., parked about a block away from the convention center and unoccupied. A few minutes later, two officers on bicycles found the two armed men, neither of whom had a valid permit to carry in Pennsylvania, Sgt. Eric Gripp, the spokesman, said in a statement.
The police arrested the two men, who said that they owned the silver Hummer, in which the police found another gun, Sergeant Gripp said.
The arrests were first reported Thursday night by WPVI-TV, the local ABC affiliate, which aired footage of the police inspecting a silver Hummer with Virginia license plates. The station also aired footage of two window decals on the Hummer and a hat inside that seemed to reference QAnon, the conspiracy theory that includes the false narrative that a clique of pedophiles are plotting against President Trump.
The police did not respond to questions about the armed men’s motives.
Outside the convention center on Friday morning, around 200 Biden supporters gathered behind a banner saying “Count Every Vote” while about a dozen Trump supporters stood across the street holding signs that included phrases like “No transparency, no trust.”
The presidential race could potentially come down to Pennsylvania, which has 20 Electoral College votes. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. led President Trump there by more than 8,000 votes on Friday morning.
Nate Cohn in New York
No one has projected Nevada for Biden, but Trump’s path to victory is now exceedingly narrow. Virtually all of the remaining vote is from Clark County, which is heavily Democratic.
Nevada’s Clark County, home to Las Vegas, just delivered big for Biden — he picked up nearly 20,000 votes, more than double what Trump received in this drop, and moved closer to clinching the state.
In Georgia, another 5,000 votes are expected by late morning or early afternoon from Gwinnett County, a Democratic-leaning Atlanta suburb, according to a spokesman.
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, said Friday that the margins were so small that there would be a recount.CreditCredit...Nicole Craine for The New York Times
ATLANTA — Georgia’s secretary of state said on Friday that the presidential race in his state was so close that a recount is inevitable.
As of late Friday morning, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., led President Trump in the state by a mere 1,579 votes.
Gabriel Sterling, an official with the secretary of state’s office, said that 4,169 ballots — most of them absentee ballots — remained to be counted in four counties: Gwinnett, Cobb, Cherokee and Floyd. The largest tranche to be counted is in Gwinnett County, which contains Atlanta suburban communities and has gone from Republican-leaning to Democratic leaning in recent years.
The state must also deal with an unknown number of ballots from military and overseas voters. Their ballots will be counted if they were postmarked by Tuesday and arrive in the mail before the end of business Friday.
There are also an unknown number of provisional ballots that must be “cured,” either by county elections officials or, in some cases, by voters who show up to county offices and provide documentation or otherwise settle questions about their voter status.
“With a margin that small, there will be a recount in Georgia,” the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, said in a Friday morning news conference at the State Capitol.
He added, “The final tally in Georgia at this point has huge implications for the entire country. The stakes are high and emotions are high on all sides. We will not let those debates distract us from our work. We will get it right, and we will defend the integrity of our elections.”
Mr. Sterling said that the unofficial tally of Georgia votes could be completed by the end of the weekend.
Nate Cohn in New York
Trump wins the new Maricopa County, Ariz., ballots by just five points. Don't know if it’ll allow a race call, but that pace won’t cut it for the president to win the state.
Our photographers captured scenes from Philadelphia this morning as news broke that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had taken the lead over President Trump in Pennsylvania.
Jennifer Medina in Phoenix
The new ballots reported in Arizona’s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, were not what Trump was hoping for — he needed to do much better to cut into Biden’s lead.
Good morning from Las Vegas. A protest at the election center last night was peaceful — no arrests. We’re expecting about 50,000 votes to be released at 9 a.m. here (noon ET).
Vote counting in Lawrenceville, Ga. on Friday. Credit...John Bazemore/Associated Press
At 10:45 a.m. Eastern Speaker Nancy Pelosi will speak to reporters from the Capitol. Yesterday she presided over a charged and emotional call of House Democrats, many of them angry over what projects to be a net loss of seats in the House.
At 11 a.m. Eastern officials in Maricopa County, in Arizona, are expected to release a new batch of ballot results. Mr. Biden leads in Arizona by about 50,000 votes, but Mr. Trump has fared better in the late mail ballots that are currently being counted. There are also some provisional ballots left to count. (After earlier confusion over the time, officials in Maricopa County confirmed they would release the results at 11 a.m. Eastern.)
At 12 p.m. Eastern election officials in Nevada are expected to release a new batch of ballot results. Mr. Biden leads by about 9,000 votes in Nevada, with 190,000 votes left to be counted, according to the Nevada secretary of state. About 90 percent of those remaining votes are from Clark County, which is heavily Democratic.
Neither the Biden campaign nor the Trump campaign is currently scheduled to speak to reporters or hold a news conference today. However, that could change at a moment’s notice.
Minutes after a lawyer for the Trump campaign signaled that it was not conceding the presidential contest, even after newly counted ballots put Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the lead in key states, a spokesman for the Biden campaign reiterated Friday that voters — not the candidates — would decide the election’s outcome.
“As we said on July 19, the American people will decide this election,” the campaign spokesman, Andrew Bates, said in a statement. “And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.”
Nov. 6, 2020, 10:25 a.m. ET
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. waved to supporters as he left the Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Thursday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. kept a low profile Friday morning as he pulled ahead of President Trump in Pennsylvania, a battleground whose 20 electoral votes would give him victory in the presidential race. But outside the Westin Hotel near Mr. Biden’s home here in Wilmington, signs of celebration were already afoot.
Someone passed out Biden-Harris campaign signs and attached them to a security barrier set up around an event where Mr. Biden is likely to speak. People stood around in the parking lot, waiting for news. A security presence was out in full force. The flag-bedecked stage from which Democrats hoped Mr. Biden would declare victory on Tuesday — and then Wednesday and Thursday — remained at the ready.
Thomas Kunish, 40, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., said he had driven to Wilmington to show support with his five-year-old son, spending the night in the car. The last time he voted, he said, was for George W. Bush in 2000.
“It was interesting, the past four years,” Mr. Kunish said of Mr. Trump’s time in office. “There was hope when he got elected, things maybe would change?”
Instead, he said, the Trump administration was marked by “turmoil.”
He and his son were hoping for fireworks Friday night.
Nov. 6, 2020, 10:19 a.m. ET
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Pennsylvania: Mr. Biden has taken a narrow lead in Pennsylvania, as absentee votes are slowly being tabulated this morning. There seems no reason to doubt that he will hold a comfortable lead once all of the absentee votes are counted. So far, absentee ballots have backed Mr. Biden by a margin of 76 percent to 23 percent.
One factor that could mitigate President Trump’s losses in the remaining absentee count: the prospect that his campaign could successfully challenge some absentee ballots received after the election. But even a favorable court ruling would do little for Mr. Trump. Fewer than 30,000 ballots have been added to the state’s tally since election night, and even if they were all invalidated, Mr. Biden’s advantage would withstand those losses.
Mr. Biden has additional opportunities to increase his lead beyond the absentee vote. The only Election Day precincts remaining, according to the state’s data, are in the city of Philadelphia, where Mr. Biden won the Election Day vote.
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Arizona: Mr. Biden’s lead in Arizona is down to 1.6 points, or about 50,000 votes, as more late absentee mail ballots are counted. This is the only state where late mail votes have broken toward Mr. Trump.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump won the new votes cast in Arizona by about 15 points — probably a tiny bit short of what he needs to take the state. But it was enough to keep his hopes alive: He would need to win the remaining vote by 17 points to edge ahead of Mr. Biden.
The bottom line: Arizona may continue to tighten, and there’s no basis to call the state at this time. But Mr. Trump is not quite on track to overtake Mr. Biden. He’ll need to do better than what he has done so far.
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Georgia: Mr. Biden has edged ahead by just over one thousand votes, and there’s not much counting from here. There’s a scattering of absentee votes across the state, and the absentee vote has been pretty solid for Mr. Biden in Georgia.
If the Twitter chatter is any indication, Mr. Trump’s hopes seem to rest on the military and overseas ballots. I don’t think there’s much here. The pool of remaining provisional ballots is probably much larger. We don’t know how many exist statewide, and we don’t know how many will ultimately be accepted. But they will probably lean Democratic, as they do elsewhere.
All together, Mr. Biden has a very slim but nonetheless clear edge in the state. There’s just not much vote left, and on balance what’s out would tend to pad his lead. Still, don’t expect a call soon. It’s within the margin of a recount. This one might not be called until the results are certified.
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Nevada: Mr. Biden expanded his lead to about a percentage point on Thursday, or 9,000 votes, as a variety of late mail and provisional ballots broke his way by a comfortable 14-point margin. (Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrive by Nov. 10 are accepted.)
His lead should grow further today. According to the Nevada secretary of state, 190,000 votes are left to be counted, and 90 percent of them are in heavily Democratic Clark County. This one could be called in the next wave of data today.
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