- Americans continue to watch and wait to see who will be declared the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election.
- Currently, Biden is projected to have won 264 electoral votes, Trump 214, and 270 are needed to win.
- Alaska, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania are still counting ballots and winners have not been projected in those states.
- Arizona has been projected for Biden, but as the count continues there, his lead has shrunk.
Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the US elections. This is Jihan Abdalla.
Peaceful protests in Philadelphia as vote count continues
Hilary Beaumont sent this report from Pennsylvania
Small crowds gathered in Philadelphia early Thursday morning outside the Pennsylvania Convention Centre where election workers began their third day of scanning ballots.
A DJ played for one group of protesters, who danced while asking for every vote to be counted, while across the street a smaller group were calling on officials to stop counting votes received after Election Day, echoing a Trump campaign request to the US Supreme Court. The demonstrations followed a peaceful march in favour of counting every vote on Wednesday evening, organised by unions and Black Voters Matter.
People marching towards City Hall after a rally demanding a fair count of the votes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]As protests continued, the Trump campaign legal team held a press conference in front of the convention centre to display a court ruling allowing them to observe the ballot counting process. “We are planning to enter that building right now,” campaign lawyer Pam Bondi told reporters before she and the Trump team walked into the building.
Arizona officials say 375K ballots still to be counted
Arizona state officials say there are 375,000 ballots still to be counted in the Western battleground.
The Associated Press has called the presidential race in Arizona for Biden.
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.
California Prop 22 rewrites road map for gig workers’ rights
While ballots are still being counted in California, the pro-Prop 22 campaign – which lobbied California voters to pass a law that lets them keep classifying app-based drivers as independent contractors – is significantly ahead with 58 percent of the vote, marking the beginning of the end of the most expensive and closely watched ballot operation in California’s history.
Read more here.
Trump again seeks to stop the counting of votes
With Biden edging closer to victory, Trump reiterated that he wants the vote counting to stop, tweeting on Thursday morning: “STOP THE COUNT!”
STOP THE COUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
It is important to note that elections – including the decisions to count ballots – are run by individual state, county and local governments. And Trump’s comments have no impact on the tallying of votes across the country.
Joe Biden ahead of a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, US [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]Biden’s path to victory much wider than Trump’s
With 264 electoral votes called for Joe Biden, he is on the verge of capturing enough electoral votes to be projected the winner.
Slim margins separate Donald Trump and Biden in the remaining states’ vote counts and a Biden victory in any one of those states, except Alaska, would put him over the 270 vote threshold needed.
The key remaining states are Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), Georgia (16 electoral votes), North Carolina (15 electoral votes) and Nevada (six electoral votes). If Biden wins one of those, he will hit 270 or above.
Trump is currently at 214 electoral votes and would need a combination of those. He is expected to win Alaska, the other uncalled state, which has three electoral votes.
Trump supporters during a protest in front of the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC), in Phoenix, Arizona [Edgard Garrido/Reuters]Trump backers hold out hope for Arizona
The Associated Press news agency and Fox News projected Joe Biden as the winner of Arizona on election night, but other US media did not.
Now, as the vote count continues and Biden’s lead shrinks a bit – he holds a 68,000-vote lead with 86 percent of the count in – Trump supporters are holding out hope that the Biden projection was made in error. Al Jazeera’s Patrick Strickland reports from Arizona.
Data Orbital, a Phoenix analytical firm,says President Trump will carry Arizona based on outstanding ballots. Combined with Silver at 538 saying Arizona should never have been called the networks should deduct 11 electoral votes from Biden putting him further away from winning
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) November 5, 2020
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