Who Won The Election? We Don’t Know Yet

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Election workers in Philadelphia count ballots on Tuesday. Pennsylvania is among several swing states that have yet to be called.

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Trump has trailed Biden in the polls and in fundraising, and had raced to try to regain ground particularly after he lost 10 days’ of campaigning when he caught the coronavirus and was hospitalized. The pandemic and Trump’s handling of it has been a central issue in the race.

But he has outperformed expectations in Florida, where he campaigned hard on an anti-socialism message for the Latino vote. That win, along with Ohio and Iowa, has given him a path to victory — though he still needs to pick up more swing states.

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Election officials in two of those pivotal states — Pennsylvania and Michigan — have said the ballot counts in some areas of the states won’t be finished until at least Wednesday.

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to supporters early Wednesday in Wilmington, Del., as his wife, Jill Biden, looks on.

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President Trump visits his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday as Americans went to the polls to decide whether to give him a second term.

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President Trump visits his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday as Americans went to the polls to decide whether to give him a second term.

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His aides were confident about turning out the vote from the get-go. «We feel better and more confident about our position now in 2020 than we did at this exact moment in 2016,» Jason Miller told reporters. Miller, a senior adviser, was in the campaign’s war room four years ago when Trump pulled off an improbable Electoral College victory.

Trump has long railed against the prospect that the election would not be settled on Tuesday, complaining about a Supreme Court decision that will allow mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania to be counted for three days after the election.

Earlier this week, an Axios report citing unnamed Trump confidantes raised the specter that Trump would prematurely declare victory — but on Tuesday morning, he said he would do so «only when there’s victory. There’s no reason to play games.»

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