Election 2020 presidential results

Go here for the latest results from the 2020 election.

Joe Biden’s lead continues to grow in Pennsylvania.

CNN has yet to project a winner in Pennsylvania. If Biden wins Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, he will reach the 270 needed to win the presidency.

CNN has also yet to project a winner in the key states of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Biden is currently leading Trump in these states, but votes are still being counted.

Biden currently holds 253 electoral votes, while Trump has 213.

An officials works on ballots at the Gwinnett County Voter Registration and Elections Headquarters on Friday in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Ballot counting continued Friday in Gwinnett County, Georgia, where there are roughly 1,500 votes left to tabulate, according to county spokesperson Joe Sorenson.

The Board of Voter Registrations and Elections is scheduled to review the provisional ballots on Nov. 9.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, on Wednesday, October 21, in Washington.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for coronavirus, two officials confirm to CNN.

Bloomberg first reported the story.

Meadows traveled with the President on Sunday and Monday. He was also at the White House election night party on Tuesday and in close contact with members of the President’s family. 

White House officials are now alarmed given Meadows has been around other staffers while potentially contagious, one aide says. The White House had invited people to watch the results roll in that night.

At the time, White House communications director Alyssa Farah said there would be temperature checks and precautions taken given the pandemic. Initial plans to hold an event at the Trump Hotel were scrapped because of local restrictions on indoor gatherings and fear there would be significant fines. 

The President delivered remarks from the White House press briefing room last night.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports:

Joe Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania continues to grow, and he now has approximately 28,833 more votes than President Trump in the Keystone State.

CNN has yet to project a winner in Pennsylvania. If Biden wins Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, he will reach the 270 needed to win the presidency.

Biden currently holds 253 electoral votes, while Trump has 213.

CNN has also yet to project a winner in the key states of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Biden is currently leading Trump in these states, but votes are still being counted.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks on Friday in Wilmington, Delaware.

As Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump continues to grow in states yet to declare a victor, the presidential hopeful said Friday night that while he’s waiting for the final election results, he is “not waiting to get the work done” on important issues facing the country.

“Yesterday, Sen. Harris and I held meetings with groups of experts on public health and the economic crisis this country is facing,” Biden said. “The pandemic, as you also know, is getting more worrisome all across the country. Cases are skyrocketing. It’s believed we could see as many as 200,000 cases a day, and the death toll is approaching 240,000 lives lost. 240,000 empty chairs across America.”

Biden’s speech came as the United States set a new record when it surpassed 125,000 daily coronavirus infections.

“We both know tensions are high,” Biden said. “They can be high after a tough election. One like we’ve had. But we need to remember, we have to remain calm. Patient. Let the process work out as we count all the votes.”

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks on Friday in Wilmington, Delaware.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden exuded confidence tonight as his campaign inches closer to the White House while votes continue to be tallied in key battleground states.

Where the race for the White House stands: Biden’s lead is growing in the battleground state of Pennsylvania tonight. Biden currently leads the President by 253 to 213 electoral votes, CNN projects.

Watch Joe Biden’s full speech:

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is speaking now from Wilmington, Delaware, as votes continue to be counted and a winner in the presidential race is yet to be called.

Biden noted that he is now leading Trump in Pennsylvania.

Alleghany County election official Rich Fitzgerald.

A new batch of votes from Allegheny County were counted and released tonight, widening Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump.

Of the 3,212 votes released, Biden received 2,436 votes and President Trump got 733 votes, according to the county’s executive Rich Fitzgerald. Biden now leads Trump by 28,833 votes.

Biden holds 49.6% of the vote in the state compared to Trump’s 49.1%.

Why Pennsylvania is key: If Biden wins Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, he will reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. CNN is yet to project a winner in the state.

Watch:

As Pennsylvania continues to count votes, CNN’s Pamela Brown said Friday that there’s approximately 89,00 outstanding ballots and 101,000 provisional ballots left to be counted in the Keystone State. 

“A majority of those ballots are coming from blue counties,” Brown said during CNN’s special election coverage. “When you look at Philadelphia, there are around 38,000 outstanding mail-in ballots. That includes 15,000 to 28,000 provisional ballots.”

Brown went on to explain that some of the provisional ballots may take a “little bit longer” to process, because “these are ballots that people filled out because they didn’t get their mail-in ballot or there was a problem.”

These are the remaining Pennsylvania counties with outstanding ballots:

“All of these counties have their own pace, own formula, own process for going through the ballots and posting them,” Brown added.

A Trump campaign poll watcher films the counting of ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse on November 6, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Allegheny County executive estimates another release of ballots, likely in the range of 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET.

CNN is told that will be the last release of the night and that staffers will not be counting overnight.

The ballots will be from a batch of court-challenged, misprinted ballots that previously had been set aside for review. 

The county has not announced how many votes are expected to be added to the count in this release.

Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris is not expected to speak tonight, a Biden campaign adviser says, but she will appear with the former vice president this evening when he delivers remarks.

Cheers erupted from the group of supporters outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, as Harris’ motorcade arrived moments ago.

Democratic hopeful Joe Biden’s lead is growing in the battleground state of Pennsylvania tonight.

A new batch of votes from Allegheny County were counted and released tonight, widening Biden’s lead over President Trump by 27,130 votes.

Of the 9,288 votes counted, 7,300 were for Biden and 1,875 were for Trump, Allegheny County executive Rich Fitzgerald said.

Here’s a look at who is leading in 4 key states where a winner is yet to be called:

Watch:

An election warehouse worker moves polling place equipment at the Clark County Election Department in North Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday.

There are an estimated 124,500 outstanding ballots in Nevada, according to the secretary of state’s office.

This number includes 58,000 mail ballots and 66,500 voter registration ballots to be counted — 90% of the ballots to be counted are in Clark County.

This figure does not include provisional ballots or signature cures outstanding.

Remember: CNN is yet to project a winner in Nevada. There are six electoral votes at play in the state. Joe Biden and President Trump each need 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Biden currently has 253 electoral votes and Trump has 213 electoral votes.

Prior to the election, President Trump’s campaign and Republican National Committee identified lawyers that would be in every state to represent them if need be and the President’s campaign organized a loose coalition that resembled more a show of support than an actual legal operation in motion called “Lawyers for Trump.”

Now lawyers in those states are looking for enough evidence to build cases aiming to cast doubt on the validity of the election outcome.

“We’re not going to shoot from the hip,” one of the sources said, emphasizing they are trying to put together cases that would stand up in court moving forward instead of focusing on one off instances as seen in previous suits that judges have struck down.

Another source familiar with ongoing discussions said there needs to be actual evidence to file a lawsuit and lawyers aren’t going to put their reputations on the line if they don’t have a case that they believe would be unethical to file.

Still, there is a belief among some of the lawyers they have avenues in at least two states with close margins to file voting related lawsuits even as Trump’s lead continues to diminish. 

“We’re going to play until the whistle blows,” one lawyer said.

To note: There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the election and counties across the country have streamlined the counting process and judges in several cases in various states have shot down several of their initial attempts.

The White House public schedule for the weekend shows no public events for the President. 

This schedule of course is subject to change on short notice.  

While the President has been tweeting, his last public remarks were Thursday evening.

Arizona elections officials continue to count ballots inside the Maricopa County Recorder's Office, Friday, November 6, in Phoenix.

The biggest county in Arizona has released a new batch votes Friday night – shrinking Joe Biden’s lead there. 

Updated vote totals released by Maricopa County show Biden with 1,004,003 votes and Trump with 950,503 there. There’s a 29,861-vote difference between Biden and Trump in the state.

Previously, Maricopa was reporting 972,570 votes for Biden and 912,115 for Trump.

CNN’s John King walks through the latest:

As Nevada continues to count votes and a winner is yet to be projected in the state, CNN’s Sara Sidner interviewed voters in Las Vegas who are waiting in line to resolve ballot issues.

“It is very important that my voice is heard, and my voice is my vote,” said Mary, a Nevada voter who is the last person in a long line of voters who were asked by officials to fix or “cure” their ballots before the 5 p.m. PT deadline.

Sidner went on to speak to another voter who said that many people in line are building a sense of camaraderie while they wait to resolve their ballot issues. 

“None of us has asked each other who we’re voting for, or anything like that,” John said. “We’re all down here, want to make our vote count.”

Remember: Joe Biden and President Trump each need 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Biden currently has 253 electoral votes and Trump has 213 electoral votes. Six electoral votes are at stake in Nevada.

Hear more from voters in Nevada:

Joe Biden is still likely to speak tonight regardless of whether the race has been called, a person familiar with the plans said, but cautions the situation remains fluid.

If the race is not called by the time he speaks, Biden will talk about his growing lead, a source said. 

The campaign earlier in the day said Biden was planning to speak in prime-time.

There was no election briefing from the campaign’s top advisers today. There have been no tweets from Biden or his running mate Kamala Harris.

Georgia’s secretary of state will not release any additional updates again tonight, according to Walter Jones, media consultant with Secretary Brad Raffensperger’s office.

Some context: The most recent data shared by Raffensperger as of 3 p.m. ET today, reported approximately 8,400 military and overseas ballots that were still available to be received by the state by 5 p.m. ET Friday.  

CNN is yet to project a winner in Georgia. Sixteen electoral votes are at stake in the state.