• Thursday, April 25, 2024
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US election: Biden widens path to US Whitehouse with Wisconsin win

Biden gets congress certification, triumph over Trump

Democratic nominee Joe Biden is projected to win Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, according to the Associated Press, although further wrangling seems likely as the Trump campaign said Wednesday that the race is in “recount territory” and vowed to challenge the results.

According to unofficial returns, Biden was leading Trump in the state by roughly 20,000 votes as of mid-day Wednesday.

Wisconsin law allows a trailing candidate’s campaign to request a recount if the margin between the top two candidates is less than 1 percentage point.

With millions of ballots yet to be counted, votes are still out in several key states.

In Georgia — Officials have roughly 250,000 ballots left to count, with the majority of those ballots remaining in two Democratic stronghold counties of Fulton and DeKalb.

• Michigan — A Michigan official said unofficial election results are expected “within the next 24 hours,” with about 100,000 ballots left to count.

• Nevada — Counting of remaining mail and provisional ballots is underway, and updated vote totals will not be released until Thursday at noon Eastern.

• North Carolina — Most outstanding mail-in ballots are in the state’s biggest counties, Wake and Mecklenburg. They have until Nov. 12 to arrive, if postmarked by Nov. 3.

• Pennsylvania — More than 1.4 million ballots were still to be counted as of 10 a.m., when counting was set to resume in parts of the state.