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By winning the vice presidency, she will be a heartbeat away from leading the United States and poised on a stepping stone to the ultimate prize

After four full days of waiting patiently for the slow march of vote counting to work itself out, Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R Biden, 77, pulled off one of the great political turnarounds in America

Trump tweeted eight times on Thursday night and saw fully half of the tweets restricted by Twitter.

From dividing people to convincing them that they are cheating, Trump is now undermining the electoral system itself

If Biden wins Pennsylvania, he wins the White House

The November 3 election saw a record voter turnout of 66.9 per cent, which is the highest turnout rate since 1900. The 1900 election had recorded 73.7 per cent voter turnout.

According to Trump, Democrats were using "illegal votes" to "steal the election from us." "If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he claimed.

Trump is currently leading in Pennsylvania, but his vote count has reduced considerably over the last one day.

With 71 per cent of mail-in ballots counted in Pennsylvania, officials still needs to count 763,000 of the 2.6 million cast, according to the state's official website.

On November 4, the US formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago.

Biden surpassed the popular vote record of 69,498,516 set by Obama in 2008.

"We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won't allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a Big Trump lead," Trump tweeted on Wednesday.

The video, titled "Trump Won. MSM hopes you don't believe your eyes," was published by pro-Trump group called One American News Network (OANN) on Wednesday.

US media organisations called Michigan for Biden where he had a lead of some 120,000 votes.

Tuesday's election saw tight races in many key battleground States with Biden winning 224 electoral college votes and Trump closely behind with 213

"We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election," the message from Trump read, on both social media platforms.

"We did win this election," Trump said in an extraordinary speech from the ceremonial East Room of the White House.

When last reports came in Biden had received 237 electoral college votes as against 213 of incumbent President Donald Trump of the Republican Party.

With a record more than 100 million Americans having voted ahead of Election Day due to the Covid-19 pandemic, definitive final results could easily take hours or even days to be tabulated.