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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
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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
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If Biden wins Pennsylvania, he wins the White House
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By Friday morning, Biden overtook Trump in the number of ballots counted in the battleground, a must-win state for Trump that has long been a Republican stronghold
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The development comes as President Trump has made controversial broad allegations of voter fraud in Tuesday's election.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On November 4, the US formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago.
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Biden surpassed the popular vote record of 69,498,516 set by Obama in 2008.
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US media organisations called Michigan for Biden where he had a lead of some 120,000 votes.
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Tuesday's election saw tight races in many key battleground States with Biden winning 224 electoral college votes and Trump closely behind with 213
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"We did win this election," Trump said in an extraordinary speech from the ceremonial East Room of the White House.
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When last reports came in Biden had received 237 electoral college votes as against 213 of incumbent President Donald Trump of the Republican Party.
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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.
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Trump predicted that a red wave would re-elect him to the White House, while his Democratic challenger Biden is confident of a “big win”
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The move comes at a time when a USAToday survey showed that three out of four Americans were concerned about election day violence
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With a huge expansion in mail-in voting to safeguard against the Covid-19 pandemic, nearly 100 million people have already cast ballots.
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The president has also told people around him that he is frustrated with Wray over the FBI director's public statements on issues like voting fraud, Russian election interference and antifa.
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Underscoring the high stakes -- and the disruptive impact of the coronavirus pandemic -- a record 92 million early votes have already been cast.
