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If Biden wins Pennsylvania, he wins the White House

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

The development comes as President Trump has made controversial broad allegations of voter fraud in Tuesday's election.

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.

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.

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 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.

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”

The move comes at a time when a USAToday survey showed that three out of four Americans were concerned about election day violence

With a huge expansion in mail-in voting to safeguard against the Covid-19 pandemic, nearly 100 million people have already cast ballots.

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.

Underscoring the high stakes -- and the disruptive impact of the coronavirus pandemic -- a record 92 million early votes have already been cast.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carrey's Bidden sat next to "decorations from Melania's Christmas display" and said, "For some Trump voters, it's the only time they'll wear a mask" of the holiday.

"We're baaaaaaack," the Post's Twitter account tweeted after Twitter said it was reversing its policies in a way that would allow the account to be reinstated.