Biden Rebuilding The ‘Blue Wall’ In Race For The White House
With just a handful of states still up for grabs, Trump tried to press his case in court in some key swing states, It was unclear if any of his campaign's legal maneuvering over balloting would succeed in shifting the race in his favor.
Two days after
Trump, with 214 electoral votes, faced a much higher hurdle. To reach 270, he needed to claim all four remaining battlegrounds:
With millions of votes yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 71 million votes, the most in history. At an afternoon news conference Wednesday, the former vice president said he expected to win the presidency but stopped short of outright declaring victory.
“I will govern as an American president,” Biden said. ”There will be no red states and blue states when we win. Just
It was a stark contrast to the approach of Trump, who early Wednesday morning falsely claimed that he had won the election.
Trump’s campaign engaged in a flurry of legal activity to try to improve the president's chances and cast doubt on the election results, requesting a recount in
For four years,
The candidates waged a fierce fight for the states this year, with Biden’s everyman political persona resonating in blue-collar towns while his campaign also pushed to increase turnout among Black voters in cities like
It was unclear when a national winner would be determined after a long, bitter campaign dominated by the coronavirus and its effects on Americans and the national economy. But even as Biden's prospects improved, the
Trump spent much of Wednesday in the
Trump campaign manager
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of votes were still to be counted in
In other closely watched races, Trump picked up
Beyond the presidency,
The candidates spent months pressing dramatically different visions for the nation’s future, including on racial justice, and voters responded in huge numbers, with more than 100 million people casting votes ahead of
Trump, in an extraordinary move from the
Senate Majority Leader
Vote tabulations routinely continue beyond
Dozens of Trump supporters chanting “Stop the count!” descended on a ballot-tallying center in
Protests — sometimes about the election, sometimes about racial inequality — took place Wednesday in at least a half-dozen cities, including
Several states allow mailed-in votes to be accepted after
Trump appeared to suggest those ballots should not be counted, and that he would fight for that outcome at the high court. But legal experts were dubious of Trump’s declaration. Trump has appointed three of the high court’s nine justices including, most recently,
The Trump campaign on Wednesday pushed Republican donors to dig deeper into their pockets to help finance legal challenges.
Jaffe reported from
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