Joe Biden is inching towards a victory in the US presidential election. With 264 projected electoral college votes, Biden needs just six more to win the race to the White House. Biden is predicted to win the key states of Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Who will win the US presidential race remained uncertain on Wednesday, with the outcome hinging on a handful of states where huge mail-in ballots remained to be counted.
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden both won states they were expected to win in their bid for a majority in the Electoral College that determines who wins the White House in the country’s indirect form of democracy.
But the outcome of contests in several states — Georgia and Pennsylvania in the US’s East and Arizona and Nevada in the West — was unsettled as officials counted millions of votes, some that were cast on Tuesday and many more during weeks of early voting.
Trump led in Georgia and Pennsylvania and Biden in Arizona and Nevada, but with the eventual results uncertain.
After trailing in the early vote-counting in two Midwestern states, Wisconsin with 10 electoral votes and Michigan with 16, Biden won Wisconsin and was ahead in Michigan.
Trump calls for ending election
Trump called for ending the election even as he trailed Biden in the Electoral College vote count, 224-213, with a majority of 270 in the 538-member Electoral College needed to claim a new presidential term starting Jan. 20.
The national winner is determined by the outcome in each of the 50 states and the national capital city of Washington, with each state winner collecting all the state’s electoral votes except in two lightly populated states where the winners in individual congressional districts come into play.
Security beefed up at White House, govt buildings & major commercial avenues across US
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Security at the White House, government buildings and major commercial avenues across the United States has been beefed up. The special precautionary measures have been taken by the authorities in light of the uncertainty in the election of the next US president even after nearly 24 hours of the Election Day. The authorities have also erected a non-scalable temporary wall around the presidential complex in order to avert any untoward incident.
Nearly 600 National Guard troops have been deployed across the country in the USA to immediately respond to any untoward incident or protests. As the declaration of President-Elect is almost certain to take more time with incumbent Donald Trump challenging the counting and mail ballot procedure in many states, the authorities have geared up to answer any challenges of unrest.
While the counting is still underway , many protesters gathered near the White House and marched on the 17th Street in Washington D.C. Dozen of arrests have been reported as well. Vital government installations are on high while the Secret Service has fortified the White House.