UPDATE: CBS News reports Joe Biden has won Georgia and Donald Trump won North Carolina.
That puts the tally for the electoral college at 306 for Joe Biden, 232 for Donald Trump.
Original Story: President Donald Trump’s campaign says it has filed a lawsuit trying to halt the vote count in battleground Michigan.
The latest counts gives Trump’s Democratic challenger Joe Biden a small lead, but the race is still too early to call.
Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien says in a statement Wednesday that the campaign “has not been provided with meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process, as guaranteed by Michigan law.”
He says a suit was filed Wednesday in the Michigan Court of Claims “to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted.”
Michigan is a critical battleground state that helped deliver Trump the presidency four years ago, along with Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Early Wednesday afternoon, CBS News projected Joe Biden to win Michigan.
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President Trump's campaign says it’s also suing to temporarily stop the vote count in Pennsylvania, claiming lack of “transparency.”
Justin Clark, Trump’s deputy campaign manager, said in a statement Wednesday that the campaign is “suing to stop Democrat election officials from hiding the ballot counting and processing from our Republican poll observers.” He said the campaign wants “to temporarily halt counting until there is meaningful transparency and Republicans can ensure all counting is done above board and by the law.”
Clark also said the campaign would seek to intervene in an ongoing Supreme Court case involving the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots.
There have been no reports by law enforcement of fraud or any type of ballot concerns out of Pennsylvania. The state had 3.1 million ballots mailed out that take time to count, and an order allows them to be counted up until Friday if they are postmarked by Nov. 3.
The Associated Press has not yet called Pennsylvania. Democrat Joe Biden currently has 248 electoral votes, while Trump has 214. It takes 270 to win the presidency.
Earlier, Bill Stepien also said the president plans to “immediately” request a recount in the battleground state of Wisconsin, where the race remains close.
In Wisconsin, if a race is within 1 percentage point, the trailing candidate can force a recount.
Stepien says in a statement Wednesday: “The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so.”
On the day after Election Day, President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling over three familiar battleground states - Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania - that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.
It is unclear when or how quickly a winner can be determined.
Voting was generally calm in the conclusion of an epic campaign amid the surging coronavirus pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial justice.
Earlier, President Donald Trump vowed to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election. The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the presidential race.
Trump appeared before supporters at the White House early Wednesday morning and cried foul over the election results, calling the process “a major fraud on our nation.” But there’s no evidence of foul play in the cliffhanger.
The night ended with hundreds of thousands of votes still to be counted, and the outcome still unclear in key states he needs if he is to win against Democrat Joe Biden.
Nevertheless, he has cast the night as a disenfranchisement of his voters. He said: “We will win this and as far as I’m concerned we already have won it.”
Trump says: “We’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court - we want all voting to stop.” In fact, there is no more voting - just counting.
Earlier, Joe Biden asked his supporters to “keep the faith” as the counting goes on in the drawn-out U.S. presidential election.
The Democratic presidential candidate emerged Wednesday after midnight to speak on the election results that have left the outcome in the balance. He spent the evening watching the returns come in from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, then drove downtown by motorcade to make his statement outside the Chase Center.
He told a gathering of supporters that his hopes for victory remain high despite the uncertainty and cautioned them that it could take a day or longer to know who won.
He told them: “Your patience is commendable.”
Hours after the polls have closed across America, however, the result is up in the air.
A number of key states still have hundreds of thousands of ballots outstanding, after a large influx of mail ballots have slowed down the count in states across the nation.
Neither Trump nor Democrat Joe Biden has reached the 270 Electoral College vote threshold.
We'll update results when they come in:
CBS News declared winners:
President Trump wins:
- Indiana - 11 electoral votes
- Oklahoma - 7
- Kentucky - 8
- Tennessee - 11
- West Virginia - 5
- Arkansas - 6
- South Dakota - 3
- Alabama - 9
- North Dakota - 3
- Louisiana - 8
- Missouri - 10
- Utah - 6
- Kansas - 6
- Mississippi - 6
- Nebraska - 5
- Ohio - 18
- Idaho - 4
- Wyoming - 3
- Florida - 29
- Iowa - 6
- Texas - 38
- Montana - 3
- Alaska - 3
- North Carolina - 15
Joe Biden wins:
- Vermont - 3 electoral votes
- Massachusetts - 11
- Washington, D.C. - 3
- Delaware - 3
- New York - 29
- New Jersey - 14
- Connecticut - 7
- Maryland - 10
- Colorado - 9
- New Mexico - 5
- New Hampshire - 4
- Illinois - 20
- California - 55
- Washington - 12
- Oregon - 7
- Rhode Island - 4
- Minnesota - 10
- Virginia - 13
- Hawaii - 4
- Maine - 4
- Wisconsin - 10
- Michigan - 16
- Georgia - 15
