With the result still up in the air, each of the candidates spun competing narratives with Biden urging folks to be patient and President Trump sort of declaring victory in comments made after 2 a.m. ET.
He was immediately evened out by Vice President Mike Pence who did not declare victory but rather said "I really believe with all my heart ... that we are on the road to victory and we will make America great again, again."
Biden, meanwhile, told supporters at a drive-in rally: "Your patience is commendable. We knew this was gonna go long ... maybe tomorrow morning, maybe even longer."
"I'm optimistic about this outcome," the former vice president continued. "Your patience is great."
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Michigan and Wisconsin have yet to be called, and it appears full results in Pennsylvania will not come in until Wednesday or even later, after a contentious campaign that was rocked by the coronavirus pandemic. Even though they all look very much red, the media refuses to declare them red until every single vote is counted.
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The President made his middle of the night comments about the subject. "a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election."
Trump added Wednesday, "This is a very big moment. This is a major fraud in our nation ... So we'll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don't want them to find any ballots at four o'clock in the morning and add them to the list."
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"We will win this and as far as I'm concerned we already have won it," the president continued, despite the fact that he has not yet won the election.
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While polls are now closed nationwide, many votes in some states, particularly Pennsylvania, remain to be counted, as the labor-intensive process of counting mail ballots is set to continue into Wednesday and potentially longer.
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There has already been litigation in Pennsylvania that some are speculating could lead to a repeat of the 2000 presidential race when the Supreme Court essentially decided the outcome of the election.
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All polls in the United States were closed as of 1 a.m. ET, and as the hour got late Tuesday and early on Wednesday the result of the presidential election was far from certain. But president Trump and Biden are still both approaching 270 electoral votes as more and more states are called.
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Races are too early to call in battleground states including Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina. And in the all-important battleground Pennsylvania, there are still vast swaths of votes yet to be counted. Although in many of these states over 50 percent of the vote has been counted and results are favoring Trump.
The race will come down to those states and a handful of others as each candidate hopes he will have 270 electoral votes, the number necessary to win the presidency, by the time the results are final.
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