November 5, 2020
CNN: Race for the White House narrows as votes are counted in key battlegrounds
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2020-11-05 00:00:00, CNN, Maeve Reston and Stephen Collinson, CNN
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The Democratic nominee has also been making a run in Georgia, which has 16 electoral votes, where the President's lead dwindled to about 18,500 votes overnight as results came in from Fulton County around Atlanta with 96% of the state vote count reported.
Earlier, Biden had warned each side needed to wait for the votes to be counted, saying, "We're going to have to be patient until we — the hard work of tallying the votes is finished."
The story was reversed in Arizona, where several tranches of votes from Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, narrowed Biden's lead to just under 69,000 votes with Trump's team insisting the President will eventually prevail and keep his hopes of a path to 270 alive.
Trump and his campaign team also sought to raise doubts about how Biden made a late surge to victory in the vital state of Wisconsin, where the Democrat rose on the strength of mail-in and early votes that were counted after most of the ballots cast in person on Election Day.
There are close to 50,000 votes left to be counted in the state, according to Walter Jones, spokesman for the secretary of state's office.
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