Trump’s Pennsylvania Lead Drops | Biden Expands Nevada Lead

Plus: Alyssa Milano Is Everywhere And Is One Of The Most Influential Political Forces In The 2020 Election

TOPLINE

President Donald Trump now leads Democratic challenger Joe Biden by fewer than 100,000 votes in Pennsylvania, in a rapidly tightening race in a state that could give Biden the presidency, with election workers laboring to count hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots that are expected to favor Democrats.

A state judge in Pennsylvania ordered election officials Thursday to segregate some mail-in ballots with voter identification issues after the Trump campaign challenged an extended deadline allowing voters to correct them through November 12, calling into question whether those votes would count as Pennsylvania’s presidential race continues to narrow.

The battle over Arizona’s 11 electoral votes continues with former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead in Nevada nearly doubled on Thursday as more outstanding votes were reported as the Biden campaign predicted victory in the state and the Trump campaign attempted to invalidate thousands of votes there – but the full result may not be known for as long as a week.

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KEY FACTS

Trump currently leads Biden 50.2% to 48.7%, a difference of just 97,924 votes, according to data from the Associated Press, down from a gap of 700,000 votes as of 7 a.m. EST Wednesday.

Counting of mail-in ballots from heavily Democratic areas like Philadelphia and its suburbs has steadily eroded Trump’s lead since then.

There are at least 340,375 mail-in ballots that remain to be tallied, according to data from the Secretary of State’s office.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar told CNN the “overwhelming majority” of mail-in ballots should be counted by Thursday.

Some experts believe the remaining uncounted votes will favor Biden by a wide margin, possibly putting Biden on track to take a lead in the state.

BIG NUMBER

44,292. That was Trump’s margin of victory in Pennsylvania in 2016. The state had previously voted for the Democratic nominee in every presidential race since 1992, but Trump pulled off a surprise victory, buoyed by Hillary Clinton’s underperformance in the state’s conservative rural areas and smaller post-industrial cities.

Across Forbes