Georgia count: Trump drops lead to be neck and neck with Joe Biden

Pennsylvania still has hundreds of thousands of votes left to count despite the secretary of state saying results could be returned on Thursday as Joe Biden closes the gap and President Donald Trump loses a legal bid to stop ballot counting in Philadelphia.   Pennsylvania is among a handful of battleground states Trump and Biden are … Read more

Trump and Biden are neck and neck in Georgia after the president’s lead dips to less than 2,000

Pennsylvania still has hundreds of thousands of votes left to count despite the secretary of state saying results could be returned on Thursday as Joe Biden closes the gap and President Donald Trump loses a legal bid to stop ballot counting in Philadelphia.   Pennsylvania is among a handful of battleground states Trump and Biden are … Read more

US Election 2020: Biden victory will hurt Australian coal exports

A Joe Biden victory would see the United States adopt more ambitious climate change targets – putting pressure on Australia’s very lucrative thermal coal exports.  As election counting continued, the Democrat frontrunner declared he would recommit the US to the Paris Agreement on reducing carbon emissions – with an executive order on day one of … Read more

US Election 2020: Nevada result delayed, 51,000 votes still to count

Pennsylvania‘s Secretary of State has the state could return an election result on Thursday – a day earlier than expected – that could put an end to the agonizing wait for the next President.   Trump is still leading in Pennsylvania by 115,000, a two point lead, that has been gradually shrinking while Biden collects more … Read more

US Election 2020: Trump 0.4% ahead in Georgia after 98% vote count

Trump is ahead by 18,000 votes in Georgia but 60,000 are still be counted as officials say result will come by the end of the day Donald Trump holds a lead of around 18,0000 votes in the southern state with some 60,000 still to be counted Georgia’s Secretary of State said on Thursday a result … Read more

US Election 2020: Biden’s lead in Arizona narrows to 68,000 votes

Democrat Joe Biden‘s lead in Arizona has narrowed to just 68,000 votes after a new batch of absentee ballots heavily favored Republican President Donald Trump, giving new life to the Trump camp’s theory that a victory is still possible. Trump won the batches of some 140,000 additional ballots from Maricopa County counted Wednesday and early … Read more

US Election 2020: Could Arizona flip to TRUMP? 400k votes uncounted

The results of the US election are still unclear today after Joe Biden’s lead in the swing state of Arizona was slashed – even as he edged towards victory in other states where Donald Trump issued lawsuits in an attempt to stop him.  Arizona was initially called for Biden as he led the state by … Read more

Trump is ahead by less than 1% in Georgia after 98% of the votes are counted

Trump is ahead by less than 1% in Georgia after 98% of the votes are counted and the result is expected to be called later this morning Donald Trump holds a lead of around 28,500 votes in the southern state  But 90,735 mail ballots in Atlanta still need to be counted One count in the … Read more

Trump files Georgia lawsuit over late ballots after suing PA and NV

Democrat Joe Biden edged closer to a potential upset in Georgia – and to a White House win – coming within 1 point of President Donald Trump in the traditionally red state Wednesday night. As the race narrowed, Trump’s campaign announced that they had filed a lawsuit in the state, alleging that a GOP poll … Read more

US Elections 2020: Protect the Vote protests held across country

Thousands of protesters march down Manhattan’s Fifth Ave demanding ‘count every vote’ as demonstrations break out in Philadelphia and LAPD declares ‘tactical alert’ for second night in a row Protesters took to the streets of New York City demanding every vote be counted after Trump falsely claimed victory amid a cliffhanger presidential election and called … Read more

Angry Trump rang Rupert Murdoch as Fox News called Arizona for Biden

Furious Donald Trump called Rupert Murdoch to scream at him after Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden – but the media mogul refused to back down Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden before AP, CNN or NBC AP has since called Arizona, but CNN and NBC believe it is too close to call Donald … Read more

US Election 2020: Biden ‘confident’ to win, Trump sues to halt count

Joe Biden all but declared election victory on Wednesday afternoon after winning Wisconsin and Michigan as President Trump cried fraud, desperately scrambled to undermine the results and claimed his own wins in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia even though votes are still being tallied there.  CNN called Michigan for Biden on Wednesday afternoon, giving him … Read more

US Election 2020: Vote count could last until FRIDAY

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have plausible paths to claiming victory in the White House race on Wednesday without going to court. But they depend on a series of factors falling into place.   As of 5 am Joe Biden was on 238 Electoral College votes and Donald Trump on 213. Undecided were Nevada – widely expected … Read more