WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has won Florida and Ohio, NBC News projects, while Joe Biden picked up Minnesota and New Hampshire and leads in Arizona.
Trump had to win Florida to have any real shot at re-election, most analysts agree, while Biden has multiple paths to victory that do not include the state, such as winning back the Upper Midwest states Trump flipped four years ago and where Biden has been leading in polls.
Trump won Florida 51.2 to 47.8 percent with 96 percent of the expected vote in. He claimed Ohio 53.3 percent to 45.2 percent with 90 percent in. He also won Texas and Iowa by similar margins, NBC News projects.
Biden won Minnesota 53.2 to 44.7 percent with 88 percent of the expected vote in and he leads in Arizona 52.4 to 46.3 percent with 80 percent of the expected vote counted, according to NBC News. He also picked up one electoral vote from a congressional district in Omaha, Nebraska, which could be critical in a tight race. And the Democrat notched expected wins in Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico.
Meanwhile, swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia remain too close or too early to call with ballots remaining to be counted from some of the states' larger cities.
In the Electoral College, Biden has 220 votes while Trump has 213. It takes 270 to win.
Biden spoke to supporters after midnight in Wilmington, Delaware, saying he was feeling confident despite failing to deliver the early knock-out blow his campaign had hoped for.
"Keep the faith, guys. We're gonna win this," Biden told supporters, striking an upbeat tone as speakers blared the Jackie Wilson classic "Higher And Higher."
He said results could come as soon as Wednesday morning, but might take longer.
"We believe we're on track to win this election," he said. "We knew because of the unprecedented early vote and mail-in vote, it's gonna take awhile. We're going to have to be patient until the hard work of tallying votes is finished."
Trump, meanwhile, also plans to address supporters.
And he began a long-telegraphed effort to delegitimize results he does not like and halt future vote-counting in a tweet that was quickly flagged as "misleading" by the social media platform.
With millions of legitimate votes still to be counted, the president falsely claimed an effort to "steal" the election.
"We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!" the president said.
Biden responded with his own tweet saying, "It's not my place or Donald Trump's place to declare the winner of this election. It's the voters' place."
The critical Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania had long been expected to be slower to count and release results while Georgia officials announced a delay in vote-counting in the state's largest county.
In Florida, Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in Miami-Dade County, the state's biggest and home to a large Cuban-American community that Republicans had targeted. But Biden ran better than Clinton did in 2016 in other counties.
Meanwhile, in the battle for the Senate, Democrat John Hickenlooper defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Cory Gardner while Democrat Doug Jones lost re-election in Alabama. Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst also won re-election in a competitive race.
Democrats need to net four Senate seats (or three if Biden wins the presidency) to take control of the chamber.
More than 100 million voted early this year, doubling the total from 2016, but millions more headed to the polls on Election Day to vote in-person even as cases surged in the worst pandemic in a century.
Early NBC News exit polls show the economy, racial justice and Covid-19 are top concerns while the vast majority of voters said they made up their minds a while ago and just four percent said they decided whom to vote for in the past week, down from 13 percent who were late-deciders in 2016.
Despite fears of massive voter fraud or voter intimidation schemes, polling places appeared to be mostly quiet across the country and few reports of long lines. Still, the post-election period is when many have warned of civil unrest as businesses boarded up their storefronts in anticipation of chaos.
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