Twitter and Facebook suspend recently created right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested #Election2020 for violating their policies.
One of those suspended, SVNewsAlerts, had more than 78,000 Twitter followers. reut.rs/3oXfWnc
Staten Island is the only New York City borough that Donald Trump won in 2016. Here's what voters have to say about his chances in 2020. Live #ElectionDay updates: reut.rs/3oUjhnf
CNN, AP and Fox News project a Biden win in Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes.
Edison Research projects a Biden win in New Jersey, a state with 14 electoral votes #Election2020reut.rs/34jUgcH
Republican and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defeats Democratic challenger Amy McGrath in race for Kentucky Senate seat, according to Edison Research. #ElectionDay updates: reut.rs/2GqXGBx
In Florida, Trump is winning:
- 5 of 10 Latino voters vs 4 of 10 in 2016
- 3 of 10 non-white voters vs 2 of 10 in 2016
- 5 of 10 white female college graduates vs 6 of 10 in 2016
Edison Research projects that Trump wins Tennessee, adding 11 more electoral votes to his tally #Election2020reut.rs/34jUgcH
At 8 p.m. Eastern time, Florida had counted 9.5 million votes, well above the 7 million votes it had counted at the same hour on election night in 2016. GRAPHIC: tmsnrt.rs/2HZ8h71
President Trump appears to have lost some support among white men and older people, key parts of his base, in Georgia and Virginia, Edison Research polls show reut.rs/2TNDLjg
NBC, Fox News and AP project a Biden win in Connecticut, which has seven electoral votes
Across a range of battleground states, the pace of vote counting as of 9 p.m. ET was faster than it was at the same hour on election night of 2016. In Pennsylvania, more than 1 million votes had been counted, compared to just over 200,000 in 2016 tmsnrt.rs/3oRXPPH
Democratic challenger John Hickenlooper defeats Republican incumbent Cory Gardner in Colorado Senate race, according to Edison Research reut.rs/3eqLgG4#Election2020
Donald Trump is projected to win South Carolina's 9 electoral votes, according to Edison Research reut.rs/3mMv7Or#Election2020
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During the election campaign Trump attacked the integrity of the U.S. voting system, alleged voting fraud with no evidence, filed lawsuits and called for at least one state recount. Here's a roundup of recount laws in some battleground states reut.rs/365UlR3 ⬇️ 1/8
Automatic recount: Yes
Recount law: A recount is triggered when the margin of victory between two candidates is less than or equal to 0.1 percentage point
Deadline: There is no set deadline for completion of a recount
Who pays: The state, county or town 2/8
Automatic recount: No
Recount law: A candidate can request a recount if the margin of victory is less than or equal to 0.5 percentage point
Deadline: A recount must be requested within two business days after results have been certified
#ElectionResults2020: Biden edges closer to victory over Trump as officials tally votes in the handful of states that will determine the outcome reut.rs/32bHuvB
Police in Portland declared riots, arrested 11 people and seized fireworks, hammers and a rifle, as Oregon Governor Kate Brown activated the National Guard in response to protests over the election reut.rs/2JEn5Jc
#ElectionResults2020: Biden edges closer to victory over Trump as officials tally votes in the handful of states that will determine the outcome reut.rs/32bHuvB
🇺🇸 Weary from one of the most bruising U.S. presidential races in modern times, Republican and Democratic voters alike were in a state of high anxiety with the #Election2020 outcome still unsettled a day after polls closed reut.rs/3l1ziFo
🗳️ Michigan ballot counting fight: The campaign of Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Michigan to stop the counting of ballots in the presidential election reut.rs/38fm4BE
⚖️ A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Wednesday appeared skeptical of arguments by Republican officials seeking to stop a suburban Philadelphia county from counting mail-in and absentee ballots that voters had been permitted to correct reut.rs/3l4VgaI
President Trump falsely claimed victory over Democratic rival Joe Biden with millions of votes still uncounted in a White House race that will not be decided until a handful of states complete vote-counting over the next hours or days reut.rs/3kW5SbL
The premature move confirmed worries Democrats had voiced that Trump would seek to dispute the #Election2020 results. That could set off any number of legal and political dramas in which the presidency could be determined. Here are the various ways the election can be contested👇
⚖️Lawsuits
Early voting data shows Democrats are voting by mail in greater numbers than Republicans. In states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that do not count mail-in ballots until #ElectionDay, initial results appeared to favor Trump because mailed ballots were slower to count