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Here's what's taking so long to count the vote in these key states

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:33:25 GMT

The presidential race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden remains on razor's edge as election workers in key states continue to plow through ballots.

Here's when we'll hear from election officials across the country today

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:54:08 GMT

Two days after Election Day, Joe Biden is nearing 270 electoral votes but CNN has not yet projected a winner in the presidential race.

Biden campaign manager says former VP will win, but urges patience

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:42:18 GMT

Joe Biden's campaign manager insisted Thursday that the Democratic nominee is on pace to win the presidency, but urged patience as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania continue counting votes.

Trump campaign's longshot legal challenges unlikely to swing election, analysts say

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:05:06 GMT

The series of lawsuits the Trump campaign has announced in multiple states amount to longshot legal arguments focusing on thin claims or affecting such a small portion of votes that they wouldn't decide the presidential election, several legal analysts say.

Race for the White House narrows as votes are counted in key battlegrounds

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:52:31 GMT

The race for the White House is still close to call, with tightening races in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania as former Vice President Joe Biden edged close to the 270-electoral-vote threshold needed to win and President Donald Trump's hopes of clinching reelection appeared to be slipping away.

Frustrated Democrats eye two more years in minority after falling short in key Senate races

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 01:30:54 GMT

Democrats poured record-shattering sums of money into Senate races across the country, betting that President Donald Trump's deep unpopularity would provide their path back to power.

Republicans sharply narrow Democrats' path to Senate majority by keeping key GOP seats

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:33:22 GMT

After six years of Republican rule, the Senate could very well flip. By now, the reasons are clear.

Some House Democrats fall while the party fails to flip some key suburban districts

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 04:22:38 GMT

House Democrats went into election night feeling good about expanding their majority, but haven't had the big night they hoped for so far, with at least two Democrats in seats President Donald Trump won in 2016 losing and several top-targeted Republicans holding onto their seats, according to CNN projections early Wednesday morning.

She got into politics after the Ferguson protests. She just became the first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:24:30 GMT

Cori Bush, a progressive activist and veteran of the racial justice protest movement, won a House seat in Missouri, becoming the state's first Black woman to represent the state in Congress, according to CNN projections.

Ritchie Torres wins House race and will become first Black member of Congress who identifies as gay

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:51:48 GMT

Ritchie Torres, a New York City Council member, won his US House race to represent the South Bronx, becoming the first black member of Congress who identifies as gay.

Narrowing path leaves some aides facing reality even as Trump presses legal action

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:36:27 GMT

President Donald Trump was charging ahead Thursday with a strategy to force an election victory, or at least forestall a loss, through legal maneuvers and demands for recounts, a final-ditch effort to prevent states from tallying ballots that could decide the next president.

Fact check: Almost everything Trump has said after Election Day is wrong

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 02:31:37 GMT

President Donald Trump spent much of the year laying the groundwork for the strategy of concerted dishonesty he has deployed in the hours after Election Day.

Biden projects confidence about his lead: 'We believe we will be the winners'

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:44:17 GMT

Joe Biden's campaign projected confidence Wednesday that he will maintain his narrow leads in several key states -- which are enough to hand him the presidency -- and could also overtake President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Fact Check: Rudy Giuliani and Eric Trump's press conference was filled with false claims about ballots in Pennsylvania

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:11:22 GMT

After announcing the Trump campaign's plan to pursue a series of lawsuits at an event billed as a press conference in Philadelphia, the President's son, Eric Trump, and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, didn't take questions from the media. Instead, they spent time lambasting election officials who they said blocked access to ballot-counting locations for partisan Trump campaign poll watchers and casting doubt on mail-in ballots.

The US is officially out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Here's what could happen next

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:25:17 GMT

The US became the first country to officially exit the Paris climate accord Wednesday, the landmark agreement aimed at protecting the planet from the worsening impacts of the climate crisis.

Young Americans and White college-educated voters flock to Biden in several battleground states, CNN exit polls show

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:53:24 GMT

Young Americans and White voters with college degrees flocked to former Vice President Joe Biden in several key swing states, according to results of a nationwide CNN exit poll, moving him closer to capturing the electoral votes necessary to win the White House.

A North Dakota state legislature candidate who died from Covid-19 appears to have won his election

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:21:07 GMT

David Andahl, a North Dakota businessman and rancher, died October 5 after a battle with Covid-19. And about a month later, he appears to have been elected to the state House.

Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride to become nation's first-ever transgender state senator

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:19:50 GMT

Democratic activist Sarah McBride will become the nation's first person who publicly identifies as transgender to serve as a state senator, after winning Tuesday's election in Delaware, CNN projects.

Why the delayed election results prove the system is actually working

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:35:58 GMT

The 2020 election map, at first glance, looks decidedly, well, unfinished.

Millions of White voters are once again showing who they are

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 01:14:37 GMT

Millions of White voters are once again showing who they are and -- spoiler -- it's not really that great for America, but in particular for Black and brown people.

Postal Service to continue extraordinary measures to deliver properly postmarked ballots through Saturday

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:28:01 GMT

The United States Postal Service will continue to implement extraordinary measures through this weekend to deliver ballots in time to be counted in more than a dozen states, a top official at the agency said Wednesday.

Why mail-in ballots in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were counted so late

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:53:36 GMT

Early vote totals on Tuesday night in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin appeared to give President Donald Trump a comfortable edge over former Vice President Joe Biden.

Early takeaways from election night as votes are still being counted

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:58:57 GMT

President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are still locked in a tight race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

More Latino voters support Trump in 2020 than 2016, but young Americans favor Biden, early CNN exit polls show

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:16:36 GMT

Voters are divided over the top issues in their vote for president, according to the preliminary results of a nationwide CNN exit poll.

Almost half of early voters were in battleground states. Here's what we know about them

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:58:14 GMT

Young voters made up a larger share of the pre-Election Day vote compared to 2016 in a dozen of the most hotly contested states, where almost half of the 100 million early ballots were cast -- and which will most likely decide whether President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden wins.

Analysis: Trump's call to halt vote counts is his most brazen swipe at democracy yet

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:44:50 GMT

President Donald Trump's demand for vote counting to stop in an election that is still undecided may have been his most extreme and dangerous assault on the institutions of democracy yet in a presidency replete with them.

Trump seeks to delegitimize vote even as his campaign says math will turn his way

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 01:47:56 GMT

The morning after he declared from the White House East Room that "all voting must stop," President Donald Trump's strategy of undermining the Democratic process was coming into sharper focus, even as it failed to gain widespread traction among Republicans or even his own campaign.

Mitch McConnell wins reelection in Kentucky, defeating Democrat Amy McGrath

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:38:33 GMT

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won his reelection fight in Kentucky, CNN projected Tuesday night, defeating Democratic opponent Amy McGrath and her massive fundraising efforts to unseat him.

All 4 members of 'The Squad' reelected to House

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:06:40 GMT

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will win reelection to New York's 14th Congressional District against two challengers, Republican John C. Cummings and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera of the Serve America Movement party, CNN projects.