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(US Election Results: Joe Biden pulled ahead Friday in the crucial battleground state of Georgia (File))US Election Results 2020: Former Vice President Joe Biden ate President Donald Trump's early lead in the southern state and is now ahead by 917 votes, CNN and Fox News reported.
Washington, United States: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took a narrow lead over President Donald Trump on Georgia's battlefield for the first time on Friday morning, putting the White House within his reach as ballots continue to count in this and other unspecified states . According to most television networks, Biden has a 253 to 214 lead in the state-by-state electoral college vote, which determines the winner. The Vice President will be put on the 270 put he needs to secure the presidency before Georgia wins 16 electoral votes. The 77-year-old Biden would become the next president by winning Pennsylvania or winning two of the trio of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Trump's possible path appears narrow - he needs to hang on to both Pennsylvania and Georgia and overtake Biden in Nevada or Arizona as well. Biden now leads by 917 votes in Georgia, where the counting of votes continued on Friday.
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Just hours after being shifted to Georgia, Trump claimed to contest the White House with a false claim. Trump had seen his leadership steadily shrink in a southern state in Georgia that has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1992, as officials worked through several thousand uncounted votes from Democratic strongholds like Atlanta. Georgia's Secretary of State reported late Thursday that the state still has about 14,000 ballots to count. The state would also have to vote through the votes of military personnel and foreign residents, as well as provisional ballots by voters on Election Day, who had problems with registration or identification.
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Biden continues to lead Republicans in Pennsylvania. His deficit was reduced to just over 18,000 by early Friday, and it was expected that many ballots would still be counted in Democratic areas. Biden also maintained slim advantages in Arizona and Nevada. In Arizona, he had a lead of nearly 47,000 as of early Friday and in Nevada he was ahead by about 11,500 votes. As the country competed in the White House race, officials in Georgia and Pennsylvania hoped they would end the vote count on Friday, while Arizona and Nevada were still expected to take days to complete their vote totals.
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The 74-year-old Trump has sought to portray the slow count of mail-in ballots as fraud, which grew in popularity over fears of exposure to coronaviruses through in-person voting. As counted by those ballots, they have erased the president's initial strong leadership in states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania. States have historically taken time to match all votes after Election Day.
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