Joe Biden is one state away from presidential victory after winning Michigan, placing him six electoral votes away from the needed 270.
He also won
Wisconsin on Wednesday night meanwhile incumbent President Donald Trump won the
battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio and Texas on election day.
The states of
Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania are still in play, although
Nevada's electoral commission says it will not report any votes until 3am
Thursday US time.
If Biden wins
the state of Nevada that would award him the extra six Electoral College votes
he needs to reach the crucial 270 target.
Recall on
Wednesday, Trump falsely claimed victory over Biden in the early hours of
Wednesday (US time) when millions of votes remained uncounted.
His campaign
has demanded a recount in Wisconsin and filed lawsuits to halt counting in
Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania after the President repeatedly claimed that
Biden's gains were the result of electoral fraud.
Meanwhile on
Wednesday night and all through Thursday morning November 5, protests emerged in a number of locations
across the US.
In Chicago
and New York, Biden supporters marched in support of all votes being counted
while in Michigan, Trump supporters have marched to a counting centre calling
for the count to stop but in Arizona, they protested for the count to continue.
About 200 of
Trump's supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, gathered outside an
election office in Phoenix, Arizona, following rumours that votes were not
being counted.
In Detroit,
electoral officials blocked about 30 people, mostly Republicans, from entering
a vote-counting facility amid unfounded claims that the vote count in Michigan
was fraudulent.
Police have
also arrested 11 people and seized weapons in Portland, Oregon after reports of
rioting, while arrests were also made in New York, Denver and Minneapolis.
As time progresses,
LIB will give you more news from some of the final four battleground states:
Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Nevada.
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