JOE Biden has declared "we'll win" the election after crucial victories in Michigan and Wisconsin – while Donald Trump has reportedly vowed to "go down fighting."
The president has ordered his campaign advisers to fight against Democrats and give them a court battle "they'll never forget," according to The Daily Beast.
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Biden's increased lead in the Electoral College means that he could seal a victory in the bitterly contested presidential battle today.
The former vice president is 17 electoral votes short of winning the White House.
Races in Georgia, with 16 electoral votes, and Arizona, with 11, are still too close to call -- but if those states' results are finalized tonight, Biden could win the election tonight and the race could be over.
The country is also waiting results from Nevada (six votes), Pennsylvania (20 votes), and North Carolina (15 votes).
Fox News, along with other news outlets, projected blue wins in Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday afternoon.
An updated on the hotly-contested state of Arizona is expected on Wednesday night.
With 86 percent of precincts reporting, Biden is leading Trump 51 to 47.6 percent.
Both Fox News and The Associated Press have called the state for Biden -- but others are hesitant, pending a few hundred thousand outstanding votes.
If Biden wins Arizona, Trump is likely to lose the election
Speaking to reporters around that time, Biden confidently proclaimed: "It's clear that we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to run the presidency."
He went on to confirm that he believes that he will win the 2020 election "when the count is finished."
Despite believing that he will beat President Donald Trump, Biden said that the pair are "not enemies."
"To make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies, we are not enemies," he told reporters.
He later echoed those sentiments, stating "there will be no blue states and red states when we win, just the United States of America."
Shortly after leaving the stage, Biden tweeted: "Power can't be taken or asserted, it flows from the people, and it's their will that determines who will be the President of the United States."
Earlier that day, Biden's campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon confidently claimed the seismic result was imminent, saying: “Joe Biden is on track to win this election, and he will be the next president of the United States.”
"We believe we are on a clear path to victory by this afternoon."
But moments after it was announced Biden had all but won Wisconsin with a lead of just over 20,000 votes, Trump's team dramatically announced they would demand a recount.
"Despite ridiculous public polling used as a voter suppression tactic, Wisconsin has been a razor thin race as we always knew it would be," Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said.
"There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results," he claimed.
"The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so."
And in another shocking twist it was revealed the Trump campaign had also filed a suit in Michigan to halt vote counting there, claiming GOP watchers were denied access to observe the review of ballots.
The campaign is also set to take "critical legal actions in Pennsylvania" to try and "put a stop" to Democrats' "scheming to disfranchise and dilute Republican votes."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement on Wednesday about Biden having enough votes to win the Electoral College.
In that same statement, she seemingly didn't respond to Democrats not having the "blue wave" that was expected this election, but called the races "challenging."
What's happening in Pennsylvania
The Trump campaign has tried to declare victory in Pennsylvania – but neither Trump nor Biden have won.
The campaign said on Wednesday that it filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan to demanding better access for Republican observers to locations where ballots are being counted.
There have been no reports of fraud or any type of ballot concerns out of Pennsylvania.
The state had 3.1million mail-in ballots that take time to count and an order allows them to be counted up until Friday if they are postmarked by November 3.
Both White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and Trump's son, Eric Trump, tweeted that Trump won the state – and both posts were declared as "misleading" by Twitter.
Trump is ahead in Pennsylvania, but as more mail-in ballots are counted, that lead has been shrinking.
Biden said his campaign "feels good" about Pennsylvania.
The Trump campaign also filed a lawsuit to intervene in a Pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court that deals with whether ballots received up to three days after the election can be counted.
At a presser conference on Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, said the campaign is not "going to get Democrats steal the election."
He said the campaign might file a "national lawsuit" about poll watching, before saying Pennsylvania was "Trump country."
Trump shared an article later on Wednesday called for Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, to "step aside."
Shapiro had said that “if all the votes are added up in Pennsylvania, Trump is going to lose.”
Biden takes the lead in Wisconsin and Michigan
Biden took the lead early on Wednesday by flipping Wisconsin and taking the lead in Michigan, both states that had shown leads for Trump on Election Day.
With Wisconsin called for Biden, the former vice president took the lead with 237 Electoral College votes to Trump's 213. A candidate must cross the 270-vote threshold to win the presidency.
"All of the ballots have indeed been counted," Wisconsin Elections Commission Director Meagan Wolfe told NBC News.
A tally from NBC showed Biden with a 0.7 percent lead over Trump, claiming 49.5 percent of votes compared to Trump's 48.8 percent.
Trump tweeted: "We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won’t allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a BIG Trump lead."
"Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact,….. there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported!"
The tweets have since been flagged by Twitter, as not all election ballots have been counted.
On the topic of the lawsuits filed by his campaign to stop vote counts, Trump tweeted: "Our lawyers have asked for 'meaningful access',but what good does that do? The damage has already been done to the integrity of our system, and to the Presidential Election itself. This is what should be discussed!"
O'Malley Dillon also slammed Donald Trump over comments that ballots should stop being counted – and said it would mean a surefire victory for the Democratic candidate.
"Let's be extremely clear about something. If Donald Trump got his wish and we stopped counting ballots right now, Vice President Joe Biden would be the next president of the United States," O'Malley Dillon said.
She later affirmed: "We are confident that Vice President Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.
As Biden pulled ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday, Trump claimed that his lead "magically disappeared in key states."
"Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled," Trump wrote in a tweet that was flagged by Twitter as misleading.
"Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the 'pollsters' got it completely & historically wrong!"
Trump said in a later tweet as ballots continued to come in: "They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!"
Trump's campaign manager said on Wednesday he thinks Wisconsin is in "recount territory" – and added he's confident Trump will win Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Biden's campaign manager, Bob Bauer also maintained that Biden will sweep a win.
"We're going to win the election. We've won the election. And we're going to defend that election," Bauer said.
Although most day-of votes have been tallied, mail-in ballots in some states were just beginning to be counted on Wednesday – and it may be days before the final results for some states are in.
After software counting problems in Georgia, officials are still hoping for a result today – but it very well may not come until Thursday.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a press conference around 200,000 absentee ballots were left to be counted, along with 40,000 to 50,000 early votes.
This could very well mean that the state – which Trump currently is holding a lead in, according to The Associated Press – may flip to show Biden in the lead.
Pennsylvania, meanwhile, was working to count millions of mail-in ballots on Wednesday.
"We may not know the results even today, but the most important thing is that we have accurate results," Governor Tom Wolf said at a news conference.
In North Carolina, around 200,000 mail-in ballots had yet to be counted as of Wednesday.
Trump held a lead in the state, but no winner could be declared as many outlets said the difference was too close to call.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, millions more Americans cast their vote by mail compared to other election years.
This means there could be a sway in numbers in battleground states compared to what's been totaled thus far.
In a speech at the White House early Wednesday, Trump claimed victory – despite there being millions of ballots yet to be counted.
"We were getting ready to win this election - frankly we did win this election," Trump claimed.
"So our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this nation. This is a very big moment. This is a major fraud on our nation.
Trump has baselessly claimed that mail-in ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud – and been outspoken against tallying them after Election Day.
Biden and his campaign, however, have maintained that the American people – and not either candidate – decide who won the election.
As ballots continue to pour in, it could be a matter of days – or weeks – until the final results are known.
After the United States Postal Service failed to complete an order for Postmaster Generals to sweep facilities for lingering ballots on Tuesday, the agency announced Wednesday the search was finished.
“I can confirm that last night’s sweeps were completed as required,” USPS spokesman David Partenheimer said in an email, as reported by Bloomberg.
The sweep came after the USPS said on Tuesday that nearly 300,000 ballots were not delivered on-time because they "lacked a delivery scan."
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