Hurry up already! Nevada delays election result until Friday with just 51,000 votes left to count as Biden's lead increases and Trump sues, claiming 'tens of thousands' were cast in dead people's names
- Biden is leading in Nevada but on a razor-thin margin of just under 12,000 votes with at least 50,000 left to count
- In Clark County, there are at least 51,000 votes that officials say they need the entire day to count
- It's unclear where else in the state is waiting for a result - Clark County has already counted 800k of the 1.1million in the state
- It would give him another 6 electoral college votes if he wins; combined with his Arizona lead, he would win
- But with Arizona also delaying their results until tomorrow, an election result seems almost impossible today
- Many are asking why it's taking so long when ordinarily, elections are decided overnight
- Official counts are never delivered on election day or afterwards; elections are usually called by networks
- There's been no simple answer so far; in some states it's because the margin is smaller than ever, and in others it's because many mail-in ballots haven't yet arrived - in some, it's a combination of both
- Trump still leads in Georgia by some 13,000 votes with another 50,000 still to count
- The President is calling foul all over the country; in Nevada, he says votes were cast by non-residents
- His team sued in Nevada to stop the count and have it reviewed; they also say that votes were in the names of deceased resident's name
Nevada has inexplicably delayed giving its election result, saying they need until at least tomorrow to count the remaining votes, as the country and the world wait in agony to find out who would be the next President.
It's unclear exactly how many votes there are left to count across the entire state but in Clark County, where Las Vegas is an which accounts for 800,000 of the 1.1million votes that have already been counted, officials say there are 51,000 that they won't be able to return a result on until tomorrow.
They claim it's because that is simply how long the process takes, despite being able to count 15 times as many votes since polls closed on Tuesday.
Their delay prolongs an already excruciating wait to find out who will be the next President for frustrated Americans and people all over the world who are now asking why it is taking so long to reach a conclusion.
There has been no simple answer so far. In some states it's because the margin is incredibly tight. In others, it's because mail-in ballots haven't yet arrived and can be counted for days yet.
Biden is leading in Nevada but only by 11,545 votes which is around 1 percent. If he claims the state today, he will win another 6 electoral college points, giving him 270 when factoring in the 11 that come from Arizona.
Arizona was called for him on Wednesday morning by Fox and the AP but with 450,000 votes still outstanding, it remains in play for Trump. If Biden loses Arizona, he has 259 electoral college votes. He'd need another 11 from either Georgia - which holds 16 - North Carolina - which holds 15 - or Pennsylvania - which holds 20 - to win.
It's unclear when North Carolina will announce, but it is expected to go to Trump as it did in 2016. The race in Nevada has been tight. For most of the morning, Biden led by only around 7,000 votes there.
Trump's team is crying fraud. They say they have 'evidence' that 'tens of thousands of votes' had been cast there fraudulently.
'We are confident that when all legal votes are tallied -- and only legal votes are tallied -- President Trump will win the state of Nevada,' Former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell told Fox News on Thursday morning.
Ric Grenell, Donald Trump adviser and former acting director of national intelligence, speaks during a news conference in front of the Clark County Election Department, Thursday. They say they have 'evidence' that tens of thousands of votes were cast fraudulently in Nevada
'The reality is transparency is not political. Ballots are not automatically legal votes until they're checked. We are not being able to check.
'There's a 30 day residency requirement in the state of Nevada. If you haven't been in the state for 30 days it is illegal to vote.
'We are filing this federal lawsuit to protect legal voters.
'It is unacceptable in this country to have illegal votes counted. That is what's happening in the state of Nevada,' Grenell claimed at a press conference.
Nevada law states that to be eligible to vote, a person has to have been a resident of the state for at least 30 days before the election.
That does not necessarily mean that they have to have been physically in the state for the 30 days preceding the election.
Trump's people also claim that many of the votes in Nevada came from people who no longer live there, or were cast under the names of deceased people.
Trump is also suing in Pennsylvania - where voting in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh was temporarily halted on Thursday because of his ongoing court battles - Michigan - which was called for Biden on Wednesday - and Georgia - where 60,000 votes remain uncounted.
He is demanding a recount in Wisconsin, which was called for Biden on Wednesday.
On Twitter, he fumed on Thursday morning: 'Stop the count!' and said that no ballots cast 'after election day' would be counted.
He was talking about the number of mail-in ballots that will be allowed to be counted, specifically in Pennsylvania, until Friday, so long as they were mailed-in by November 3, the election day.
Trump performs better among in-person voters and Biden performs better in mail-ins.
The Trump campaign had a minor legal victory in Pennsylvania on Thursday when a judge ruled ballot observers can watch officials count ballots within six feet. Representatives of both campaigns were in the room to watch the counts but at a further distance because of the coronavirus.
They can now sit closer as long as they take the proper COVID precautions.
Democrats, however, are appealing the case, and vote counting has stopped in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, two heavily Democratic areas, while lawyers battle it out. Biden has been closing the gap with Trump in Pennsylvania as mail-in ballots are counted.
Additionally a judge in Chatham County, Georgia, where Savannah is located, ruled against the Trump campaign's legal challenge to some absentee ballots. The judge declared officials took the proper precautions to ensure it was legal ballots that were counted. Trump's lead in Georgia fell to fewer than 20,000 votes as more vote totals were released.
The Biden campaign accused the Trump team of using the court system to delay the inevitable.
'What we’re seeing on these legal suits are that they are meritless and nothing more than an attempt to distract and delay what is now inevitable – Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States,' campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon told reporters Thursday morning.
Trump has also accused Pennsylvania's Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar of unilaterally extending the deadline by which mail-in voters whose voter ID was missing to provide proof.
In a press conference held in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon Giuliani and Eric claimed the president won the state, despite roughly one million mail-in ballots still needing to be counted.
Like Trump himself, neither man offered a legal argument for a win or proof of any voter fraud, but nonetheless made claims of cheating.
'They're trying to cheat, they're trying to cheat,' Eric Trump said repeatedly of the Democrats.
Giuliani ranted for several minutes about mail-in ballots which he claimed - without proof - could be falsified.
'This is beyond anything I have ever seen before,' he said. 'Do you think we're stupid? Do you think we're fools?
'You know something, Democrats do think you're stupid,' Giuliani added.
'And they do think you're fools. That's why you get called 'deplorable' and 'chumps'.
Protesters in Las Vegas on Wednesday night demanding that every vote be counted as the tight race for the White House rumbles on
Supporters of President Donald Trump protest the Nevada vote in front of the Clark County Election Department, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Las Vegas
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