US Election 2020: Joe Biden races to White House, Trump to Supreme Court

Democratic candidate Joe Biden is inching towards a victory in the United States Presidential election. With 264 projected electoral votes, Biden needs just six more to win the race to the White House, while US President Donald Trump is at 214.

Now Joe Biden is leading in Nevada by around 7,600 votes . He has 49.3 percent of the voter share and Trump is right behind him with 48.7 percent. This is a close race and a must win for Biden’s to win the presidency.

The tables were turned when Biden has won the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, which have taken him closer to the winning mark of 270 electoral votes. Donald Trump’s victory in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in 2016 had ensured his entry into the White House.

Joe Biden has won more overall votes than any presidential candidates in US history, overtaking the record set by Barack Obama in 2008.

The Trump campaign, whose path to victory was narrowing dramatically, said that it would seek a recount in Wisconsin and then announced that it had legal action seeking to halt the vote count in Michigan. They are also consider taking legal action in Arizona and Nevada as votes are still being counted.

Presdient Donald Tump declared he would ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 election. As far as he was concerned, he said, he had already won: “So we’ll be going to the Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.”

The high stake election was held against the backdrop of a unprecedented pandemic that has killed more than 2,30,000 Americans and wiped away millions of jobs.