While there was no official winner more than 12 hours after the last polls closed on Tuesday, the fate of the most divisive contest in decades was coming down to just a handful of states where the Republican incumbent and his challenger fought over razor-thin margins.
In the latest blow to Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden, 77, was declared the winner of Wisconsin, with an unsurmountable lead of 20,000 after 98% of ballots had been counted.
This mirrored Mr. Biden's slow but steady march across the remaining toss-up states in the vast country, where counting was complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic and record numbers of early and mailed-in votes.
Mr. Biden led in Michigan by nearly 45,000 votes with 94% counted and has already been declared winner of another tight race in Arizona. Results were still being tabulated in Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — all of them close contests.
The apparent shift in fortunes toward the Democrat prompted Trump, 74, to launch a tirade claiming mass fraud that he claimed on Twitter had made his victories “magically disappear.”AFP
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