Election 2020: President discusses race but doesn’t take questions
As Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, President Donald Trump’s campaign filed multiple lawsuits over in battleground states.
Watch the replay of President Trump’s news conference:
Early Thursday, a separate Trump campaign lawsuit in Georgia over concerns about 53 absentee ballots was dismissed by a judge after county elections officials testified that all of those ballots had been received on time.
The Associated Press called Michigan for Biden on Wednesday. The AP has not called Georgia, Nevada or Pennsylvania.
The AJC will post live updates on the race’s developments throughout the day.
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6:46 p.m.: President Trump held a news conference in the White House Briefing Room, but he ended the event without taking questions. Trump said there will be “a lot of litigation” that could end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
5:30 p.m.: Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said at a Harrisburg news conference this evening military and overseas ballots will be counted through Nov. 10 and provisional ballots still need to be counted.
4:50 p.m.: Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said on CNN there are 400,000 to 450,000 ballots outstanding statewide. She said there are 300,000 ballots outstanding in Maricopa County.
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3 p.m.: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel tweets, asking the public to “stop making harassing & threatening calls” to her staff in wake of Trump’s campaign filing a lawsuit over the counting of ballots in the state.
2:43 p.m.: Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske said the state will report the number of ballots left to be counted, but it will not report the election results until Friday morning, according to Riley Snyder with The Nevada Independent.
2:35 p.m.: Republicans withdrew a Pennsylvania lawsuit that sought to have mail-in ballots with errors that were later fixed tossed out has been withdrawn, John Kruzel with The Hill reported.
2:23 p.m.
#stopthesteal #fightthefraud https://t.co/DeapcgjJcj
— (@BillStepien)Nov 05 2020
1:43 p.m.: Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar says she thinks most ballots could be counted today. CNN’s Ryan Struyk tweets that Boockvar told Jake Tapper it’s possible the winner of her state could be known today.
1:22 p.m.: Joe Gloria, Registrar of Voters for Nevada’s Clark County, said in a news conference that the Trump campaign and state Republican’s voter fraud claims are baseless, Ed Komenda with RGJ.com reported.
1:17 p.m.
Judge says she will deny Trump campaign’s request to stop the counting of mail-in ballots in Michigan. Written order will come tomorrow.
— (@sam_baker)Nov 05 2020
About the Authors
Tim Darnell is an Atlanta native and veteran of several local, national, and international news, business and sports publications.
Kelcie Willis is a writer and online content producer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Sociology from the University of Georgia. At the AJC, she covers state, regional and national news with the Content Curation Desk.
· Rich Barak works in the sports department as a leader/coach. In his career, Barak has covered everyone from Tommy Lasorda to Timothy Leary. He can be reached via email at Richard.Barak@ajc.com, on Twitter at @RBARACK or by calling 217-722-0184.
