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Which states could tip U.S. election and when will they report results?
(Reuters) - Three days after Americans went to the polls to cast their votes for president, Democratic candidate Joe Biden has taken the lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia for the first time. To capture...
Nov 06, 2020
Trump and Biden protesters duel outside vote-counting centers in cliffhanger election
By Mimi Dwyer and Joseph Tanfani PHOENIX/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Backers of President Donald Trump, some carrying guns, ramped up demonstrations on Thursday night against what he has baselessly calle...
Nov 06, 2020
Georgia runoff gives new life to U.S. Senate bid of pastor of Martin Luther King’s church
By Rich McKay and Susan Cornwell ATLANTA (Reuters) - The pastor who now holds the pulpit where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. once preached was thrust into the national spotlight thi...
Nov 06, 2020
Democrats blame gerrymandering, campaign strategy for failure to flip state legislatures
By Sharon Bernstein and Peter Szekely SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Democrats spent $50 million trying to win control of state legislatures in 2020, but the effort mostly failed, cementing regional p...
Nov 06, 2020
Biden gains ground on Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania, edges closer to White House
By John Whitesides and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden gained more ground on President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania ...
Nov 06, 2020
Philadelphia police probe alleged plot to attack vote counting venue
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Philadelphia police said on Friday they are investigating an alleged plot to attack the city's Pennsylvania Convention Center, where votes from the hotly contested presid...
Nov 06, 2020
U.S. Postal Service says 1,700 ballots found in Pennsylvania facilities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said about 1,700 ballots had been identified in Pennsylvania at processing facilities during two sweeps Thursday and were in the process of being ...
Nov 05, 2020
Trump, without evidence, says ‘if you count the legal votes I easily win’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said without evidence on Thursday that if "legal" votes are counted he would win the presidential election, in a signal he is in no mood to concede t...
Nov 05, 2020
Glum U.S. House Democrats lament 2020 election losses
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Thursday blamed Tuesday's election losses on colleagues who embraced defunding police departments and "socialist...
Nov 05, 2020
Americans largely reject Trump’s victory declaration: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Chris Kahn (Reuters) - A bipartisan majority of Americans do not accept President Donald Trump's premature victory declaration in the U.S. presidential election and most are willing to wait for all...
Nov 05, 2020
