'The process is working': Biden urges patience as vote counting drags on
November 5, 2020Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday urged calm and patience as election officials across nearly a half-dozen battleground states continue tallying votes to decide the presidency 48 hours after Election Day.
“Democracy sometimes is messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well,” Biden said during brief remarks in Delaware, demanding that “each ballot must be counted,” but reiterating his confidence that the election would eventually be called in his favor.
He and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), continue to "feel very good about where things stand," Biden said. "We have no doubt that when the count is finished, Senator Harris and I will be declared the winners."
Biden has sat on the cusp of winning the requisite 270 Electoral College votes for more than a day now, but vote counting has been slow-going in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina — any of which could hand the presidency to the Democratic nominee.
“So I ask everyone to stay calm, all the people to stay calm,” he said Thursday, adding that “the process is working. The count is being completed. And we'll know very soon.”
In Nevada, where Biden leads Trump by less than 1 percentage point, his lead expanded slightly as more absentee ballots were tallied. In Georgia and Pennsylvania, Biden has continued to eat into Trump’s lead as mail-in votes from Democratic-leaning counties were added to the total.
In the meantime, the Trump campaign has unleashed a flurry of legal challenges, promising a new lawsuit in Nevada earlier Thursday in addition to suits in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Source: https://www.politico.com/
