Trump needs to carry Pennsylvania in order to win the election. He had a lead of more than 450,000 votes Wednesday afternoon with about 80% of votes counted.
Pennsylvania has not tallied more than 1 million remaining mail-in ballots, according to the secretary of state’s office. The votes are expected to include hundreds of thousands from the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas, which skew heavily Democratic. In Philadelphia County, Biden has won more than three-quarters of the vote counted so far, according to NBC.
As noted above, Biden does not need Pennsylvania to get to 270 electoral votes. If he fails to overtake Trump in the Keystone State, he would have to hold on in Michigan.
Biden led Trump by about 38,000 votes there Wednesday afternoon. Wayne County, the heavily Democratic home of Detroit, has an array of votes outstanding: an estimate of more than 150,000, according to NBC.
Without beating Trump in a state where the president currently leads, Biden would have to hold on in both Arizona and Nevada. The Democrat leads in Arizona by more than 90,000 votes, but the Trump campaign argues it can make up ground with an estimated hundreds of thousands of votes outstanding.
Biden holds a lead of only about 8,000 votes in Nevada. Still, at least 150,000 more votes are expected to come in from Clark County, the Democratic-leaning area that includes Las Vegas.
Biden has one more big opportunity to gain ground on Trump. He currently trails the president by about 80,000 votes in Georgia.
The state still has to report votes in several areas that favor Democrats, including DeKalb County.
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