The 2020 US presidential race was an ugly, ferocious dogfight. So it only makes sense for the contest to end the same way it started.
Americans went to bed unsure who their next president was going to be. At the time of writing, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are neck-and-neck (223-212 in favour of Biden in the Electoral College tally) in most of the battleground states that will determine who emerges victorious and who will be forced into an early retirement. Trump did what he needed to do in Florida, winning by approximately three points in the perennial swing-state to keep his re-election prospects alive. It appears Trump will also pull out a win in North Carolina after trailing for most of the night. Ohio looked dicey for the Trump campaign until approximately 10pm EST (3am GMT), when the vote started filling in for the president. The Biden campaign’s dream of winning Georgia and Texas, conservative bastions in American politics, proved to be short-lived.
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Biden, however, flipped Arizona into his column, depriving a state Trump won four years ago and which the Republican party has long considered ruby-red territory.
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