📌 Latest Update 2:44pm Eastern November 13th | Today's COVID updates
Electoral Votes: Biden 306 | Trump 232
2:33pm Eastern November 13th: Biden is officially declared the winner of Georgia, and Trump is declared the winner in North Carolina. While a recount is underway already in Georgia (initiated by the Georgia Secretary of State), now every state has a projected winner. Trump has not acknowledged these results yet. In term of popular vote, Biden has over 5 million more votes than Trump on this election.
6:30pm Eastern November 12th: Trump declared the winner in Alaska
5:01pm Eastern November 12th: Biden declared the winner in Arizona
8:10pm Eastern: Biden's motorcade has arrived at the Chase Center in Delaware.
7:30pm Eastern: President-elect Biden will be speaking shortly, around 8pm Eastern time tonight.
12:35pm Eastern: President-elect Biden has also been declared winner in Nevada, that's 6 more electoral votes.
11:56am Eastern: President-elect Biden tweets the following:
11:44am Eastern: Now all major news networks, including Fox news, have declared Biden the winner.
11:38am Eastern: The NYTimes has updated their home page banner.
11:32am Eastern: All major news networks, except Fox, have now declared Biden the winner. The NYTimes has just announced the same.
11:28am Eastern: CNN follows suit and declares Biden the winner in Pennsylvania and the election winner.
11:27am Eastern: NBC announces former Vice President Joe Biden as the 2020 Presidential Election winner.
11:26am Eastern: NBC News announces that Joe Biden wins Pennsylvania and wins the presidency, the first major news network to make the call.
11:03am Eastern: The Trump team is planning a news conference in Philadelphia this morning. It's unclear what the topic will be about.
11:01pm Eastern: Joe Biden gave remarks to the nation urging patience in the voting counting and saying results were looking good for him and he hoped to address the nation again tomorrow.
10:16pm Eastern: Joe Biden is expected to address the nation shortly.
9:45pm Eastern: Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) just announced a new batch of ballots counted: 7,300 for Biden, 1,875 for Trump. Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania increases to 27,130 votes.
7:52pm Eastern: Officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, expect to release tens of thousands of newly recorded votes around 9 p.m. ET. The remaining votes there will be key to deciding a tight race.
2:23pm Eastern: Business Insider has now declared Biden the presidential winner, and more news outlets are expected to follow suit throughout the day.
1:35pm Eastern: Biden's lead in Nevada has increased. His lead is now more than 20,000 votes there and it's predicted that some may call the state for him soon.
12:30pm Eastern: While Biden's lead continues to grow in Pennsylvania, networks are still waiting to have "99.5%" confidence in a states outcome. Vox, however, has called Pennsylvania for Biden, and thus the election, the first major outlet to do so, as we see it.
9:50am Eastern: Biden leads by 1,000 votes in Georgia and by 5,000 in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, tens of thousands of ballots still need to be counted
9:25am Eastern: Overnight as counting continued in Georgia and Pennsylvania, Biden pulled ahead in both states. A win in Pennsylvania would clinch the election for Biden.
11:06pm Eastern: Today's ballot counting recap. Things improved for Biden in 3 states, and for Trump in 1. Biden's lead in Arizona shrunk from 69,000 to 46,000. Trump's lead in Georgia virtually disappeared and is now less than 2,000. Biden's lead in Nevada grew from 8,000 to 11,000. Trump's lead in Pennsylvania went from 160,000 to less than 37,000.
9:05pm Eastern: Arizona released a new batch of votes — the last one of the evening — and Biden's lead has shrunk. He's still ahead by around 150,000 votes with 90% of the vote counted.
7:45pm Eastern: There are a lot of uncounted votes in Pennsylvania so this is going to take some time; same with North Carolina. Nevada is not expected to release more votes today.
7:30pm Eastern: We're likely getting very close to Georgia being called. We expect a call sometime this evening... They are at 98% of the vote being counted so far.
5:50pm Eastern: Arizona could be called this evening, but probably not until late in the date. There is around 90% of the vote counted.
3:35pm Eastern: Alaska may be the last state to provide updates, although of the remaining 6 states tallying votes, Alaska has the least number of electoral votes at stake. Alaska won't begin counting some ballots until next week.
November 5, 11:28am Eastern: Counts are still happening in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Alaska... Georgia expects to finish their count midday today.
🔵 3pm Eastern: Biden declared winner in Michigan and Wisconsin
11:37am Eastern: Counting continues... It's likely in Pennsylvania and North Carolina that ballots will still trickle in today, tomorrow, and through Friday. It's likely Arizona will be able to be officially called tonight and it's currently leaning Biden.
🔵 9:32am Eastern: Biden declared the winner of Minnesota
9:30am Eastern, Nov 4: Nail-bitter continues as ballots are still being counted in several key battleground states, including Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania
🔴 12:40pm Eastern: Trump wins Florida
🔴 12:22pm Eastern: Trump wins Ohio
11:59pm Eastern: The battleground states are largely too close to call, however some networks are saying it is most likely Florida will go to Trump and Arizona will go to Biden. It's looking more and more like the election may come down to Pennsylvania after all.
🔴 11:20pm Eastern: Trump wins Utah
🔴 11:05pm Eastern: Trump wins Idaho
🔵 11:03pm Eastern: Biden wins California, Washington, and Oregon
🔴 10:41pm Eastern: Trump wins Missouri
🔴 10:31pm Eastern: Trump wins Kansas
10:12pm Eastern: Tommy Tuberville, Republican, wins the US Senate seat in Alabama
9:59pm Eastern: Lindsey Graham, Republican, re-elected to the US Senate in South Carolina
9:45pm Eastern: John Hickenlooper, Democrat, beats Republican incumbent to take a Senate seat in Colorado
🔵 9:20pm Eastern: Biden declared winner in Colorado, 9 Electoral Votes
9:04pm Eastern: Chuck Todd on NBA: "We're still waiting for someone to win a road game". No surprises so far tonight
🔴 9:03pm Eastern: Trump declared winner in Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Louisiana, Nebraska
🔵 9:02pm Eastern: Biden declared winner in New York, New Mexico
🔴 8:57pm Eastern: Trump declared the winner in Indiana, 11 Electoral Votes
8:51pm Eastern: Pennsylvania results are trickling in, only 10% of the vote counted, but it's looking good in certain counties for Biden.
8:36pm Eastern: A quick update that no surprise results so far this evening, including the 13 battleground states, that we're still waiting on
🔴 8:34pm Eastern: Arkansas, as expected, goes to Trump, that's 6 Electoral Votes
8:21pm Eastern: With almost half of the Ohio vote in, Biden is +12 currently with many votes still to be tallied in the traditionally Republican state
8:11pm Eastern: Florida is extremely close but it's looking good for Trump so far with almost 90% of the vote counted
8:06pm Eastern: Mitch McConnell is declared the winner, defending his Senate seat in Kentucky
🔴 8:03pm Eastern: Trump is declared winner in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama
🔵 8:01pm Eastern: Biden declared winner in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, DC, Illinois, Delaware, and Rhode Island
🔴 7:59pm Eastern: Trump is declared winner in South Carolina, 9 Electoral Votes
7:54pm Eastern: Trump is up +3.3 in Florida, with approx. 81% of the vote counted; the Florida panhandle closes polls at the top of the hour.
🔵 7:37pm Eastern: Joseph Biden wins Virginia, gets 13 Electoral Votes
🔴 7:34pm Eastern: Donald Trump is declared winner in West Virginia, gets 5 Electoral Votes.
7:28pm Eastern: With 50% of the estimated vote counted in Florida, Trump is leading by +2.0
7:24pm Eastern: Trump is leading in Florida, Biden is leading in North Carolina, Georgia is currently tied
🔵 7:17pm Eastern: Biden has won Vermont's 3 Electoral Votes
🔴 7:04pm Eastern: Trump has won Indiana's 8 Electoral Votes
Decision Day 2020 - November 3rd 2020
7pm and 7:30pm Eastern
Major Poll Closings: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio
What to watch: The Times election needles in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, which analyze incomplete results to estimate the likeliest outcome. These are some high-powered needles: We’ll process the results by precinct and vote method, which should give us a very granular view of what’s going on.
Signs of a Biden or Trump win? Again, just watch the needles — at this early stage, the results will be heavily skewed by vote method, and the needle is the best way to see any early trends.
8pm Eastern
Major Poll Closings: Florida (Panhandle), Maine, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Michigan, Texas
What to watch: Stay focused on the needles in North Carolina and Florida, where things will be moving quickly. Resist the temptation to look at big leads for Mr. Biden in Texas and Ohio.
Signs of a Biden win: If Mr. Biden still holds a comfortable lead in Florida after the early votes arrive in the Panhandle, the president’s chances are on life support. Of course, the needle will probably have told you this already. North Carolina’s Election Day vote will take longer, but maybe we’ll have enough votes there for the needle to start to make up its mind.
Signs of a Trump win: If Mr. Trump has already fought Mr. Biden to a draw in Florida, this one could go down to the wire — a precondition for a national Trump victory. At this point, victory in Florida would come down to the straggling Election Day vote: Democratic ballots in Miami-Dade and Broward, versus a whole lot of Republican vote elsewhere in the state. Again, the needle will be your guide.
9pm Eastern
Major Poll Closings: Arizona, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan
What to watch: This is the moment when we’ll probably have a good idea of what direction this night is heading. We’ll have a very good sense of what happened in Florida and North Carolina, which will have either effectively decided the election in Mr. Biden’s favor or kept the president’s hopes alive. We’ll now start to turn to the Midwest, where we’ll get our first indications of whether Mr. Biden can win back the white working-class voters who abandoned Democrats four years ago.
Signs of a Biden win: If Mr. Biden’s still leading or outright victorious in North Carolina and Florida, according to the needle. We also ought to have some counties all wrapped up in Ohio, for our first clear look at what’s happening in the Midwest. If Mr. Biden is running well ahead of Mrs. Clinton’s performance there in 2016, that will be a clear tell that the polls were generally right about his strength among white voters.
Signs of a Trump win: If Mr. Trump’s going to win, he will need to be favored in North Carolina and Florida at this point, at least in the view of the needle. He’ll also need to show some surprising strength in the first counties to wrap up in the Northern battlegrounds.
10pm Eastern
Major Poll Closings: Iowa, Nevada
What to watch: The Arizona early vote dump, and then we keep scouring the Midwest for the counties that appear to have concluded their count.
Signs of a Biden win: Let’s suppose that Mr. Biden didn’t win Florida and North Carolina, which we more or less ought to know by 10 p.m. First, we’re going to want to see if he has a big lead in the Arizona early vote. He ought to have one. Then all eyes on the Midwest — and especially Wisconsin and Ohio. Here, we’re looking for early signs of strength for Mr. Biden. In Ohio, we’re focused on the completed counties; in Wisconsin, we’re trying to take a broad, aggregate view of all the counties without centralized absentee precincts. If Mr. Biden’s doing far better than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 in mostly white rural areas, that might be all we need to know. We’ll also have to keep a special eye on the counties in Appalachian eastern Ohio, for some hints on Pennsylvania.
Signs of a Trump win: First, did Mr. Trump keep it close in the Arizona early vote? That would be a good sign for him. Then all eyes are on these mostly white Midwestern counties, especially those that have counted all of their vote. The president needs to match his 2016 tallies — or more. If the polls are right, he’ll fare far worse. If they’re wrong, we’ll know — even if we’re not yet sure whether he’ll squeak it out again.
11pm Eastern
No battleground poll closings
What to watch. In 2016, this was around the time that Mr. Trump was the projected winner in Ohio and Iowa. If he has any shot of a breakthrough in the more competitive Midwestern battlegrounds, he ought to be in a similar spot.
It’s also about the time I’ll be peeking a bit more at Pennsylvania and Michigan. Yes, Mr. Trump probably has a big lead at this point. But are there any counties that seem to have gotten through their mail absentee votes? I’d guess some are wrapping up.
Signs of a Biden win: We’re still assuming that Mr. Biden hasn’t been called the winner in North Carolina or Florida, though that’s possible at this stage — even in a tightly fought race. Either way, most of our attention remains on the Midwest, and Mr. Biden would be outrunning Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 performance by a wide margin in completed counties in Iowa and Ohio. There probably won’t be a call in either state.
Mr. Biden would also hope to be running ahead of Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 showing in the Wisconsin counties without centralized absentee precincts.
Signs of a Trump win: This is around the time when Mr. Trump was projected the winner in North Carolina and Florida four years ago, though the late mail ballots in North Carolina might preclude a projection there in a fairly close race. Whether he’s got a call or not, Mr. Trump ought to be ahead in both states. Ohio and Iowa could fall into the president’s column around this time as well.
This is also about the time Georgia was called in 2016, though the race is closer this year, and the absentee ballot situation raises some added questions. If you’re a Trump fan, don’t panic if you still don’t have the call in Georgia at this hour.