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Biden Says He Will Win Presidency as Ballot Counting Continues
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2:04Now PlayingDemocrat Joe Biden stood on the cusp of winning the presidency Friday night, three days after Election Day, as the long, exacting work of counting votes widened his lead over President Donald Trump in critical battleground states.
In a speech to the nation from his home state of Delaware, Biden repeated his call for calm as a high turnout, a massive number of mail-in ballots and slim margins between the two candidates all contributed to the delay in naming a winner.
"We're going to win this race," Biden said.
He told American voters that democracy works and their votes would be counted.
Biden held leads in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia, putting him in an ever-stronger position to capture the 270 Electoral College votes needed to take the White House.
There was intense focus on Pennsylvania, where Biden led Trump by more than 16,000 votes, and Nevada, where the Democrat led by about 22,000. The prolonged wait added to the anxiety of a nation facing historic challenges, including the surging pandemic and deep political polarization.
A handful of states remained in play Friday evening - Georgia, North Carolina too early to call along with Pennsylvania and Nevada. In all four states the margins between Donald Trump and Biden were too narrow and the number of ballots left to be counted too great for the AP to declare a victor.
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