About 575,000 or 33% of the votes are yet to be counted in Nevada, as per projections.
Joe Biden has 588,252 (49.2%) votes under his belt while Trump has bagged 580,605 (48.6%) votes, of the 67%. Biden has the lead by 7,647 votes, which makes it a very tight contest between Democrats and Republicans in one of the key swing states.
Yet with more than half a million votes to be counted, the battle can sway in either direction, where officials said they would not update the count until Thursday, reports Reuters.
Six states remain to be called - Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - with Biden needing to carry at least three to win, while Trump would need at least four.
At 5pm BST (1100 GMT), Biden held narrow leads in Nevada and Wisconsin. Trump held slim leads in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan, though tens of thousands of ballots remain to be counted in those states, many of them votes cast by mail in the areas around major cities, which traditionally favor Democrats.
Biden's victory in Arizona - both Fox News and the Associated Press projected he would win the state - gave him multiple pathways to the White House.
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If he holds onto Nevada, he could secure the presidency by winning the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Michigan, where he held narrow leads on Wednesday, even if he loses Pennsylvania.Republican Donald Trump faced Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Tuesday in the US presidential election.
There are 538 Electoral College votes allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It takes 270 votes to win.
The latest vote tally showed Democrat challenger Joe Biden with a lead in the Electoral College - 224 votes to 213, with 270 needed for victory - but with counting still to be completed in at least five major “battleground” states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia.
Biden's victory in Arizona - both Fox News and the Associated Press projected he would win the state - gave him multiple pathways to the White House.
If he holds onto Nevada, he could secure the presidency by winning the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Michigan, where he held narrow leads on Wednesday, even if he loses Pennsylvania.
A Republican hasn't won Nevada since 2004, but Hillary Clinton performed the worst among Democrat winners, topping Donald Trump by less than 2 percentage points here in 2016. And Democrats, particularly the growing population of Latino voters, overwhelmingly favored Sen. Bernie Sanders over Joe Biden in the Democratic primary. But polls show Biden leading Trump here by about 5% points, reports USA Today.
Republican Donald Trump faced Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Tuesday in the US presidential election.
There are 538 Electoral College votes allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It takes 270 votes to win.
The latest vote tally showed Democrat challenger Joe Biden with a lead in the Electoral College - 224 votes to 213, with 270 needed for victory - but with counting still to be completed in at least five major “battleground” states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Georgia.
