US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Let's give each other a chance: Joe Biden in his victory speech

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US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates | Assured of victory, Biden-Harris start focusing on public health and economy
Confident of their victory in the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris have begun working on the task ahead by focusing on two critical areas of public health and economy, both battered by the raging COVID-19 pandemic. According to latest projections, Biden had 264 of the 538 electoral college votes up for grabs. He only requires another six electoral college votes to reach the magical number of 270, to be declared elected as the next US president.

US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates | We're going to win this race for White House: Joe Biden
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that it was "clear and convincing" that he is going to win the closely-fought race for the White House against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump. Biden is on the cusp of being declared as the winner of the November 3 presidential elections, as the 77-year-old former US vice president was leading in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia where counting of votes is continuing. As of Friday night, Biden had 264 of the 538 electoral college votes. He requires another six electoral college votes to reach the magical number of 270, to be declared elected as the next US president.

US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates | Trump, GOP test out rallying cry: Count the 'legal' votes
President Donald Trump and some of his Republican supporters are testing out a rallying cry for his uphill fight to reverse the lead that Joe Biden holds in key battleground states: count all legal votes. The language is freighted with a clear implication, namely that Democrats want illegal votes counted, a claim for which there is no evidence. But it underscores Trump's strategic imperatives as Biden closes in on securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, tactics that are rooted more in political messaging than legal precedent.

US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates | Not waiting: Joe Biden transition team at work amid limbo
Joe Biden's transition team isn't waiting for a verdict in the presidential race before getting to work. As officials continue to count ballots in several undecided states, longtime Biden aide Ted Kaufman is leading efforts to ensure the former vice president can begin building out a government in anticipation of a victory. Kaufman is a former senator from Delaware who was appointed to fill the seat vacated when Biden was elected vice president. He also worked on Barack Obama's transition team in 2008, and helped write legislation formalizing the presidential transition process.

Leads will return as legal proceedings move forward, says Donald Trump

The slow pace of this year’s U.S. election count is fueling a lot of criticism, but it’s mostly a reflection of laudable things: greater voter enthusiasm and steps that states took to protect their residents from COVID-19.

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US Elections 2020 Highlights:

As the action on the election front wraps up for the day, we leave you with the top events that transpired during the day and the key takeaways.

- Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden cemented his chances of reaching the White House, pulling ahead of Donald Trump in the key states of Pennsylvania and Georgia and furthering his lead in Arizona and Nevada.

-Tens of thousands of ballots still remain uncounted.

- A win in any four of the states mentioned above will see Biden's tally cross the 270 mark. A victory in all four will take him to 306.

- The chaos in the US elections continued as Trump continued to protest the counting that continued in key states, mostly of mail-in ballots, which have leaned Democratic and allowed Biden to take the lead.

- Trump's charges of widespread rigging through the postal ballots remains unsubstantiated and legal pundits said the desperate Trump was pulling out all the tricks in the book to stay in the Presidency.

- Meanwhile, on the cusp of a victory, the Biden transition team is busy with work on the takeover even as the Biden himself was reported to be making a 'primetime' national address.

US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Thousands of Facebook Groups buzzed with calls for violence ahead of US election

Before Facebook Inc shut down a rapidly growing "Stop the Steal" Facebook Group on Thursday, the forum featured calls for members to ready their weapons should President Donald Trump lose his bid to remain in the White House. In disabling the group after coverage by Reuters and other news organizations, Facebook cited the forum's efforts to delegitimize the election process and "worrying calls for violence from some members." Such rhetoric was not uncommon in the run-up to the election in Facebook Groups, a key booster of engagement for the world's biggest social network, but it did not always get the same treatment. A survey of U.S.-based Facebook Groups between September and October conducted by digital intelligence firm CounterAction at the request of Reuters found rhetoric with violent overtones in thousands of politically oriented public groups with millions of members.

US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: Wall Street ends little changed, posts big weekly gain on Washington gridlock hopes

US stocks held near the unchanged mark on Friday to close out a strong week as Democratic challenger Joe Biden edged closer to victory in the presidential election, while the monthly jobs report underscored the hurdles still facing the economy. Biden built on narrow leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia, putting him on the verge of winning the White House, although President Donald Trump has filed lawsuits in battleground states to contest the results. The three major indexes notched their biggest weekly percentage gains since April as the prospect of policy gridlock in Washington eased worries a Biden administration might tighten regulations on U.S. companies. "It’s not fairytale land, we don’t go up every day so at some point you would think we would see a little bit of downward pressure," said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade in Chicago.

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US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates | Explainer: Most service members abroad rely on mail ballots

As the vote counting continues to determine the next United States president, attention is turning to the role that military and overseas absentee ballots will play in the final result. In razor-close states, it could be a significant one. The country has a long history of making sure active duty military personnel can vote regardless of where they are stationed. President Abraham Lincoln issued an order during the Civil War allowing troops to return home to cast a ballot if they could not vote absentee. States set up remote voting at military encampments, and some allowed troops to designate a proxy who could vote on their behalf, the Congressional Research Service reports.

In 1942, Congress passed the first law that guaranteed the right to vote in federal elections to members of the Armed Forces who were away during wartime. Fast forward to 2009, when Congress passed a bill requiring states to set up a system to transmit absentee ballots to military and civilian voters who were overseas during federal elections.

Why are military ballots still coming in?

Most military personnel far from home mail an absentee ballot, and those coming from overseas take, on average, about six days, according to a report from Count Every Hero, a nonpartisan group committed to ensuring service members right to vote is protected.

The group says 28 states and the District of Columbia accept and count ballots that arrive from overseas after election day. They include Georgia, which accepts them up to three days after the election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. North Carolina accepts them until Nov. 12; and Nevada and Pennsylvania until Nov. 10.

Could military ballots influence the results in any of the states that have yet to be called?

Possibly. In the 2016 presidential election, Georgia received more than 5,600 ballots from uniformed service members; North Carolina received nearly 11,000; Pennsylvania received nearly 7,800 and Nevada about 2,700, according to the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. In the razor-thin election in Georgia, the secretary of state's office says as many as 8,900 ballots that have been transmitted to military and overseas voters could still arrive by close of business Friday.

President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted Stop The Count!" as results showed him well ahead in various battleground states. Had the states complied, they would have prevented thousands of people serving in the military from having their vote counted.

Any attempts to stop vote counts, or disqualify mail-in ballots will disproportionately affect military voters," County Every Hero research manager Jack Noland said.

US Election 2020 Results LIVE Updates: RNC to raise $60 million to fund Trump legal challenges, says report

The Republican National Committee has reached out donors as it seeks to raise at least $60 million to fund legal challenges brought by President Donald Trump over the results of the US presidential election, two sources familiar with the matter said. The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in several states following the Nov. 3 election pitting the president against Democrat Joe Biden. “They want $60 million,” said a Republican donor who received solicitations from the RNC.