POLLS TO PROTESTS

SUSPENSE CONTINUES IN US PRESIDENTIAL RACE AS COUNTING DRAGS ON AND LAWSUITS MOUNT

As America failed to decide a winner in the presidential race two days after Election Day, protesters have taken to the street in various cities since Wednesday night. Some protesters demanded that ballot counting be stopped, while others urged that every vote be counted. In Michigan and Arizona, dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump converged on votecounting centres as the returns went against him in the two key states on Wednesday.

“Stop the count!” they chanted in Detroit. “Stop the steal!” they said in Phoenix.

Meanwhile, thousands of Joe Biden supporters demanding that officials “count every vote” took to the streets from Philadelphia to Dallas, and beyond. In New York, hundreds paraded past boarded-up luxury stores on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, and in Chicago, demonstrators marched through downtown and along a street across the river from Trump Tower.

Biden, 77, making his third run at the White House, was inching towards victory on Thursday as Trump sought to stave off defeat with scattershot legal challenges.

Biden currently has 253 electoral votes and has a razor-thin lead in Nevada, which has six electoral votes.

Trump, 74, has sizeable leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania but Biden has been making gains as the votes continue to be tallied and his campaign is confident he can overtake the president.

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two Democratic presidential nominees in the past 72 years have won Arizona in the general election – Bill Clinton in 1996 and Harry Truman in 1948. Arizona says more votes are coming at 06:00 GMT — but it is not clear when projections will be possible. Biden has a significant lead, and the Associated Press and Fox News have already called the state for the Democrat.