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Election 2020 updates: Biden warns of 'dark winter,' pushes masks in pandemic plan

The president-elect emphasized how he would handle the pandemic response.

ByCatherine Thorbecke, Morgan Winsor, Libby Cathey, Adia Robinson, Lauren King, Emily Shapiro, Ivan Pereira, and Marc Nathanson
Last Updated: November 10, 2020, 10:14 AM EST

Joe Biden is set to become the 46th president of the United States, capping a tumultuous and tension-filled campaign during a historic pandemic against President Donald Trump. ABC News characterized Joe Biden as the apparent winner of his home state of Pennsylvania, putting him over the 270 vote threshold needed to capture the presidency.

The hard-fought battle against the president was set against the backdrop of racial unrest and the coronavirus pandemic and bitter divisions among the electorate.

Trump had falsely declared on election night, when he held a lead in several key states, that he won the contest and alleged without evidence, after the count started to swing the other way, that the election was being stolen from him and that fraud had been committed.

Painting the election as a "battle for the soul of the nation," Biden won on a message of unity over division, compassion over anger, and reality over what he called Trump's "wishful thinking" as the coronavirus pandemic cast a heavy shadow over the campaign.

The 2020 election has shattered voting records with votes totaling 147 million and counting, surpassing the 138 million who voted in 2016.

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Here's how election week unfolded. All times Eastern.
Nov 04, 2020, 10:31 PM EST

Outstanding vote in Ga. from Democrat-leaning counties

According to a Georgia elections official, all of the outstanding vote in Georgia is from Democrat-leaning counties and Biden needs to win 64% of it to overtake Trump.

Right now, Trump has 2,426,104 votes and Biden 2,392,804 votes. 

Election workers count Fulton County ballots at State Farm Arena on Nov. 4, 2020, in Atlanta.
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According to a press release from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, as of 10:15 p.m., there are approximately 90,735 ballots still outstanding.

Trump is currently up by 33,300 votes.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

Nov 04, 2020, 10:01 PM EST

Trump appears to make up some ground in Arizona

Biden still leads statewide, but in Maricopa County, Arizona, his margin is smaller.

At 9 p.m., Biden was leading Trump 51% - 48% statewide with 1,444,213 votes to the president’s 1,365,040. So far, 86% of the expected absentee vote was in, with 86% overall expected vote in as well.

Maricopa County elections officials and observers watch as ballots are tallied, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, at the Maricopa County Recorders Office in Phoenix.
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Arizona's most populous county had about 400,000 votes to process and their most updated release indicated 338,000 are remaining. County officials said they're expecting to release more information at 12:30 a.m. ET/ 10:30 p.m. MT.

In the Senate race, Democrat Mark Kelly still led Sen. Martha McSally 52%-48%. This has narrowed since an earlier update where he led 53%-47%. ABC News has not made a projection this race.

-ABC News’ Meg Cunningham, Allison Pecorin and Jenna Harrison

Nov 04, 2020, 9:08 PM EST

Trump campaign files second suit in Pa.

The Trump campaign has filed a second lawsuit in Pennsylvania. 

PHOTO: Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Philadelphia.
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Philadelphia. At left are Eric Trump, son of President Trump, and his wife Lara Trump.
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This suit, filed in state court and naming Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and all 67 counties in Pennsylvania, alleges that Boockvar illegally extended a deadline for mail-in voters to supply any missing identification requirements from Nov. 9 to Nov. 12.

The suit says Boockvar acted unilaterally and illegally in doing so and that the voter ID deadline must be rolled back to Nov. 9.

If voters with missing proof of identification information were not to provide that information to be processed by Nov. 9, then the ballot could be thrown out.

-ABC News' Matthew Mosk, Benjamin Siegel and Alex Hosenball

Nov 04, 2020, 8:54 PM EST

'We're as divided as we were since 1860': Matthew Dowd

ABC News Chief Political Analyst Matthew Dowd said that he thinks Americans are as divided now as they were in the lead up to the Civil War.

"Well to me we're as divided as we were since 1860. I think that's where we are," he told ABC News Live Prime Anchor Linsey Davis. "As a country, because of how we people have lined up and where they are in this country and the level of frustration and anger in some instances and distrust to each side, that we're as divided as we've been in 160 years."

Dowd added that he thought Democrats should be concerned about the results of this election. 

"They're losing in places they used to win, they're not winning by as big margins as they used to do in blue areas," he said. "This is a divided country. They may end up winning the presidency in this instance and keeping the House, but this thing is on a razor edge in who's got the lead in the country today and it's exceedingly close in every election."

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