The president-elect emphasized how he would handle the pandemic response.
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.
In Nevada, Biden's lead has expanded to 22,657 votes following a batch of ballots from Clark County, home to Las Vegas.
Biden has 49.8% of the vote (632,558 votes) to Trump’s 48.0% (609,901 votes).
Nevada has 93% of its expected vote in.
Nevada has six electoral votes to offer.
-ABC News' Meg Cunningham and Kendall Karson
In Georgia, Biden now leads by a margin of 4,182 votes after more than 7,000 votes came in from Gwinnett County, near Atlanta.
Biden has 2,455,802 votes (49.4%) while Trump has 2,451,620 votes (49.3%).
Georgia has 16 electoral votes.
There are approximately 26,500 ballots outstanding.
"The focus for our office and for the county election officials, for now, remains on making sure that every legal vote is counted and recorded accurately," Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday.
Gabriel Sterling from the secretary of state's office said at a news conference, "We will know the final universe of numbers by today."
-ABC News' Soorin Kim and Quinn Scanlan
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency pushed back on claims there were counterfeit ballots.
The agency, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, did not mention Trump by name.
"Local election offices have security and detection measures in place that make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots," the agency said on its rumor control page. "While the specific measures vary, in accordance with state and local election laws and practices, ballot security measures can include signature matching, information checks, barcodes, watermarks, and precise paper weights."
In a subsequent tweet, Director Chris Krebs said there was disinformation floating around that CISA printed ballots, which is untrue.
-ABC News’ Luke Barr
The Trump campaign is expected to name adviser Dave Bossie to lead the campaign's legal efforts challenging the election results, sources confirmed to ABC News.
Bossie is the head of Citizens United -- a conservative nonprofit organization -- and was Trump's deputy campaign manager in 2016.
The news was first reported by The New York Times
-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and John Santucci
