They're still counting votes across Georgia, and it's really, really close. While Democrat Joe Biden surpassed President Donald Trump early Friday, his lead is very narrow, and under Georgia law a candidate can request a recount if the margin is within 0.5 percentage points, which is the case here.We asked Kate Brumback, a reporter for The Associated Press in Atlanta, what could happen next.WHERE IS ALL THIS GOING?With a margin this small, the secretary of state said this morning there will probably be a recount.

Either candidate can make the request. The Trump campaign is trailing right now, and it seems like he would be likely to ask for one.

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Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden

WASHINGTON – Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.”President Donald Trump, who has professed admiration for, if not deep knowledge of, the British prime minister, is putting Churchill’s observation to one of its greatest tests by refusing to accept the results of an election that delivered victory for Democrat Joe Biden.

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Progressives look to make early mark on Biden White House

WILMINGTON, Del. – Leading progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy agenda even as more centrist Democrats argue such proposals prevented the party from retaking full control of Congress. For now, much of the lobbying centers on who Biden should — or should not — appoint to key posts as he builds out the administration that will take office in January.

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‘It’s like politicizing toilet paper.’ A member of Biden’s COVID-19 panel surveys the task ahead

Warren CornwallScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Céline Gounder has straddled the worlds of medicine, government, and the media: Now, the New York University epidemiologist and infectious disease expert is one of 13 people President-elect Joe Biden has named to a high-profile task force to help steer his response to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to her medical work, Gounder co-hosts a podcast about the pandemic with Ron Klain, Biden’s newly named chief of staff.

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Biden has room on health care, though limited by Congress

Joe Biden is unlikely to get sweeping health care changes through a closely divided Congress, but there’s a menu of narrower actions he can choose from to make a tangible difference on affordability and coverage for millions of people.With the balance of power in the Senate hinging on a couple of Georgia races headed to a runoff, and Democrats losing seats in the House, Biden's proposals for a public health insurance option and empowering Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices seem out of reach.

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Georgia secretary of state to quarantine after wife tests positive for coronavirus as recount starts

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger plans to self-quarantine after finding out his wife tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday. Raffensperger a day earlier announced plans for a hand recount in the state’s presidential election, which saw President-elect Joe Biden and President Trump separated by a little more than 14,000 votes.

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EXPLAINER: Is Georgia's upcoming ballot 'audit' a recount?

ATLANTA – Georgia says it’s going to be tallying — by hand — nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in its very close presidential election on Nov. 3.

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Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace. Trump, fresh off his reelection loss to President-elect Joe Biden, remains angry that an announcement about progress in developing a vaccine for the disease came after Election Day.

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The Latest: Graham giving $1M to help Georgia's GOP senators

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):9:15 a.m.Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was just reelected in South Carolina, says he's donating $1 million of his campaign money to help two GOP senators win runoff races in neighboring Georgia.Graham told Fox News Channel's “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that Republicans need to counter a “tsunami of liberal money” flowing into Georgia ahead of the Jan.

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The Latest: Nicklaus says he won't talk about Trump support

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Latest on the Masters (all times local):8:25 a.m.Jack Nicklaus says he is done talking about his endorsement of President Donald Trump.The six-time Masters champion posted a message of support for the Republican candidate on social media shortly before the election. He also said he had already voted for Trump, who wound up losing the Nov.

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Who pays for recounts in presidential elections?

LOS ANGELES - Joe Biden was projected as the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, but with razor-thin margins in a few key battleground states, including Georgia, a recount is already underway. But who pays for recounts in a presidential election?The rules around paying for recounts are not the same across the board.

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With GOP win in Alaska, control of Senate pushes to January

WASHINGTON – Control of the Senate won’t be decided until the new year after Republicans won a seat in Alaska on Wednesday. Neither party can lock the majority until January runoffs in Georgia.

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Transition delay could impede Biden’s ability to address issues like coronavirus: experts

Joe Biden was projected to be U.S. president-elect by all major news outlets, the Trump administration has refused to concede and has reportedly stalled the transition process.

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Mike Pence on vacation amid legal battles over U.S. election loss

coronavirus cases, United States Vice-President Mike Pence is going on vacation.As of Tuesday, Pence, who is also the head of the current U.S. coronavirus task force, will be vacationing in Sanibel, Fla., through Saturday, according to the Associated Press.Florida’s Gulf Coast is a regular vacation spot for the vice-president and his family, the agency reported.

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Tally may bring challenges under Pennsylvania recount rules

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania counties ground through ballot counting Tuesday a week after voting concluded in a high-turnout election that tested a new vote-by-mail law and led some Republicans to doubt its results.Preliminary counts that were due at the close of business Tuesday from counties to the Department of State do not have to be complete but will be watched for how they might affect the presidential race numbers.They also may lead voters to ask officials to recount the tallies in their local precincts.Democratic candidate Joe Biden currently holds a 46,000-vote margin, too wide a gap for Republican President Donald Trump to qualify for a mandatory recount.No state or county election official has reported fraud or any other

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COVID-19 vaccine timeline: A look at what’s ahead for leading candidates

Pfizer's surprising news that its COVID-19 vaccine might offer more protection than anticipated — an announcement right after a fraught U.S. presidential election campaign — is raising questions about exactly how the different shots will make it to market.Pfizer Inc.

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US election: McConnell says Trump within his rights to look into election ‘irregularities’; Schumer says ‘no evidence’ of significant voter fraud

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday said during a speech on the Senate floor that President Donald Trump was completely within his rights to look into “irregularities” from last week’s election.

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'This is proof': Biden's win reveals power of Black voters

DETROIT – Power. Respect.

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Stacey Abrams raises millions for Democrats in Georgia Senate runoff

Stacey Abrams poses for a picture, after her speech at the National Press Club Headliners Luncheon in Washington, D.C. (Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)ATLANTA - Stacey Abrams says she and her organization Fair Fight have raised millions since Friday to help Democrats in their attempt to win Georgia's two Senate runoff elections.The one-time candidate for Georgia governor tweeted Monday morning that her group has raised $6 million so far for the campaigns of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and the Rev.

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DC liquor stores sell more champagne after Trump loss than on last two New Years combined

WASHINGTON (FOXBusiness) - Liquor stores in Washington, D.C. reported a spike in champagne sales after Joe Biden was projected to win the U.S.

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Chatham County judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A Georgia judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the state Republican Party and President Donald Trump's campaign that asked him to ensure a coastal county was following state laws on processing absentee ballots.Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass did not provide an explanation for his decision Thursday at the close of a roughly one-hour hearing. Chatham County includes the heavily Democratic city of Savannah.The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots.

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‘Loser’: SNL cold open spoofs Biden’s U.S. election victory, Trump’s loss

Saturday Night Live (SNL) wasted no time spoofing U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s and vice president-elect Kamala Harris‘ victory speeches.The latest episode aired just hours after the real-life politicians delivered their remarks, and its cold open featured Jim Carrey as Biden, while Maya Rudolph reprised her role as Harris.

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Stacey Abrams credited for boosting Democrats in Georgia

ATLANTA – Stacey Abrams spent years working to convince political power players that Georgia is a genuine two-party battleground, a Deep South state where the left could compete if it organized Black voters, other sporadic voters and stopped apologizing for being Democrats.She was right.President-elect Joe Biden is on track to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state in nearly three decades. The state's two U.S.

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SNL cold open skit plays up Biden’s presidential victory, Trump’s loss

After Joe Biden’s U.S. presidential victory on Saturday, the Nov.

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Election 2020: Lawsuits filed, recount requested by Trump campaign — here’s where they stand

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's campaign has filed lawsuits in a number of states where the result could mean his defeat in the race against Democratic challenger Joe Biden — though three of them were quickly dismissed by judges.On Friday afternoon, GOP lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order election boards in Pennsylvania to set aside ballots that arrived after Election Day but before Nov.

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Fight for Senate control awaits in Georgia after Biden's win

WASHINGTON – Control of the Senate likely won’t be decided until a January runoff in Georgia, even after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House on Saturday.That post-election cliff-hanger will determine the balance of power in Washington, as neither party appears to have a lock on a Senate majority right now.So far, the tally for the next Senate is 48 Republicans and 48 Democrats after Tuesday's election. Two seats in Georgia are headed to runoffs on Jan.

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Balance of power: VP-elect Kamala Harris to become potential tie-breaking Senate vote

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Joe Biden won the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, according to projections by the Associated Press and FOX News. Biden’s projected win catapults California Sen.

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Biden's inauguration during COVID-19: What the January event could look like

Planning for the inauguration of former vice president Joe Biden, now projected to be the 46th president of the United States, faces daunting challenges after a surge in cases during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Construction is already underway in Washington, D.C., in preparation for the Jan.

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EXPLAINER: Why AP called the 2020 election for Joe Biden

WASHINGTON – WHY AP CALLED THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR BIDEN:As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House. Late-counted ballots in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to keep Biden in the lead and offered him multiple paths to victory.

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Joe Biden projected to win Pennsylvania to clinch presidency after tightly contested race

PHILADELPHIA - Four years ago, President Donald Trump breached the Democrats’ “blue wall,” narrowly winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — a trio of Great Lakes states that had long served as a bulwark against Republican presidential candidates.On Saturday, Democrat Joe Biden captured it back — and also won the presidency — after The Associated Press declared the former vice president the winner of his native Pennsylvania at 11:25 a.m. EST.The AP called the race for Biden, who held a 34,243-vote lead, after it determined that the remaining ballots left to be counted would not allow Trump to catch up.

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Joe Biden widens lead in Georgia as vote count continues

ATLANTA - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continues to expand his lead in Georgia after what could be the final data dump from the state's most populous county.As of Saturday morning, the new vote totals from Fulton County brings the former vice president's current lead in Georgia to 7,248, adding more distance from Friday when the state first swung in favor of the Democratic candidate due to Clayton County."I could not be more pleased with the results we have here today," Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron said.Biden claimed nearly 4,000 of the additional 5,100 votes published overnight, which included provisional ballots and votes from members of the military and those overseas.With the race still tight in Georgia,

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U.S. election: Senate control up in air as Georgia races head to January runoffs

Georgia headed to runoff elections.Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan.

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U.S. election: Here’s how close 5 battleground states are to finishing ballot counts

Joe Biden‘s margins over Republican President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to grow Friday night into Saturday, as the vote counts in five battleground states trickled in. Biden says ‘we’re going to win’ U.S.

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Suspended animation: Count drags on as Biden nears victory

WASHINGTON – Four days after the election, the U.S. presidential race hovered in suspended animation Saturday as the long, exacting work of counting votes brought Democrat Joe Biden ever closer to a victory over President Donald Trump.

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‘We’re not enemies, we’re Americans’: Biden speaks as US awaits 2020 election results

WILMINGTON, Del. - Presidential candidate Joe Biden addressed the country Friday night in a primetime speech. "While we're waiting for the final results, I want people to know we're not waiting to get work done," he said.He called for Americans to unite saying that the "vast majority" of Americans want to "get the vitriol out of politics." He added that his responsibility as president would be to "represent the whole nation.""We may not be opponents, but we're not enemies. We're Americans," he said. "I've never been more optimistic about the future of this nation.

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Kamala Harris to take stage before Joe Biden in primetime speech Friday

WILMINGTON, Del. - Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will deliver remarks ahead of presidential candidate Joe Biden Friday night in a primetime speech. Harris has appeared alongside Biden during his remarks in recent days but has not made any public comments herself on the state of the race as the votes continue to be tabulated in several key battleground states. Biden has pulled ahead in both Pennsylvania and Georgia, and a projection in his favor in either state would put him over the electoral vote threshold required to win the presidency.A campaign official confirmed Harris will speak Friday night before Biden does.

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Biden plans prime-time televised address Friday night

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks about health care at Beech Woods Recreation Center October 16, 2020 in Southfield,m Michigan.

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Perdue vs Ossoff: Georgia Senate race likely headed to runoff

ATLANTA - Georgia’s second of two U.S. Senate races is likely headed to a runoff.U.S.

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Joe Biden takes lead over Donald Trump in Pennsylvania as counting continues

PHILADELPHIA - Joe Biden has overtaken President Donald Trump's lead as votes continue to be counted in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.Biden encroached on Trump's lead through the night Thursday and into the early morning hours of Friday morning as election officials continued counting ballots across the Keystone State.As of Friday morning, Biden's lead stood at just over 6,800 votes. Pennsylvania became the second state to turn in Biden's favor Friday morning after the former vice president took a narrow lead in Georgia.Fox News and the Associated Press have yet to project a winner in either state, and neither candidate has reached the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.AdvertisementDemocrats had long

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U.S. election: Joe Biden takes narrow lead in Pennsylvania, Georgia

Joe Biden moved ahead of President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia and Pennsylvania on Friday morning, putting him one step closer to the White House as states continue to count ballots.Biden has 264 Electoral College votes and Trump has 214, according to the Associated Press. Both candidates need 270 votes to secure the presidency.Friday morning, Pennsylvania officials are expected to make an announcement about the vote count in the state.

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UPDATES: Joe Biden overtakes President Trump in Georgia

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):4:40 a.m.Democrat Joe Biden is now leading President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia.By Friday morning, Biden overtook Trump in the number of ballots counted in the battleground, a must-win state for Trump that has long been a Republican stronghold. Biden now has a 917-vote advantage.The contest is still too early for The Associated Press to call.

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Twin Senate runoffs in Georgia could shape Biden presidency

ATLANTA – The outcome in several contested states will determine whether Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump. But if the Democratic challenger wins, the ambitions of a Biden presidency could well come down to Georgia.Georgia, long a Republican stronghold — but one with rapidly changing demographics — could be the site of two runoffs on Jan.

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EXPLAINER: What's happening with poll watchers?

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH POLL WATCHERS?The campaign of President Donald Trump says Republican poll watchers are being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots. Not so, say election officials in key battleground states, who said rules are being followed and they are committed to transparency.WHAT IS A POLL WATCHER, ANYWAY?Someone who monitors voting or ballot counting.

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Networks cut away from Trump's White House address

NEW YORK – ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him.Trump had tried to commandeer the nation's airwaves at a time when the evening newscasts are shown on the East Coast, after a day when the slow drip of vote counting revealed his leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia dwindling.MSNBC's Brian Williams also interrupted the president.

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EXPLAINER: What effect could lawsuits have on the election?

Two days later, an uneasy United States is still waiting to hear who will be its next president. With Democrat Joe Biden pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, President Donald Trump’s campaign has attacked the integrity of the voting process with lawsuits in three key states where the race hasn’t been called and votes are still being counted.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump campaign makes announcement in Nevada

WASHINGTON – As Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, President Donald Trump’s campaign put into action the legal strategy the president had signaled for weeks: attacking the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean his defeat.Democrats scoffed at the legal challenges the president's campaign filed Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.

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Students in Mount Dora unearth time capsule from 2000

MOUNT DORA, Fla. – Some high school students in Lake County are getting a glimpse into the past after unearthing a time capsule.Seniors at Mount Dora High School recently gathered to open the capsule that contained artificats from both 1966 and 2000.[TRENDING: Donald Trump wins Florida | US presidential race results | Floridians vote to raise minimum wage to $15/hour]Officials say the time capsule contained yearbooks, a pager and a letter from President Bill Clinton.Students are now working to create a new capsule with items that will help represent 2020.Anyone who wants to donate items can mail them to Mount Dora High School, 700 N.

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Dems demand Twitter suspend Trump's account until all ballots counted

NEW YORK - Democratic lawmakers are urging Twitter to suspend President Trump's account, suggesting none of his tweets should be posted until all ballots have been counted in the 2020 presidential election.The president, whose Twitter comments Wednesday complained about Democratic challenger Joe Biden's lead among mail-in ballots and claimed victory for himself in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina before counting was finished, has been spreading "pure disinformation," Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly said on the social media platform.“Suspend his account, @Twitter," Connolly wrote.

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U.S. election: As vote counting continues, here are the lawsuits Trump has filed

Donald Trump’s campaign has turned to the courts in multiple states in an attempt to stop vote counting and invalidate ballots yet to be counted, as the presidential election remains too close to call.Trump’s path to the 270 electoral college votes needed to secure a second term has narrowed considerably after Democrat Joe Biden picked up some key states — one of which is being targeted by Trump’s lawyers and local Republicans. Biden closes in on U.S.

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