(AP) — Democrat Joe Biden has won the electoral battleground of Michigan.
It’s the third state President Donald Trump carried in 2016 that the former vice president has flipped, narrowing Trump’s path to reelection.
The Associated Press declared Biden the winner of the state at 5:56 p.m. EST Wednesday after conducting an analysis of votes and remaining ballots left to be counted.
It showed there were not enough votes left in Republican-leaning areas for Trump to catch Biden’s lead.
Biden had a 70,000-vote lead on Wednesday evening, a margin over Trump of about 1.3 percentage points.
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(AP) — Numerous media outlets are project Joe Biden as the winner in Michigan, but not the Associated Press.
There are over 1 million ballots left to be counted in Michigan, many coming from the Democratic stronghold of Detroit.
That makes the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden too early for the Associated Press to call.
Joe Biden: “It’s clear that we’re winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. I’m not here to declare that we’ve won, but I am here to report that when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.” https://t.co/vRpMV6pfsy pic.twitter.com/LKrT3GfSsX
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 4, 2020
Michigan is among a handful of battleground states where Trump prematurely claimed early Wednesday he was “winning” the contest with Biden.
Both are locked in a tight race for the 270 electors needed to win the presidency.
More than 5.26 million votes have been cast in Michigan and many of the ballots left to be counted were submitted by mail, a way of voting that favors Biden.
Of those, a significant number were from Wayne County, home to heavily Democratic Detroit.
