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They’re trying to find the winner — but were shown No. 2.

For the fourth consecutive presidential election cycle, the results from Wisconsin proved to be a nail-biter. In 2016, President Donald Trump won the state by less than a percentage point and now, four years later, his Democratic challenger, President-elect Joe Biden, flipped the battleground state by a similar margin.

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wrote Wednesday, “On the one hand, I don’t entirely understand the polls-were-wrong storyline. This year was definitely a little weird, given that the vote share margins were often fairly far off from the polls (including in some high-profile examples such as Wisconsin and Florida).

Republican Sen.Thom Tillis' victory in the North Carolina Senate race marks another failure for the polling industry, whose polls had widely shown Tillis trailing his Democratic opponent, Cal Cunningham.  Fox News called the race for Tillis Tuesday night after Cunningham conceded.Tillis led Cunningham by just under 2% with few votes remaining when the Democrat conceded.  Cunningham had consistently led Tillis in the RealClearPolitics polling average since late June.The Democratic candidate went

The Senate minority leader seemed confident Saturday he could become the majority leader.  “Now we take Georgia, then we change the world,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told a crowd of New Yorkers at a celebration in New York City for President-Elect Joe Biden's projected election victory.

Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 presidential election.

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Joe Biden closer to the presidency is exposing rifts at Fox News Channel, the influential media outlet that is the favorite for many supporters of President Donald Trump.Despite intense pressure from Trump's team, Fox's decision team has stood fast with its election night call of Arizona for Biden.

In the days leading up to the November election a surge in early voting throughout Texas inspired fresh hope among Democrats that, for the first time in more than four decades, the party could turn the Lone Star State blue.  Polls showed the party's nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, within striking distance of incumbent President Trump, and last week Wednesday, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted Texas to a "toss up" from "leans Republican." Record turnout in Harris County, a

The presidential contest and balance of power in the Senate may depend on North Carolina voters, but results may not be finalized until next Thursday or Friday, when county-level canvass meetings are held. "Under very few exceptions would North Carolina's numbers move before the 12th or the 13th [of November]," North Carolina State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said at a news conference on Wednesday.

Donald Trump, news organizations kept vigil Wednesday as Americans waited to learn who their next president would be.Methodical vote counting Wednesday left Democrat Joe Biden on the cusp of the presidency.

Also Read: NBC News' Savannah Guthrie Cuts Off Trump Speech Declaring Victory: 'Frankly Not True' (Video)No winner has been declared in the 2020 presidential election as of Wednesday evening, with the race tightening in battleground states including Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania as mail-in votes continue to be processed.In a speech on Wednesday, Democratic nominee Joe Biden expressed optimism that his campaign would secure the necessary electoral votes to win the presidency

The North Carolina State Board of Elections will not "prognosticate" on general election race results as roughly 117,000 mail-in ballots are still outstanding, elections board Chair Damon Circosta said at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. "We anticipate that some of the questions that will come for us today will ask to prognosticate who will the eventual winners be," Circosta said.

Donald Trump‘s campaign announced on Wednesday (November 4) that they filed a lawsuit in Michigan to pause the counting of votes amid the 2020 presidential election.

The counts are still coming in, and Joe Biden is edging closer to victory.