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On Thursday morning, Bucks County officials still had about 27,300 mail-in and absentee ballots to be count.
The latest numbers showed former Vice President Joe Biden pulling ahead of President Donald Trump, whose in-person voting tallies put him ahead of his Democratic challenger on Wednesday.
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Fluctuations in frontrunners had been long expected with Pennsylvania counties needing time to count mail-in and absentee ballots.
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision last month let counties collect and count mail-in and absentee ballots received via the post office by 5 p.m. on Friday. The ballots had to be postmarked by 8 p.m. Tuesday. County election officials have previously said the number of ballots that come in after election day are expected to be small. Provisional, overseas, and military ballots also still need to be counted.
Biden and running mate Kamala Harris had 177,019 votes, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had 173,467, and Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen and running mate Jeremy “Spike” Cohen had 3,632 with 890 write-in votes.
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The majority of mail-in and absentee ballots in Bucks County have been for Biden with about 77 percent for the Democrat from Delaware. Trump told his supporters over the months not to use mail-in or absentee voting and that it was a “big scam.”
Trump and his campaign have declared victory, but reputable election projections have not shown that to be the case. In fact, no major news outlet has projected a winner in Pennsylvania or across the nation as of 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
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Biden said Wednesday after that he believes his campaign will “emerge victorious,” but he was waiting for more votes to be counted.
The president’s campaign filed post-election day legal actions in Pennsylvania.
When national polling showed him lagging behind Biden, Trump told the nation the only way he could lose was if there was fraud.
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In Pennsylvania, there has been no confirmation or evidence of widespread fraud or problems.
“STOP THE COUNT!” Trump tweeted on Thursday morning.
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Gov. Tom Wolf replied to the president’s tweet and said the state would keep counting votes. He also called the comments “undemocratic and all elected officials must denounce them.”
Major Trump allies and longtime Republicans Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Republican Sen. Mike Lee, former Sen. Rick Santorum, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee have all tamped down claims of fraud and called for all the votes to the counted, according to NBC News.
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Nationally, Republicans held their ground in many congressional and senate districts. They held back much of a so-called “blue wave” that Democrats had hoped for.
In the First Congressional District, the Associated Press projected that Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick would hold his seat. His challenger, Democrat Christina Finello’s campaign said they are continuing to watch the vote count.
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The three state representatives in the Levittown area – Tina Davis, John Galloway, and Frank Farry – were all thousands of votes ahead of their challengers.
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