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with victory forecast in two crucial Midwest states The Democratic Party challenger Joe Biden says he's confident he's on course to win the White House.

He's also gaining ground on President Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania, but Joe Biden's lead in Arizona shrunk overnight.

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The Trump campaign is taking legal action in several states, calling for counts to be stopped.

The results so far are extremely close here.

The latest Electoral College figures Joe Biden, is on 243 votes and Donald Trump on 214.

Remember, a candidate needs 270 Electoral College votes to secure the presidency.

Joe Biden is inching closer to victory after claiming Michigan overnight.

No result has yet emerged in Pennsylvania, a big prize with its 20 Electoral College votes.

Joe Biden at 50% with Donald Trump at 47% Joe Biden has received over 70 million votes, more than any other presidential candidate ever.

Of course, it's only the Electoral College vote that clinches the White House on, despite the Democrats high hopes at the moment, it looks like the Republicans are on track to keep hold of the Senate.

The Democrats are projected to retain their majority in the lower chamber, the House of Representatives.

Ben right now reports there are still millions of votes to count on this presidential race is not decided.

Looking to see in Georgia, Donald Trump kept the narrowest of leads over Joe Biden as ballots were tallied late into the night.

It was a scene repeated in the handful of states that will now decide this election.

At the moment, it's Joe Biden sounding confident he currently has more Electoral College votes than his rival and chalked up vital winds in the Midwest.

A Democratic gain on Wisconsin looks to have gone the same way here.

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And is there well that determines who will be the president of the United States?

The two candidates are neck and neck, and the state will release more results on Thursday.

And in Arizona, once a Republican stronghold, Joe Biden stayed slightly ahead while election officials counted the remaining postal ballots after President Trump prematurely declared victory on erroneously claimed in a tweet to have one states he hadn't.

Republicans filed a string of lawsuits and complaints were gonna win Pennsylvania.

But they're trying to cheat us out of it because they know it's there on Lee Path to victory.

Trump wrapped up his battleground tour on Monday in Wisconsin, but it wasn't enough to hold the state.

His response today was to call for a recount after an attempt by the Trump campaign to stop the count in Michigan, the state's chief election officer called the lawsuit meritless.

We're focused on getting this right in a way that can withstand any court challenges.

I'll also mentioned we've seen this not just in Michigan but in other states.

Ah, lot of times court challenges or allegations were thrown around to further political agendas as opposed to actually legal claims.

We could still be waiting a while to discover who the next president will be as an unprecedented volume of postal votes accounted, but it's the current occupant of the White House who is trying to catch up.

Ben Right, BBC News, Washington and I'm joined now by our correspondent Will Grant so well, it's very close.

The Biden campaign feeling a bit more confident.

But President Trump did gain some ground overnight.

Didn't here in Arizona tell us about the significance?

I mean, every single vote counts at this stage, and, you know, these are the nervy moments.

After a long and arduous campaign in Arizona, Vice President Biden's lead is narrowing.

Of course, there's an important part of that state is Maricopa County, and that covers an important urban area.

Postal votes so much part of the Trump ire in recent weeks may actually be benefiting him there, too.

Look, I mean, at this stage, Joe Biden feels the more confident of the two men.

But as you heard in Ben's reporters, you've been saying, as you've laid out the numbers at the top here, it's just not clear yet, and I think that has a lot of Americans, a lot of people watching on around the world on edge first on, We'll just tell us about Pennsylvania.

It's where the campaign spent their final days.

20 crucial Electoral college votes there.

But how long until we know the result there?

Well, that's so slow, basically, because their ruling stated that the postal votes and there were millions off them wouldn't be counted until the polls closed.

So unlike Florida, for example, which got a jump on the counting eso that by the time the polls closed that already counted all the postal votes, Uh, Pennsylvania was quite the other way.

So that could last, really three full days.

In fact, so you know, one has to kind of take a breath, become on wait to see what happens in Pennsylvania, which is easy to an extent, his observers obviously difficult for the campaign on by those who have got so much invested in this.

Of course, it also allows a large margin for those lawsuits on.

We've certainly seen both sides lawyered up.

We've seen a string of challenges already lodged by the Trump administration and the Trump campaign.

I should say, Andi, I do think that no matter what sort of happens, this will end up to an extent being decided within the courts.

And let's just talk a little bit about those many legal challenges from the Trump campaign and they're filing and pretty much every key battleground state.

Well, different things in different places.

For example, they want the count to be stopped in some places so that they could gain access.

That was an argument that took place in Michigan, for example.

There's challenges been lodged in Wisconsin, where they want a recount.

You know, this is very litigious Businessman in in, uh, Donald Trump, long before he became president on It doesn't surprise most observers to see that he's going to be quite litigious president at this stage to the campaign has been Lloyd up for a time.

For a long time, the legal teams have primed, but I think again that also cuts both ways.

Um, by and large, this is about access and about questioning the legality of postal votes being counted after the cut off date of the third of November.

Of course, in those places where they have lodged those.

Everything that seems to be questioned is within the rules of the game.

Within the electoral system will grant thanks so much.

Well, let's take a closer look at those legal challenges that Will was talking about their mounted by the president's team.

Professor Lawrence Douglas is an expert in US election law.

He joins me now from the state of Massachusetts.

So I'm just looking at the Trump campaign's statement about what they're doing in Pennsylvania.

They're suing to stop Democrat election officials from hiding the ballot counting.

Do you think that's going to go anywhere?

No, I actually don't think it's going to go anywhere.

You know, one thing we need to bear in mind is you know it's always possible Toe toe toe launched legal challenges.

It's another thing to prevail in those legal challenges on.

But I don't really see any of the challenges that the Trump team right now is bringing forward as likely to prevail now.

The president told us in the early hours of Wednesday morning that he was going to go to the Supreme court to stop the voting.

Well, he can't go directly to the Supreme Court.

What he can do is he can kind of bring various suits through, let's say, state courts.

And given the time pressures in resolving these things in the expeditious fashion, it's certainly possible that these things could then be fast tracked up to the Supreme Court.

But the notion that he could go directly to the Supreme Court and, for example, demand a nationwide stop of the count of Mallon ballots, which is what I think, he suggested, Ah, yesterday morning.

No, he does not have the authority to do that.

But also is the Trump campaign going against it's interests a bit here because in Arizona, actually is the counting goes on.