Democrat Joe Biden is one state away from presidential victory after winning Michigan about 10 am AEDT, placing him six electoral votes away from the needed 270.
He also won Wisconsin overnight. On election day, President Donald Trump won the battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio and Texas. Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania are still in play, although Nevada will not report any votes until 3 am, AEDT.
Trump falsely claimed victory over Democrat rival Joe Biden in the early hours of Wednesday (US time) when millions of votes remained uncounted. The Trump campaign has demanded a recount in Wisconsin and filed lawsuits to halt counting in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania after the President repeatedly claimed that Biden's gains were the result of electoral fraud.
Protests have emerged in several locations across the US. In Chicago and New York, largely Democrat crowds marched in support of all votes being counted. In Michigan, Trump supporters have protested a counting centre calling for the count to stop whereas in tightening Arizona, which we have called for Biden, they protested for the count to continue.
The tight contest reflects a deeply polarised nation struggling to respond to the worst health crisis in more than a century, which has combined with millions of job losses and reckoning on racial injustice.
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