Joe Biden is in a virtual tie with President Trump in Georgia after he shaved the president’s lead to just under of 2,000 votes, new returns showed Thursday.
Biden and Trump each had 49.4 percent of the vote, with the president driving Biden by the razor-thin margin of 1,902 votes, as indicated by NBC News.
Biden has been cutting into the president’s lead in the state since surveys shut on Tuesday night and poll workers started including mail-in votes, which have cut in support of Biden.
Neither Trump or Biden have conveyed enough states to arrive at 270 electoral votes should have been chosen president. A few states — Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia — have not been called on the grounds that mail-in votes are as yet being tallied.
Trump narrowed Biden’s lead in Arizona on Thursday night when a batch of mail-in ballots that favored the president were counted.
In Arizona, which Fox News and The Associated Press have called for Biden, Trump now trails Biden by some 56,800 votes.
There’s about 88 percent of the vote counted in the state with some 420,000 votes remaining to be counted. Biden leads Trump by two percentage points, a margin of 50.3% to 48.3%.
