Election 2020 presidential results

CNN's Jake Tapper revealed his own mother is a mail-in voter in Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania, where votes are still being counted tonight, and rebuked those who would suggest her vote should not to count. 

Tapper also skewered President Trump's allies who are standing by him even as he alleged fraud without evidence. 

"We are seeing some of the President's most obedient servants... go on TV and say things that are not true, say things that there's no evidence for, talk about electoral fraud," said Tapper, referring by name to Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

"This is not accurate," he continued. "This is not what is actually going on. "The American people are having their votes counted."

Tapper then went on to reference August 1974, during the Watergate scandal, when Republican congressional leaders Sens. Barry Goldwater, Hugh Scott and House Minority Leader John Rhodes, went to the White House and informed President Richard Nixon the Republican Party would no longer support him. 

"Nixon resigned the next day," said Tapper. "Those three Republican leaders, two of them were from Arizona and one of them was from Pennsylvania, two of the four states that we're waiting to hear from today."

"Let the American people have their say," concluded Tapper. 

Watch the moment:

Joe Biden is nearing 270 electoral votes as he continues to close the gap in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Trump is leading Biden in Georgia by approximately 1,805 votes and in Pennsylvania by 23,953 votes.

Trump cannot find a route to 270 electoral votes without Georgia and Pennsylvania, so his chances of securing reelection will hinge on developments in the two states.

Biden currently has 253 electoral votes, while Trump has 213.

We're tracking the narrow margins of votes in key states. See the latest figures below, and get full details and results in CNN's Election Center.

As of 10:35 p.m. ET, there are approximately 14,097 ballots still outstanding across Georgia, according to a statement by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Almost all of the outstanding ballots are absentee ballots, Raffensperger’s office told CNN earlier Thursday.

President Trump's lead over former Vice President Joe Biden has shrunk to 1,775 votes, CNN's Wolf Blitzer said.

Here's a breakdown of the ballots by county:

Shauna Dozier, Clayton County’s elections director, told CNN Thursday evening that Clayton County hopes to complete counting their remaining ballots by midnight.

The next president of the US is yet to be called, but the coronavirus pandemic looms large.

The US reached a new record high of daily Covid-19 cases. So far today, there have been at least 121,054 daily new coronavirus cases in the US, per Johns Hopkins University data.

This is the highest single day reporting since the pandemic began.

The top 5 Covid-19 case days so far:

Joe Biden attended a briefing on coronavirus earlier today in Wilmington, Delaware. The pandemic's impact has been a key issue of the campaign, and whichever candidate wins the presidency will have to lead the country through this crisis.

All remaining 4,200 uncounted mail-in ballots and provisional ballots cast in Clayton County, Georgia, will most likely be released by midnight, the director of the county's board of elections, Shauna Dozier, told CNN tonight. 

Dozier said to expect results posted on the county's website roughly every 30 minutes until midnight.

The only remaining uncounted ballots will then be military ballots, which are due at 5 p.m. ET, on Friday. Dozier said she is unaware of how many military ballots officials may receive. 

Clayton County, a suburb of Atlanta which trends Democratic, could put President Trump's path to the presidency in serious peril, noted CNN's John King earlier this evening. 

CNN's John King speaks to Shauna Dozier:

The presidential race between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden remains on a razor's edge as election workers in key states continue to plow through mail-in ballots.

Most states, with the help of USPS, sent ballot envelopes with a unique set of numbers for each individual voter. Those numbers are often known as Intelligent Mail Barcodes, which allow the Postal Service to track the ballot.

It's still too close to call a winner in these six states as votes continue to be counted: Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

If you submitted your ballot in one of these states and want to check its status, here's where you can go:

Learn how you can check your ballot in other states here.

And if ballot tracking technology isn't available where you live, you can contact your local election office if you have questions or concerns about your ballot.

The Republican governor of Arizona said the state is “following established Arizona election law to the letter,” following President Trump’s White House statement tonight claiming the election was being stolen from him.

Contrary to the President’s demands in Pennsylvania and Georgia, the Trump campaign has pushed for vote counting to continue in Arizona as they hope to overtake Joe Biden. The most recent updates in the returns have helped Trump narrow the gap in that state.

“We’ve seen dramatic changes to races up and down the ballot since Tuesday night, including for President,” Ducey said. “All of this underlines the importance of not jumping to conclusions in the state of Arizona until there is a final outcome in all counties.”

At least three counties across Georgia have stopped counting ballots for the night, county officials told CNN Thursday evening.

This includes, Cobb County, an Atlanta suburb where Hillary Clinton won by a small margin in 2016 and Taylor County, located roughly 100 miles south of Atlanta.

Gwinnett County, the second largest county in the state, has stopped counting ballots for the evening and plan to update their results to Georgia's Secretary of State website on Friday morning.