Election 2020 presidential results

Ballot counting continued Friday in Gwinnett County, Georgia, where there are roughly 1,500 votes left to tabulate, according to county spokesperson Joe Sorenson.

The Board of Voter Registrations and Elections is scheduled to review the provisional ballots on Nov. 9.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for coronavirus, two officials confirm to CNN.

Bloomberg first reported the story.

Meadows traveled with the President on Sunday and Monday. He was also at the White House election night party on Tuesday and in close contact with members of the President’s family. 

White House officials are now alarmed given Meadows has been around other staffers while potentially contagious, one aide says. The White House had invited people to watch the results roll in that night.

At the time, White House communications director Alyssa Farah said there would be temperature checks and precautions taken given the pandemic. Initial plans to hold an event at the Trump Hotel were scrapped because of local restrictions on indoor gatherings and fear there would be significant fines. 

The President delivered remarks from the White House press briefing room last night.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports:

Joe Biden's lead in Pennsylvania continues to grow, and he now has approximately 28,833 more votes than President Trump in the Keystone State.

CNN has yet to project a winner in Pennsylvania. If Biden wins Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes, he will reach the 270 needed to win the presidency.

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

CNN has also yet to project a winner in the key states of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Biden is currently leading Trump in these states, but votes are still being counted.

As Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump continues to grow in states yet to declare a victor, the presidential hopeful said Friday night that while he's waiting for the final election results, he is “not waiting to get the work done" on important issues facing the country.

“Yesterday, Sen. Harris and I held meetings with groups of experts on public health and the economic crisis this country is facing," Biden said. "The pandemic, as you also know, is getting more worrisome all across the country. Cases are skyrocketing. It’s believed we could see as many as 200,000 cases a day, and the death toll is approaching 240,000 lives lost. 240,000 empty chairs across America."

Biden's speech came as the United States set a new record when it surpassed 125,000 daily coronavirus infections.

"We both know tensions are high," Biden said. "They can be high after a tough election. One like we’ve had. But we need to remember, we have to remain calm. Patient. Let the process work out as we count all the votes."

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden exuded confidence tonight as his campaign inches closer to the White House while votes continue to be tallied in key battleground states.

Where the race for the White House stands: Biden's lead is growing in the battleground state of Pennsylvania tonight. Biden currently leads the President by 253 to 213 electoral votes, CNN projects.

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is speaking now from Wilmington, Delaware, as votes continue to be counted and a winner in the presidential race is yet to be called.

Biden noted that he is now leading Trump in Pennsylvania.

A new batch of votes from Allegheny County were counted and released tonight, widening Joe Biden's lead over President Trump.

Of the 3,212 votes released, Biden received 2,436 votes and President Trump got 733 votes, according to the county's executive Rich Fitzgerald. Biden now leads Trump by 28,833 votes.

Biden holds 49.6% of the vote in the state compared to Trump's 49.1%.

Why Pennsylvania is key: If Biden wins Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes, he will reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. CNN is yet to project a winner in the state.

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As Pennsylvania continues to count votes, CNN’s Pamela Brown said Friday that there’s approximately 89,00 outstanding ballots and 101,000 provisional ballots left to be counted in the Keystone State. 

“A majority of those ballots are coming from blue counties,” Brown said during CNN’s special election coverage. “When you look at Philadelphia, there are around 38,000 outstanding mail-in ballots. That includes 15,000 to 28,000 provisional ballots."

Brown went on to explain that some of the provisional ballots may take a "little bit longer" to process, because “these are ballots that people filled out because they didn’t get their mail-in ballot or there was a problem.”

These are the remaining Pennsylvania counties with outstanding ballots:

"All of these counties have their own pace, own formula, own process for going through the ballots and posting them,” Brown added.

The Allegheny County executive estimates another release of ballots, likely in the range of 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET.

CNN is told that will be the last release of the night and that staffers will not be counting overnight.

The ballots will be from a batch of court-challenged, misprinted ballots that previously had been set aside for review. 

The county has not announced how many votes are expected to be added to the count in this release.