Election 2020 presidential results

Joe Biden is cutting into President Trump's lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania, but the race in those states is still too early to call as votes continue to be counted.

Paths to 270 remain for both Biden and Trump.

CNN is yet to project a winner in these six states:

Biden currently has 253 electoral votes while Trump has 213.

Republican lawyers told a federal judge Thursday that they’d like to withdraw their request for a restraining over 93 ballots in Pennsylvania's Montgomery County that voters were allowed to cure before Election Day after their absentee ballot wouldn’t be accepted.

A day before, the judge suggested the case was an attempt to disenfranchise voters and toss out the votes, though he did not rule. 

The Republicans noted they have a hearing on a similar case they’ve brought in Pennsylvania state court scheduled for Friday.

President Trump's edge in Pennsylvania is growing smaller each day. As votes have continued to be counted in the hours since Tuesday, Democratic rival Joe Biden has been inching closer, says CNN's John King.

A lead that was once as large as 500,000 votes, has dwindled to a figure slightly north of about 114,000.

With 92% of the votes counted, the President still holds an edge — 50.2% to 48.5%  — but Biden's pursuit has been steady.

"Every time we've gotten significant amount of votes, Joe Biden has exceeded that bar that he has to be over to keep tracking on that lead, and to have a chance to win the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," King noted.

With other outstanding states, including Nevada and Arizona, still tabulating votes, locking up the Keystone State could be the fastest way for Biden to reach 270 electoral votes and stamp his ticket to the White House.

"If you're Joe Biden and you get this," said King, pointing to Pennsylvania on the map, "then you're done."

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"I think we definitely could" know the result in Pennsylvania by the end of the day today, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar told CNN Thursday.

"I think there's about 550,000 some-odd — plus or minus — ballots that are still in the process of being counted today. Some of those may have already been counted but are not yet uploaded. But yeah, they're coming in," she said, adding that the counties are ahead of schedule.

There are approximately 370,000 ballots left to count in Pennsylvania, according to the state's website.

The largest number of outstanding votes remain in the big population centers, she said.

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UPDATE: This post has been updated with the latest numbers of outstanding ballots in the state.

A state court judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign that asked for an immediate halt to the vote counting until its representatives had “meaningful” access to ballot counting and adjudication.

Judge Cynthia Stephens was highly skeptical throughout a virtual hearing on Thursday about the lack of admissible evidence in the case and whether the campaign had sued the right party (Secretary of State Benson).

The lawyer representing the state, Heather Meingast, said the case was essentially moot because the counting had already concluded. “The ship has really sailed on the relief that they’re requesting in this case.” 

The judge said that the Trump campaign’s request is going to be denied in a written order, which will not come today, but she was not convinced of any substantial likelihood of success on the merits of the case. She said she will get an order out tomorrow afternoon if she can.

The judge seemed to express exasperation that this case was brought by the Trump campaign and ended the hearing by saying she adjourns the matter “where everyone here seeks to have a full and fair election process.”

Philadelphia elections officials have asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that allows canvass observers for the Trump campaign to sit closer, and observe more closely, as mail-in ballots continue to be counted. 

The legal filings forced election workers to briefly stop the process of counting mail-in ballots just before noon ET. They have since resumed.

“The count is going forward,” said Kevin Feeley, spokesman for the city commissioners, who are overseeing the election in Philadelphia.“There was a brief pause earlier today in light of ongoing litigation but it has resumed in accordance with the law.” 

Philadelphia election officials argued that allowing the canvass observers to sit closer jeopardizes both the safety of ballot processing and the privacy of voters, according to the latest court filing.

The Supreme Court in Pennsylvania has yet to weigh in on the request. 

“There’s was a petition for allowance of appeal by The board of elections in Philadelphia. The court has taken no action on this filing,” said Stacey Witalec, spokesperson for the Supreme Court. “They will review it and determine either to grant or deny the appeal.”

According to the city officials’ filing:

You can read the court filing here.

Clark County, Nevada, election official Joe Gloria said staff is preparing to count "a little over 51,000 ballots" today that will be reported on Friday morning.

"The bulk of our ballots we're hoping will be ready by Saturday or Sunday, this weekend. And again we won't complete until Nov. 12 with all of those ballots that serve as exceptions," he said.

Clark County is a major population center in Nevada, where Las Vegas is located.

Gloria said the county received a total of 63,262 mail-in ballots that need to be counted and processed. This number includes ballots that were dropped off at voting centers, ballots that were mailed through the US Postal Service and ballots that were pending ahead of Election Day.

Gloria added that the US mail will continue to deliver ballots that were postmarked on Nov. 3, through Nov. 10.

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A Georgia state court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Georgia Republicans to prevent the "unlawful counting of ballots received after the election" in Savannah. They filed the lawsuit after a poll watcher for the party allegedly viewed unprocessed absentee ballots mixed in with absentee ballots that were set to be tabulated. 

Judge James F. Bass made the ruling orally in court Thursday morning, and it was filed with the court this afternoon. 

The state Republican party and the Trump campaign said they filed the court documents in Chatham County Superior Court on Wednesday evening after a party poll watcher "witnessed absentee ballots that had not been properly processed apparently mixed into a pile of absentee ballots that was already set to be tabulated.The proper chain of custody for the ballots was not followed," they alleged according to court documents.

The ballots in question were small in number: "one stack of three ballots, and a second stack of fifty-three ballots," according to a copy of the filing provided by the state Republican party. 

As of 12:45 p.m. ET, there are approximately 50,401 ballots still outstanding across Georgia, according to a statement by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Almost all of these outstanding ballots are absentee ballots, Georgia Deputy Press Secretary Jordan Fuchs tells CNN.

Fulton County — the largest county in the state and home to Atlanta —has finished processing ballots, the county commissioner said in a news conference.