Trump faces endgame Biden takes slim lead in Georgia

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took a narrow lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia early on Friday, edging closer to winning the White House in a nail-biting contest as a handful of undecided states continue to count votes.   

 Biden has a 253 to 214 lead in the state-by-state Electoral College vote that determines the winner, according to most major television networks. Winning Georgia’s 16 electoral votes would put the former vice president on the cusp of the 270 he needs to secure the presidency.   

 Biden, 77, would become the next president by winning Pennsylvania, or by winning two out of the trio of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Trump’s likeliest path appears narrower - he needs to hang onto both Pennsylvania and Georgia and also to overtake Biden in either Nevada or Arizona.   

 Biden moved ahead of Trump by 1,096 votes in Georgia, where counting continued early on Friday.   
 The shift in Georgia came hours after Trump appeared at the White House to falsely claim the election was being “stolen” from him.   

 Trump had seen his lead steadily shrink in Georgia, a Southern state that has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since Bill Clinton took the White House in 1992, as officials worked through tens of thousands of uncounted votes, many from Democratic strongholds such as Atlanta.   

 The Georgia secretary of state reported late on Thursday there were about 14,000 ballots still to count in the state.  
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Biden pulls ahead of Trump in Georgia: US media

WASHINGTON AFP Nov6, 2020 - Democrat Joe Biden pulled ahead Friday in the crucial  battleground state of Georgia, US media said, with votes still left to  count.   The former vice president ate away at President Donald  Trump’s initial lead in the southern state and is now ahead by 917  votes, CNN and Fox News reported. 

US networks break from live Trump address due to ‘lies’  

WASHINGTON AFP Nov6, 2020 - Several US TV networks late Thursday halted live coverage of Donald Trump’s first public appearance since election night after concluding that the president was spreading disinformation.   
Trump unleashed a flood of incendiary and unsubstantiated claims in a 17-minute address, insisting that Democrats were using “illegal votes” to “steal the election from us.”   “OK, here we are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States but correcting the president of the United States,” said MSNBC anchor Brian Williams, as the network quickly ended its live coverage.   
NBC and ABC News also pulled the plug on their live coverage of Trump.