A breakdown of the electoral college shows how much each state is worth. This was the situation before the first votes started coming in. There have not yet been any major surprises. Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan are the key swing states and Trump won Ohio and Florida
* Biden has taken narrow leads in Wisconsin - with 49.57% of the vote to Trump's 48.94% - and Michigan, with 49.32% to Trump's 49.14%
* If he wins both states and Nevada, which he is expected to, or Georgia, North Carolina, he will reach the 270 electoral college votes he needs to win the White House
* Trump needs to snatch back Wisconsin or Michigan then win Georgia or North Carolina to be in with a chance
* Michigan holds 16 electoral college votes and Wisconsin holds 10 - both were won by Trump in 2016
* Despite so many votes remaining uncertain, Trump made a speech from the East Room of the White House at 2.30am where he declared victory
* The President said he was going to the Supreme Court to demand 'all voting stop', threatening legal change
* Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia all still remain undeclared
* Biden has vowed to wait patiently for a decisive result and says 'every vote matters' but he welcomed the news of his lead in Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday
Joe Biden took a narrow lead in the key swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday morning, pushing him closer to an overall victory, while the President alleged election fraud and claimed his majority is 'magically disappearing' thanks to 'surprise ballot dumps'.
Neither the President nor Joe Biden has yet reached the 270 electoral college votes they need to claim the White House and ballot counting will continue throughout the day and even the week.
But if Biden wins in Michigan and Wisconsin then takes Nevada - which he is expected to but where the result will take at least until tomorrow - he will win.
If he wins Michigan and Wisconsin and Georgia, where votes are still being counted, he will also win, as he will if he takes Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
The only way for Trump to win is if he snatches back a lead in either Michigan or Wisconsin, or if he wins North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada - which is unlikely - and then Pennsylvania, where a result is not likely until Friday.
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