Biden takes the lead in Pennsylvania, Georgia as Trump falsely claims fraud
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden pulled into the lead Friday in Pennsylvania, a state that would give him the electoral votes to win the presidency, as his campaign prepared to claim victory after a days of prolonged vote counting.
The lead in Pennsylvania came just hours after Biden also overtook President Donald Trump, by the slimmest of margins, in Georgia, moving ahead in a state that Democrats hadn't won in a presidential election since 1992.
Pennsylvania still has tens of thousands of ballots left to count. They come primarily from parts of the state that heavily favored Biden, leaving his campaign confident that he will soon be declaring he has won the presidency, perhaps with the state of his birth being the one to put him over the top.
Trump had been leading the vote count in Pennsylvania, a state that carried him to victory in 2016, since
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