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The former Vice President Joe Biden has won the state of Michigan. He received 2,769,197 votes and Trump received 2,634,575 votes. He also secured an additional 16 electoral votes in his bid to unseat President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. The Democratic nominee only needed one more major swing state to secure the White House. He received the required votes after winning Michigan with a win in neighboring Wisconsin State. Point to be noted that Michigan was Trump’s narrowest statewide victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. President Trump has repeatedly expressed his pride in winning it from the Democrats. He held his final rally of the campaign in the city of Grand Rapids. Biden polled well in Michigan throughout the general election campaign as he worked hard to target so-called rust belt states where Trump previously won over scores of blue-collar white voters.

So, Hillary Clinton lost Michigan partly because of these voters, but also due to an unexpected turnout is typically solid Democratic areas in the city’s suburbs and cities. Michigan saw a protracted legal battle over deadlines for mail-in ballots that arrived as polls had closed. The absentee ballots that arrived after 8 pm on Wednesday were rendered ineligible to be counted and state officials mounted an effort to encourage voters to post theirs in as soon as possible or else drop them off in person. Trump has spent the year feuding with Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. She was alleged over her criticism of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and her decision to put her state under tough lockdown measures.

It is noteworthy that Pennsylvania could not begin counting mail-in ballots until the state’s polls closed on Election Day. The State’s Supreme Court allows ballots to be counted up to 3 days after Election Day. On Wednesday, the Trump campaign also claimed that it believed the president would ultimately win Arizona. Joe Biden leads Trump in the state by four percentage points with 86% of the votes counted. The remaining votes are mail-in ballots and are expected to favor Biden. Republican opposition to mail-in voting and Democratic messaging ahead of the election urging supporters to vote early suggests that mail-in ballots will skew heavily towards Biden. Moreover, districts are still counting votes and anticipating vote-counting well into Friday’s head to be cities or other dense population centers, which designed to be Democratic strongholds.