Zhaoyin Feng
BBC Chinese, Washington DC

According to national exit polls, around 64% of Asian America voters supported Biden, while 30% of them voted for Trump.

Those figures are similar to the ones in 2016, but lower than what Obama captured in 2012.

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic group of eligible voters. Though its share of the electorate remains less than 5%, this group could be the tiebreaker in swing states.

According to the Asian American Voter Survey, external, the Republican Party has gradually gained support from this group in the recent years, but nearly two in five Asian American voters have still not registered with either party, meaning they may be the persuadable “undecided voters”.

Asian American voters are far from a monolith. They are from diverse backgrounds, including country of origin, culture, religion and generation. According to the above-mentioned survey, Indian Americans were the most inclined to vote for Biden, while Vietnamese Americans tended to favour Trump.

Though the president has been widely criticised for labelling Covid-19 the “China virus”, he has enjoyed passionate support from some Chinese Americans.

Chenren Shao, a 35-year-old Chinese-American Republican voter in Maryland, told me that he’s not offended by the term, as the virus “started in China".

Also, similar to the Trump-supporting Cuban Americans, many Chinese immigrants critical of Beijing have lauded Trump for standing up to communism.

Historically, both major parties have not sufficiently reached out to Asian American voters, resulting in a low turnout rate in this group. But soon, this voting bloc will be too big for politicians to ignore.

Protests have sprung up in some cities amid rising tensions over the knife-edge counts in battleground states.

In Portland, Oregon, the national guard were activated after an anti-Trump protest calling for every vote to be counted turned violent. Witnesses said some people broke away from the main group and broke shop windows in the city centre. Police called the incidents a riot.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis, police made arrests after about 200 demonstrators blocked a main road. US media said the group had been protesting against Donald Trump and his call to stop the counting of votes.

Similar protests were also reported in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.

In Detroit, pro-Trump supporters gathered outside a vote-counting centre, banging on windows and shouting: “Stop the count.” A small anti-count protest was also reported in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Welcome if you're just joining our live coverage of the US election 2020. The short story is we still don't know who has won the presidency.

While there have been no major shifts overnight, the count has been continuing in six states that can swing the outcome. A pathway for Joe Biden is becoming clearer but it could still go to either candidate.

Biden currently has 243 electoral college votes, and Trump 214. They need 270 to win the White House.

• Joe Biden is now projected to win in Michigan - one of the traditionally Democratic states Hillary Clinton lost in 2016
• In Georgia, officials said they would keep counting all night until all the ballots are tallied. But as of 04:45 GMT, there were still about 90,000 to count. Trump's lead is slowly dwindling - down to 28,000 now
• In Nevada, the race is on a knife-edge. Biden's lead is just 7,647. Officials on Wednesday said that the next results would be posted on Thursday at 17:00 GMT (09:00 local time)
• Arizona says more votes are coming at 06:00 GMT - but it is not clear when projections will be possible
• Our partners, Reuters, have still not projected Wisconsin - Biden leads currently by 20,510 votes

• Trump's significant lead in Pennsylvania has narrowed. With 90% of ballots counted at 05:45 GMT (23:30 Wednesday local time) Trump was ahead by 164,414 votes. Late on Wednesday afternoon Trump held a lead of 379,639 votes
• And in North Carolina, where 96% of the votes have been counted, Trump has a lead of 76,737
• Trump's campaign launched a legal challenge in Georgia, making it the fourth state where his team allege irregularities
• There have been protests by both camps. In Detroit, Michigan and in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania, Democrats gathered at vote counting centres carrying sign and chanting "count my vote". And Trump supporters have also protested at vote centres - in Arizona, groups demanded that the count stop
• And Republicans have retained their grip on the Senate - which leaves Congress mostly unchanged, despite Democrats hope of wresting four seats from their opponents

And the question we all really want the answer to - When might we get a winner?

Donald Trump's spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain has led a fervent prayer service beseeching God to support the president's re-election efforts.

In particular, she takes aim at the "demonic confederacies that are attempting to steal the election from Trump".

The clips have spread widely on social media - perhaps fuelled by the millions of people waiting to hear more news from states where the vote count still goes on.

Watch more about the controversial televangelist here.

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Pennsylvania's governor, Tom Wolf, says the vote count there will continue, despite efforts by President Trump's campaign team to stop it.

It has claimed that Democrats are trying to hijack the vote in Pennsylvania. Deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said Democrats were “scheming to disenfranchise and dilute Republican votes”. However there have been no reports of fraud or irregularities.

"These attempts to subvert the democratic process are simply disgraceful," said Mr Wolf, a Democrat. "I'm going to fight like hell to protect the vote of every Pennsylvanian. I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that every vote counts."

Donald Trump's lead in the battleground state of Pennsylvania is narrowing, latest figures show.

With 90% of the ballots counted at 23:30 EST (04:30 GMT Thursday) Trump was ahead of Joe Biden by 164,414 votes. On late Wednesday afternoon Trump held a lead of 379,639 votes over Biden.

Outstanding ballots seem likely to favour Biden, the BBC's US partner CBS reports. They are postal votes and of the 3.1 million postal ballot requests made in Pennsylvania, 63% were from Democrats.

With 20 electoral college votes, Pennsylvania is a key election prize. The state voted Democrat in six consecutive races before it swung to Trump in 2016.

As ballot counting continues, so does the nail-biting.

And on TikTok and Twitter, this is fertile ground for a more lighthearted take on the agonising wait.

Much of the comedic frustration on social media was directed towards Nevada, where vote counting has paused for the evening, and the next results update won’t be until 9:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Thursday.

Another meme made reference to Nevada's biggest city, Las Vegas, asking why is it the city's casinos can count cards and chips so quickly but not votes.

The US government has no evidence that any foreign power has tampered with the vote count, the Department of Homeland Security's top cyber-official has said.

Christopher Krebs said in a statement that there was "no evidence any foreign adversary was capable of preventing Americans from voting or changing vote tallies".

US intelligence agencies concluded that in 2016 Russia was behind an effort to tip the scale of the US election against Hillary Clinton.

"We will remain vigilant for any attempts by foreign actors to target or disrupt the ongoing vote counting and final certification of results," Mr Krebs said.

"The American people are the last line of defence against foreign influence efforts and we encourage continued patience in the coming days and weeks."

President Trump's team has filed legal action in several states. Hours after the polls closed on Tuesday evening, he alleged there was "a fraud on the American public" but has not offered any evidence.

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A Republican prosecutor in Georgia who led the investigation into the death of a black man shot while jogging near his home has lost her seat to an independent candidate.

District Attorney Jackie Johnson, who was seeking re-election to the Brunswick Judicial Circuit in the state, was defeated by Keith Higgins, who secured almost twice as many votes. No Democrat had qualified to run against Johnson.

Johnson - whose office initially handled the Ahmaud Arbery case - was criticised over a delay in arresting two suspects.

It was more than two months after the shooting that the two men were arrested, as was a neighbour who filmed it.

Johnson later said that no prosecutors in her office had told law enforcement not to carry out the arrests. She blamed local police for not deciding what to do.

The three men are being held awaiting trial.

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The presidency is still a toss-up, but most House and Senate races are settled - leaving much unchanged. Whichever candidate wins, it looks as though he will preside over a divided Congress.

The Democrats were hoping to gain control of the Senate by wresting at least four seats from the Republicans. But it appears they have only managed a net gain of one.

Among the disappointments for the Democrats was the fight for a seat in Maine, where Republican incumbent Susan Collins staved off a challenge from Democrat Sara Gideon. Collins, a moderate, had appeared under threat because Donald Trump is deeply unpopular in the state.

And the House of Representatives, too, seems mostly unchanged. Democrats are poised to keep their majority here, though at least six incumbents have lost their seats, without any new Republican seats.

Read more about Democrats' dwindling hopes to reshape Congress

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When a candidate wins the presidency, he or she needs to set up what's called a transition team to help prepare to take office in the following January.

As we know, there's no winner in this election yet, but both candidates say they're expecting to be victorious. Both want to set a narrative that the direction of the race favours them.

Now Joe Biden has launched his transition website, external - Build Back Better. It states: "The crises facing the country are severe - from a pandemic to an economic recession, climate change to racial injustice - and the transition team will continue preparing at full speed so that the Biden‑Harris Administration can hit the ground running on Day One."

On Wednesday, Biden reaffirmed his pledge to re-join the Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of his presidency.

The US officially withdrew from the accord on Wednesday, something that Donald Trump committed to in 2016.

Reality Check

President Donald Trump has said the election “is a fraud on the American public”.

“We’ll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop,” he said as results appeared to give his rival, Joe Biden, the edge in a tight race.

First of all, there are large numbers of legitimate votes in battleground states that remain uncounted, which could swing the election either way.

On the allegation of fraud, Trump did not give any specific examples and studies done on previous elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.

Trump has frequently made the claim that postal ballots – being used extensively this time due to the pandemic – are subject to widespread fraud.

This is not the case, and we’ve looked into the issue here.

The only other complaints of fraud that we’ve seen for this election have been unsubstantiated rumours on social media.

In late September, FBI director Christopher Wray said they had not seen “any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election”.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Biden voter Jaymal Green has told BBC Radio 5 Live he thinks Donald Trump is claiming fraud on postal votes because he has lost the election.

Trump says he has won and has vowed to launch a Supreme Court challenge, alleging fraud, without evidence.

“By the look on Donald Trump's face today, he doesn't think he'll pull it off after those ballots are counted,” Jaymal told 5 Live, “which is why he is trying to declare fraud and prevent those ballots from being counted.”

Listen live on BBC Sounds.

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In Georgia, where the race is on a knife-edge, about 200,000 votes remain to be counted, says the state's top election official.

Brad Raffensperger says he expects the count to continue through Wednesday night and perhaps even Thursday morning. "It's important to act quickly, but it's more important to get it right," he added.

Trump is leading in the traditionally Republican state by 38,996 votes.

Votes are also still being counted in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania:

• Trump leads by 76,737 votes in North Carolina, where officials have said there may not be a result until 13 November
• In Wisconsin, Biden leads by 20,510 votes - 99% of the ballots have been counted
• Nevada has counted 85% of its ballots - Biden leads by 7,467
• And in Pennsylvania, Trump leads by nearly 187,000 votes - but hundreds of thousands of votes are yet to be counted, most of them postal votes from Democratic areas

As votes are counted in a handful of critical states, hundreds of demonstrators in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have taken to the street, demanding that every vote be counted. The Trump campaign has launched a legal bid to stop counting the remaining ballots in the state, as well as in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia.

The BBC's Hannah Long-Higgins and Xinyan Yu are there, and spoke to demonstrators, many of them supporters of Democrat Joe Biden. The mood is hopeful, they said, as the vote tallies have started to lean slightly in favour of Biden.

Mark Wahl, 27, said he's feeling "somewhat better" now than he did on Wednesday night.

"I am not upset by the process. I understand that we’re in a pandemic, I understand that there’s no protocol for this type of thing to happen," he said. "I’m a little bit anxious and nervous, but I think that’s typical and I think it’s valid that everybody’s feeling anxious at this time.”

The protests have been calm so far, though there is a heavy security presence at the site.

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A lot of attention is on the state of Nevada right now where the race is extremely tight.

At a news conference in Clark County - which includes the biggest city in the state, Las Vegas - a protester jumped in front of cameras, yelling: “The Biden crime family is stealing this election! The media is covering it up!”.

State officials have said no more results would come on Wednesday, but the counts would be posted on Thursday at 09:00 (17:00 GMT).

The battleground state has voted Democrat in recent years, but supported Republican George W Bush in 2000 and 2004.

Shrai Popat
BBC News, Washington

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Sarah McBride celebrated her historic state senate win in Delaware modestly - with a couple of hours of sleep and a cup of coffee.

“Now I’m rolling up my sleeves and getting to work,” the Democrat told the BBC.

McBride is the first openly transgender state senator in US history, and her victory makes her the country's highest-ranking trans official.

“I know how much of a difference last night’s results would have made for me as a young person,” she said. And for LGBT youth in the US, McBride hopes that her election reaffirms that change is possible.

She added that her win is also a testament to the “fair-minded” voters in her district who are “more interested in a candidate’s ideas and experience than their identity”.

She believes the Biden family, with whom she has a close working relationship, to be “steadfast allies”. For now, she remains cautiously optimistic about the former vice-president’s path to the White House.

“I do believe this country will benefit from his compassion and leadership,” she said.

• Read more on Sarah McBride's victory in Delaware

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The top election official in Michigan has criticised a legal challenge launched by the Trump campaign to stop vote counting in the battleground state, calling it "frivolous".

All valid ballots cast in the state had been tabulated accurately, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said.

Mr Trump won the state in 2016 by just over 10,700 votes.

His campaign announced the lawsuit on Wednesday alleging irregularities. Trump is also challenging counts in Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.

Zoe Thomas
US business reporter

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A handful of protesters carrying anti-Trump signs have gathered outside Philadelphia’s Convention Center in Pennslyavania - a crucial battleground state that both Trump and Biden desperately want to win.

This is where the city’s mail-in ballots are being tallied. Philadelphia has said it could take days to count the hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots received. The protesters chant that every vote should be counted. Using a microphone several took turns speaking out about their fears of what a second term of Donald Trump would look like.

The group also took aim at reporters who had gathered earlier to cover a new conference with the President’s son Eric Trump - which was later postponed.

“[Eric Trump] doesn’t have anything to say - come talk to us about fighting fascism,” one protester shouted.

Democratic candidate Joe Biden has said he believes he has won enough votes to secure the White House. However, he has stopped short of declaring victory while votes in several states are yet to be counted.

The BBC projects Mr Biden has won Michigan while US media forecast he has won Wisconsin. No result has emerged in Pennsylvania but Mr Biden said he was "feeling good" about it.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump's campaign has launched legal action in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

The incumbent has vowed to stop the count in places where he says ballots are "fraudulent". But he has provided no evidence to support those claims. Furthermore, international observers have said there is no evidence of widespread election fraud.

Generally, the situation across the country is calm but there have been ugly scenes in Detroit where party supporters - Republicans and Democrats - were denied access to the count room.