President
As of approximately noon on November 11, Former Vice-President Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the Presidential Election, securing victory in states representing 279 electoral votes. Several states are still outstanding:
- Arizona is continuing to count nearly votes. While Fox and the Associated Press have called the state and its 11 Electoral votes for Biden, not all media outlets have. Biden's lead narrowed to 20,000 votes with a new batch of tallied votes from Maricopa County, the state's largest.
- Georgia has tallied about 98% of its votes and Biden has a lead of under 10,000 votes for the state's 15 Electoral votes. A recount will be required, pursuant to state law.
- In North Carolina, state officials will still tally ballots received through November 12, provided they were postmarked by Election Day. It is estimated that this will represent 3% of ballots cast. Trump holds a one-and-a-half-point lead there for its 15 Electoral votes.
In Congress, Republicans are upending the predictions of a majority of pollsters and pundits and currently narrowly holding their lead in the Senate and appear to be cutting into Democrats’ majority in the House, though Democrats will likely hold the majority there. Final counts in dozens of districts are not yet available.
Senate
As of early Wednesday morning, Democrats have defeated 2 Republican incumbents and won Senate seats in Arizona and Colorado. Along with the defeat of the Democratic incumbent in Alabama, Democrats have netted 1 seat, which puts them at 48 seats. Republicans are holding 50 seats. A party needs 51 Senate seats to control the chamber if the President is from a different party and 50 if the President is from the same party (the sitting Vice President can break ties in the Senate).
There are pending results in three Senate races:
In Georgia, Sen. David Purdue will face a January 5 runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff.
The Georgia special Senate election featuring incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler will go to a runoff on January 5 between her and Democrat Raphael Warnock.
Other Senate races rated competitive or even Toss Ups in Iowa, Kansas, Montana, North Carolina and South Carolina remained in the control of Republicans. Democrats held on in Michigan.
House
Defying predictions of Democratic gains of nearly 10-15 seats, Republicans have defeated several Democratic incumbents and are holding seats that were tossups or thought to be trending towards Democrats. Republicans look to have captured at least 10 seats.
We will keep NAA members updated as more states and races are called.