President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House , with polls gradually closing across the United States Tuesday and a long night of waiting for results ahead .
The first results are trickling in , with US media projecting wins for the Republican incumbent so far in 13 states including Indiana, Kentucky , Oklahoma , Tennessee and West Virginia — all states he won in 2016.
Biden has
captured 11 states including his home state Delaware and big prize New York , plus the US capital
Washington . As with Trump , so far , all states claimed by Biden were won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
So far , that gives Biden 126 electoral votes and Trump 89.
The magic number is 270. Observers expect the hotly contested race for the White House to come down to a handful of key battleground states .
The following is a list of the states won by each candidate and the corresponding number of electoral votes , based on the projections of US media including CNN, Fox News , MSNBC/NBC
News , ABC , CBS and The New
York Times.
TRUMP ( 89 )
Alabama ( 9)
Arkansas ( 6)
Indiana ( 11)
Kentucky ( 8)
Louisiana ( 8)
Mississippi ( 6)
North Dakota ( 3)
Oklahoma ( 7)
South Carolina
( 9)
South Dakota ( 3)
Tennessee ( 11)
West Virginia ( 5)
Wyoming ( 3
BIDEN ( 126 )
Colorado ( 9)
Connecticut ( 7)
Delaware ( 3)
District of Columbia ( 3)
Illinois ( 20)
Maryland ( 10)
Massachusetts ( 11)
New Jersey ( 14)
New York ( 29)
Rhode Island ( 4)
Vermont ( 3)
Virginia ( 13)
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