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[BREAKING] US election: Trump leads in 13 states with 89 electoral votes, Biden wins 11 states with 126

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)

AFP

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