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An interactive mural near State Street allows voters to spin the wheel and claim their reason for voting in Madison, Wisconsin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

NEW YORK CITY \u2013 The morning after a chaotic, suspenseful Election Day, Americans awoke on Wednesday to the specter of hours or even days of uncertainty ahead, as several states counted millions of ballots in razor-thin contests that could tip the balance to President Trump or former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.<\/p>\n

After a long election night rife with dramatic twists and victories by both candidates, Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden battled to a near draw in\u00a0electoral votes<\/a>, each several dozen votes shy of the 270 needed to capture the presidency.<\/p>\n

With the election too close to call, Mr. Biden held narrow leads as of 9:30 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday in Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona. If he retains those leads, and wins those states, they would give him enough Electoral College votes to win.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u00a0prematurely declared victory<\/a>\u00a0and said he would petition the Supreme Court to demand a halt to the counting. Mr. Biden urged his supporters \u2014 and by implication, Mr. Trump \u2014 to\u00a0show patience<\/a> and allow the process to play out.<\/p>\n

Their dueling, post-midnight appearances captured the raw struggle of a contest that many feared would leap from the campaign trail to the courts, as Mr. Trump\u2019s lawyers readied legal maneuvers.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s statement, delivered in the White House, amounted to a reckless attack on the democratic process during a time of deep anxiety and division in the country. Mr. Biden, speaking from a flag-draped stage in Wilmington, Del., appealed for calm and tried to reassure supporters rattled by a vote that was much closer than the pollsters or political analysts had predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not my place or Donald Trump\u2019s place to declare who has won this election,\u201d Mr. Biden said, to a chorus of honking car horns at a drive-in rally. \u201cThat\u2019s the decision of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, however, derided the vote-counting as \u201ca major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vote counting continued into the morning from Pennsylvania to Nevada, as election officials labored to process a flood of mail-in ballots and huge numbers of in-person votes in an\u00a0election that was sure to shatter records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, Mr. Trump was holding off Mr. Biden in two Southern states that the former vice president had hoped to snatch back from the Republican column: Georgia and\u00a0North Carolina<\/a>. These were not must-win states for Mr. Biden, but he spent heavily in both and visited them in the final stretch of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Mr. Biden lost\u00a0Texas<\/a>, a long-shot hope that some Democrats invested in late in the campaign in hopes of earning a landslide repudiation of Mr. Trump that did not arrive. The former vice president also fell short in\u00a0Florida<\/a>\u00a0after Mr. Trump made inroads with Cuban-American voters in the Miami area.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Biden offset those losses by amassing a solid lead in\u00a0Arizona<\/a>, a state Mr. Trump won in 2016. That, plus his pickup of a single\u00a0electoral vote in Nebraska\u2019s 2nd Congressional District<\/a>, could prove crucial. It opens a potential pathway for Mr. Biden to the presidency without winning Pennsylvania, if he carried all the states that Mrs. Clinton did, and added Michigan and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Arizona\u2019s strategic importance was clear when Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign expressed fury after Fox News called it for Mr. Biden while many votes were still out. Yet the president appeared determined to cut off counting in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where Mr. Biden expressed hope that he would close the gap.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are trying to STEAL the election,\u201d Mr. Trump declared on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0shortly after Mr. Biden had spoken. Twitter immediately marked it as content that was \u201cdisputed and might be misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Courtesy of \u2014\u00a0Mark Landler<\/a>\u2013 New York Times)<\/p>\n

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