选举日变成了选举周计票继续在全国范围内进行，初步结果显示激烈的比赛在几个关键方面战场州。
候选人需要270张选举人票才能保住总统职位。美国广播公司新闻项目唐纳德·特朗普总统目前有214个，而前副总统乔·拜登有253个。拜登的票数包括威斯康星州，美国广播公司新闻称他是明显的赢家，因为投票非常接近，尚未得到认证。
周三上午早些时候，共和党现任总统特朗普和他的民主党挑战者拜登都向全国发表了讲话，表达了对白宫竞选的信心。到周三晚上，拜登再次发表讲话，敦促人们保持耐心，但特朗普仍然没有出现在公众视线之外，而是在推特上散布毫无根据的选民欺诈指控，并为自己虚假地召集竞选活动——而他的律师则为停止关键州的计票进行了法律斗争。
2020年选举已经开始了打破早期投票记录并且有望超过2016年投票的1 . 38亿人。拜登在普选中遥遥领先，也打破了美国总统候选人获得最多选票的记录，票数超过7000万，还在继续。
8人被捕，波特兰抗议活动宣布暴动;超过20人在纽约被捕
周三晚上，全国多个城市的选举抗议演变成暴力事件。
在俄勒冈州的波特兰，由于市中心的暴力事件，一场骚乱被宣布，国民警卫队被激活。据木尔坦马县治安官办公室称，至少有8人被捕。
在纽约市，警察和抗议者在格林威治村爆发了小规模冲突。NYPD称有20多人在暴力事件中被捕。
“我们理解并重视言论自由的重要性。我们的首要任务是安全，并且将永远如此在推特上说。“我们已经逮捕了20多名试图通过在曼哈顿点火、扔垃圾和鸡蛋来劫持和平抗议的人。”
大卫·迪·德尔加多/盖蒂影像公司
全国各地的抗议者呼吁官员们清点每一张选票，因为唐纳德·特朗普总统毫无根据地声称目前的票数是欺诈性的，并在几个州提起诉讼，质疑投票总数。
北卡罗来纳的最终结果预计要到下周
据美国广播公司新闻记者Janai Norman报道，北卡罗来纳州的最终结果预计要到下周才会公布。目前，唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在该州领先，比拜登多了约76，000张选票，还有117，000张缺席选票。
诺曼说:“如果你是乔·拜登，那就没什么好激动的了。”。“他在那些人口密集的城市地区——罗利、达勒姆和夏洛特——做了他应该做的事情，但他不能真正跑到这里或郊区。”
“这甚至不是一个缓慢的涓涓细流，这些数字波动，在未来几天上升，”她补充说。“它们将保持相当稳定，最早到11月12日，最晚到13日。”
密歇根国务卿反驳特朗普关于透明度不够的说法
密歇根州国务卿乔斯林·本森(Jocelyn Benson)表示，特朗普竞选团队声称计票过程不够透明，“与事实不符”。
“根据我们在这个州的经验，我们实际上有两党的投票观察员，其他一些人，很多人都在关注这个过程，”她说。
本森补充说:“我们一直知道，当投票结束时，我们会在这里进行列表，会有很多人试图破坏人们对我们过程完整性的看法。”“但我们一直对工作背后的真相充满信心。”
拜登在宾夕法尼亚州逼近特朗普
宾夕法尼亚州的预期投票率从84%上升到88%，邮寄选票的计数从近59%上升到近71%，乔·拜登将与唐纳德·特朗普的赤字从32万张选票减少到18.6755万张。
斯潘塞·普拉特/盖蒂影像公司
总共大约有850，000张未决选票。其中，763，311张是邮寄选票，与注册的共和党人相比，注册的民主党人以3比1的优势退回了邮寄选票。此外，该州几个最民主党的县仍然是未决选票最多的地方，包括费城和阿勒格尼县——该州两个最大城市的所在地——这两个县都是拜登追赶努力的关键。
Election 2020 live updates and results
Election Day is turning into election week asthe counting of votescontinues across the country, with preliminary results showingtight racesin several keybattleground states.
Candidates need 270 Electoral College votes to secure the presidency. ABC News projectsPresident Donald Trumpcurrently has 214, whileformer Vice President Joe Bidenhas 253. Biden's count includes Wisconsin, where ABC News is characterizing him as the apparent winner because the vote is very close and has not yet been certified.
Both Trump, the Republican incumbent, and Biden, his Democratic challenger, addressed the nation in the early hours of Wednesday morning, each expressing confidence in the race for the White House. By Wednesday evening, Biden again delivered remarks urging patience, but Trump remained out of public view, taking to Twitter instead to spout baseless claims of voter fraud and falsely call races for himself -- while his lawyers waged legal battles to halt vote counting in key states.
The 2020 election has alreadyshattered early vote recordsand is on track to eclipse the 138 million who went to the polls in 2016. Biden, with a comfortable lead in the popular vote, has also broken the record for obtaining the most votes ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate, with more than 70 million and counting.
8 arrested, riot declared in Portland protests; over 20 arrested in New York City
Protests over the election turned violent in multiple cities across the country Wednesday night.
In Portland, Oregon, a riot was declared and the National Guard was activated due to violence downtown. At least eight people have been arrested, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
In New York City, skirmishes broke out between police and protesters in Greenwich Village. The NYPD said more than 20 people were arrested in the violence.
"We appreciate and value the importance of freedom of speech. Our top priority is and always will be safety," the departmentsaid in a tweet. "We have arrested more than 20 individuals who attempted to hijack a peaceful protest by lighting fires, throwing garbage and eggs in Manhattan."
Protesters across the country called for officials to count every vote as President Donald Trump baselessly claimed current vote counts were fraudulent and filed lawsuits in several states to challenge vote totals.
Final results in North Carolina not expected until next week
Final results from North Carolina are not expected to come in until next week, ABC News correspondent Janai Norman reported. Currently, Donald Trump is leading in the state with about 76,000 more votes than Biden with 117,000 absentee ballots outstanding.
"If you're Joe Biden that's not a whole lot to be excited about," Norman said. "He did what he was expected to do in those heavily urban areas -- Raleigh, Durham, here in Charlotte -- but he wasn't able to really run up this or the suburbs."
"This isn't even a case of seeing a slow trickle, and those numbers fluctuating, going up in the next few days," she added. "They'll remain pretty steady until the 12th [of November] at the earliest, 13th at the latest."
Michigan secretary of state rebuffs Trump claims of not enough transparency
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said that the Trump campaign's claim there is not enough transparency in the ballot counting process "doesn't really line up with the facts."
"In our experience here in the state where we actually have bipartisan poll watchers, a number of other people, a lot of people with eyes on the process," she said.
"We always knew we'd be here from when the polls closed as we went through that tabulation, there would be a lot of efforts to undermine people's perceptions about the integrity of our process," Benson added. "But we've always had a lot of faith in the truth underneath our work."
Biden closing in on Trump in Pennsylvania
The percentage of expected vote in Pennsylvania has ticked up from 84% to 88%, the percent of mail-in ballots counted has increased from nearly 59% to nearly 71%, andJoe Biden has decreased his deficit with Donald Trump from 320,000 votes to 186,755.
There are roughly 850,000 total outstanding ballots. Of those, 763,311 are mail-in ballots and registered Democrats returned mail-in-ballots by a 3-to-1 margin compared to registered Republicans. Additionally, several of the most-Democratic counties in the state continue to be where the largest number of outstanding votes are located, including Philadelphia and Allegheny counties -- home to the state's two largest cities -- both pivotal to Biden's catch-up effort.
