OnPolitics: Biden is poised to win but it isn't over yet
Who is winning?
Former Vice President Joe Biden is just six electoral votes to reaching 270 in the presidential race after he was named the winner in Wisconsin and Michigan.
The race is now down to Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina, while interesting numbers also emerge from Arizona.
President Donald Trump has 214 electoral votes, and his team has filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Georgia to prevent the counting of ballots.
With votes still being counted, Biden has broken the record for most votes received by a candidate, amassing nearly 72 million. As of Wednesday evening, he was leading Trump by more than 4 million.
More:Joe Biden makes history with total votes received, beating Barack Obama's record
Where swing states stand
Arizona
Biden maintained a lead in Arizona over Trump, but his margin shrunk in a new batch of results posted Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning consisting mainly of early ballots from Maricopa County, which the president carried in 2016.
A new tally is not expected until later this morning after officials updated the numbers at 2:40 am EDT.
More:Arizona election updates: Joe Biden's lead tightens in updated results
The Associated Press has defended their early call that Biden is projected to win Arizona despite calls from the Trump campaign to retract. Arizona's 11 electoral votes are factored into USA TODAY's electoral college count.
Trump and his supporters have alleged voting irregularities and other issues. There is no evidence of any vote counting issues in Arizona.
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Georgia
Georgia was on the mind of Americans Wednesday night as Biden gained significantly on Trump in the traditionally red state.
With an estimated 96% of the state reporting their votes, Biden is trailing the president by roughly 23,000 votes. Trump’s lead over Biden has shrunk as more votes get counted. Earlier Wednesday, he had a lead of over 100,000 votes.
More:Results are trickling in for battleground Georgia. Here's what we know.
Many of the outstanding ballots that needed to be counted were in counties surrounding Atlanta, like Fulton. A Fulton County official said on CNN last night they expected full results there between midnight and 3 a.m. EDT.
Nevada
Biden needs six electoral college votes. Nevada, where Biden is leading, has six electoral college votes. But updates to the state results were not announced Wednesday night.
State officials in Nevada are sticking to their original plan of updating results Thursday at noon EDT.
North Carolina
North Carolina, a state that's is crucial to Trump's reelection, was close as of Wednesday night, with the president leading 50.1% to 48.7%.
Full results in North Carolina are not expected until next week, according to local media outlets, to allow outstanding mail-in and provisional ballots are counted.
Pennsylvania
The president's lead in Pennsylvania shrunk as mail-in ballots have broken for Biden by a large margin.
If Biden remains on the current track, and Democratic turnout remains high in cities like Philadelphia, the former Vice President could take the lead in that state Thursday.
The president's campaign team prematurely and incorrectly stated they had won the state Wednesday, despite hundreds of thousands of ballots being unaccounted for. Social media posts claiming victory were flagged as disinformation.
Pennsylvania still has hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots to count, but the Secretary of State said they expected to be counted by the end of the day Thursday.