Joe Biden’s campaign chief Jen O’Malley Dillon said the Democratic candidate was “on track to win this election and he will be the next president of the United States”.
She said: “We believe we are on a clear path to victory. By this afternoon we expect that the vice president will have leads in states that put him over 270 electoral votes.
“Today the vice president will garner more votes than any presidential candidate in history and we are still counting.”
The Biden campaign believes it will take Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
Campaign chief Jen O’Malley Dillon said: “We expect and we believe that we have already won Wisconsin.”
The other states were contingent on the remaining votes being counted but the Biden campaign is confident of victory.
Georgia is a “toss-up”, with many outstanding ballots in the Biden-leaning Atlanta area, Ms O’Malley Dillon said.
North Carolina is “really tight” but “probably leaning towards Trump right now”, although it could be several days before the outcome is known.
Ms O’Malley Dillon said: “Last night the President of the United States falsely claimed that he had won this race and then demanded that votes stop being counted.
“The American people get to pick their president, the president does not get to pick the people whose votes get counted.”
President Donald Trump again sought to cast doubt on the election by tweeting: “Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!”
As Donald Trump continued to complain about the process, his rival for the presidency Joe Biden said: “We won’t rest until everyone’s vote is counted.”
