Trump leads Biden in battlegrounds Florida and Texas, but both too close to call

Polls have closed in most swing states and US President Donald Trump leads in all-important Florida and in Texas, but the race in both is still too close to call.

According to NBC News, Trump was leading Biden with 51 percent to 48 percent in the Sunshine State with 93 percent of the expected vote in.

In Texas, Trump was ahead 49.7 percent to 48.9 percent with 74 percent of the expected vote in. Biden was on top in battleground New Hampshire 54.7 percent to 44 percent with 21 percent of the expected vote counted.

In Florida, Biden is underperforming Hillary Clinton in Miami-Dade County, the state's biggest and home to a large Cuban-American community that Republicans had targeted. But Biden is performing better than Clinton did in 2016 in other counties.

Trump has to win Florida to have any real shot at re-election, most analysts agree, while Biden has multiple paths to victory that do not include the state, his campaign aides have noted, such as winning back the Rust Belt states Trump flipped four years ago and where Biden has been leading in polls.

It's too early to make calls in the other battleground states, according to NBC News.

After millions of door-knocks, TV ads and a record-shattering $14 billion spent, a tense and stressed-out nation is waiting for the results an unprecedented presidential election to see whether Trump will get another four years in the White House or be replaced by his Democratic challenger.

Polls have now closed in most of the 13 swing states where the presidency will be decided: Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas.

Meanwhile, both candidates picked up predictable wins in reliably red and blue states, with Trump taking Oklahoma and Indiana, while Biden won states like New York, his home of Delaware and the swing state of Colorado, which has trended blue in recent years.

More than 100 million voted early this year, doubling the total from 2016, but millions more headed to the polls on Election Day to vote in-person even as cases surged in the worst pandemic in a century.

Early NBC News exit polls show the economy, racial justice and Covid-19 are top concerns while the vast majority of voters said they made up their minds a while ago and just four percent said they decided whom to vote for in the past week, down from 13 percent who were late-deciders in 2016.

[Source: NBC]