#USelection | Trump, Biden score wins but battlegrounds too early to call
Published:Tuesday | November 3, 2020 | 6:58 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Polls closed across the East Coast Tuesday night as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden concluded an epic campaign marked by rancor and fear that will influence how the nation confronts a surging pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial justice.
The night began with predictable victories for each candidate, with Trump taking Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma and Biden winning Massachusetts, his home state of Delaware and Virginia, a former battleground that has become a Democratic stronghold.
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— Jamaica Gleaner (@JamaicaGleaner) November 3, 2020
It was too early to call, in a tight race, the battleground of Florida as well as Georgia.
The victories began to draw to an end a campaign that was reshaped by the coronavirus and marked by contentiousness.
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Each candidate declared the other fundamentally unfit to lead a nation grappling with COVID-19, a virus that has killed more than 230,000 Americans, cost millions of jobs and rewritten the norms of everyday life.
Millions of voters put aside worries about the virus — and some long lines — to turn out in person, joining 102 million fellow Americans who voted days or weeks earlier, a record number that represented 73% of the total vote in the 2016 presidential election.
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