{"id":1712,"date":"2020-11-04T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:52:17","slug":"still-no-winner-in-the-presidential-election-congress-remains-largely-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Still no winner in the presidential election; Congress remains largely the same"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Wednesday morning begins, there\u2019s still no winner in the race for the White House, despite President Trump incorrectly declaring victory Tuesday night.\u00a0 As of 9:00 a.m. ET, Democratic challenger Joe Biden led the race, with 225 electoral votes, compared to Trump\u2019s 213, with a minimum 270 total electoral votes out of 538 needed to secure victory.\u00a0 Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have yet to declare a winner in the presidential election.\u00a0 The contest in all of those states is tight, with only a few percentage points of total votes cast, or fewer, separating the candidates.\u00a0 Over 100 million Americans voted early in this year\u2019s election \u2013 a record number of ballots that still need to be counted in those states, a task that could stretch into Thursday or beyond.\u00a0 In Congress, Democrats are projected to retain control of the House of Representatives, while Republicans are projected to retain their majority in the Senate.\u00a0 \u00a0Check ABCNews.com<\/a> for the latest vote counts and other election updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Wednesday morning begins, there\u2019s still no winner in the race for the White House, despite President Trump incorrectly declaring victory Tuesday night.\u00a0 As of 9:00 a.m. ET, Democratic challenger Joe Biden led the race, with 225 electoral votes, compared to Trump\u2019s 213, with a minimum 270 total electoral votes out of 538 needed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5MWLZNRKGBEJHKR6CVDRESXNSQ.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}