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VOL. 62, NO. 11 NOVEMBER 4, 2020
‘EVERY VOTE COUNTS’ Protesters march in Richmond, Trump declares early victory as election results remain unclear
KATHARINE DEROSA Staff Writer
Electoral College votes in the presidential race*
JACKSON REBRACA Contributing Writer
Ore. 7
Idaho 4
Nev. 6
Utah 6
Ariz. 11
Maine 2
N.D. 3
Wyo. 3
Minn. 10
S.D. 3
Iowa 6
Neb. 2 Colo. 9
Kan. 6 Okla. 7
N.M. 5
Wis. 10
Tex. 38
Mo. 10
Mich. 16 Ind. 11
Ohio 18 Ky.
Tenn. 11
Ark. 6 La. 8
Alaska 3
Ill. 20
Miss. 6
N.Y. 29
Ala. 9
8
Pa. 20 W. Va. 5
Ga. 16
Va. 13
N.C. 15 S.C. 9
3 D.C. 3 Del. 11 Mass. 10 Md.
Fla. 29 Hawaii 4
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Ca. 55
Mont. 3
J. N . Del. d. M
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Wash. 12
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“We will win this, and as far as I’m concerned, we already have won it,” President Donald Trump said early Wednesday morning as several key battleground states lacked a clear winner and Democrat nominee Joe Biden sat ahead by eleven electoral college votes. As election night ended without a clear indication of who would fill the Oval Office, demonstrators marched through Richmond in opposition to Trump’s leadership. Some carried political signs, while others checked their phones for the latest vote count in a race that will define the country’s next four years. “A lot of people are afraid of the backlash from the far-right and Trump supporters,” said Katy Russel, a first-year dance and political science major at VCU. “I was expecting to see a caravan.” A “Trump train,” consisting of several pickup trucks and cars, traveled through downtown Richmond on Tuesday night, passing the Robert E. Lee monument and areas near VCU’s Monroe Park and MCV campuses. As anti-Trump protesters followed, one in the crowd carried a Biden/Harris poster while others wrote more vulgar attacks against Trump on handmade signs.
4
N.H.
14 N.J. 4
R.I.
3 Vt.
213
270
BIDEN
TRUMP
BIDEN
TRUMP
UNDECIDED
*Results as of 5 a.m. Wednesday