More Battleground Votes To Tally With Both Trump, Biden Claiming An Edge

The Wall Street Journal: Trump, Biden Locked In Close Election Contest 
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden remained locked in a tight race that was expected to come down to a few key states that were still counting votes Wednesday morning. The president won Ohio, Iowa, Texas and the key prize of Florida, while Mr. Biden flipped an electoral vote in Nebraska and won Arizona, the first time the state has gone to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1996. That set up a showdown in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which, along with states such as Georgia and North Carolina, weren’t yet called. (Bender, Siddiqui and Lucy, 11/4)

USA Today: Trump Falsely Claims He Has Won Election, Even Though Ballots Are Still Being Counted
President Donald Trump falsely claimed he had won the presidential election early Wednesday morning and threatened to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the counting of legally cast absentee ballots he described as a "fraud." Trump pointed to his early lead in the pivotal battleground of Pennsylvania and said it would be "almost impossible" for Democratic nominee Joe Biden to catch up there and in other states. In fact, there were enough votes outstanding in those states to swing the total back to Biden's favor. (Jackson, Jansen and Fritze, 11/4)

Politico: Biden: The Election ‘Ain’t Over Until Every Vote Is Counted’ 
Former Vice President Joe Biden early on Wednesday urged his supporters to remain patient as votes continue to trickle in in a nail-biter race, but he asserted that the presidential election “ain’t over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.” Speaking to supporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Del., just before 1 a.m., Biden asserted that despite President Donald Trump’s winning several key battleground states, “we believe we’re on track to win this election.” (Oprysko, 11/4)

KHN: No Winner For President Yet And Health Care Hangs In The Balance 
With the winner of the presidency and party control of the Senate still unclear the morning after Election Day, the future of the nation’s health system remains uncertain. At stake is whether the federal government will play a stronger role in financing and setting the ground rules for health care coverage or cede more authority to states and the private sector. Should President Donald Trump win and Republicans retain control of the Senate, Trump still may not be able to make sweeping changes through legislation as long as the House is still controlled by Democrats. But — thanks to rules set up by the Senate GOP — the ability to continue to stack the federal courts with conservative jurists who are likely to uphold Trump’s expansive use of executive power could effectively remake the government’s relationship with the health care system even without signed legislation. (Rovner, 11/4)

And a 9 a.m. update on the vote tally shows Biden making headway —

The New York Times: Joe Biden Has A Narrow Lead In Wisconsin
Joseph R. Biden Jr. pulled into a narrow lead in Wisconsin early Wednesday after absentee ballots were counted from the cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay. Mr. Biden’s lead in the state is about 11,000 votes statewide out of more than three million cast — though absentee ballots remain to be counted and reported from Kenosha a Democratic city with an absentee electorate expected to skew Democratic. (Epstein, 11/4)

The New York Times: The Remaining Vote In Pennsylvania Appears To Be Overwhelmingly For Biden 
Joe Biden has won absentee ballots counted in Pennsylvania by an overwhelming margin so far, according to data from the Secretary of State early Wednesday. If he carried the remaining absentee ballots by a similar margin, he would win the state. President Trump leads by nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania as of 5 a.m. on Wednesday, and Mr. Biden’s chances depend on whether he can win a large percentage of the more than 1.4 million absentee ballots that remain to be counted. So far, Mr. Biden has won absentee voters in Pennsylvania, 78 percent to 21 percent, according to the Secretary of State’s office. The results comport with the findings of pre-election surveys and an analysis of absentee ballot requests, which all indicated that Mr. Biden held an overwhelming lead among absentee voters. (Cohn, 11/4)

The New York Times: Nevada, Where Biden Narrowly Leads, Will Not Update Results Until Thursday
Nevada, where Joseph R. Biden Jr. held a narrow lead early Wednesday, will not announce any new updates on election results until 9 a.m. Pacific time on Thursday, state election officials said. So far, all in-person votes and all mail-in ballots through Nov. 2 have been counted, the election division of the secretary of state’s office said in a tweet on Wednesday morning. Mail-in ballots received on Election Day, mail-in ballots received over the next week and provisional ballots still need to be counted. (Gross, 11/4)

Also —

AP: News Organizations Rebuke Trump On Election Results Claim
In a stunning scene in the middle of the night, news organizations rebuked President Donald Trump after he falsely said on live television that he had won reelection even as votes were still being counted. With reporters and supporters gathered at the White House at 2:20 a.m. Eastern, the president said it was “a major fraud on our nation” that he hadn’t been declared the winner. “As far as I’m concerned, we already have won this,” he said. The words were barely out of his mouth before television anchors rushed to refute him. (Bauder and Elber, 11/4)

Politico: Twitter Flags Trump Tweet On Election Results For ‘Misleading’ Content 
Twitter pinned a warning label to President Donald Trump's early Wednesday tweet claiming he is "up BIG" in the presidential race and once again casting doubt on election results even as votes were still being counted across the country. "Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process," read the label Twitter attached to Trump's tweet. (Seligman, 11/4)