Biden wins the Electoral College for what Trump won in 2016

By Adam Edelman - NBC News

President-elect Joe Biden is the most likely winner in Georgia, and President Donald Trump won North Carolina, Noticias Telemundo and NBC News projected this Friday.

With these two states chanted, the presidential race comes to an end.

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Those last two projections, which take place 10 days after the polls closed in the November 3 elections, were the last in a chain that spanned the days.

It was a tumultuous post-vote stretch, which included four tense days in which the media had yet to declare a winner, who eventually was Biden.

With 99% of the votes counted in Georgia,

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Biden's margin in his apparent victory over Trump there is 14,152 votes, according to Noticias Telemundo projections.

It is the first time a Democratic presidential candidate has won in this state since Bill Clinton in 1992. The outcome in Georgia, however, is subject to a planned recount of the state's votes.

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In North Carolina, with 99% of the votes counted,

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Trump's margin of victory over Biden in the state is just over 73,600 votes.

Biden's projected victory in Georgia added 16 Electoral College votes to his tally, while Trump's projected victory in North Carolina added 15 to his.

This Thursday night, Noticias Telemundo projected that Biden won Arizona, which increased his account in the Electoral College by 11 votes.

As a result, the final victory projected by the Biden Electoral College vote over Trump rose to 306 vs.

232, according to projections by Noticias Telemundo.

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That total is identical to Trump's Electoral College victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016,

a margin that Trump himself has called a "landslide victory," despite Trump losing the popular vote that year by nearly 3 million. votes.

(The final tally for Trump's Electoral College in 2016 was 304, because two voters declined to vote for him in the official ballot.)

Compared to other recent winners, the total votes in Biden's Electoral College were less than Barack Obama's two victories (332 in 2012 and 365 in 2008), but greater than George W. Bush's (286 in 2004 and 271 in 2000).

To win the White House, Biden managed to win back the disputed Midwest states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, which Trump narrowly won in 2016.

and move them to the blue side for the first time in decades.

For his part, Trump took the key battlefields of Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Iowa, which he also won in 2016.

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With 97% of the nationwide vote counted at 2:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Biden led Trump 50.8% to 47.4% in the popular vote.

In contrast,

although he won in the Electoral College.

The nearly 78 million votes that have been counted for Biden so far are

by any presidential candidate.

Trump has yet to admit defeat, and may never do so, his aides told our sister network NBC News.

His General Services Administration (GSA) has not officially declared Biden the winner, a previously uncontroversial process known as 'verification'.

The secretary of state says there will be an "orderly transition to a second Trump term."

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Biden's team has moved forward with the transition process, although the GSA's continued lockdown has raised concerns about national security and preparing for the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine, among other issues.

Trump has continually raised unfounded fears about the vote tabulation process and repeatedly and falsely claims that massive voter fraud fueled Biden's victory.

That triumph was projected by the media since Saturday, when when Pennsylvania won, the former vice president surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to win.

Trump aides continue to insist that the Republican president will prevail in litigation alleging massive fraud without presenting evidence.

Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president on January 20, 2021.