Philly election workers set up for vote counting

Election workers in Philadelphia set up for vote counting early Thursday with President Donald Trump's vote lead narrowing and his campaign engaged in a flurry of legal activity.

Hundreds of thousands of votes were still to be counted in Pennsylvania. Trump’s campaign said it was moving to intervene in existing Supreme Court litigation over counting mail-in ballots there.

The President's campaign has also asked for a recount in Wisconsin, where Democrat Joe Biden is the projected winner by more than 20-thousand votes.

The Trump campaign said it was filing suit in Michigan to halt ballot counting on grounds that it wasn’t given proper access to observe. Still more legal action was launched in Georgia.

Two days after Election Day, neither candidate had amassed the votes needed to win the White House. But Biden’s victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264, meaning he was one battleground state away - any would do - from becoming president-elect.

Trump, with 214 electoral votes, faced a much higher hurdle. To reach 270, he needed to claim all four remaining battlegrounds: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Nevada.