Biden's Pennsylvania lead is now big enough to avoid an automatic recount
President-elect Joe Biden's lead in Pennsylvania has, for now at least, cleared the state's automatic recount threshold.
If one candidate wins an election in Pennsylvania by a 0.5 percent margin or lower, the state will recount the ballots, regardless of whether a request is made. But with new ballots in from Allegheny County, which is home to Pittsburgh, Biden is now up by 0.74 percent. Theoretically, the number could shrink with more tallying underway, but Biden's lead is expected to continue going up, so President Trump or Pennsylvania voters will have to seek out a recount should he desire one.
At this point, we're well out of automatic recount territory (0.74% > 0.5%) and Biden's lead is only going to continue to grow.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 11, 2020
In terms of raw totals, Biden is now up by 50,000 votes, which means that even if Trump's legal team is successful in getting courts to toss out 10,000 votes received between Election Day and Nov. 6, there's little chance they could actually alter the results unless they find evidence of large-scale voter fraud, which The New York Times reports is nonexistent.
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