LAS VEGAS (AP) – Joe Biden has won Nevada, continuing a 16-year trend of Democrats picking up the Western battleground state.
His victory four days after Election Day gives him Nevada’s six Electoral College votes and denies President Donald Trump a state he hoped to pick up this year after a narrow loss in 2016.
The Associated Press called the race in Nevada shortly after Biden had defeated Trump on Saturday to become the 46th president, crossing the threshold of the 270 Electoral College votes he needed with a win in Pennsylvania.
Throughout the week, the country had focused on Nevada as it tabulated results as Biden was on the brink of the presidency and the state’s Electoral College votes would be enough to put him over the threshold. In the end, Pennsylvania got there first.
Election officials in Nevada’s Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and three-quarters of the state’s population, said they were focusing on accuracy over speed and that the large number of mail-in ballots was new and making the counting process take longer than normal.