MICHIGAN, USA — NBC News has Joe Biden as the projected winner in Michigan for the race to the White House.
Biden would pick up the state's 16 electoral votes in a state Trump carried in 2016.
Biden spoke Wednesday afternoon from Delaware. He said that he’s not ready to declare victory as vote counting continues in the presidential election, but he says, “When the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.”
Biden did not take questions. President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan as ballots continue to be counted in both states.
Neither candidate has cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, and the margins were tight in several other battleground states. Top advisers for both Biden and Trump on Wednesday morning expressed confidence that they respectively had the likelier path to victory in the outstanding states.