Democratic Party activists walk through a neighborhood after distributing voter-information pamphlets to residents in Coplay, Penn., on Friday.
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The outcome of the 2020 presidential election may be clear by midday Wednesday, even if counting is slow in some battleground states like Pennsylvania, a top adviser to Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday.
On the other hand, a top adviser for President Donald Trump argued that ballots counted after election night might be challenged in court.
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin may be slow to count their ballots. But there is a chance the election could be decided without those results, said Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, in an interview with ABC News’ “This Week.”
“I think there is is a reasonable chance that we’re going to be able to know who the president is at some point early on November 4, maybe midday on November 4,” Dunn said.
Key states like Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida should be announced on Tuesday night or early Wednesday, Dunn said.
“We’ll have a sense by then how this is trending,” she added.
While President Trump won all three of these states in 2020, Biden has made them battleground states in 2020.
“As we’ve gotten closer to the election, instead of the number of contested battleground states shrinking, which is normally what you see at this point in the campaign…the number is actually expanding,” Dunn said.
If Biden wins Florida, experts said it would almost certainly deliver the election to him. Some observers say the same is true for North Carolina.
In a separate interview, Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller predicted the president had “multiple pathways” to victory and would hold on to states he won in 2016.
“We think that President Trump is going to hold all of the Sun Belt states that he won previously,” Miller said on ABC’s “This Week.”
That would put pressure on Biden to win all of the Upper Midwest states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, he noted.
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Miller signaled Republicans might bring legal challenges in states that haven’t finished reporting results on election night.
“If you speak to many smart Democrats, they believe that President Trump will be ahead on election night, probably getting 280 electoral votes, somewhere in that range,” Miller said on ABC.
“And then they’re going to try to steal it back after the election,” he said.
“No matter what [Democrats] decide to do, what kind of hijinks or lawsuits or whatever kind of nonsense they try to pull off, we’re still going to have enough electoral votes to get President Trump reelected,” Miller added.
In the closing days of the election, both candidates have focused much of their attention on Pennsylvania.
Results from Pennsylvania won’t be announced on election night because state law prohibits counties from counting mail-in ballots until after the polls close late on Election Day.
Katy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s chief election official, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” it would take “days” for ballots to be counted.
“I expect the overwhelming majority of ballots in Pennsylvania — that’s mail-in, absentee ballots as well as in-person ballots — will be counted in a matter of days,” Boockvar said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Experts said over 300 legal challenges related to the election have been filed across the country.
Brookvar said elections in Pennsylvania have never been called on election night.
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