Vermont election results: Joe Biden records first state win in 2020 race
First three Electoral College votes in the bag for Democrat
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Your support makes all the difference.Joe Biden has won the state of Vermont’s three Electoral College votes, according to the Associated Press.
Vermont was the first of two states to be called in the 2020 presidential election, the other being Kentucky, which Donald Trump has carried.
Vermont, represented in the Senate by the left-wing Bernie Sanders, is considered a strongly liberal state. Kentucky is reliably conservative.
Elsewhere, Mr Biden has also carried Virginia, according to AP, while the president is expected to win Indiana.
Those states confer 13 and 11 Electoral College votes, respectively.
Polls are closing across the eastern US, with all eyes on the key battleground of Florida, where the result is likely to be nail-bitingly close.
Mr Biden and others in his camp, including Mr Sanders, urged voters to stay in line at polling places because they would still be eligible to cast their ballots even if polls in their state were closed.
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