Joe Biden pulled to an early lead over Donald Trump after winning a slew of traditionally Democratic states in the eastern U.S., while the president easily won several Republican strongholds in the south and Midwest, according to the Associated Press and networks.
Florida, which Trump’s campaign considers crucial to his re-election hopes, remains undeclared. Trump held a narrow lead in the state with several traditionally Republican counties in its panhandle yet to report. Biden won Virginia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware and Washington, D.C., New York, New Mexico according to the AP. Trump won Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, South and North Dakota, Louisiana, Wyoming and Oklahoma.
The early results gave Biden an 119-92 lead in the Electoral College. The first candidate to…