There will be a president-elect by mid-December, but not before considerable fighting and legal wrangling over the results in multiple closely contested battleground states, as the race for the White House remains unresolved three days after Election Day and counting.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has become the prohibitive favorite to secure an Electoral College majority as he appears to sit just six votes away from the required 270 and trends in most of the four remaining uncalled states are favorable to him. President Trump is still narrowly ahead in three of those states, while Biden clings to a slim lead in the fourth. There also remain enough uncounted ballots in Arizona, which the Associated Press called for Biden, to swing its 11 electoral votes potentially to Trump.