Ohio Called For Trump As Other Key States Await Results

OHIO — Donald Trump is projected to carry Ohio in the 2020 general election, but other key battleground states were still undecided on Tuesday.

Trump had a 450,000 vote lead in Ohio on Tuesday evening, according to unofficial tallies from the Secretary of State's office. Trump won the Buckeye State by 8 points in 2016 and prognosticators have suggested Ohio may now be a more firmly red state and not the swing state it once was.

Other Midwest battlegrounds like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were still counting votes through Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning. Some pundits have suggested vote tallying could continue through Friday in some states.

While the Midwest remains largely unsettled, Florida, another key swing state, has been called for Trump.

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Court battles over the record vote-by-mail turnout continued on Election Day. In a critical ruling, a federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to sweep facilities in key battleground states to locate undelivered mail-in ballots and get them where they belong in time to be counted. The Postal Service said in court Tuesday about 300,000 ballots had been received but not scanned for delivery.

In other Ohio races, Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. Anthony Gonzalez are both projected to have secured re-election in their respective districts. While neither re-election is surprising, both men hail from Republican districts, they were perhaps buoyed by Trump's strong performance in the Buckeye State.