PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania, the state with the largest trove of electoral votes still up for grabs, inched ahead in its counting of more than one million outstanding mail-in ballots on Wednesday, a majority of them from Democratic strongholds, as Joseph R. Biden Jr. cut into his deficit with President Trump.
With narrow wins in Wisconsin and Michigan called on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Biden has flipped two of the three Northern industrial states that handed Mr. Trump the White House in 2016. Pennsylvania, the last of those so-called blue-wall states, loomed as a battleground that Mr. Trump must win again to secure re-election. Mr. Biden has a slightly broader path to attaining 270 electoral votes, but a Pennsylvania victory would put him over the top.
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