Biden records 253 electoral college votes to inch closer to 270

Donald Trump and Joe Biden each claim to be ahead in the US presidential election, even as the final outcome hangs on a razor’s edge.

The Trump campaign is challenging vote counts in the key states of Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Mr Biden, the democratic candidate, stopped short of declaring he had won, but said he was confident he was on course to defeat Mr Trump, his republican rival.

Biden has 253 Electoral College votes so far, while Trump has 213.

Overall turnout in Tuesday’s election was projected to be the highest in 120 years at sixty-six point nine percent.