WHY AP CALLED NEVADA FOR BIDEN:
The Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of Nevada's presidential contest Saturday, after a batch 15,000 ballots released by state election officials gave the former vice president a more than 2 percentage point lead over President Donald Trump.
When the race was called, the AP had already declared the Democrat had won Pennsylvania — and with it the presidency.
But a quicker result in Nevada could easily have pushed Biden over the 270 electoral threshold needed to win, too.
Vote tabulation there has been a slow going process. Though 88 percent of the expected vote has been counted, mail ballots postmarked by the Nov. 3 election day can be counted until Tuesday. And there were tens of thousands of provisional ballots left to sort through.
The AP called the race for Biden after a ballots released Saturday, nearly all of which were from Clark County, a Democratic area where most of the state's voters live, confirmed that Trump could not catch up.
Biden won those new votes by a margin of 57% over Trump. The Nevada Secretary of State's office says 90 percent of remaining ballot to be counted are from Clark County, which Biden was winning overall by about 10 percentage points on Saturday.
One reason the call couldn't be made until Saturday was there had been questions Friday about how much of the vote was left to count across the state, including these: