{"id":108326,"date":"2020-11-04T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108326"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:45:26","slug":"joe-biden-is-closing-in-on-270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/04\/joe-biden-is-closing-in-on-270\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden is closing in on 270"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy CNN<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biden moves closer to the presidency as Trump launches legal challenges<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Vice President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/candidate\/biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>&nbsp;has moved to within 17 electoral votes of claiming the presidency by winning the state of Michigan, CNN projects, in the latest twist of a dramatic election clash with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;that has left America&#8217;s political fate uncertain hours after polls closed.His breakthrough came as Trump&#8217;s campaign launched a flurry of lawsuits in several states designed to stop the former vice president from getting over the line, including challenging Pennsylvania&#8217;s vote count at the Supreme Court.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy CNN Biden moves closer to the presidency as Trump launches legal challenges Former Vice President&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;has moved to within 17 electoral votes of claiming the presidency by winning the state of Michigan, CNN projects, in the latest twist of a dramatic election clash with&nbsp;President Donald Trump&nbsp;that has left America&#8217;s political fate uncertain hours after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}