Photos | US Elections: America votes to choose between Trump and Biden

Americans voted on November 3 amid a surging pandemic to decide whether to re-elect Donald Trump or to send Democrat Joe Biden to the White House. While each candidate declared the other fundamentally unfit to lead a nation grappling with Covid-19 and facing foundational questions about racial justice and economic fairness, nearly 100 million Americans made their pick and voted early. Poll predictions show Biden leading with multiple paths to victory while Trump is playing catch-up in several battleground states.

Updated on: Nov 04, 2020 11:32 AM IST

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Workers hang a giant American flag at the site of an election rally for Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware on November 3. America on November 3 voted to decide between Donald Trump and Joe Biden to lead a nation battered by a surging pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people, cost millions their jobs and reshaped daily life. (Mike Segar / Reuters)

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Voters queue to cast their ballots at Church of the Servant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on November 3. Nearly 100 million Americans voted early, and now it was onto Election Day to finish the job, ending a campaign dominated by the coronavirus and defined by tensions over who could best address it. (Nick Oxford / Reuters)

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Yard signs encouraging voter turnout in support of Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris are seen at a ‘Get Out The Vote’ event at Civic Center Park in Kenosha, Wisconsin on November 2. Biden entered Election Day with multiple paths to victory while Trump, playing catch-up in several battleground states, had a narrower but still feasible road to clinch 270 Electoral College votes. (Bing Guan / Reuters)

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A sign directs towards a polling station at the Beloit Historical Society in Beloit, Wisconsin on November 3. Voters braved long lines and the threat of the virus to cast ballots as they chose between two starkly different visions of America for the next four years. (Scott Olson / Getty Images / AFP)

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden visits a neighbour’s house after stopping at his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 3. Biden headed to Philadelphia and stopped by a carpenters’ union hall and visited his childhood home and church on November 3 as part of a get-out-the-vote effort before awaiting election results in his home town of Wilmington in Delaware. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images / AFP)

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US President Donald Trump visits campaign workers at the RNC Annex in Arlington, Virginia on November 3. Trump called in to “Fox & Friends,” where he predicted he will win by a larger electoral margin than he did in 2016 when he tallied 306 electoral college votes compared to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 232. (Chris Kleponis / CNP / Bloomberg )

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A man dressed as a character from “My Neighbor Totoro” stands outside a polling station in Brunswick, Maine on November 3. On the final full day on the campaign trail on November 2, Trump and Biden broke sharply over the mechanics of the vote itself while visiting the most fiercely contested battleground, Pennsylvania. (Elizabeth Frantz / REUTERS)

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An electoral worker processes ballots at Northampton County Courthouse in Easton, Pennsylvania on November 3. The Republican president threatened legal action to block the counting of ballots received after Election Day. If Pennsylvania ballot-counting takes several days, as is allowed, Trump claimed without evidence that “cheating can happen like you have never seen,” AP reported. (Kena Betancur / AFP)

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People queue to cast their ballots at Desert Breeze Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 3. There are roughly 20 states that allow mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted—up to nine days and longer in some states. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images / AFP)

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A view of the White House on Election Day in Washington, DC on November 3. Whoever wins the election will have to deal with an anxious nation, reeling from a once-in-a-century health crisis that has closed schools and businesses and that is worsening as the weather turns cold. (Saul Loeb / AFP)