presidential election

The results will be sent to Washington and tallied in a Jan. 6 joint session of Congress over which Vice President Mike Pence will preside.

The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one abstention.

There has been no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

The Associated Press called the race on Saturday morning.

Skirmishes broke out in some places.

Roughly 200 Trump supporters gathered for a third straight day Friday in front of the elections center in downtown Phoenix.

Driving their calculus is an open acknowledgment that Trump’s better-than-expected showing on Election Day ensures that he will remain the Republican Party’s most powerful voice for years to come even if he loses.

The night ended with hundreds of thousands of votes still to be counted, and the outcome still unclear in key states he needs if he is to win against Democrat Joe Biden.

Many of the battleground states have yet to be called, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

Melania Trump was on the road, too, the first lady leading her first political rally.