Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered remarks Friday night

Author: GRACE SEGERS, ED O'KEEFE
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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – NOVEMBER 05: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks as vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) listens at The Queen theater on November 05, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden attended internal meetings with staff as votes are still being counted in his tight race against incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump. The final results remain too close to call in many critical battleground states. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) via CBS News.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris addresed the public on Friday evening in Delaware, as the Democratic nominee has pulled ahead of President Trump in the critical battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania. Harris will speak before Biden.

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Aides spent Friday making preliminary plans for him to speak again Friday on the presumption that he would be projected to have won over 270 electoral votes, the number needed to clinch the presidency. But then, an aide familiar with Biden’s planned remarks said he will speak out “not to declare victory but to give the kind of update he’s done previously — with even more enthusiasm.” The former vice president has expressed confidence that he will ultimately win the race in previous brief remarks.

CBS News projects Biden currently has 253 electoral votes — 17 short of the 270 he needs to win. If Biden wins Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral votes, that would bring him to 273. Georgia, which has 16 electoral votes, would bring his total to 269. Biden is also likely to win Arizona and Nevada, CBS News reports.

Biden delivered brief remarks on Wednesday and Thursday, but Harris has not yet spoken publicly. If elected, Harris would be the first woman vice president, as well as the first Black and Asian-American vice president, making her victory historic.

The Democratic nominee has expressed confidence that he will prevail in the election. In remarks to reporters on Wednesday, Biden said that “when the count is finished, I believe that we will be the winner.”

Meanwhile, President Trump has made unsubstantiated claims that Democrats are attempting to steal the election, and falsely said that illegal votes are being counted. The Trump campaign has launched lawsuits in an attempt to interrupt vote counts in several states.

Tim Perry, Bo Erickson and Nikole Killion contributed to this report.

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