Election 2020 updates: Biden warns of 'dark winter,' pushes masks in pandemic plan

For the first time in days there was one thing White House aides all reacted to Thursday afternoon -- total fear of Joe Biden speaking. They did not fear what the former vice president would say or not say -- but they knew just him speaking would make their boss want to do the same. 

Some Trump aides couldn't bring themselves to watch the president's speech because they knew it was going to be bad, according to sources.  

As Trump claims he wants to go to the Supreme Court, his lawyers so far can't find a viable method to get there. Members of his legal team have been studying but can’t find a way as of now. 

The lawsuits brought by Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his colleagues in some states have been dismissed by senior Trump aides as pointless and lacking a cohesive legal strategy.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and John Santucci

Trump now leads in Georgia by 1,797 votes as the margin gets tighter following the latest reporting out of Clayton, Rockdale and Forsyth counties.

Just south of Atlanta, Clayton is the fifth-most-populated county in the state. Nearly two-thirds or 73% of its residents are Black and another 13% are Hispanic/Latino, according to U.S. Census estimates.

Hillary Clinton won this county by a 70-point margin in 2016, earning about 78,000 votes. Biden currently has over 90,000 votes in Clayton.

Clinton won Rockdale County by a 26-point margin in 2016. Biden's margin is even bigger, at 40.8 points.

The candidates are neck-and-neck in Georgia -- 49.4% to 49.4% -- as Trump leads slightly with 2,447,337 votes to Biden's 2,445,540.

There were about 16,000 outstanding ballots as of 8:40 p.m., according to the Georgia secretary of state.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

At least 106 women will serve in the House, based on the latest ABC News projections, eclipsing the previous record of 102 set in 2019, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. 

Of those, at least 46 are women of color, which is also record-setting, beating out the record of 44 set in 2019.

Republican women are making up significant ground after 2018, with at least 24 projected by ABC News to win their contests. The current total stands just shy of the record of 25 GOP women serving in the House, which was set in 2006. 

Some of the winners include Stephanie Bice in Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District, Ashley Hinson in Iowa's 1st Congressional District and Michelle Fischbach in Minnesota's 7th Congressional District, who all flipped Democratic-held seats. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia's 14th Congressional District and Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District -- two controversial candidates who either embraced or showed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory -- will be among the GOP's ranks in the next Congress.

-ABC News' Kendall Karson

New vote totals from Arizona's Maricopa County slightly reduce Biden’s lead in the Grand Canyon State.

Statewide, the former vice president leads Trump 50.3% to 48.3%, with Biden up by 46,257 votes. That new vote total is a decrease of about a thousand ballots for Biden. 

In Maricopa County, Biden leads Trump 51% to 47.6%, with 944,285 votes compared to the president's 880,347. Arizona's most populous county has an estimated 224,866 ballots left to count.

In the Arizona Senate race, Democratic candidate Mark Kelly leads Republican Sen. Martha McSally 52% to 48%, with 1,565,506 votes compared to McSally's 1,462,532.

ABC News has not made a projection in either race out of Arizona.

-ABC News' Meg Cunningham