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County election officials in Georgia have begun the time-consuming, labor intensive process of auditing -- by hand -- every one of the state’s nearly 5 million votes cast in the presidential race.

The audits -- which stem from a state law, not because of any suspected problems with the results -- must finish by midnight next Wednesday, so many election workers will continue through the weekend to complete it in time.

Biden is currently leading in Georgia by a wide margin of roughly 14,000 votes, so it’s unlikely Trump will overcome his lead in an audit -- which rarely change election outcomes.

However, with Biden’s win in Arizona overnight, he wouldn’t even need Georgia’s 16 electoral votes to win. If the audit were to somehow, despite all odds, flip the state in Trump’s favor -- and if Trump were to also take North Carolina as he’s on track to -- he would be at 248 electoral votes, still short of the 270 needed to be president.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

There's wanting the presidency, and then there's acting like you want the job.

Biden spent the week fielding calls from world leaders, naming key advisers and imploring Americans to wear masks to protect themselves and the country from COVID-19.

Trump had what was probably the quietest week of his presidency in terms of public appearances. But it was a consequential week nonetheless.

Trump fired his defense secretary and summarily replaced other key officials, with more firings expected. His campaign lawyers sought to upend election results across several states. While the president found time to rage-tweet about Fox News, he did not address the spread of the coronavirus that is threatening the holiday season.

Signs are emerging of Trump defenders losing patience with the tactics and delays. A growing group of Republican lawmakers are insisting that Biden start getting intelligence briefings and are acknowledging publicly that election results are highly unlikely to change.

Biden continues to appear unbothered by the noise. That, in a way, was his appeal from the start -- not to replace Trump with an equal and opposite force, but to provide a different kind of contrast: normalcy, and even sometimes silence.

-ABC News’ Political Director Rick Klein

ABC News projects that Biden will win Arizona and its 11 electoral votes.

With 97% of the expected vote reporting nationwide, Biden has 77,920,048 votes compared to Trump's 72,609,925

Two election security organizations, Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees, released a statement that says the recount process is good for the security of the election, but that there were no votes changed. 

"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," the statement released on Thursday said.

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, the lead cybersecurity agency for the country that was responsible for securing the 2020 elections has been debunking election-related rumors on their website. The joint statement Thursday can be seen as an extension of that. 

The president and his allies have repeatedly attempted to cast doubt on the security of the 2020 election.

 "While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too. When you have questions, turn to elections officials as trusted voices as they administer elections."

-ABC News' Luke Barr