President Trump made a shaky pitch at 2:30 Wednesday morning that he should be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election and said he would be “going to the U.S. Supreme Court” to make it so. But standing in the way of his plan was the fact that Democratic challenger Joe Biden had more electoral votes and that vote counts in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada favored Biden. Those four states hold exactly the number of electoral votes Biden needs to win, legitimately.

Associated Press and the Arizona Republic newspaper have already declared Biden the winner there, as of Wednesday morning. Biden has a slim lead in Nevada, where Democrats have won every presidential election since 2004. And Michigan and Wisconsin both show Biden with leads –albeit leads of less than one percent.

Meanwhile, LGBT community wins and losses were also mixed in Tuesday’s elections. Two newcomers won new seats in the U.S. House, but two incumbents were hanging onto their seats by threads as of Wednesday morning.

And Democrats do not appear poised to take control of the U.S. Senate. While they did win two new seats (from Colorado and Arizona), they also lost two (Alabama and, it appears at deadline, Michigan). While they still have an opportunity to win another seat in a run-off, they will fall short of reaching a 51-seat majority.

The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which supported 312 openly LGBT candidates in Tuesday’s election, has, thus far, registered 71 wins and 24 losses, and no results yet in 217 races.

Of the 15 openly LGBT people running for Congress Tuesday, it appears nine have won –seven of them incumbents. But two of those incumbents, first-termer Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota’s Second Congressional and four-termer Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, were holding very narrow leads.

Craig had a mere 154-vote lead over her Republican challenger as of Wednesday morning. Just days prior to Tuesday’s vote, Craig won an important victory at the U.S. Supreme Court. Her Republican opponent attempted to derail the voting by filing a legal action to delay the election until February. The request was based on the sudden death in September of a third party candidate –-one who acknowledged, before his death, that Republicans had recruited him to run third party as a strategy to defeat Craig. Under Minnesota law, if a “major party” candidate dies within 79 days of a November election, a special election must be held in February. Republicans went to court, arguing that the Marijuana Party was “major” and the vote had to be delayed, but the courts disagreed. And when Republicans appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order, Justice Neil Gorsuch denied their request.

In New York’s 18^th Congressional district, which includes northern suburbs of New York City, Maloney appeared Wednesday morning to have held onto a two-point lead over his Republican opponent.

Incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas staved off a tough challenge in his bid for a second term representing New Hampshire’s First Congressional District. Pappas’ Republican opponent had attempted to play up Pappas’ relationship with a male lobbyist for Amazon. Other LGBT incumbents – David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Sharice Davids of Kansas, Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, and Mark Takano of California—all won easy re-election.

The two brightest spots among the openly LGBT winners Tuesday had to be two black gay men in New York –Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones–winning new Congressional seats. Torres won 88 percent of the vote in his first bid for the seat representing the Bronx. Jones won by 14 points and will now represent southern New York.

“Most would have thought New York City’s first LGBTQ member of Congress would be from Chelsea or Greenwich Village or Hell’s Kitchen, but the Bronx beat them to it,” said Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund President Annise Parker. “As our nation attempts to tackle systemic racism, police reform and healthcare disparities, Ritchie’s lived experience as an out LGBTQ Afro-Latinx man will bring an essential perspective to Capitol Hill. Ritchie’s election gives hope at a time when many Americans desperately need it. He will become a role model for LGBTQ youth in the Bronx and beyond.”

Among the other six openly LGBT challengers seeking Congressional seats Tuesday, all six appear to have lost their bids, including Jon Hoadley in Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District, which includes Kalamazoo, and Gina Ortiz Jones in Texas’ 23rd, which includes San Antonio. Many thought Ortiz Jones would win the seat from Texas this year. She came within fewer than 1,000 votes of winning the seat in 2018. But in 2020, she fell 12,000 votes behind her Republican opponent.

In other LGBT election news:

• Fort Lauderdale’s incumbent openly gay Mayor Dean Trantalis won easy re-election Tuesday night.
• Lesbian Alexsis Rodgers came in third in her bid to become mayor of Richmond, Virginia.
• Transgender candidates did well: Sarah McBride became the first transgender person to win a state senate seat in Delaware, and Taylor Small became the first openly transgender person elected to the legislature in Vermont. Stephanie Byers became the first openly transgender person to be elected to the Kansas state House and the first transgender person of color ever elected to a state legislature in the U.S. And Colorado incumbent State Rep. Brianna Titone appears to have won re-election to her seat, despite Republican efforts to paint her as a “radical” threat to “your wives and daughters.”
• Kim Jackson won a state senate seat in Georgia, becoming the first openly LGBT person to win a seat in the Georgia senate and one of only three black lesbians to win state senate seats anywhere in the U.S.
• Shevrin Jones won his race for the Florida state senate, becoming the first openly LGBT person to win a Florida senate seat.
• Jabari Brisport became the first LGBT person of color to win a seat in the New York legislature, running unopposed for a seat representing Brooklyn in the state senate.
• Tennessee elected its first two openly LGBT people to its state house: Democrat Torrey Harris, a bisexual from Memphis, and gay Republican Ed Mannis of Knoxville.
• In Cincinnati, lesbian Democrat Charmaine McGuffey has become the first openly LGBT person to be elected sheriff in Hamilton County, Ohio.
• Helen Whitener won re-election to the Washington Supreme Court, handily defeating her opponent and becoming the first black woman to be elected to the court and the second openly gay person.
• Marko Liias lost his bid to become Washington State’s lieutenant governor. And,
• Bryce Bennett appears to have lost his bid to become Montana Secretary of State.