In Pictures: Americans rally over post-election uncertainty

Demonstrators march down Fifth Avenue towards Washington Square Park during the 2020 Presidential election in New York. Democrat Joe Biden edged closer to victory over President Donald Trump in the U.S presidential race on Thursday as election officials tallied votes in the handful of states that will determine the outcome.

Supporters of President Donald Trump pause for prayer during a rally outside the Maricopa County Recorders Office in Phoenix.The Republican president, who during the long and rancorous campaign attacked the integrity of the American voting system, has alleged fraud without providing evidence, filed lawsuits and called for at least one recount. Some legal experts called the challenges a long shot unlikely to affect the eventual outcome of the election.

A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections celebrates after hearing the nearly final number of 167,000 absentee ballots that were counted is announced over the loudspeaker at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan. President Trump narrowly won Michigan in 2016, and both he and Joe Biden campaigned heavily in the battleground state in 2020.

Demonstrators hold signs during a march to "Count Every Vote, Protect Every Person" on the day after the US Presidential Election in Seattle, Washington. Some of the outstanding votes in Georgia and Pennsylvania were clustered in places expected to lean Democratic - like the Atlanta and Philadelphia areas.

State and local police take to the streets as a protester gets arrested as clashes took place during a march in Portland, Ore.

Counter-protesters, organized by Make the Road Action Nevada and PLAN Action, chant during a "Stop the Steal" protest by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Clark County Election Center in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Supporters of US President Donald Trump bang on the glass and chant slogans outside the room where absentee ballots for the 2020 general election are being counted at TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan.

John Mena wears a Joe Biden mask and hat showing his support for the Democratic Party candidate as activists gather for a rally in downtown Los Angeles, California. The result of the US presidential election is hanging on the vote count in a handful of key states, with the race too close to call so far.

President Trump supporters rally outside the Maricopa County Recorders Office in Phoenix.

A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections takes a break after sorting through absentee ballots at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan.

Demonstrators march down Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The demonstration, scheduled as a critique of President Donald Trump's attempts to halt ballots from being counted in yesterday's election, ended with several hundred people being kettled by police and told they would be arrested for public nuisance.

A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a protest about the early results of the 2020 presidential election, in front of the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

President Donald Trump supporters rally outside the Maricopa County Recorder's Office in Phoenix as two counter-protesters stand in the rear.