Electoral votes donald trump has 213 remember 270 is the magical number the number needed for victory we are expecting donald trump to be speaking from the white house shortly but we can in the meantime while we wait for him speak to a correspondents can we might kind of who i mean whether or not mike hanna is in wilmington delaware where joe biden spoke we will go live to him shortly but 1st to kimberly in washington d. C. Near the white house really well extraordinary how tight this is become the blue wave has never happened we heard from joe biden earlier donald trump the president he responded via tweet but now were going to hear from him live. Thats right weve been anticipating this for several hours we know that the president has a lot on his mind he seems to to kill or allay the happy by the fact that he believes that this is very close to that he may have even have won this but instead it is being called too close to call in so many different states so we are watching very carefully we are told that the pool as its called a handful of reporters that travel with the president has been assembled and in fact at any moment we expect to see the president so were watching very carefully now nic i should point out i have lost i have be with you so if you do a follow question i will not be able to answer it but again we are watching very carefully because in fact the u. S. President is expected to speak any moment were getting a window into what he might say given the fact that he has been rather vocal on twitter in fact twitter flagging one of the president s tweets as being potentially misleading the president saying that were up big but theyre trying to steal the election we will never let them do it so its clear that the u. S. President is in a fighting mood prepared to do whatever he can to win this very tight vote for him we think so that well leave that for the moment we will go to dillon from just as soon as he comes out of the podium its all been set up but no sign of him just as yet in the meantime lets go to my kind of in wilmington delaware that is joe bidens home state where he spoke not long ago. So mike could tell us more about what joe biden had to say. Well after an evening. Of to an evening of silence all throughout the results coming in the Campaign Headquarters behind me remained silent and then the man himself arrived at about half past midnight his convoy drove up behind me here joe biden speaking to some of his supporters gathered around outside the Convention Center parked in their vehicles in a turn cordons with social distancing which has been such a hall mark of the Biden Campaign joe biden made a short address to the waiting supporters sustaining that hes feeling good about the way the elections going calling on his supporters to in his words keep the faith and also asking them for patience but at the same time biden insisting that hes confident about certain results particularly arizona and those key blue belt states michigan wisconsin these are clearly crucial states now and of course above all pennsylvania now the issue once again why biden is calling for patience is that it is going to take a while before the final result becomes clear particularly pennsylvania now pennsylvania held off on counting the bail in vote sort of the prior votes until after the original in person votes are being counted this means that the vote will be delayed now the Supreme Court has ruled that the pennsylvania officials have until friday 5 pm to count those 1000000 votes these votes could well determine the outcome of the election the campaign has been insistent that this is unacceptable their vote should be counted so long after election day itself however the Supreme Court ruled against them on a temporary basis all sorts of ways that the could. Rebel in the hours ahead but as we stand at the moment its a bit of a poor send terms of the ongoing vote results we have. The bulk of predictions coming out and still that very very narrow electoral race the Electoral College race biden still showing a bit of a leave but its very very clear that this is coming down and could possibly come down to a single state and that is pennsylvania that could hold the key as to who gets the required amount of electoral votes to go to the white house but its going to be a contentious period well be hearing from President Trump we understand very soon he has already been tweeting out vehemently about the what he calls as the democrats stealing the election something that a twitter then put up behind a Health Hazard screen but certainly this is turning into a very contentious period we had expected but the suddenness of it was something surprising after both campaigns that kept relatively quiet throughout the count all of a sudden it exploded into action with joe bidens arrival at the Convention Center presence among the whole world is a 2nd i just want to wait for donald trump to win but we went to donald trump to come in and speak for mike if you can just hang on there for a moment if you want to hear from what joe biden had to say when he spoke a little bit earlier when he addressed the supporters saying that he is confident to win the white house. Im her tour you know we believe were on track to win this election. Because of the odd pressure down early vote and a mail in vote is going to take a while were going to have to be patient until the hard work of talent votes is finished and then over to every vote is counted every ballot is counted. By our fear and youre a. To those joe biden speaking little bit earlier mike do you think that joe biden has made that statement to head off what he knew was coming which might be coming in the next couple of minutes that donald trump would come out with both barrels blazing attacking the voting process itself. Well as chicken and egg in a way President Trumps tweet may be in response to the fact that joe biden was the 1st one to break silence but certainly joe biden had been expressing concerns in recent days about reports that President Trump might claim victory in the selection before all the results of fishley decided joe biden saying no previously in the past 24 hours that president s dont decide votes but voters to sign president s giving a warning off any premature declaration of victory with this within this election we will be as i say keep on saying hearing from President Trump very shortly but joe biden it would appear the main point of his arriving to make the statement calling on his supporters for patience it was becoming very clear that this force not going to be decided overnight this is not going to be the side that this previous elections were most of the time by the early hours of the next morning were looking at a situation here where it may be a matter of days before the final official result is in and joe biden in a way trying to preempt any attempts by the republicans to publicly try and rail against the president all weeks if not months has been arguing against the idea of extending the vote off allowing mail in votes extra period of time for counting it went to the Supreme Court on at least 2 occasions in terms of deciding on that the Supreme Court has upheld the rights of pennsylvania in particular to count votes up to 5 pm on friday as long as they are postmarked by november the 3rd election day but still this is a contentious area and also complicating the issue is that in a Supreme Court in the decision the Supreme Court. Left open the possibility that it could rule again after election day could rule at any stage so this is something thats complicating the situation and is another reason perhaps why joe biden emerged to speak to supporters and call for patience knowing that this is going to be an exceedingly tense period he was absolutely adamant that he is still in the strace hes feeling very strong about it asking his supporters to keep the faith but the one thing that is currently very very clear now is that it is coming down to just a few states and the results in those states may take a while hours possibly days before they become apparent this is causing a huge degree of tenseness throughout a country that has been beset by division over the past 4 years so this is now a crucial period one that had been foreseen to a point President Trump making very clear that he was going to contest any extension of time for the counting of votes the Trump Campaign doing so formally in courts on a number of occasions but now weve come to a state where everybody had hoped might not happen and that is an election that once again as that in 2000 goes to the courts to decide leading to a consequent delay in terms of the official a result a delay which adds to the immense tension within the country after a vitriolic and intensely bruising Election Campaign yeah it certainly seems as if litigation is the route we will be going down a month from time being in wilmington thanks very much indeed my kind of reporting there lets just cross to the white house this is the scene were expecting president all trump to come out and address the awaiting people there earlier we heard from he did tweet saying that he would have predicted he would win a 2nd 4 year term accusing the democrats. Attempting to steal the election from him with outside d. N. A. Evidence i suspect well hear more of the same when he comes out when he does we will cross to that in the meantime lets go to the midwest where crucial states pivotal state still in play john hendren is there for us in chicago john tell us more. Once again it seems to come down to those blue wall states those are the states that barack obama won in from pennsylvania in minnesota and in between are the key states of wisconsin and michigan all of those states wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania were democratic states that went for donald trump in 2016 they put him over the top michigan was won by just 10000 votes and the votes that are left to be counted are the votes in the early voting that happened before the election the democrats believe that those heavily tilt toward joe biden and that that will help put them over the top in the end and in wisconsin its the urban votes that havent yet been counted the biggest city milwaukee also can no show d the city of can osha has yet to be counted while the county around it has been counted and then there are those suburban in swing areas like door county which tends to vote for the eventual winner those votes have yet to be counted and those are states that until donald trump was elected had not voted for a republican for president since the 1980s so it could be days before we hear what happens in michigan in wisconsin there is a law that says the poll workers have to stay there and count every vote until all the ballots are counted and the folks there have told us that they expect to have an answer for early wednesday that is 567 in the morning that could be 11 greenwich mean time or slightly later than that so were still waiting on those votes but in the end it comes down to the blue wall that decided it for obama decided it for trump and will decide likely this election as well yes the blue rules dates pivotal john thanks very much indeed john 100 the in chicago lets speak now to Peter Matthews whos a professor of Political Science at Cypress College and the all 3 of adult democracy joins us now from los suns and its so pretty mathews the democratic sweep never materialized how do you assess the state of play. Well its like youve heard its done with blue all of the 3 major states that trump won with just 77000 votes among all 3 states and this is what we have to wait for and you mentioned earlier in the report that in wisconsin its the cities like milwaukee and madison those that are used are urban voters theyre biting who they are they have not been counted yet and they were early voters the same thing with pennsylvania about the early or have not been tallied yet and i believe that this can make a difference and weve got to see of course a democratic sweep that many people thought might happen by by and perhaps winning florida as well as texas did not come through in North Carolina all through those states where its only just policy democrats but now who needs to hold out for them thats part of their concern and it just might well have to wait till tomorrow and see the next few days till friday the president has really come out as i said before tweeting saying that the democrats are attempting to steal the election from him without citing any evidence of course but the. We knew all this was going to happen we knew that it was if it was going to be tight that the president would cry foul so now potentially we enter this litigation how is that going to take where could it take. And what could the resolution be. Very precarious situation and really i would instruct the president to hold are not make these claims without evidence that theres that they were trying to steal the election the fact that he needs to wait a little vote count is finished even his own Supreme Court meaning that it will just as there is just a rule that pennsylvania has a right to wait for 2 days to count those votes and he wants to cut the process shore and to short circuit everything and say that he wants its completely not are all part of the american tradition of always waiting for all those votes to be counted and you cant do some branches by saying i want my victory tonight so thats what the president ought to do is call the whole bit and let things take its course let the counting go on and then whoever ones the number of votes in the state of the electoral votes will be the next president. What further complicates that is the pennsylvania is concerned is that 3 justices the 33 of the justices on the Supreme Court indicated that they may revisit that decision about pennsylvania in the coming days. Thats true and in a sense and part of the president consider going to peeling it again and having it occur once again especially with a meat tony coady beret his own sort of point you know on the court at this time who might rule in his favor so we dont really know what can happen that does complicate things it seems like the rule of law can be in my view kind of bent and twisted as opposed to us that were going to youre you know. That the law must be evenly and equally to every Single Person every single situation in a given democracy and thats why were in this ruling came down by the court saying well let me count the votes for the next to the Pennsylvania Court and this. Side of that should have been followed we should still be without the present trying to 2 in the Supreme Court which she just passed recently with 3 because its yeah it was going to be very interesting to see how this develops the time being thanks very much indeed matthews joining us from los angeles lets go to texas big states with a lot of it toral electoral votes it was considered neck and neck but it has ended up in Donald Trumps column lets join hiding here castor whos in houston for a sense yes 38 Electoral College votes were up for grabs and as i say they went to the president. Thats right and this really comes as no big surprise here in taxes given that this is a state that has supported only republican president ial candidates for more than 4 decades but sure was has this come close with joe biden. Ending up about 6 Percentage Points behind president of course not all of that but its happening counted yet and that is a very narrow margin of victory for President Trump and it means that democrats on the ground in texas have made plenty of progress in the last few years as democratic shifts in this state as in much. The american southwest has favored more minority voters turning out and more young voters which is all trending toward democrats if you look at 26000 President Trump won here texas by 9 points this year some appears it will be fewer than that so certainly you can see where the trajectory goes and in the bigger context that means that texas is truly a purple state for the 1st time in a very long time and when you look or were projecting beyond just this evening beyond this election for future elections texas is going to play a very different and perhaps even decisive role in determining the outcomes of future elections you know up until this point the campaigns have paid very little attention to this state theyve kind of just had it as a given that it would turn up red in the end well yes it was right again for donald trump tonight but certainly going into the future oh you will see campaigns from both parties pay more attention to texas really comparing that margin of victory that trump is seeing here its actually lower than that in ohio a definitive swing state so this is certainly indicative of a changing Political Landscape here heidi thanks for that lets head west now from texas to another big state florida its like texas voted for donald trump i mean gallagher is standing by the forests in miami yes joe biden lost this and there will be a lot of crying reading from the democrats about how they lost. You know particularly when you really begin to walk in this the biggest battleground state in a president ial election when you look at where im standing now this is Miami Dade County and you look at how biden did among the latino vote and it was a. Dreamily poor when you compare it to how Hillary Clinton did with this same Community Back in 2016 it seems to me that the president s push to paint joe biden as a socialist works we already knew that about a 1000000 of the cuban americans that lived in a city like this in miami would likely vote republican but it seems like a lot of latino and hispanic voters who didnt vote for last time did so this time now the margin by which trump won this state was still pretty slim in 2016 he won by about 112000 votes its about 350000 this time around but the picture is very clear. This was a state that trump needed to keep to keep his the hopes alive and his president ial election to get another 4 years in the white house 29 electoral call of allah hes going to do just remember donald trump has just appeared at the white house to address his supporters in the the media of the world and said listen. This is what. This is this. Oh yeah well. I appreciate it very much i want to thank the American People for their tremendous support millions and millions of people voted for us tonight and. A very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people and we wont stand for it while you are still was the it will be i want to thank the 1st lady my entire family. Was. With us who. Have. We were getting ready for a big celebration. We we were winning everything and all of a sudden it was just called off. The results tonight have been phenomenal and we are getting ready i mean literally we were just all set to get outside and just celebrate something that was so beautiful so good such a vote such a success the citizens of this country have come out in record numbers this is a record is never been anything like it to support our Incredible Movement we won states that we werent expected to win florida we didnt win it we won it by a lot of the early on of the great state of ohio. We won texas. Was a. One texas by 700000. 00 votes and they dont even included in the tabulations its also clear that we have one georgia and the will rob you were 2. 5 percent or 117000. 00 votes with only 7 percent left the never going to catch as they cant catch us likewise weve clearly won North Carolina was the will want to join the opposition or were 77000. 00 votes with only approximately 5 percent left the king catches. We also if you look and you see arizona we have a lot of life in that and somebody said somebody declared that it was a victory for us and maybe it will be i mean thats possible but certainly there were a lot of votes out there that we could get because were now just coming into what they call trump territory i dont know what you call it but these were friendly trump voters and that could be overturned the gentleman that called in i watched tonight he said well we think its fairly unlikely that he could catch a fairly unlikely. And we dont even need it we dont need that that was just a state that if we would have got it it would have been nice arizona but theres a possibility maybe even a good possibility in fact since i saw that originally its been changed in the numbers of substantially come down just in a small amount of votes so we want that obviously to stay in play but most importantly where winning pennsylvania by a tremendous and the was was was was of us think of that think of us were up 690000 votes in pennsylvania seats and were these arent even close this is not like oh its close with. 64 percent of the vote and its going to be almost impossible to catch and were coming in to good pennsylvania areas where they happen to like your president. Was or will probably expand. Where winning michigan i looked at the numbers i saw i looked i said wow thats a lot by almost 300000 votes and it was 65 percent of the vote is in. And were winning wisconsin and so when we dont need all of we need because when you add texas in which was an added i spoke with the really wonderful governor of texas just a little while ago and greg abbott he said congratulations he called me to congratulate me on winning texas i mean it we won texas i dont think they finished quite the tabulation but theres no way and it was almost complete but he congratulated me and he said by the way whats going on ive never seen anything like this can i tell you what nobody has so we won 5107000 votes with 81 percent of the its michigan so when you take those 3 states in particular. And you take all of the others i mean we have we have so many we had such a big night you just take a look at all of these states that weve won tonight and then you take a look at the kind of margins that we want to buy and all of a sudden its not like were up 12 votes and we have 60 percent left we won states and all of a sudden i said what happened to the election its off and we have all these announcers saying what happened and then they said all because you know what happened they knew they couldnt win so they said lets go to court and then i predict this new today i say this ive been saying this from the day i heard they were going to send their tens of millions of pallas i said exactly because either they were going to win or if they didnt win theyll take us to court so florida was a tremendous victory 307. 0 hour or 2 and think there. Were tremendous state a big state i love ohio we won by 8 point one percent 400. Letters to a almost 500000 or less North Carolina big victory with North Carolina. And. So we won there we lead by 76000. 00 votes with almost nothing. And all of us and everything just stopped. This is a fraud on the American Public this is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election frankly we didnt win this election. The law was large omalleys to ensure the integrity was for the good of this nation this is a very big moment this is a major fraud or nation we want a lot to be used in a proper manner so well be going to the u. S. Supreme court we want all voting to stop we dont want them to find any ballots at 4 oclock in the morning and add them to the lists ok thank you and certainly said were is a very sad moment to me this a very sad moment and we will win this and we as far as im concerned we already have fought so i just want to was and was i want to thank you all for our support i want to thank all of the people that worked with us and mr Vice President say a few words please please was well aware was was the was the was and i want to join you in thanking more than 60000000 americans who have already cast their vote for 4 more years for President Donald Trump was all the votes continue to be counted were going to remain vigilant as president said