Biden has one of the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania the 20 electoral votes biden won in pennsylvania have allowed him to serve past the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press hes also picked up 6 votes in the giving him a total of 290 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. Weve been hearing some 1st responses from biden supporters gathered on the black lives matter plaza in a washington d. C. Thousands of people there have been gathering it just blocks from the white house in the last days we wont. Believe there are. Going to be there is 3. Very thankful so todays events here with me in the studio do we have reaction from a donald trump to this projected victory from the i do i just got this statement from one of our producers it says here and part we all know why joe biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner and why his media allies are trying so hard to keep to help him they dont want the truth to be exposed the simple fact is that the election is far from over joe biden has not been certified as the winner of any states let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts or states where our campaign has a valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor he goes on to say that theyre going to start trying to pursue some of these cases on monday and that the American People are entitled to an honest election that means counting all legal ballots and not counting illegal balance and it only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room and then fight in court to block their access and say see this is quite an excited reaction yesterday i mean weve known for weeks since before the election vacs of a that donald trump was going has been sowing distrust in the election system saying that especially mail and ballots could lead to fraud. Without basis because historically american elections are very good or fraud is very very very rare exactly and not in large swaths that hes talking about right so weve got their trumps reaction i want to cross now over to washington d. C. And our correspondent there so hes almost going to sue me weve had this projection for joe biden what comes next. Well i think whats were going to keep an eye out for here is exactly what we hear from President Trump i mean the numbers that weve seen and lets remember that what brought us to this point is weve been watching these kind of razor thin leads in these key battleground states like pennsylvania continue to edge more and more in favor of the president elect of joe biden and then today pennsylvania releasing a french fresh batch of votes putting joe bidens lead there at around 30000 a little over 30000 and now also being called in his favor and what that has told us is that joe bidens lead is essentially at this point insurmountable that is why all of the major needy and networks here including fox news the right wing Media Outlets called this race for joe biden but we still dont know what President Trump strategy is going to be and i just want to go through some of that statement that stacy was was reading there i mean President Trump saying that joe biden has not been certified as the winner of any states will that is essentially true the official certification process does happen in the course of the next weeks where the electors from the states come together when they put together their official tallies and where then the Electoral College votes and then when Congress Gets together in january those are certified there so that in itself is true and it is true the president s trying to team has the right to launch legal challenges so that is something that he said in a statement that they will pursue starting monday as well the problem for President Trumps team here is is the fact that these legal challenges have not had shown any proof of having having a legal basis as stacy said there is no legal basis proving that there has been massive voter fraud and even if there are recounts so we know that george is going to be holding a recount for example and that there might be recounts in other states that those are very unlikely to change the result of the election so that will be what President Trump is facing and you know clear its been very strange to see this juxtaposition of images because President Trump isnt at the white house right now he is on his golf course in virginia and there he has been we havent seen actually pictures of him out golfing. It is a likely meeting with this team as theyve been putting out the statement vowing to fight this to the end meanwhile on the other hand in front of the white house where well be seeing our colleague reporting shortly there are you know hundreds of people gathered to cheer really this result and President Trump is saying he will not concede will not accept it they will push forward with legal challenges even if there is very little likelihood that they will win so what observers here are saying or urging the president to do is to graciously accept defeat accept this result and then move forward but clearly theres no indication that thats going to happen especially from what weve seen from the president until now and just to remind you what his tweet was this morning a few hours ago he wrote i won this election by a lot so its hard to see what avenues there are for President Trump at this point and his legal team but this is the messaging that weve heard from them again and again and i dont think its going to change theyre going to have to kind of huddle again and figure out what the strategy as he said is Going Forward on monday for new legal challenges to find some avenue to be able to contest this it doesnt look likely absolutely soon as youve been reporting the Term Campaign has launched a slew of legal challenges a few states have already declined to hear those because they were without basis but were going to be following those for you over the days to come i think its also important to clarify for our International Viewers what a big role the Cable News Networks and agencies like the Associated Press play in calling elections in the United States as you say ultimately it will be you know these will be Electoral College votes cast by the states but in modern american political history this is always the way things have been called but to me i want to ask you you know on Election Night itself the situation seemed to be favoring donald trump as those votes were coming in why is it that mailing votes now have tipped the balance toward toward joe biden. Well its important to ask this question and to answer it clear because we heard just a short while ago on air somebodys supporter who our correspondent assignments in philadelphia was speaking to saying i dont believe that this really is the case in the news media cannot call this election in favor of joe biden well the reason were seeing this is because on election day many of the people who went to vote in person to cast their ballots in person on election day the majority of those voters were republican and then you know prior to that and up until the day of election there were a Record Number of people who are voting by mail in the majority of those voters were democrats the reason for that is simple President Trump had told his supporters told the country he believed that mail in voting was fraudulent that could not be trusted that the election was rigged and so his supporters turned out in droves at the polling stations and those votes are counted much quicker now joe biden and his team continue to tell their supporters vote anyway you can even if it is by mail just make sure that you can vote safely and securely and that is what they did thats why so many of those ballots have been leaning towards the democrats and clearly you know we have the script and see because it takes time to count those ballots and in states in these key battleground states there are republican legislatures i should point out who prevented the states from starting to count their ballots before hand prevented the ability to be able to have a definitive result on election day itself and so in a state like pennsylvania they were opening ballots on election day a Record Number of ballots and they take time to go through you have to check signatures sometimes people put their birth dates in the place where theyre supposed to put the date of when they were casting their ballots Little Things like that or the outer envelopes were not properly sealed all of this makes it very labor intensive work to count these ballots and what has happened is little by little as these results have been trickling out weve seen it go from what looked like an election that was leaning towards the President Donald Trump now leading towards the president elect joe biden so that. Quite simply what we saw happen but these are all legally cast ballots we should say these are ballots that are well within the laws that are allowed by each state in pennsylvania those ballots were allowed to arrive until 3 days after the election up until yesterday really and some states like arizona you can also cast ballots for military overseas up until next week so this is all part of the process clear and we have to keep in mind that observers told us time to get ahead of the selection that we need to be patient because we would see this trend that on Election Night it would look like wed have one result in a few days later as the smell of ballots counted it would lean toward more towards joe biden and not only more towards him but he was able to secure the win thats right soon and as you say reporters have been hearing for weeks ahead of this election that he would take days at least to count the ballots and certainly that labor intensive process of keeping back track of each states different rules for doing so here for us reporting this news there was gonda thank you very much for your analysis. We want to cross now it to inas poll our Washington Bureau chief who is standing outside of the white house you know its good to see you there whats the mood like. I know i lost the line i come to you anymore maybe you can hear me its amazing oh dear i mean people are chanting they just were coming in from all over the place its like one big party and they didnt say youre alone 7 often the result was announced that you heard good to hear like cars honking on the streets so i have some technical problems all be back with you. All right looks like a festive mood there in front of the white house with paul will bring you back into the studio now with stacy bevans from our u. S. Election team i mean that is washington d. C. Where we see standing would you expect that kind of reaction in d. C. Or for that matter in philadelphia where weve seen our correspondent often simons share i think that for you know a lot of the voters 74000000 of voted for joe biden this is a sense of relief for them no more in the middle of the night sure aint tweens or you know no more active to visit this within the country so of course people are related they are wanting to see the country go on a different course and so theyre out in the streets celebrating of course i know there must also be though tens of millions of people who are deeply disappointed by this results i mean do you think joe biden is going to be able to provide the kind of presidency that does reach across the aisle and not just across the aisle but also to those voters to bring him on board with the policies hes trying to get across well based off of the way that hes governed all these years and congress he seems to be the man for the moment he has worked across the aisle many a time to try to bring compromise and then push things along so that the American People can benefit he had a great relationship with the late john mccain he has worked well with Mitch Mcconnell which has been a its been a test for other democrats so yeah this is going to be. This is going to be a difficult loss for millions of tens of millions of americans but at the same time i think that joe biden has the character and i think he has the desire to want to pull the country together right well see if his long career in politics breaking bread with people like Mitch Mcconnell is going to in fact make it possible for someone kind of a bipartisan movement while he is in the white house state of safe haven thank you very much lets go back over to our correspondent a staff and the simons who is in pennsylvania that was the key swing states that everybody was watching jeff on whats the latest there. The latest the one thing all fear has really interesting let me turn it around a little bit here with the camera to turn around theres rebundle before this is. Trumps a former corner and then to the other side they actually have this time the p. A. Theyre making the music and the other days that were still going after new big droning out the from the callers now to some supporters trying to do this for 2 hours i just hold it there totally dissimilar to understand that in the dance to the music from supporters playing as though this is. An old version of the situation a celebratory moment this is historic the people are actually are those people at the moment the some supporters who feel forced out by. The little. That should be counted in the democratic challenge. People were told from discharge the border from the end of the guard there are the good days for all alone at least to say that all along that this was a done deal hold on told by well what the networks and the and theyre going to sell many times they fold was the silliest thing that happened from old with every really cold war going. Its council in this building right there they were sure that guarded the foliage and its knowledge and that donald trump should never ever win again pennsylvania 20 votes in the Electoral College should. Those guys are really happy theyre celebrating there joe biden is the new president elect of the National America are a little bit of 46 rather than the us throughout the day we expect droughts to be going on both sides of the country be in this fashion on that i assume the old and this will be a big part of the day i dont hope everybody will general shape the polls it looks like there we are you know this is a cryptic but it also makes all the threshold and therefore we can move around and show you what. That is all fulfilled in the room or the place treated by police to separate those stars the guys from the low fat guys over there. All right stephanie security measure of the displeasure of police around sidestepping simons reporting for us in a pennsylvania thank you so much were going to cross now to correspondent all over solitude is in bidens hometown of wilmington delaware tracking developments for us there. All of our tell us what is the latest from where you stands now. Well a lot of celebration is unfolding here there are more and more people biden supporters coming here honking their cars honking their horns and really shouting out of the windows its a very happy moment for those that have come here over the over recent days joe biden always reiterating be patient were on track to win this election but it took a long time it started on monday night as you know and then now its already saturday but they all rewarded and theyre now waiting for joe biden to address the nation tonight later tonight it will be a speech in which he will make once again clear that he ran as a unifier and he is sort of like the am. Trump not only wants to undo certain policies but also wants to bring the nation together and heal the nation thats what he just published in a statement a little while ago and that is what were going to hear from him later tonight in addition to his policy goals that hes laid out for the next 4 years thats right over the Biden Campaign has been urging patience over these last 4 days as the votes were counted confidence of this victory that we are now projecting he set to speak tonight and you say its likely that hell be delivering again a message of unity like what weve seen in those previous speeches but do you think biden is really in a position to bring together both sides of the aisle in the United States and in moments when the country is so divided over these 2 candidates. Yeah thats a certainly an important point to make an important question to raise and if you just think about how his campaign started he started off so weak and then made this incredible really turnaround he came out as 6th in the state of New Hampshire at the beginning of the primaries he was a weak performer really had this blackouts on stage on the Campaign Stage mixed up in numbers but then eventually became the candidate and became the candidate because the Democratic Party believe that he is the right one was the right one to actually tackle the current challenges of the United States and one of them of course being is the division and the rhetoric go favorite and division that weve heard over the last 4 years donald trump of President Donald Trump he also has that credibility that gave him the edge in the in the midwestern states also in pennsylvania among the blue collar working class so there are certain reasons of course why joe biden and i think is stacy and you discussed that just a while is is the right candidate to do that but of course he also faces a lot of challenges we still dont know if the Democratic Party will gain control of the senate and in order to do the big reforms that the country so urgently need is just look at look at Police Reform look at gun violence look at health care and College Tuition minimum salaries so there are so many problems the country is facing and we dont know yet whether or not joe biden will actually be able to solve those points to solve those issues or if were going to be looking at a stalemate between the house of representatives and the senate all right all of us ali reporting for us from wilmington delaware and he will be tracking this for us throughout the evening thank you so much for that were going to play you some reactions at 2 it this proposed to this projected a victory by joe biden one is from a Rudy Giuliani the other is from a republican strategist so lets get their take on how its playing out those mail in ballots could have been for. Anybody they wrote in those mail in ballots could have been written the day before by the Democratic Party hacks that were all over the Convention Center what im saying to you is not a single one was inspected as the law required even when a court order was obtained to allow the republican inspectors to get 6 feet because there they moved the people counting the ballots 6 further away she just about the 700000 votes that President Trump was ahead by 2 days ago that disappeared. And we have no way of knowing because we were deprived of the right to inspect it if a single one of those ballots is legitimate that is unheard of its illegal its unconstitutional that was of course the lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaking and just air in that sound bite i want to bring in it live for us now from los angeles a republican strategist Chris Faulkner and chris trump is speaking of fraud slamming the solidity of mail in ballots in particular and his team is pushing legal fights in several states what do you make of this approach. Well i think that the stage was set for this some time ago you know 1st 1st we have to acknowledge the fact that it looks like joe biden has reached 270 votes once the voters certified but the vote hasnt been certified in a number of lawsuits and legal challenges in play now after the last 4 years democrats have told us that russians bought the election interfered with the election manipulated the election and so to a certain extent theyve kind of created the bed that were currently doing in here in terms of literally the election has been undermined by this constant you know luminous threat volume and that somehow there is someone messing with our elections so of course americans want to see every ballot counted it wasnt even just 48 hours ago that most of my Democrat Friends were screaming you wanted every ballot count republicans agree with us were bipartisan agreement we should count all of the ballots the legal ballots. Im no stranger to recounts i worked and never reach out across the country including a 2008 senate race which saw a republican had an election day and lose miraculously after the counting continues its its unfortunate that we have this lack of confidence in our election process here in the United States but it is a symptom of our hold so if i understand you correctly you are saying that republicans now are reluctant to recognize a joe Biden Victory based on the calls that have been made but once things are certified that will be a different story do you think republicans in general once everything has been certified will recognize a joe biden presidency. I dont claim theres a secret hole republicans by any stretch as somebody who works professionally in politics i think that the greater American Public people who are not isnt gauged on partisan politics of wealth to the right they just want to be older and i understand that i am looking forward to spending more time watching football than watching results believe me. This is a really important thing this is something we should really make sure we get it right and so taking some extra time and i know you know patience is a virtue its not an american virtue but it is a virtue and its something we should show more of here we need to make sure we get this right because for joe bidens sake or donald trump sake whoever the president is 6 months from now the president is going to want to have the faith and confidence of the nation that elected him and were not going to have that unless we take a deep look at some of these Election Fraud some of them are very serious and very credible we should take a look at these things and make sure theres no there there if there isnt ok great lets move forward but lets not rush to try and make joe biden president tomorrow thats not how our process works and i think the one thing that is uniting republicans and democrats are right now is wanting to see an end to this week of accounting and uncertainty but there is so much a motion out on the streets already dont you think that now that biden has been a projected to be the winner that this is the moment to settle the situation avoid any kind of protests that could potentially turn violent. You know and violence is no laughing matter but agreeing on everything is not an american version we love to argue we love to fight about things in court for and we things that are very important the direction of our country and our leadership in the world these are really important things that an american president can decide an american president can lead on and so i dont i think the notion that we should all somehow hold hands tomorrow and be ok with everything is is just pushed its old k. To be passionate within the bounds of the law its ok to be angry if your candidate didnt win as long as youre not in danger in the rights of others its own shape to be disappointed that your candidate lost that those things are all ok theyre part of the democratic process ive been involved for 25 years ive washed my fair share of washington won and ive seen both sides of the coin. Right chris potter thank you very much for that analysis. My pleasure welcome back to Stacey Bevans from our u. S. Election team joining me here in the studio so ahead of these elections there were predictions that there could be mass protests the potential of violence depending on who won and how people felt the vote was handled have we seen that kind of reaction so far either this week or now that this has been announced a we saw a Little Pocket that it wasnt violence but intimidation and it was scary for the people involved. Supporters tried to storm where votes were being counted across the country thats problematic thats what it would be really great if the president of the United States with talked down the rhetoric a bit and i just have to push back against what our guest was saying mr faulkner what you make of a couple of things 1st of all. The american intelligence agencies saying that russia was trying to interfere with the elections and 2016 that had to do with before count the votes were being cast what donald trump is saying what Rudy Giuliani is saying is that somehow the democrats have poisoned ballots have secretly added ballots thats different than a foreign. Nation trying to interfere with the election so theres a difference there and yes its ok to be angry as mr faulkner was saying its ok to have different points of view what is not ok is to undermine the integrity of our election system which is what the u. S. President is trying to do he is proving to be more dangerous than the let him near putin is to our election that is a problem. Yeah interesting that it is you know talking about the foundations of american democracy not just as americans see this election but also countries around the world are still watching and being urged by the u. S. To carry out their own elections in a free and fair manner i say in the studio with me now thank you so much for that and i want to cross now it to our washington d. C. A bureau chief as poll bring you in for some reaction here in as youre standing outside the white house in washington d. C. Whats happening there. Right i mean it took only minutes before you could go off to the you know that joe biden probably will be the next president of the United States you heard cars honking and now you see literally thousands of people kind of coming here towards me by tell us this behind me so there is a very very happy mood on the ground but we have to keep in mind washington is a very liberal bubble and i think everything you say so you just pointed out and also oliver solid earlier we have to keep that in mind this country is still deeply deeply divided yes sure those people who are in support of joe biden and camelot harris they go out no celebrate but it really will depend on the reaction of donald trump if this stays a happy day or if he is able to use the anger which is out there with those people who were in support of donald trump i mean as the United States and the world is of course still in the middle of a Global Pandemic with the coronavirus the pictures were seeing there from washington d. C. Most people there Wearing Masks but quite closely packed together do you think that the turnout has been affected by fears over the virus. I mean the whole election has been deeply infected by the why was because so many people choose. To do mail in ballots and that caused a lot of kind of distraction and come fusion because many of the 50 states of america werent prepared to handle so many millions of mail in ballots so i think kobe had 19 pendennis overshadowing this whole election of 2020 and you shall see how it develops i mean to the people i talked earlier on here the black lives matter plaza just in front of the white house i mean the 1st feeling was a feeling of joy because those who come out here want to celebrate but when i talked to them a bit longer with them it didnt take too long to say but we have these really really dangerous pandemic i mean some experts fear that up to 1000000 americans might die of covert 19 and this is lives youre talking about but i think we also have to keep in mind all the economic problems problems with many Many Americans will face over the next weeks and months to come due to the pandemic so joe biden if he did looks like it will move into the white house he will have to face challenges on many many ways and he has as youre talking were seeing protesters walking past with signs one said youre fired which of course trumps slogan from the apprentice another with b. L. M. For black lives matter you know as you said washington d. C. It tends to lean democratic so people there seem very happy but what youre saying how do you think the city is going to be over the next few months while donald trump is still president awaiting the inauguration of joe biden in january. That is a good question and crucial question many people who are living here in the area of ashington to say d. C. Are somewhat connected to the government and they wonder how the transition will take place i mean dont have any detail. News put out some fantastic windows which showed how former president s handled that time they 1st of all congratulated. The new president and then they try to do everything to make these transition smoothly because if you didnt long day long time until january 20th when the new president able to take office we shall see what donald trump and his administration is going to do many people fear that he will do hardly anything to make it easy