2020 election and the qs of the u. S. Electoral process. We are about the legal challenges brought forward by the Trump Campaign and how the American People perceive the integrity of the results. The center for American Progress is the host, this is about an hour. Subject this year we saw significant strength in our electoral system. Ultimately our system deck demonstrated democracies resilience we saw a higher share of the voting eligible population than any time in the last 120 years. That is a great site of the vibrancy of democracy but at the heavy load for a lecture to biggest ration vertically during the pandemic the conditions around covered for states to adopt quickly to a once in a century pandemic that meant shifting to mailin ballots recruiting new and younger poll workers and confronting prohibition in some states against counting mail ballots prior to election day. Sadly we also saw the effects of disinformation shared by politicians. And amplified over digital platforms a
As this, the most secure election in the history of this country by chris krebs, lifelong republican charged with securing the vote. The Washington Post reporting over the weekend only 27 republicans have acknowledged the fact of the Election Result, indisputed fact. Post writes that the results of the survey demonstrate the fear most republicans have of the outgoing president and his grip on the party, despite his new status as just the third elected president to lose reelection in the past 80 years. More than 70 of republican lawmakers did not acknowledge the post questions as of friday evening. Thats about 220 republicans in all. The 220 elected officials will have blood on their hands if any harm comes to the local and statewide Office Holders now receiving Death Threats from Trump Supporters who believe Donald Trumps lies. Two of the gop officials under the most brutal assault by trump and his voters, georgia Secretary Of State, brad raffensperger, and Georgia Election official Ga
A recount here right but as daryn mentioned that number isnt going to stay static. We do expect it to grow and the reason why is all slide over the map here so we see pennsylvania. The majority of the ballots that are still uncounted that are out there again we woke up this morning to about a 160,000 or so that still need to be tabulated theyre primarily concentrated in the high population areas of Philadelphia County where the city of philadelphia is an Allegheny County where pittsburgh is there are still several and of those that still need to be counted. Theyre broken up into 3 major groups obviously still have the absentee mail in ballots that theyre Getting Started right, you also have the provisional ballots that have also been held to account after the mail in ballots and those are the ballots that they give you lets say if you go to a precinct, cant remember if this was my polling place or not they get a provisional ballot they take on your information they say will counted aft
Is the will of the voters. No one not anything else to choose is to not try to claim victory but asks his supporters to be patient. We have no doubt and when the count is surely senator harris and i will be declared the winners. I ask everyone to stay calm. All the people to stay calm the Trump Campaign challenge the election process in states like georgia and michigan but judges have already dismissed them. Now were waiting for more results to come down and we could see some final numbers come through from either georgia or pennsylvania as early as later this morning. But right now on diesel john reporting live from all right faisal yeah, thank you and we could find out new information that could shift the tide has basal set some time this morning so keep it tuned to kron 4. Joe biden still has 264 electoral votes. Donald trump has 214 like i said the state of georgia hasnt been called yet for joe biden because there are still more votes to count. And beyond that we still have oversea
Sleeping. Joe i say joe biden took the lead over from President Trump in the Early Morning hours. Georgia his lead is only by about a 1000 votes in pennsylvania about 5500 votes, but theres still a few more left to count. So the conventional wisdom is that joe biden leads will continue to grow. But well have to wait and see how were not calling anything in the a p is not calling anything until the votes are actually counted. Like joe biden was saying, lets just wait and see these votes come in its monumental with the number of people who voted even the popular vote is huge where you can joe biden with almost 4 million votes over President Trump and the counting continues. We can to take a live look right now to get matter fact because yeah like the president said in that sound bite at the top of the hour about how the vote was being conducted. In secret. Well thats not necessarily case happened you can go to any basically any secretary of states website many of them have live stream. C