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You at this hour. Lets show you first where the president ial race stands right now. With 80 lets show you that right now. We have joe biden with 220 electoral votes and President Trump with 213. A candidate needs 270 to win. So far tonight no state has flipped parties from how it voted in 2016. The country is still waiting on key battleground states to finalize their results. Election officials in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania say it could be days until we know the final results due to the large number of mailin ballots. Heres where the popular vote stands. Biden at 49 , donald trump at 48 . Here in california now were going to target here not surprisingly joe biden winning the popular vote by more than 30 points. All 55 of californias electoral votes will go to joe biden. By the way, the last time california voted for a republican back in 1988, george h. W. Bush. Now, the roller coaster of emotions through the night, they are running high. An entire block of San Francisco was
It seems well see President Trump address the nation. One thing weve seen all year long is the president using the white house in an unprecedented way. It is just mind blowing. Im used to when you dont do political work on government property, let alone the white house. He gave his acceptance speech. Hes done repeated events on white house grounds. Im going to put out the spot in a slightly different way. What should we hear from the president . In these next two minutes . He should say pretty much the same thing joe biden said. I see a path to victory here. I think im going to win this race. It will take a little while for to us get all the votes counted but thats what i think we should do. Theres no conversation about policy. He didnt say why he was running. I think the president should talk about what he wants to see. A couple of sentences. This is about shaping a narrative over the next couple days or perhaps longer. And youve got to keep your people motivated. In a pandemic. Count
There you are watching r. T. International this afternoon where its just gone for in moscow in america people are waking up to find their president ial election race stuck on a knife edge results are hanging in the balance in a few key states but that hasnt stopped joe biden claiming hes on course to win a slim lead in Electoral College votes or donald trump for that matter claiming that he has already won and is threatening legal action. Ok well to get more on this were joined in the studio. And also. Is here with us. Coming to us from new york so lets go there 1st and talk to kalib. Just talk through how the race is panning out so far whats the latest and what can we expect. Well as was widely anticipated it is the morning after the election here in the United States and we do not have a clear winner at this point a number of states have yet to declare a winner and its not clear who will be the president for the following 4 years now at this point in the Electoral College joe biden i
Continues. Good afternoon well can you watching our see international now in america people are waking up there to find their president ial election race is stuck on a knife edge the results are hanging in the balance in a few key states and as it stands right now joe biden has a narrow lead with 224 Electoral College votes compared to Donald Trumps 213 the victor will be the 1st to reach 270 biden claimed overnight on cost of victory went 1. 00 step further saying that hes already won and is threatening legal action to get more on this now were joined by murray gas if hes in and also with the market he joins us from new york so lets go to karen. As i said waiting for us in new york. Hanging in the balance not all the votes are in still everything to play for. Well at this point its down to a number of key states it was widely anticipated that the morning after the election in the United States we would not yet have the results and that is what occurred at this point we are waiting for