Im phil gale welcome to the program joe bidens edging closer to the white house as final votes are still being counted 3 days after the u. S. Election the democratic challenger is narrowly ahead in the key states which have yet to declare their results so lets take a look at the overall picture which hasnt change for quite a while now so far joe biden has 264 Electoral College votes and donald trump has 214 according to the a. P. News agency remember they need 270. 00 votes to win pennsylvania would be a massive prize with its 20 electoral votes joe bidens lead that is currently more than 15000. 00 with that 98 percent of the vote counted georgia with its 16 Electoral College votes also exchange be close biden has pulled ahead of trump here but there. Only about 1500. 00 votes between them so its likely to go to a recount overall Donald Trumps path to victory is looking increasingly narrow states in red or blue have been called by a 4th trump all bible states in light to blue or in pin
Know is much more fighting back you know its much more vital. Than having a fast parts. Let me tell you one thing when you have a narrow margin or. 5. Little small things can make a difference. Also on the day of joe biden does end up in the white house he wont be taking as Many Democrats with him as he hopes to look at why the blue way turned out to be just a trickle president elect biden has a strong mandate to lead and he will have a strong Democratic House with him and Many Democrats in the senate some of them one a few did not. Welcome to the day we saw with the u. S. Election still on the knife edge counting is continuing in many states with some so close the results could still go either way 3 days after the election were creeping close to knowing whether joe biden or donald trump will be inaugurated in january as clocks tally the remaining ballots when theyre finished they might have to start all over again. On friday state officials in georgia said they expected they would hav
Underway in the philippines after a super typhoon go and he killed 20 people and caused widespread destruction. Well now across the United States verses are going to the polls to decide if donald trump will get a 2nd term or if joe biden will become president voting has been open for a couple of hours now but already long lines have been forming now already nearly 100000000 people have cost their ballots an early voting levels that have never been seen before in a u. S. Election now this hour 12 g. M. T. Polls have opened in a number of states including delaware washington d. C. And pennsylvania. Well lets introduce you to our team on the ground for this hour. Is monitoring developments from new york christensen amy is in philadelphia and pennsylvania one of the big battleground states where as we had very saying has already begun to mollify al is in wellington delaware thats bidens home state and from washington d. C. Weve got alan fischer well get the latest more of them in a moment
We are back with nick clark. Clark, associate professor at susquehanna university. What do polls say right now in this snapshot of time about where the race stands . Average thenes that different polls put Vice President biden ahead between roughly 4 and 6 . Frank then and marshall has a new poll this morning i think with some of the upper end of that trajectory. There are some single polls that give him more of an advantage. It is looking like biden as an advantage between 4 and 6 . Host is it enough to get out of the margin of error . Guest i believe so. On the high side the margin is around five point. Even if the Vice President were to come down a percentage point, that would be enough to do it. That is a high margin though. Most cases will be between 3 and five point. We will not know on Election Night because they will be ballots being counted for the days afterwards. It does look at the polls. If they are accurate, the Vice President will pull this off. Host 20 electoral votes a
Philadelphia. Im sitting in front of mconkey ferry inn, that is the exact prays Continental Army stayed before general washingtons fateful trip across the delaware river. This is a historic backdrop on history in 2020. Susan li is in the newsroom in new york. Grady trimble at the polls in harrisburg, pennsylvania. Blake burman at the white house. Hillary vaughn with the Biden Campaign in wilmington. Well get to everybody. Well start with you, grady, like me youre in pennsylvania. I was out at the polls. We saw long lines in bucks county outside of philly. Some people waited well over an hour to vote. Seemed like a lot of enthusiasm, pretty strong inperson turnout at least in county. What do you see where you are . That is the same scenario in pittsburgh this morning, connell. We have video of the polling place we were at just a few hours ago. When the polls opened, there were lines that lined around the block. What youre looking at ppg paint arena. That is actually where the Pittsburgh