That might not be enough because it looks as if joe biden has more than enough force to get over the 270. 00 Electoral College vote threshold which of course means he wins the white house but ideally the biden team would like to get to 360 thats within their grasp theres a couple reasons for that one it makes it look slightly more comfortable than just squeezing by on one Electoral College vote id take so we. Only got there because of problems with the voting systems but also 306. 00 is what donald trump achieved 4 years ago so for many in the Biden Campaign there would be an ironic symmetry that biden got to 306 but celebrations here in front of the white house and even here in the. Goodbye that was played i remember. 12 years ago when. The. Obama won the white house for the 1st time but a truly historic moment if this is to go through because of course we get joe biden as president in the United States but also elected for the 1st time to the office of Vice President we have a woman
On Election Night with the results withheld from major democrat run locations only to appear. Later and they suddenly appeared and they all had the name biden and were just about all i think almost all they all had the name but none which is a little strange i challenge joe and every democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes because they talk about votes and i think they should use the word legal legal votes we want every legal vote counted and i want every legal vote counted we want openness and transparency no secret count rooms no mystery ballots no illegal votes being cast after election day you have election day and the laws are very strong and that you have an election day and they dont want the votes cast after election day and they want the process to be an honest one its so important we want an honest election and we want an honest count. And we want honest people working back there because its a very important so thats the way this country is going to win this way t
Blastoff. China launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon. Aiming to bring back rocks from the lunar surface must not have, although he continues on tuesday, captain has been left out of the cattle, get ready to face at camp we start this news. I have us where president elect joe biden. After weeks of delay and uncertainty is formally beginning, his transition to the white house, the head of the General Services administration has designated biden as the apparent winner of this months president ial election that clears the way for the transition to get underway. Donald trump has refused to concede defeat, or the rawest his administration to start the process, but hes promised to keep up the legal fight, insisting without evidence that the election was quote, corrupt bidens team has welcomed the move, which frees up millions of dollars for his new administration, it can now work with federal officials on a coronavirus response, as well as a National Security strategy. Now, serious par
Babies. The Game Stop Frenzy continues with backlash against robin hood for redistricting amateur trading. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Restricting. It is friday, january 29th. With us we have White House Reporter for the asci press, jonathan lemire, Michael Steele, and former aide to the george w. Bush white house elise jordan, msnbc analyst as well. So we will get to the latest in game stop. That story ahead. Plus, a full year into the fight against covid. And were learning troubling details about the pandemic. A federal investigation found that u. S. Officials who greeted american evacuees from wuhan did not have training in Infectious Disease control and were told not to wear masks. Thats according to the washington post. The states Attorney General is investigating why the Cuomo Administration failed to report 3,800 Hospital Deaths as being linked to nursing homes, an undercount of 40 . Weve got details on both of those stories coming up on morning joe. But we begin wi
Captioning performed by vitac. So there were obviously pros and cons in this ad. Some pros, southern voters appreciated moral compass of ford by declining this playboy offer he got. Jimmy carters campaign was hurt by the fact he did a playboy article. The moral majority, rebirthed the strategy, conservative idea of we are christians, sexual restraint and not just racial segregation like happened in the past. Okay. Im going to talk about the fallacies used in fords ad. First is hasty generalization, when you take one fact and use it to draw a whole conclusion. The pastors statement is not exactly enough evidence to promote and support that ford would be a good president just because he did this one thing. Another fallacy used would be moral equivalence. Thats like saying that one action of somebody is just as bad as an action of somebody else. So they are directly attacking carter because he did do a playboy interview. They are trying to say ford didnt and carter did, hes doing somethin