This office, i will not be the last. [ cheers ] President Trump insists the election is not over, making baseless claims of fraud. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. The president s allegations of largescale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantia substantiated. Launching lawsuits. My guests republican senator mitt romney of utah, democratic congressman James Clyburn of south carolina, and Biden Deputy Campaign manager kay bedingfield. This is not what the democrats dreamed. Disappointed democrats lose seats in the house. We had a very good day. Most pundits thought we would lose the senate. Two georgia runoffs in january will decide control of the senate. Joining me for insight and analysis, nbc News Washington correspondent andrea mitchell. Democratic pollster cornell belcher. Wall street journal columnist peggy noonan. And david wasserman, house editor for the cook political report.
Nevada president has a six point lead in pennsylvania. The Trump Campaign has declared victory and claimed pennsylvanias 20 electoral votes. President trump is ahead of joe biden by more than 1 in north carolina. And the president is leading biden by about 1 1 2 in georgia. The fox news decision desk says joe biden won the state of arizona and its 11 electoral votes but the Trump Campaign is adamant that they will protect the integrity of the election and they will be able to declare victory in arizona by the end of this week. Just over 600,000 votes remain to be counted. The president is behind only 93,000 votes there. President trump expressing his frustration with the delay in states calling many of those races last night after results showed him leading in a number of those states. Here is what President Trump said earlier today. President trump this is a fraud on the American Public. This is an embarassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we di
With us on election day weve got the white house behind us and in front of us. The decision on this election day when millions of americans have already made up their minds. Yeah, weve got lots to talk about this morning lot of questions too about whats going to happen as the ballots. Our county tonight and into the days that follows and joining us to discuss more about that is Washington Post political reporter philip above phillip. Thank you so much for joining us today. So i read your article counting votes isnt cheating. It was a really nice breakdown of the entire process, what motivated you to write this in the first place. One of these were hearing particular from President Trump and his allies is this that by allowing both county and go on past today and wednesday, potentially isnt for week or so that theyre somehow something nefarious or or or or wrong about that when in fact it simply is the case that votes always take allow Council Members were able predict whos going to win
Continues to cast a shadow over the campaigning with nearly half a 1000000 new infections in the past week mike hanna has more from washington d. C. On the Campaign Efforts the 3 states hes visiting in the course of the day he took very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with Joe Biden Biden has shrunk that gap the lead that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on the states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do with in the white house. It is really a police fired tear gas at protesters over a renewed restrictions to limit the spread of covert 19th a 2nd wave is hitting your apart record new infections are being reported across the continent. The African Union is calling for calm in tanzania ahead of local and National Elections on whether to say police in the semi autonomous zones of our region of denied firing bullets of protesters a Major Opposition Party says 8 p
Astra zeneca says the vaccine it has developed with Oxford University is up to 90 percent effective. But its cheap to make and easy to store. And china launches an unmanned spacecraft to the mission to bring the lunar rocks back to earth. A Rocket Scientist, what success would mean for chinas states . Yes, welcome to the program. A key federal agency has told joe biden, the president ial transition can begin after donald trump directed his administration to cooperate in the handover process. In a tweet president , trump said he no longer opposed government aid for bidens transition team. Its a close as yet. Hes come to conceding defeat, and earlier us president elect joe biden announced his nominations for 6 top positions in the senate in his administration. And they include his longtime adviser, Anthony Blinken for the position of secretary of state. Former secretary of state john kerry is Climate Change envoy and john and yet as treasury secretary, well for more on this, so im joined