Eventually secured more than enough Electoral College votes to clear his path to the white house or biden supporters are gathering a rallies across the u. S. Celebrating the democrats victory one of the biggest celebrations is just in front of the white house thousands of people have poured on to black lives matter plaza in the capital chanting cheering and singing. Lets speak to a White House Correspondent kimberly how kid who is in washington d. C. For us says so kimberly it is being contested by the Trump Campaign but it does seem that joe biden after 4 days of painstaking counting and wafer thin majorities in some places is now the president elect of the United States. Yes in his cell or his his supporters are celebrating on black lives matter plaza outside the white house as the president returned from one of his weekend golf games he had to weave his motorcade through these crowds to get back to the white house were watching carefully to see if well hear from the president but ju
I welcome you watching r. T. International where there is one story dominating today the u. S. President ial election much tighter than everybody was expecting and still no results but lets have a look at the numbers to bring you up to speed on how the candidates are doing so far the race is pretty tight as you can see with biden securing were already 238 electors and trump having the backing of 213270 needed to win the white house that is the magic number its all based on the Electoral College system and not the popular votes well heres what it looks like so far on a state by state basis the red the blue for biden. Many votes were mailed in and key states like wisconsin michigan pennsylvania and georgia will resume counting in the morning. Find her turn to night we believe were on track to win a selection were going to wear in this factory thank you thank you. We were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win this election. We will win this and we as far as im concerned we
Easily win if you count the illegal the us they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late ive already decisively won many critical stage yes democratic president ial candidate joe biden is edging people to be patient as the final votes from cheese days election continue to be counted hes closing the gap on donald trump in pennsylvania and georgia and says he is confident of becoming the next president. Each ballot must be counted and thats what were going to see going through now and thats how it should be democracy sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years but its just not government governance and i spend the envy of the world. We continue to feel you know we continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is fully senator harrison i will be declared the w
Now we are watching as joe biden is closing in on Donald Trumps lead we expect by the next time that the votes are announced that dont trouble potentially have lost that state and digitally have lost the election at that point because there are very few paths for donald trump without also winning the u. S. State of georgia and this is why were seeing the u. S. President fighting so hard. The u. S. Has seen another record jump in ukraine a virus infections 2 days after the president ial vote more than 120000 cases were confirmed on thursday exceeding the record set the day before and thats according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins university an average of 850 people dying from the virus every day up from 700 a month ago. The entire population of liverpool in the United Kingdom will be offered a test for covert 19 its part of a trial for mass testing aimed at helping hospitals and lifting restrictions about 2000 military personnel have been deployed to help 8 prodemocracy politicians in
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