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
Recovery will be slower without additional stimulus, but more aid may require cooperation between democrats and republicans. Mindaltering drugs, is it time to invest in pot stocks . Ben levisohn, carlton english and reshma. Ben, voters are always half unhappy, half happy after an election, but investors were clearly gleeful, and the market was up 7. 5 , almost 7. 5 , its best postelection return since 1932. Break it down for us. Yeah. I mean, its a new narrative going around the market now. Before the election it was all about the blue wave and how you were going to get this massive stimulus thats going to drive the market. Now its about glued lock, that were not gridlock, were not going to get tax increases, massive spending, but without the tax increases, everythings going to be okay. Were basically going to have status quo with some small changes around the edges, and you could even get lucky e and see a little cooperation between biden and mcconnell who knew each other from years i
Counting votes and the potential path for victory for both candidates as we wait to see what happens next, today, wednesday, november 4th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today. We are glad youre with us on wednesday morning. We really never left. Weve been on the air all night. Lots of news to cover. I do think a lot of folks at home were up all night. Today comes with something were not exactly used to in the wake of a president ial election. And still a lot of uncertainty. And a lots of votes uncounted, millions of them. Were going to walk you through all of it, do it slowly and take it one step at a time. Heres the count at this hour. According to nbc news, the electoral count is 224 for biden, 213 for the president. Theyre trying to reach 270. Thats the magic number. Now nine states are this morning either t
In most cases it will be between three and five points. To know ongoing Election Night because there will still be ballots being counted for the days afterward. Host 20 electoral votes at stake. What role do you think the state will play in this election . Close, ifelection is the polls are largely wrong right now and none of the other florida or carolina or georgia we may not know the outcome in pennsylvania on Election Night. We will know for sure if it is closed. If it is closed it will likely come down to pennsylvania. Host what about those who dont routinely vote. What what do we know about whether or not the candidates are getting them to show up this time around. We expect turn out to be higher. Pennsylvania typically has a higher turnout rate and the rest of the country. President trump to mobilize new people to the polls last time and he may do so again this election. We are also getting some evidence that there are people voting for the first time for Vice President biden bec
Winner in massachusetts as well. Also in delaware, biden wins. Biden also the projected winner in d. C. All right. And oklahoma will go for the president in illinois. We are calling it too early, but biden is leading in illinois. Hes led in the polls. Connecticut, same thing, too early, but biden is leading. Heres whats happening in alabama right now, too early to call. Too early in maine as well. Same story in mississippi, missouri. Biden leading in rhode island, but that ones too early to call. Trump leading in tennessee. All right. So, where does that put us . Weve just made some calls. Here we go. Lets get to the map of 270. Thats how you get elected president in this country, as we show tennessee, but i think we can roll the map. And now weve got a few more numbers to report. Joe biden, not surprisingly, carrying those big cities in the east and we see donald trump in some of his strong red territory. Chuck, this is unfolding as expected. Nobodys won a road game yet. You know . Pa