Soon be over. Joe biden is closing in on the president ial election. Bidens lead over President Trump continues to grow in key battleground states around we do expect a new round of counted ballot this morning that could put biden over the top, but the president is vowing to fight on in court, while biden is urging the nation to come together. This is the electoral vote count. Joe biden has 253. The president has 213. Joe biden is potentially one state away from crossing that 270 threshold. Thatsy we begin with the cnn key race alert. The key state, pennsylvania, has enough votes to give joe biden the presidency. He currently leads by 28,000 votes. That number has been growing. Tens of thousands outstanding this morning. We could be getting some of that in. Its coming largely from democratic areas, his lead is expected to grow. Georgia, we got new votes from overnight. Joe biden leads by 7,000 vote, 16 electoral votes up for grabs. This is a razor thin margin. Joe biden is expanding it
So this is a panel where we going to spend some time each of our is going to spend about five or 10 minutes introducing a particular president ial transition and highlight a few of the big takeaway interesting points, Lessons Learned. And so well go im going to im going to we wont go in program order. Were actually going to go and in Chronological Order of the elections that theyre going to be highlighting and then do that. About 50 minutes or so. And then open it up for discussion and conversation and questions. So so let me im going to go forth and im going to introduce everyone at the top. And then we will they will go in turn. So im going to introduce folks in the in the order in which they are going to speak. So first, we are going to have lindsey stravinsky, who is a senior fellow at center for president ial history at Southern Methodist methodist university. She is a historian of the presidency, political culture and the government, especially the president s cabinet. Her first
And participant in president ial administrations and transitions and an adjunct professor at the tech school of business at dartmouth. In 2021, he served in the biden administration, ceo of the u. S. International development corporation. Margaret previously served as director of the Nonprofit Center for president ial transition, where he worked for the Biden Transition Team on transition planning efforts. He also spent 12 years as managing director of the Carlyle Group and held several positions in the clinton administration. David will bring us closer very close to the present day by discussing the 2020 transition. And with that, i will turn over to dr. Stravinsky. Well, thank you all so much for being im very excited about this panel, which i had the privilege to put together. And it was really just an excuse to talk about the things that im working on and able to find people who were interested in many of the same topics. Im sure all of you recall your history textbook lesson on el
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