Probably are wondering what is the state of the race so far and what are we still waiting to get in . To get more on that we have Anthony Salvanto. Hes our director of election surveys here at cbs news. Runs the Battleground Tracker polls. Hes been following the race all night. Also Major Garrett still in coat and tie. Wondering if you were going to take that off. Salvanto has already gone down to the Shirt Sleeves and the tie is loosened a little. Good evening. Good morning to the two of you. Where are we at this hour . Okay. So tony, let me take you through first the five states that we at this moment consider tossups. And thats wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, North Carolina and georgia. All the others projected or in the case of nevada and arizona as of this moment, leading to joe biden. The issue here is that, let me walk you through. In wisconsin, we estimate at least almost 700,000, 672,000 ballots still remaining to be counted. Theyve been cast. Not yet counted. And we can do
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You see, i talk relatively quickly, so i will do my best. We continued to work through the weekend. Im going to go over the numbers right now. As we close in on counties beginning to the certification process, i know there were questions concerning military ballots which were the last to come in on friday. With that, at the end of the day, we are at 18,400 military and outstanding, which means they cannot come in now, but these were out there available. They could have come in but did not, 7786. Separate from that was the regular absentee ballots. With that, the ballots cast were 1,303,749 absentee ballots. There are 126,400 that were not cast. You will see that as a lower number than the original full request because we had hundreds of thousands of people show up to vote in person who had their which is ats process that is legal in georgia. We have seen 700,000 provisional to have come from the counties. We know 7300 provisionals have been excepted already and we are continuing to wor
This has got to be one of the more fraught election cycles in our lifetime. Certainly a roller coaster counting process. And still unclear, a full clarifying picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. We have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions. What happened, and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and eventual results . If so, what was the cause of that . How are the two parties, democrats and republicans, now going to move forward in terms both their program, their policies, but also how they position themselves electorally. With that, let me turn the mic over to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen toscano. Ellen . Hello. I am the cofounder of the inside american politics series. Hostedfor 10 years and last year and this year by the center at nyu. We started the annual conference in 2008 following the historic election of barack obama as president of the united states. Now, we come together to discuss the elec