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Battleground states still counting votes but the president ial remains remains too close to call joe biden is urging people to be patient he says he is confident of becoming the next president s biden has 264 Electoral College votes 270 are needed for victory. Donald trump is making false claims that if only legal votes were counted he would win the election he says legal challenges manned up in the Supreme Courts kristen salumi has more now from philadelphia. Joe biden ahead in pennsylvania by just over 5000 votes thats a 10th of a percentage point still a very close race here but the ballots are continuing to be counted particularly here in philadelphia where biden has been winning 87 percent of the vote that lead is expected to expand as it does the president has been attacking the poll workers here the credibility of the county and launching legal challenges if the o. P. s Prime Minister says a military operation in the northern to gray region has clear and limits of goals and so a
2 key states trotted out leads by fewer than 2000 votes in georgia as the remaining votes are tallied up to tuesdays election and has left less than half a percent between them in pennsylvania. Trampas lashed out at the time its taking for remaining votes to be tallied in those key states claiming without evidence that the election was being rigged and stolen saying further legal action is imminent if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes 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 i will really just say certainly were many critical stage. Biden is urging people to be patient he says hes confident of becoming the next president he has 264 Electoral College votes to 70 and they did for victory 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 surely senator harrison i will be declar
Sleeping. Joe i say joe biden took the lead over from President Trump in the Early Morning hours. Georgia his lead is only by about a 1000 votes in pennsylvania about 5500 votes, but theres still a few more left to count. So the conventional wisdom is that joe biden leads will continue to grow. But well have to wait and see how were not calling anything in the a p is not calling anything until the votes are actually counted. Like joe biden was saying, lets just wait and see these votes come in its monumental with the number of people who voted even the popular vote is huge where you can joe biden with almost 4 million votes over President Trump and the counting continues. We can to take a live look right now to get matter fact because yeah like the president said in that sound bite at the top of the hour about how the vote was being conducted. In secret. Well thats not necessarily case happened you can go to any basically any secretary of states website many of them have live stream. C
Stolen trump has yet to concede defeat and is vowing to press ahead with his legal challenge. Thanks for joining us joe biden has begun his 1st full day as u. S. President elect by getting down to work biden is planning an overhaul of government with a task force to tackle the pandemic as his top priority at a victory speech in his home state of delaware he was flanked by his running mate Vice President elect. Biden use the address to reinforce his message that its time to heal a divided nation. The docs. America joe biden promising. To a country that has been living through a year of pandemic in unrest the veteran league is promising to bring a new by. The bible tells us to everything there is a season a time to build the time to reprint a time to serve and a time to hear all this is a time to heal in america. Alongside biden a woman who says shes determined to heal the countrys rice who divisions Camilla Harris will be the countrys 1st female a minority Vice President she did the key