Republicans defied predictions everywhere. It does seem, as i said, that mr. Biden has a slight advantage with a slim lead in several crucial states, but the contest will go on in the form of recounts and legal challenges. Republicans are in a strong position to maintain control of the senate, they made big gains in the house of representatives. Of course, the main, unsettlinged question remains the president ial race itself. On thursday night, President Trump claimed victory. This is a case where theyre trying to steal an election. Theyre trying to rig an election, and we cant let that happen. Detroit and philadelphia known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a president ial race, a very important president ial race. Gerri now, the president s typically combative style drew the usual pearlclutching from the media, Major Networks cut away from his remarks to protect their viewers. Now, its also
Everywhere. It does seem, as i said, that mr. Biden has a slight advantage with a slim lead in several crucial states, but the contest will go on in the form of recounts and legal challenges. Republicans are in a strong position to maintain control of the senate, they made big gains in the house of representatives. Of course, the main, unsettlinged question remains the president ial race itself. On thursday night, President Trump claimed victory. This is a case where theyre trying to steal an election. Theyre trying to rig an election, and we cant let that happen. Detroit and philadelphia known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a president ial race, a very important president ial race. Gerri now, the president s typically combative style drew the usual pearlclutching from the media, Major Networks cut away from his remarks to protect their viewers. Now, its also true that President Trump made
We have from new york claims of fraud hunger for the Us Democratic system. Hold mr woodward you know. Youve got to do whats good for the people good marriage of people trust is a direct threat to our democracy trump hes trying to time hes to find what hes trying to for because to be some kind of approach to this country and its people the accident scene said not seemingly the rest subdivision of u. S. Society as both by do not Trump Supporters continue to rally all across the country. You want you all to International Im sauce to tell you that this is my calling dont reports on it some day here in moscow so its 5 days since the voting in the u. S. Senate looks like we might finally have a result. A number of media are projecting that joe biden has been elected the 42nd president of the United States having secured 298 up to World College its just a reminder of course 270 are needed for victory the form of the piece when in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that thres
Contest the election in the Supreme Court biden meanwhile addressing supporters in his home state of delaware said that it wasnt up to republicans or democrats to call victory but for the American People he urged patience. Look at the results my colleague michael is standing by. A look again at how its going and some of the nights a key battleground states is america waits with bated breath a. P. Has called arizona with its 11 Electoral College votes for joe biden lets take a look at the rest of the map here we see in the middle again most of those states taken by the president Montana North Dakota south dakota all the way down to texas and of course key states like california with its 55 electoral votes new york with its 29 electoral votes for joe biden but of course picking up the key states of South Carolina and florida with 29 electoral votes lets go to the next graphic here for you and you can see that North Carolina with its 15 electoral votes a key state in this fight for both c
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