Being closely watched as the clock ticks down on the ballot count clicks up before we go any further lets go to come out has the latest on the numbers come up thank you adrian yes so 300 hours g. M. T. It is now which means 10 pm on the u. S. East coast and these are the polls that are closing at this hour 4 of them for you montana nevada utah and iowa im not going to go through any projections just now because we dont have any at the moment too early to call in all 4 of those states the one swing state will be keeping an eye on is iowa in the midwest so with that in mind its a good chance just to step back and have a look at some of our swing states as well so lets start in ohio with nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting donald trump is edging further and further away from joe biden his latest 130000 out of 4. 4 almost 4400000 votes counted so its close but the gap widening for donald trump in ohio lets move on to michigan one of the important ones that donald trump picked up. 4 ye
Is next on our list with 11 Electoral College votes to joe biden were also looking at new jersey i believe new jersey is our next state with 14 and then one more for the blue column at this stage it is rhode island with 4 so a bunch of blue states there projected for joe biden and a bunch of red states for donald trump 9 in alabama go to donald trump the state of mississippi as well with its 6 is with donald trump as is oklahoma with its 7 we will also look cat 10 a see 11 Electoral College votes will go to donald trump there as well so we can really going to be able to build the board up in a moment as well. We have gone to the district of columbia to bring in and that is to call it the stage actually but again that would be expected blue later on maine is too early to call with its 4 and remember those are not winner take all they would be split between the candidates possibly missouri is another state which is too early to call at this stage with its 10 Electoral College votes as is
And here to help us with that throughout the morning is john. Good morning, pedro, viewers should know were going to be using the Associated Press numbers for calls and results. So viewers may hear about different numbers being reported but were always going to be coming back to the Associated Press numbers. So lets start off with where the president ial contest stands this morning. The key state of wisconsin there on your screen, a state thats being watched closely this morning, its 49. 4 for joe biden, President Trump, 49. 1 . That number has been flipping back and forth throughout the day. That is just one of six key states were watching this morning. The other one, michigan this morning in the wolverine state. The numbers in michigan, President Trump 49. 8 , joe iden, 48. 6 . And then the third state in the Northern Industrial midwest area , once known as the blue wall for democrats. That blue wall that President Donald Trump broke through, pennsylvania, the other key state, 55. 7
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