Masks to see how exciting it is to come before you today with joe biden having the tremendous mandate he has in that pretty soon, the hyphen will be gone from Vice President to president elect, joe biden. It is a happy day for our country because joe biden is a unifier, because he is determined to bring people together, because he respects all points of view, and as he has said, i ran as a democrat, i will govern as president for all of the people whether they voted for me or not. I am so officially pleased with the outcome that is imminent and also personally delighted because of the quality and caliber of leadership that joe biden will provide. This morning, it is clear that the bidenharris ticket will win the white house. His election is historic propelled by the biggest vote ever in the history of our country, 73. 8 million and counting americans, the most votes ever received by any president ial ticket in history. President elect biden has a strong mandate to lead and will have a
Has vowed to keep up his legal challenges though saying that he will never give up fighting for the nation. Act as his supporters continue that protest outside Voting Centers elsewhere vote very different scene celebrations are broken out in anticipation of a final result. Well joe biden is edging closer to that crucial number 270 Electoral College votes needed to make him the next president of the United States 3 days after americans voted the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 key battleground states pennsylvania and georgia so where do we stand right now there are just a handful of states that are still being counted and biden is leading in most of them based on projections from the Associated Press he has secured 264 Electoral College votes so far donald trump has 214 and needs both children pennsylvania to reach 270 but it is extremely close in georgia right now most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which tends to lean to the democrats and
Issues that are before him to to the base and really i think most importantly is expanding the map and when we look at this map the fact that we are having a conversation about georgia a state that has not gone through since 99 and 2 means that the lesson here is that all of the states matter and that we had to have a ground that is looking at states that have otherwise been just written off and that entire map is our map in this country and i think that that is going to be one of the most important lessons is that when you organize and that we focus on a strategy that lead to 5 that that we actually. To take found and see if the full cycle strategies many thanks for speaking to us not just their. Youre watching out as a reminder of where we stand with the u. S. Election and the race for the white house remains too close to call with the outcome resting on just a few battleground states the democratic candidate joe biden has taken the lead in pennsylvania georgia and nevada donald trum
Lets dig in with pennsylvania right now. Joe biden has taken the lead right now. He has about a 6,000vote lead, just under 6,000 votes. Theres still 130,000 ballots that still need to be counted. If youre saying this race is very close, were talking about a 6,000vote lead. Theres 130,000 ballots that can be counted. President trump can catch up, maybe. Heres the problem for President Trump. At least 60 60,000 of those 130,000 ballots that have yet to be counted are coming from philadelphia, the surrounding suburbs up through the Lehigh Valley and joe biden is making eastern pennsylvania even more blue. Tom, let me stop you there. Through the night joe biden has been winning. Hes been winning the deep blue areas by 70, 80 . Yes. Because of the mailin vote, when we look at pennsylvania, look at the ratio right here, this is pretty much the breakdown. 80 are going to joe biden. I want to say 30,000 of that 130,000 still to be counted is coming from pittsburgh, a very deep blue county. Als
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