People say droll powells untalented in worthless but you see how difficult it is to blast the money got it takes some skill they have to go to the college coming and. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list im showbusiness ill see you then. This is boom thats the one business show you cant afford to miss unfair montecito going to washington coming out the next president of the United States in jail and the tide it but it doesnt seem to bother wall street well explain the big rally for attack as the vote continue to mend. Fences on enjoying things today and california voters approve the proposition to keep mover and left drivers contractors will try to economics professor richard wolf about what this means for our faith we have a lot to get to so lets get started. U. S. President ial Election Results theyre still coming in with some pretty big states still in question and really its it seems like its too close t
And larryt nbc news norden, the director of the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center for justice. Just a reminder, if you have questions as we chat, feel free to drop them into the chat below. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment, and with coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots or voting early. Alternatives to our usual voting methods, a lot of people are asking will voting become digital, as well . Thent to kick off conversation by asking, why would we even want online voting . My bias is coming from seattle where we have a robust mailin ballot system, and the process is already quite easy. Im curious what the conversation would look like around, why do we need this kind of technology . I think the appeal is in normas. Is enormous. In theory, it has largely been attempted in this country for military deployed service members. It could be used for people with disabilities who dont have a lot of ease getting to the polls. If we somehow had a robust on
Will talk to economics professor richard wolf about what this means for afaik we have a lot to get to so lets get started. U. S. President ial Election Results theyre still coming in with some pretty big states still in question and really its it seems like its too close to call but its one joins us hes going to walk us through then what do we have ok there will restart out now with some breaking news before we get into the numbers and the states of whats happening because apparently the Trump Campaign has filed 2 lawsuits in just the last hour one in the state of pennsylvania and one in the state of michigan in both cases they are asking judges to halt the count heres what theyre saying President Campaign says it is suing to temporarily stop the vote count in pennsylvania what are they saying theyre saying that the democratic Election Officials are hiding the ballot counting process from republican poll observers and that the campaign wants to temporarily halt the counting until there
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Vietnam. Hello thank you for joining us voting is underway across the United States in the most controversial and highly anticipated poll in recent years 100000000 people have cast their ballots early setting the stage for a record turnout that have been long lines at polling stations as voters try and stay safe amid the coronavirus pandemic and donald trump and joe biden have been battling for every last vote with biden out of pennsylvania trump in virginia speaking in the last hour President Trump told reporters he was confident of victory. You know im not thinking about a concession speech or acceptance speech it. Hopefully will be only for doing one of those 2 and you know. Winning is easy losing is never easy now for me its not. But i think we have when we when you see rallies the likes of which in the history of this country probably of the history of the world nobodys ever seen before. Theres a tremendous love going on in this country and theres really a tremendous unity theres