Across the United States. We will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux and Navajo Nation and go to north dakota, which has the highest covid19 death rate of any state or country in the world. Then democracy now cohost Juan Gonzalez looks at how the Corporate Media missed the real story about latinx voter turnout in the 2020 election. Juan the main story is that in an election which saw historic tnout, people of color, and especially latinos, had an unprecedented increase in voting. And they, not white voters, represented the bulk of that increase. Amy plus, we will speak to antiracist activist bree newsome bass and princeton professor eddie glaude about the election of joe biden and Kamala Harris. We have to get about the work of responding to the problems we face as a nation at scale and not returning back to some sense of normalcy, which in some ways laid the foundation for the disaster that was and is trumpism. Amy a that d more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democrac
Like america. The battle to restore decency, defend democracy and give everybody in this country a fair shot. Democracy is not a state. It is an act. It takes sacrifice, but there is joy in it and there is progress, because we, the people, have the power to build a better future. A vision of unity as president elect joe biden and his running mate coined the daughter of oakland, v. P. Elect Kamala Harris echoing the words of the late john lewis, laying out their vision for the next four years, welcoming everyone together as americans. Good morning. Its sunday, november 8th. Im jovina fordson. I know all of you all in the bay area heard those celebrations way into the night. We are waking up to history made here and that message of healing from joe biden and california senator Kamala Harris. Speaking from will manageton delaware, last night president elect biden laid out his hopes for his presidency, introduced by the woman whose story you all know very well here. Vice president elect Ka
And President Trump 48 of the vote with 68 million american vot votes. Now what really counts is electoral counts. 270 magic number at 264. President trump having locked in 214 electoral votes. It is coming down to razor thin margins more than anyone expected if you watch the polls. Liz kreutz has a look at the current state of the race and the discrepancies we saw in polling. Liz . We did. Many of us expected this race to be close but not this close and depending on some results that were expected to get in the next few hours, 12 hours from arizona and nevada. There is a chance biden wins the white house by reaching 270 on the dot. But as we know, its not over until its over and the president is not going to go down without a fight. After a roller coaster 24 hours, the path to 270 are starting to come into clearer picture. Today abc news saying former Vice President joe biden is the apparent winner to win michigan. It a big victory for the biden camp but it not over yet. Were seeing s
Been battling for every last vote with biden out in pennsylvania and trump in for jane. You know im not thinking about concession speech or acceptance speech. Hopefully will be only doing one of those 2 and you know. Winning is easy losing is never easy now for me its the. But i think we have when we see rallies the likes of which in the history of this country probably 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 a tremendous unity nobodys ever seen that we take an airport and the airports not big enough to hold the crowds nobodys ever seen a thing like that and our opposition is you know we have a few people sitting in circles and thats ok thats not abnormal thats not abnormal actually i mean thats the way it is. Austrian police have arrested at least 14 people in connection with mondays shooting at the capital vienna a memorial was held for the 4 people who have died another 22 were i
A 1000000 people have been if infected in the United States in just the last 10 days, castro has more from washington d. C. Now these numbers are the highest figures. There have been yet the beginning of this pandemic, and theyre translating to see pain across the country in states like texas and el paso, there are multiple mobile morgue units parked behind hospitals in north dakota. Another hot spot that the governor there has authorized medical staff who have tested positive for cobra who are 8th symptomatic to continue working classes, the desperation for nurses and doctors to continue their work. Mass protests have been taking place across peru after martin. This car was removed as president protesters force with Police Outside congress in the capital lima. This current remains very popular despite accusations of corruption that led to his impeachment. The funeral for cheap negotiators will be held later on wednesday. He died on tuesday from cope with 19 complications. Erick has se