The careful counting of every ballot. Mr. Biden asks for every ballot to be counted, mr. Trump says he will go to the Supreme Court. Good morning. The news flowing every hour. Francine lacqua, it is pretty much as we expected, and we have not only seen the political results but the market gyrations in the last 24 hours. Francine tom, there are two outcomes the markets were fearful about, and those outcomes can much more possible in the last 24 hours. First, the joe biden presidency with a Republican Senate. We could have that. It is still mathematically possible. The other one, of course come a very contested election. If you listen to what President Trump said about an hour and 10 minutes ago, it is very clear that he wanted to go to the Supreme Court, ask that the Supreme Court step in, because unclear why, tom, because we are still counting votes. There is absolutely no evidence that something has been done wrong, but certainly fighting words from President Trump, and that will put
Here to guide you through it all. Our live coverage continues on america this morning. Good friday morning, everyone. At this hour, former Vice President joe biden is making gains in two crucial state. Heres where we stand right now. Biden is still at 253 votes and trump at 214. They need 270. President trumps lead had been shrinking. Its not just mailin votes from philadelphia where biden has been making huge gains. Last night erie county in the northwest corner of the state turned blue. President trump needs pennsylvania to win the white house. And a major update, biden has taken the lead in the state of georgia where he had been trailing since election day as the vote count has been coming in overnight. And were expecting more votes today from the atlanta suburbs and from savannah. Both are blue areas. Looking at arizona, a bright spot for the president. Bidens lead is shrinking to about 47,000 votes overnight. All eyes there on Maricopa County. More votes are being released today.
Minutes northeast of us if you were driving over to the airport. The former Vice President set to hold a drivein event in the next hour. Well be watching that as well. This state, this could very well be the state that decides the election. Well have you covered in pennsylvania for the next couple days. Lets get to our top stories on this monday. Fox Business Team coverage. Lauren simonetti watching the markets for us. Blake burman at the white house. Hillary vaughn in pittsburgh. First the markets on the election eve. Lauren . Lauren also the first trading day of november. It is just the second up day for the dow in the last seven but well take it. 422 points in the green. The s p is rebounding after its worst week since march. The big rally that we had this morning was juiced by the strongest manufacturing data in over two years. It faded and then it came back right at the close. We did see a rotation out of those big megacap tech stocks. Even some popular work at home plays whether
Winner in massachusetts as well. Also in delaware, biden wins. Biden also the projected winner in d. C. All right. And oklahoma will go for the president in illinois. We are calling it too early, but biden is leading in illinois. Hes led in the polls. Connecticut, same thing, too early, but biden is leading. Heres whats happening in alabama right now, too early to call. Too early in maine as well. Same story in mississippi, missouri. Biden leading in rhode island, but that ones too early to call. Trump leading in tennessee. All right. So, where does that put us . Weve just made some calls. Here we go. Lets get to the map of 270. Thats how you get elected president in this country, as we show tennessee, but i think we can roll the map. And now weve got a few more numbers to report. Joe biden, not surprisingly, carrying those big cities in the east and we see donald trump in some of his strong red territory. Chuck, this is unfolding as expected. Nobodys won a road game yet. You know . Pa
Minute push. She joins us from Contra Costa County theresa. Why we have been saying people rush here to make sure that they make that deadline as well as dropping their ballots here in Contra Costa County. Ive been doing elections for 25 years this is my 6th president ial election. Ive never seen. People so excited, enthusiastic and voting so early. Thats the assistant registrar of voters on what theyre seeing this general election here in Contra Costa County with today being the deadline for registration we expect to go over. 700,000 voters for the first time in our history today. We about a year ago yesterday that would be our weather account and here we are on the final day of registration. And were were going to hit that target, but its very very very big this year and everybody should vote do the right thing and outside all day long this people constantly pulling up and dropping off their ballots. This mom even turned the whole operation into a civics lesson for her young 3 daught