We will speak with independent journalist allan nairn and unit organizer Jane Mcalevey got how to stop and electoral coup and what went wrong in the 2000 flood recount. Then georgia flips blue for now, as joe biden pulls ahead of trump for the first time in extraordinarily tight race for the states 16 elecral votes. Ware patitly watchg as demoacy is mos definitely at stake in to see whether or no georgia will fp for thecratic candidate for First Time Since 1992. Amy will in the u. S. , millions of people are mesmerized by the president ial race, ipuerto ric the isld is dealg with its own race that produced very different results, including the election of afro puerto rican human rights feminist and l lgbtq activist ana irma rivera lassen. Is i am anmeans bt and others the black woman. The discrimination some of us may face. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Democric president ial nominee joe biden has
Sleeping. Joe i say joe biden took the lead over from President Trump in the Early Morning hours. Georgia his lead is only by about a 1000 votes in pennsylvania about 5500 votes, but theres still a few more left to count. So the conventional wisdom is that joe biden leads will continue to grow. But well have to wait and see how were not calling anything in the a p is not calling anything until the votes are actually counted. Like joe biden was saying, lets just wait and see these votes come in its monumental with the number of people who voted even the popular vote is huge where you can joe biden with almost 4 million votes over President Trump and the counting continues. We can to take a live look right now to get matter fact because yeah like the president said in that sound bite at the top of the hour about how the vote was being conducted. In secret. Well thats not necessarily case happened you can go to any basically any secretary of states website many of them have live stream. C
Voter fraud. And nationwide Trump Supporters clash with pro biden groups. Its 1500. 00 g. M. T. Thats 10 am on the east coast of the United States and still we cant say who the next president is going to be the race is so close the margins a razor thin in many key states and as more ballots are processed every hour the gap narrows between donald trump and joe biden heres what you need to know there are just 4 battleground states still being counted any single win for biden that effectively and the race has pulled ahead in pennsylvania georgia and hes in the lead in nevada the states being counted are the ones you see here in yellow biden has 264 elect. Well College Votes trump has 214 the number to hit is 270 and were hearing a decision in pennsylvania could come in the next few hours the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh biden is no leading in georgia by 1097 votes the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots from democ
American history. We will speak to the new the newagazines yorker magazines jane mayer about her new article why trump cant afford to lose. That would to florida. Thats the sound of supporters cheering on Desmond Meade as he came out of a polling place after voting for president for the first time in 30 years. Two years ago, meade led an effort to restore Voting Rights for floridians who were disenfranchised due to their criminal records. At the heart of amendment 4 is the fact we abolished 150yearold jim crow law. Prior to amendment 4 has income anyone convicted of a felony offense faced lifetime barred from voting. So effectively removed that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States is once again shuttering its own world record for daily coronavirus infections, reporting a staggering 163,000 cases thursday. Nearly 1200 people died of covid19 in the last 24 hours. Public Health Officials a
State by state. Balance of power in congress. Latest video on demand and the election process go. O cspan. Org election. The secretary of state held a meeting on the status where the states vote result stand saying the race is too close to call and theyre committed to full transparency during the process. He reiterated that there will most likely be a recount due to how close the vote totals are etween candidates. Yall ready . Good afternoon. Thank you for taking the time to be here again today. We are all working hard to maintain a clear line of communication with the media the county Election Officials and our voters. Our office will continue to give unprecedented access. The voters of georgia deserve transparency. Georgia voters deserve accurate,. Eal Election Results Election Officials are making sure that every legal ballots are count and no ill lead ballots are counted. Right now, georgia remains too close to call out of the proximately five million votes cast, well have a margin