Pennsylvania. He has four stops in a state hes won just this past election cycle. By less than 1 . And top of mind, of course, at all these events today, the pandemic and staggering new headline today. The u. S. Has just set an alltime world record for new cases in a single day. Nearly 100,000 new infections on friday alone in the United States. We have a huge team of reporters and analysts joining us from all over the country today. Lets begin with the Biden Campaign in michigan today. Cnns jeff zeleny is in flint this afternoon ahead of the biden obama event set to get under way in the next hour. Jeff, what can we expect, and why michigan for this First Joint Campaign event . Ana, no question, michigan is at the center of the blue wall both physically and literally. This is something that a state that joe biden knows he needs to win next week. Of course, donald trump carried michigan by the slimmest of margins four years ago as well as pennsylvania and wisconsin. So this is where the
The democracy demands. The vote is taking shape. The most important part of the picture is still the numbers that we dont see, all right . So let me take you over to Start Talking about what we see and what we dont see. And we will begin with the key race alert that we have for you here, all right . Heres where we start this morning. Nevada, okay . Now, this is the developing story. We just had a tweet put out. You can find it for yourself if youre online from the secretary of state. Were not going to get more information from nevada. Why . They are waiting they are one of the two states in play right now, nevada and pennsylvania that have extended deadlines for ballots. They wait until the 10th. The secretary of state said the next update will come on the 5th. That is tomorrow. But biden had been presumptively given nevada by a lot of organizations all night. We hadnt, but weve been doing that in the calculus in terms of the speculation. He had been up by 25,000 plus. Now, 7,600. But
Furiously. The Trump Campaign has filed a lawsuit in the state of michigan saying Trumps Campaign has not been provided with meaningful access from numerous counting locations, and is guaranteed and that they halt counting until we have meaningful access which has been granted. Not falls on the heels of bill stepian announcing in the last hour that they plan to ask for a recount in the state of wisconsin. That raises serious counts about the ability to give the results, and we will immediately do so. The threshold is within one percentage point of the total vote, immediately though, it isnt exactly meet immediately. And that will not happen until december the 1st. The Trump Campaign also insisting there are still enough million votes out there to get the president victories in arizona and pennsylvania. Heres what he said about that at a conference call. Anywhere from twothirds to 70 of these votes are coming from the president. That math adds up to a margin at the days end of around 30
Are waiting for joe biden tonight to appear in wisconsin as well. Your thoughts on where we stand tonight . First of all, for a 74yearold man come i cannot believe his energy. This guy is the energizer bunny, hes everywhere and working so hard, hes a vivacious in his way. The problem is, the same states that have been afflicted by this coronavirus. He is haunted by covid19, this is my local paper, the clevelan plain dealer this is ohio, you can see its red. A very high exposure and spread, level three. This is a state that two weeks ago had trump head 4847, the same poll, quinnipiac have biden ahead by three now. I think the disease is having more of an impact than the democrats. Martha we are going to show that map and a little bit of all the swing states that are getting hit hard now which is obviously very tough timing for the president. I want to play quickly some democrats sounding a big alarm at some of the numbers they are seeing and get some quick thoughts on that as we watch,
Thousands to protect the capitol in advance of next weeks inauguration, were going to start our news tonight with something that actually happened quite far from d. C. Today, something that nevertheless, i think helps with the story of how we got to this chaotic and violent national moment. I want to start tonight in a county courtroom this afternoon. In the proceedings in this county courtroom this afternoon, proceedings because of the pandemic had to happen over zoom just like all of our work meetings and School Meetings do, but still hard to get used to seeing that be the case for Court Proceedings. Nevertheless, here it was. Okay. Okay. I got okay. Good morning. Can you hear me over there . Yes, your honor. Yes, your honor. Okay. I got to get the attorney general in another window here. Just a moment. Then were going to start. Okay. Here goes. All right there. Our attorney general, can you hear me . I can, your honor. Yes, your honor, thank you. Okay. Everybody can hear me. Everybo