Synod for god and everybody to hear that he had total authority i was done it is against democracy while trump does have a sturdy base the strength of republicans coming out against him cannot be overlooked. All right its coming up to 23 actually actually gone past 2300 hours g. M. T. 6 pm on the east coast and youre watching aljazeera special coverage of the 2020 u. S. Election as you can see from the truck at the top right of your screen were about an hour from the 1st polls closing on the east coast go straight to our White House Correspondent kimberly. Kimberly the big question looming of course is when when when when will we have an election whats the feeling at the white house behind you. I can tell you that the feeling at the White House Well the president projected a lot of optimism you can tell that there is a lot of tension behind the scenes the president has been very optimistic promising that there will be a red wave that he will be able to flip states that were typically d
Can make the big prize of the night as always is california with 55 Electoral College votes joe biden has got those further north the state of washington with 12 goes to the blue column as well and oregon as well all of these west coast blue states another 7 which we can add to joe bidens tally there and well put in idaho as well which is also closing the south thats a red state that goes to dont trump with 4 so as i said this gives us some shape now because weve now managing to fill in the states which we knew so 209112 right now that looks very strong in favor of joe biden but lets think about this texas 38 florida 29 pennsylvania which we havent talked about for a while will do that in maybe will 10 or 15 minutes well have a little talk about pennsylvania. Not even in the too close to call of the moment but this 20. Heigho a chain North Carolina 16 there are a lot of states and its all the ones which we thought it would come down to of course so whilst that number all just pop out t
Various issues in various counties including a decision by the state Supreme Court that the ballots could continue to be counted 3 days after the election ballots that arrive within 3 days after the election can continue to be counted that case is still pending in the Supreme Court could actually be weighing in on that all of this of course causing lots of anxiety and uncertainty you were just talking with heidi about the possibility of civil unrest thats been a concern here in pennsylvania as well and we were just driving around the city and seen police on pretty much every Street Corner around city hall here no protesters and demonstrators on the streets at this point however but tomorrow morning well actually it is morning here already and a few hours after the sun rises ballots will again begin to be counted and while poll workers are resting the ballots are being guarded in a safe place the governor tells us and this will all. Pick up again in the morning. Race results could take
A very sad moment and we will win this and far as im concerned we already have. Im her terrier night we believe were on track to win this election. Because of the on pressure down early voting a mere one vote thats going to take a while were going to have to be patient until we the hard work of tally of votes is finished and then over to every vote is counted every ballot is counted. But were fairly sure. And what this means is that weve had to work. Extremely hard i mean. So tell us where were the numbers ok ok ill do that. Sometimes because they did it straight into it dont lets have a look at the state of the race right now to 38 against to 13 the most recent polls have been for joe biden up in the Northeast Corner in maine and then in arizona as well arizona was the important one right here because it flipped and it was the 1st state to do that and nevada were still waiting for the expectation is that that would go blue as well what were going to do though is have a little focus on
With the tallying a vote still ongoing trump threatens to go to the Supremes Court to try to stop the counting biden has threatened counter legal action. And ethiopias Prime Minister declared a state of emergency in tikrit region following a deadly attack on a military base that. On the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has yet secured enough Electoral College votes to win but that hasnt stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes still uncounted donald trump has even threatened to go to the Supreme Court something that bidens team says they are ready to challenge the total vote count could still take days. Well this is our team of reporters on the ground the salad rob reynolds as monitoring developments from Los Angeles Alison bidens home state that away and allan fisheye is in washington d. C. For us but fast also in jordan takes a look at how this night unfolded. Shortly after 2 am on wednes