Gillian great to be with everybody at home. Im gillian turner. Later today President Trump is going to make his way over to wisconsin. He has a hotly contested rice there and he begins in michigan where we find kevin corke. What are we looking at today . Gillian. Clearly well have a lot of folks for the rally and thats coming in later at 5 p. M. Eastern time of course well have coverage for you. But its very important to point this out. This is usually a democratic stronghold, right . Well, thats before President Trump ran back in 2016. Back then he barely lost this county and that was in part because of his consistent message on trade, and on putting america first. That seemed to really resonate with voters here. While he didnt win the county, he got close and again, that message could be the difference in the tipping point, once again as he tries not only to win this county, but the state of michigan once again. 10,000 votes, a little bit more than that was the difference between the
And that is not all. On the very same day, we learned that over 221,000 americans have lost their lives from coronavirus. President trump called dr. Anthony fauci and other scientists idiots and said people are tired of hearing about the disease. He also criticized joe biden for listening to fauci, something biden called a badge of honor. The former vp is off the trail for debate prep and will not be back until friday at the earliest. Kamala harris is campaigning virtually. By contrafrkst, President Trump will be campaigning in pennsylvania today and is pushing to do as many rallies as possible. All of this comes with more than 26 million ballots already cast. And we should note, people are sick and tired of hearing about covid, but we dont have an option. It is still with us in a very big way. I want to bring in nbcs Peter Alexander at the white house and ali vitali in d. C. , peter baker for the New York Times and yamiche alcindor. Mr. Alexander, to you first. Lets cut through all th
In fact, what you see here is democracy in action this morning in milwaukee. Voters lining up to make sure those masked voices and shielded voices are heard. Nationally new polling from the New York Times and Siena College shows joe biden leading President Trump by nine points. We know National Numbers are nice and all, but remember, it all boils down to those swing states. The snapshot were getting from one critical battleground in just moments. Meanwhile, thursdays president ial debate may be the last chance for both candidates to get their message out to the most voters they can. That is, when the mike is actually on . Theres new rules after their last faceoff, and the candidates are taking their own approach to prepping. Joe biden off the trail. President trump doing more rallies. Weve got a great team of political reporters and political minds with us. Nbcs monica alba is in erie, pennsylvania, ahead of President Trumps rally there. Ali vitali covering the Biden Campaign. The cook
For joe and willie and me. Thank you so much for joining us Lawrence Odonnell picks up the coverage now. Good day. Its my honor to announce to you that nbc news is projecting joe biden as the winner of the president ial election. Joe biden as the president elect who will be inaugurated on january 20th. Nbc news is projecting joe biden as the winner. The state of pennsylvania giving him those 20 electoral votes that enabled nbc news to make this call this morning. That puts joe biden that win will put joe biden above the 270 electoral votes that he needs to win the electoral college. Joe biden now has 273 electoral votes for president. Donald trump has 214, as of this hour. Five states have yet to be called. President elect joe biden will address the nation tonight from wilmington, delaware. He will be joined by Vice President elect Kamala Harris. She tweeted this video of the moment she called joe biden to celebrate their win. Caller we did it we did it, joe youre going to be the next
Reality is he has not won the presidency with legal votes cast. Right now joe biden is ahead in both the popular vote and in the electoral college. Also right now neither the president nor his campaign have provided any evidence to back up their claims of electoral fraud. Now were starting to see some republicans on capitol hill speak out. Adam kinzinger tweeted quote, we want every vote counted, yes, every legal vote, of course. If you have legit concerns about fraud, present evidence and take it to court. Stop spreading misinformation. This is getting insane. Now the Trump Campaign is trying to find that evidence by setting up a hotline at the campaigns headquarters in arlington, virginia asking supporters to tell us what you are seeing and to report cases of voter suppression, irregularities and the president waits in the white house to see if any of his legal challenges stick. The other big question at this hour is if joe biden does hit 270 today and declares himself to be the winn