A record turnout we hear from commentators on the key issues. Sort of so they want to stop the killing over so if you want to continue tell me its a joke every night after night after that except when i watch the big board our system is the worst we also see that in the United States constitution voting is never mentioned at all welcome to the international on to our coverage of the u. S. Election counting in key battleground states continues. The contest for the white house could be over in the coming hour was with a Democrat Joe Biden looking more and more likely to be declared the went on increasing his vote margins in key states however a recount has been announced in the state of georgia leaving america on tenterhooks attention is focused on a handful of states and well still waiting for crucial results and nevada on. To have the democrats hold a slot and. Well as it stands this is how it. Has 264. 00 alexis if you include arizona which some say is too early to cool but if we assu
This office, i will not be the last. [ cheers ] President Trump insists the election is not over, making baseless claims of fraud. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. The president s allegations of largescale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantia substantiated. Launching lawsuits. My guests republican senator mitt romney of utah, democratic congressman James Clyburn of south carolina, and Biden Deputy Campaign manager kay bedingfield. This is not what the democrats dreamed. Disappointed democrats lose seats in the house. We had a very good day. Most pundits thought we would lose the senate. Two georgia runoffs in january will decide control of the senate. Joining me for insight and analysis, nbc News Washington correspondent andrea mitchell. Democratic pollster cornell belcher. Wall street journal columnist peggy noonan. And david wasserman, house editor for the cook political report.
The index jumped about midweek ahead of us elections but did see some losses on friday with some sharp declines in the health care and Consumer Sectors analysts predict little policy change toward china under a Biden Administration but they do expect a more multilateral approach when it comes to trade in hong kong the hong saying is also in the green in with 16 that week closing highs the regions major markets surge 3. 5 percent on close on thursday shares gained on a possible by then when in japan similar trends here another green arrow for the nikkei the index reached its highest level in 29 years after another surge on wall street iron and steel marine transportation and electric appliance issues led with these big gains in india the sun sets also up with a 5. 7 percent gain its biggest weekly gain in just 5 months will end next heavyweight Reliance Industries and financial stocks. Benchmark investors are also celebrating that possible by the presidency another green arrow in austra
Led those shares higher in south africa were seeing another green arrow for the all shares the rand rallied going into friday on indications of that fight in possible victory in the us now to europe the cac and the dax how to a very good week despite the reintroduction of these coded lock downs across many places in europe the french a significant recovery since tumbling admit october amid weak earning results and renewed lockdown measures the cac is up almost 400. 00 points for the week and the german dax is also up this week but we may soon see some levels of resistance now that germany has announced the imposition of month Long National walked around but will continue to put pressure on the benchmark docks 30 as local authorities keep the door open to extend those current restrictions if breaks arent successfully suppressed headed up to the u. K. The footsie is also. For the week and he brags that concerns dont seem to be slowing down the upward climb as a footsie has been up every
Of state said that we definitely could know the winner of the state by the end of the day. Joe bidens president ial Campaign Held a news briefing as votes continue to be counted. Campaign manager Jennifer Omalley dillon spoke to reporters. Jennifer good morning. It is good to be with you today. Omalley dillon, President Biden vice President Bidens campaign manager. Our goal for today is to give you an update on how things are going in the race and where we are headed. Let me be very clear. Our data shows that joe biden will be the next president of the United States and that the counting is happening now in the states and they are moving to us as we see the counting throughout this morning, yesterday and into today, that that accounting will continue to show our path to victory. Joe biden now has won more votes than any president ial candidate in history and we are still counting. Over 140 million votes have been counted so far with over 72 million going to vice President Biden. The Vi