Counting votes and the potential path for victory for both candidates as we wait to see what happens next, today, wednesday, november 4th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today. We are glad youre with us on wednesday morning. We really never left. Weve been on the air all night. Lots of news to cover. I do think a lot of folks at home were up all night. Today comes with something were not exactly used to in the wake of a president ial election. And still a lot of uncertainty. And a lots of votes uncounted, millions of them. Were going to walk you through all of it, do it slowly and take it one step at a time. Heres the count at this hour. According to nbc news, the electoral count is 224 for biden, 213 for the president. Theyre trying to reach 270. Thats the magic number. Now nine states are this morning either t
Trump by two other half points, although that was closer than it looked because the race was over by early voting, which lasts two weeks, and the democrats had banked enough votes. Biden is ahead in polls, only slightly outside the margin of error in recent polling. There has not been a lot of public polling. The democrats have a substantial registration advantage, which they have for many years, including 154,000 voters or so in clark county, where las vegas is, 70 of the vote. Very difficult for a republican to win statewide in nevada with that firewall the democrats have in clark county. Steve it seems so long ago, the nevada caucuses in which senator Bernie Sanders won with 40 of the democratic vote. Many people were beginning to write off joe biden. So much has changed. What about the sanders support in nevada . Is it solid for the Presumptive Democratic nominee, joe biden . Jon interesting question. Sanders won here essentially in a landslide over joe biden. It is a caucus. They
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Land in joe biden and president donald trump. Jon biden has an advantage, steve. The democrats have a formidable machine. They won the president ial race the last three cycles. Hillary clinton beat donald trump by two other half points, although that was closer than it looked because the race was over by early voting, which lasts two weeks, and the democrats had banked enough votes. Biden is ahead in polls, only slightly outside the margin of error in recent polling. There has not been a lot of public polling. The democrats have a substantial registration advantage, which they have for many years, including 154,000 voters or so in clark county, where las vegas is, 70 of the vote. Very difficult for a republican to win statewide in nevada with that firewall the democrats have in clark county. Steve it seems so long ago, the nevada caucuses in which senator Bernie Sanders won with 40 of the democratic vote. Many people were beginning to write off joe biden. So much has changed. What abou
Biden is ahead in polls, only slightly outside the margin of error in recent polling. There has not been a lot of public polling. The democrats have a substantial registration advantage, which they have for many years, including 154,000 voters or so in clark county, where las vegas is, 70 of the vote. Very difficult for a republican to win statewide in nevada with that firewall the democrats have in clark county. Steve it seems so long ago, the nevada caucuses in which senator Bernie Sanders won with 40 of the democratic vote. Many people were beginning to write off joe biden. So much has changed. What about the sanders support in nevada . Is it solid for the Presumptive Democratic nominee, joe biden . Jon interesting question. Sanders won here essentially in a landslide over joe biden. It is a caucus. They calculate the votes differently. But it is interesting the biden team took that as a secondplace finish after his disastrous showing in iowa and new hampshire, spring boarding to so