Ongoing trump threatens to go to the Supremes Court to try to stop the counting biden has threatened to counter legal action. And with both candidates aged over 70 we take a look at how their running mates are now more important than ever. While the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has 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 threatened to go to the Supremes Court something that bidens team have said they are ready to challenge the total vote count could take days while we have a team of reporters for you on the ground at this hour rob reynolds is monitoring developments from Los Angeles Mike hanna is in bidens home state delaware and our white house. Correspondent candy how it is in washington d. C. That fast. Takes a look at just how these last few hours have unfold. Shortly after 2 am on wednesd
Working. Joe biden urges patience but says hes confident he will become president. Doing demonstrations biden and Trump Supporters at trade calls to count every ballot and protect the vote. Plus another record jump in corona virus infections at the u. S. More than 120000. 00 new cases confirmed on thursday alone. President trump has made his 1st appearance in nearly 2 days to repeat claims that the president ial vote is being rigged in stolen once again he offered no evidence to support this adding that legal action over the election could end up in the Supreme Court translate has been falling into key states as mail and ballots are counted raising joe bidens hopes of clinching the presidency lets look at georgia 1st thats where joe biden is. Now fewer than 2000 votes behind trump what was a soul the republican state for decades has emerged as a surprising battleground this time the bulk of the remaining maryland ballots are from the biggest democratic stronghold in atlanta are also st
A final assault on the city of mccarrick. To graham forces refused to step aside late, u. S. President donald trump has accepted that a formal transition can begin for joe biden to take office. The head of the General Services administration told biden that the process can begin acknowledging him. As the president elect trump said in a tweet that hes directing his team to cooperate, but is promising to keep up the fight. Joe bidens Transition Team has welcomed the freeze up millions of dollars for the president elects new administration. And bidens team can now work with federal officials on the Pandemic Response and on National Security. We have political hay who is standing by for us live in washington, d. C. Patty. So this is not an official determination of the winner, but obviously a very significant development, especially when we consider Donald Trumps response. I think that is by far, one of the more significant parts of the story. Donald trump. Lets keep in mind since the elec
Hello im so raman youre watching al jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes critics in hong kong warn of increasing attempts to sideline their voices as 8 prodemocracy politicians make their 1st Court Appearance over a fight at a Legislative Council meeting. An economy near collapse we meet the refugees living on less than 3. 00 a day in lebanon. Welcome to the program and its another day has ended in the United States with still no clear answer on who will lead the country for the next 4 years the closer the count is to finishing the tighter the race becomes heres the overall picture with just 4 battleground states left to count any of them could give joe biden the victory that he wants now he has the lead in nevada here in the west and of course trump is ahead in the rest of the states for the margins are razor thin and those stay. Can be counted the ones that you see there in yellow over to the east of the map biden now has 264. 00 Electoral Colleg
A Legislative Council meeting plus an economy near collapse we meet the refugees living on less than 3. 00 a day in lebanon. Welcome to the program another day has ended in the United States and still no answer on who will lead the country for the next 4 years the close the count is to finishing the tighter the race becomes is the overall picture with just 4 battleground states left accountant any of them could give victory to joe biden now he has the lead in nevada here to the west and trump is ahead in the rest of the states for the margins are razor thin and those states being counted are the ones that you can see in yellow biden now has 264 Electoral College votes trumpets 214 that still puts both of them in the range of that magic number to become president. Of 270 lets take a close look at georgia joe biden is now just 463 votes behind trump not surprising because georgia has been a solid republican state for decades now the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots are from the city