Reported yesterday and a top Infectious Disease expert says its about to get worse. Power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch everybody, the election shifting towards joe biden today. He took the lead in the counts in georgia and pennsylvania. Lets go to eamon javers to break down where we stand right now. Were stel loill looking at e same list of uncalled races. Joe bidens lead is increasing weve had more vote now coming in today from pennsylvania, moe are vote out from nevada in pennsylvania bidens lead over trump has grown to more than 13,000 votes. Take a look at the state of pennsylvania we are about 96 complete. Too close to call there. The difference there 13,220. Thats the whole ball game if joe biden wins there, this race is over because thats 20 electoral votes. Biden only needs 17 at this point to go over the top in nevada, press conference just wrapped up in clark county, home to Las Vegas Biden expanded his lead there and is up to 20,000 overall in the state.
Many people voicing their concerns, hitting the streets, demanding that every vote be counted. Good evening, everyone, thanks for joining us. Im jessica aguirre. And im raj mathai. Emotions are running high as President Trump is fighting for his political life. As we approach the midnight hour, heres where we stand. Joe biden has a narrow lead with 253 electoral votes. President trump with 214. 270 is the magic number. Biden can outright win this election if he holds on to his leads in arizona and nevada. The other battleground states were tracking tonight, georgia, North Carolina and pennsylvania. You see all the five states highlighted in purple. Election crews are still counting ballots. All right. Lets take a look at the popular vote. Biden at 50 . 71 million americans voted for the biden harris ticket. Thats the most votes for president in u. S. History. This election is still hanging in the balance. Lets begin tonight with Nbcs Alice Barr from the white house. Reporter tonight De
Sure every legal vote is counted and recorded accurately. Reporter here in delaware all afternoon the Biting Campaign has been preparing for a primetime address the former Vice President in his running mate, harris pickup that will happen if the race is called for the biden harris ticket pick him meanwhile President Trump continues to make unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. And he is vowing to fight Election Results all the way up to the u. S. Supreme court if he loses pick him this tremendous litigation going on, this is a case where they are trying to steal an election. Reporter his comments brought mixed reactions from senate republicans. He may very, very serious allegations without any evidence to support it. The president should fight hard. Reporter is a vote counting continues members of the Biting Campaign are starting to put plans in place for a transition team. Into the president is tweeting he has not made any public appearances so far tonight, a Senior Advisor tells us
Be officially called by the fox news decision desk. Those five are pennsylvania where i am, georgia, nevada, North Carolina, also alaska has not been called. The Trump Campaign is mounting a number of legal challenges in these states. The Biden Campaign calling the legal challenges meritless. Well get into both sides on that. Look for a moment at current vote tally in pennsylvania, as counting continues throughout the day, the margin between President Trump and Vice President biden has continued to narrow. President trumps leads with well over half a million votes, just over 100,000 votes as mailin votes continue to be tallied in places like philadelphia. Here in harrisburg, we had protesters out on the streets on the steps of the state capital. A number are still there behind me right now. They have been chanting things, stop the steal, stop the fraud. Well talk about those challenges, the legal challenges on the merits from the Trump Campaign but also keep an eye on the other story,
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