The president s Team Planning legal challenges, all of this as the president s chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus and the u. S. Is hit with the most cases ever. Who will be the next president to handle the pandemic . And will today be the day a president ial winner is declared . America is watching and waiting, today, saturday, november 7th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. Peter and i are so happy to be joining you from new york. Typically of course we would be in d. C. , but here we are in our election headquarters as we watch and wait for results today. Thats right. We had election day that turned into election week. We welcome you to election weekend. You were in wilmington, i was at the white house. Were in new york for as long as it takes to get you results. It
Sorry, you cant do that. Youve already voted by mail. In seven counties democratleaning counties, if they received your ballot in advance, its illegal to open those ballots until election day, the mailin ballots. But somehow they were determining which ballots were not accurate, which was not properly done and telling voters to fix them. And, again lou the Trump Campaign today also telling us that their Main Objective is for states not to certify fraudulent results. You would think that that would be transparently obvious and an Immediate Response on the part of election boards, but it is not. One of the campaigns legal challenges heads today a detroit judge tomorrow in which the campaign demands certification of detroit s vote be halted altogether and an entire audit be done on detroits entire vote. And today a judge in arizona is hearing now another of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges. The campaign claiming poll workers in Maricopa County wrong lu rejected votes wrongly rejected
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4 00 in the morning we can tell you joe biden is overperforming from where Hillary Clinton was 81 of that vote in but still 20 of maricopa is out. One of the reasons why we cant project the state just yet. One of the stronghold, pima, tucson, 6038, overperforming there. The trend so far and its been holding for the last two to three hours, you would know better than me, democrats are in a good position in arizona but its just with 20 out you just cant project it yet. Whit johnson, the vote is just trickling in, that remaining vote. Reporter were getting more clarity on the outstanding ballots that exist. We just talked to Maricopa County officials again and we keep going back to them because as we mentioned Maricopa County makes up at least 60 of the vote here in arizona. Within the next ten minutes but talking to my producer, it still hasnt come up they were trying to do the final dump of results and this is the inperson votes from today. They were counting those throughout the night
Florida by 3. 4 . He said that he would have won the election legally right now Vice President biden leads President Trump in the total votes counted by 3. 9 million he said he will not allow the corruption to steal the election there is no indication of any corruption to steal the election and no evidence thereof has been offered. He said that they dont want anyone watching as they count the ballots. This is categoric false in each case observers are allowed from both sides of the political aisle to watch the county the counting happen he said that they are trying to commit election fraud. Categorically false. In the state of georgia, the secretary of state was asked if there had been any voter fraud investigations of yet and the secretary of state in the state of georgia said, there have been no complaints of voter fraud by democrats or republicans and as a result, there have been no investigations of voter fraud. The truth is the count continues. The vote ended at different times as