Elections for the senate in georgia and as things stand now if they focus they regroup if the party is seen as responsible and forward looking they have a every chance of winning those 2 seats and therefore holding the senate if they join with trumps you know lawsuits and refusal to move forward and you know inflammatory tweets and all of that it may be seen as so irresponsible that the voters of georgia who ought to reward them with 2 senate seats might in fact go the other direction its unpredictable so it may be that Mitch Mcconnell the kentucky senator who is the Republican Senate majority leader is actually telling donald trump you know we need to hold the senate your battle is probably lost anyway but we need to fight this one and yours is hurting ours i think you have a good point there regarding with the public reaction to this we just saw all those people celebrating. Oh but you know joe biden got around as a 7374000000 votes trump still got almost 70 so thats 17000000 people
Days of the projections we have for you at this hour starting in kentucky with 8 Electoral College votes they go the way of donald trump that is exactly as we would expect but just have a look at some of the detail on it of the popular vote and its solid isnt it 53 percent with 14 percent and this is just how to understand it even with 14 only 14 percent of precincts reporting it is enough for us to be able to make a solid projection for donald trump also looking at vermont which is going to the column of joe biden the 3 Electoral College votes which the democratic candidate pretty much always gets at this time of the night and just running through a few others now the polls are close but that doesnt mean we can actually decide at this point indiana too early to call in indiana with its 11 South Carolina as well if its 9 its too early to call as is virginia more on offer in virginia 13 that should be blue when the time comes but it was a swing state in past years and finally we will lo
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