Good evening from new york. We are over two weeks from the election where the end of the election or end of the voting. And the situation with the virus is just very bad in getting worse. Cases are spiking with new daily cases averaging 57,000 a day. Not far from the height of the pandemic in the summer. Heres the even more worrying thing. Hospitalization. The key metric that doesnt depend og testing. That is trending up as well. It keeps climbing. 38,000 now currently hospitalized. Hospitals in some areas at or near capacity. Even with advances in treatment were still losing more than 700 americans on average every day of the virus. Day after day. If the president is astonishingly and not surprisingly back to where he was in late february. He was telling the public not to worry. And cases would go down to zero despite getting dire warnings from Public Health officials. The reelection message two weeks out is essential will fert about it. Dont worry about it. Its old news. People are t
Worse and worse for the president. Even Donald Trumps own inner circle appears to be coming to grips with the reality of the situation. Breaking news just a little while ago. The wall street journal reporting this, quote, on thursday night advisers warn mr. Trump to prepare to lose, according to a person familiar with the conversation, he expressed little interest in that advice. Aides and advisers have also urged the president to recognize that no legal effort will be enough to make up mr. Bidens advantage in votes. Right now, by our count, joe biden has 253 electoral votes compared to 214 for donald trump, 17 short of the magic number of 270 that would make him the president elect. Biden has numerous pathways to get there, including simply winning pennsylvania where biden continues to expand his lead as the mailin votes continue to be tallied. If he takes that state, thats the ball game, thats 270. Everything else is academic. The former Vice President still continues to lead nevada,
4. Trump won the other. Were still awaiting the results from several battleground states. Right now georgia, pennsylvania, nevada, north carolina, all too close to call. Arizona too early to call. So here we are. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, november 5th. Along with joe, willie and me, from the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. We will never let her stop working. Host of politicsnation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton. First to pennsylvania, joe biden has cut into the lead of donald trump significantly. Around this time yesterday trump led by 700,000 votes. And now trump leads by just over 164,000 votes. With a lot of mailin ballots still being counted. We could look specifically at Philadelphia County. Home to a lot of biden voters. He currently leads by 60 and we are still waiting for more than 244,000 votes from Philadelphia County. Biden is curre
Line. Today both major candidates were in key battleground states. President trump is holding his fourth pennsylvania rally of the day. He won pennsylvania by a razorthin margin, less than 50,000 votes. A new morning call poll shows mr. Trump trailing joe biden by five points in pennsylvania but mr. Bidens lead falls right within the polls margin of error. So statistically they could be tied. Today in michigan joe biden reunited on the campaign trail with president obama. It was the first time theyve taken the stage together this election cycle. And what a cycle it has been. A spin cycle. And frankly, if youre like me, youre probably a little dizzy. Its been 555 days since joe biden announced his candidacy, back in april of 2019. Take a look at some of whats happened from then till now. It is just 659 more days. 477 days. 285 days. 100 days. Just three days till election day 2020. After months of speculation and frontrunner status in the early polls, joe biden announces his run for pre
President ial transition. President elect joe biden set to speak today to address the fight over the Affordable Care act while President Trump again not scheduled to make any public appearances. He had zero plans to speak directly to the american people, except on twitter where hes continuing to push baseless voter fraud claims that have been flagged as misinformation. So weve got our correspondents positioned with all the latest on the transition. Mike memoli still in wilmington with the biden team. Peter alexander at the white house and yamiche alcindor. Great to see all of you this morning. What do we know about the president elects remarks today on the Affordable Care act . Whats the strategy here moving forward . Well, chris, i think most americans remember that moment in the east room ten years ago when president obama signed into law the Affordable Care act and Vice President biden called it a big blanking deal. To say the least for president elect joe biden at this moment, the