So i welcome you watching our international maybe the morning after the Election Night before but the race for the white house is still on a knife edge results are hanging in the balance in a few key states yet to declare but in the last hour joe bidens Campaign Manager has claimed their man is now on course for victory when in fact counting has not finished in several key states they are in gray on this map and a sea of red does show that trump has won more states but of course biden actually has more electoral votes at this stage which is what counts big population starks states like california for example ok from 55 electoral votes and so far biden has 238 trumps 213 with 270 the magic number needed for victory so lets bring in our u. S. Correspondent kelly moppin who joins us now. Hello again everything to play for team biden is claiming victory is in their sights that said donald trump is now talking about foul play and surprised ballot what does he mean by that of course the late
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2016 if you look at the election, donald trump won the state by eight percentage points, about 450,000 votes. All of the public polling and on the ground stuff you see really does point to this being a close race. I dont know it is necessarily tilting one way or another, but maybe a slight tilt toward trump right now. Shift in is a massive the land the land, even from a year ago from what we were expecting. You have seen both candidates really investing as of late in heretate, biden being twice over the past month and Kamala Harris being here. The Trump Campaign is ramping up, so they come to the state with mike pence and trumps children making a lot of appearances. Trump himself appearing outside of circleville, outside of columbus last week. The trunk campaign is trying to exude confidence and say, we have the state locked up. Joe biden is wasting his time there. Yet you keep seeing these indicators that maybe this race is closer than everybody things. Levelsoting is at record of tur
Hello and welcome the crosstown for all things are considered im Peter Lavelle as expected ballots are still being counted but what we do know about this election that its close in the country is deeply divided what are some of the lessons to be learned was it enough to frame this election as a referendum on donald trump. There is goes this and more im joined by my guest Christopher Metzler in washington he is a legal scholar in monterrey we have spencers ridgeley he is the author of patriots of 2 nations and is the former Communications Advisor for obama or america in los angeles we have ram elwood he is a free guest on that your show and the podcast the political vigilante and. You tube or angelic dust up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to spencer in monterey whats whats happening in the selection because for days and weeks before i kept hearing all of these polls this is going to trump is going to be. This is going to
A recount and finds lawsuits as he has promised to victory now rules the outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tapped and in other news this hour the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation in tensions as ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops following an attack on a military base in the teeth ray beach. Thank you very much for joining us so we begin in the United States way joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house we cannot project away in for biden in the key battleground state of michigan its one of these socalled rust belt states that donald trump won in 2016 helping him deliver the presidency now within the past couple of hours the democrats also flipped neighboring wisconsin. Which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago and that means that biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 remember the magic number of course to become president is 217 now here in yellow yo