Colleague, michael holt. Michael holt is the professor of American History here at the university of virginia. He was educated at princeton and learned his ph. D. At Johns Hopkins university. With time offer visiting professional ships at cambridge, yale, stanford and other institutions. He has been at the university of virginia since 1974. He has written widely and deeply about 19 century political history. For many years his writing focus on the years before the civil war. Both the political crisis of the 19 fifties has become the standard for advanced college courses. His 1999 book, the rise involve the american w. H. I. P. Party, draconian politics in the onset of the civil war, was the runner up for the lincoln prize, his most often described as magisterial. And that is not just because of his 1296 heft. More recently, he has written of the reconstruction period following the war. By one vote the disputed election of 1876, it tells the story of americas closest election which perh
His supporters are continuing to protest outside Voting Centers but elsewhere celebrations of broken now in anticipation of final results. Joe biden is edging closer to that magic number of 270 Electoral College votes that will make him the next president of the United States in the past 12 hours the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 key battleground states pennsylvania and georgia so this is where we stand at the moment there are just a few battleground states still being counted at this point biden is leading in all of them based on the count from the Associated Press he secured 264 Electoral College votes so far donald trump has 214 and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach 270 but bidens lead in these 2 states is growing as the mail in ballots continues to be counted in georgia is extremely close though most of those remaining votes are from the city of atlanta and its suburbs which tends to lean heavily democrat anyway thats helped joe biden get ahead but
Edge election could potentially drag on for days or even longer with neither side willing to concede. So well be going to the u. S. Supreme court we want to. Voting just so youre prepared for any effort republicans make in any court and you key states to advance the absurd theory that the president as far as last night. I should check out our web site r t dot com for faster than light updates on anything and everything surrounding the u. S. Elections on behalf of the R T International team thanks for watching and we hope you have a great day. Hello and welcome the cross town where all things are considered on 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 risk. Renda and donald trump. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Christopher Metzler in washington he is a legal scholar in monterey we have
Explains to trump he cannot if hes thinking of running for president cannot do it as a traditional republican. Can you describe this . He had been thinking of running for president but he wasnt quite sure. By 2012 he was getting serious about it. David who is a conservative activist was a friend of donald trump and decided to talk about running for president and he did not know donald trump at that point so he took him up to learn about this possibility. If he planned to run as an outsider, how would he do it. They basically said theres a new populist mood in the country and donald trump looked at him and said youre right thats what i am im a popular rest but he concluded he is right if hes going to run and be a popular rest and then of course he doesnt decide to run but four years later that is exactly what he does and in the meantime between 2012 and 2016 he starts the message and theres a lot of starting points for the revolution but thats one of the more intriguing ones. It is from
Counting their votes and there was what was called a red mirage predicted and all that said i would say from a democrats point of view of the fact that its even plausible that trump would be reelected i think means were still in the same crisis of division that we were before no matter how this comes out ok were going to pressure i mean isnt it a crisis of the Democratic Party as well i think you know theres a lot of blame to be shared around here go ahead chris yeah i indeed i believe that there is i mean from our perspective you know from the very beginning this whole idea of the low out just didnt make all mosques sense and i think democrats ban on lot of time i think in my dreams out of florida was never going to go out to democrats and they spent a whole lot of time texas seriously i mean it was just and i think they could have spent better time in. Basis that actually matters and that thats where we find ourselves at this late hour. Cramming and it wasnt supposed to be this way h