Interference, accusing them of knowingly putting out false polls to limit turnout by his supporters. Well, by contrast today, joe biden urged americans to stay calm, assuring them the process is working. Here are the facts cbs news has not projected a winner. By our projections, joe biden leads in the race to 270 electoral votes, 253213. The race has tightened in the hand full of states that could decide who will become the next president of the United States. The margins are now razor thin, and tensions remain high with noisy demonstrations outside buildings where votes are being counted. Adding to the tension, another sobering milestone in the coronavirus pandemic 100,000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday. That is the highest oneday total since the beginning of the pandemic. So theres a lot of news to cover tonight. Weve got our team of correspondents standing by across america to cover it all. Were going to get to the president s comments in just a moment, but first, cbs Major G
The president s own voters. He is calling the game at the end on end of the First Quarter and its extraordinary. We have never had a situation like this, in the country. The president is a steward of the american electoral system, as a member of it, he is a steward of the american system and he is trying to under mine it while the count is still going on. And the last time that we had a dispute that went to the court force Supreme Court as the president said, he thinks will go. You had two candidates who ultimately accepted the outcome of the courts. Ultimately accepted and said, we have to carry the weight of the office that john just described. To have the president jump that gun and make calls and frankly, norah, as gail was saying, there were a lot of things that were untrue. We can look at the map over your head and see the state of texas was called in his favor, he said it was not. Georgia and North Carolina remain toss ups on our map because of all the details you just laid out.
Reporter no, one of them being he has won the election. Hes not. Hes named specific states that are still up in the air. We have not called them because either theres a lot of vote outstanding or the vote is very close. President trump calling into question this election where, again, some states have not yet named a winner. Now we want to bring in scott mcgrew. Good morning to you. Tracie . Reporter we want to tell you what President Trump said last night about that when he called the election a fraud. Listen. This is a major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used in the proper manner, so well be going to the u. S. Supreme court. We want all voting to stop. We dont want them to find any ballots at 4 00 in the morning and add them to the list, okay . Reporter so that was President Trump talking about challenging this continued ballot counting in a handful of states but critical states am joe biden was out here talking to his supporters last night, urging patience saying this p
As for the election, i want to focus at the top of our show what we know right now. And all of this has been changing throughout the day as we come to you from the state capital in harrisburg, pennsylvania. This is one of six states to be officially called by the fox news decision desk. Just over an hour ago our fox team did project former Vice President joe biden will win in the state of wisconsin. The Trump Campaign says a recount will be requested there. Biden is expected to deliver remarks shortly live from delaware. Well bring you comments as soon as he starts speaking that could be any minute. Well watch that. Look where things stand in the state of michigan as we flip it over there. 49. 8 , biden. 48. 7 trump. No check mark. Has not been called yet. Joe biden with a lead in michigan. Back in pennsylvania, the keystone state. Might take longest of the big three reporting those. Here is democratic Governor Tom Wolf was talking about that earlier this afternoon. He spoke here in ha
In pennsylvania. We start off with jeff flock, with the latest what is happening in milwaukee, wisconsin. Jeff, you were the first to say given some troubles they were having in the milwaukee area, but if they resolve them, they could quickly get this settled. They appear to be moving rapidly in that direction. Reporter yeah. The trouble was essentially just a tsunami of mailin ballots, 169,000 counted in this Building Back behind me. With all due respect to the president , he certainly deserves respect and to this tweet, it is not that theyre finding votes. They simply had a lot to count. And last night, as you know, neil, we showed it live on the air, we had pictures what was going on here, the counting of the mailin ballots. It was about the most transparent counting that i have ever seen. News reporters and other observers allowed to roam around outside the bounds where counts was taking play. To sob i have it, what everyone was doing, when the count came in, took from a trump lead