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Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, we are inching closer to determining the outcome of the president ial election as vote counting continues this morning. And battleground states release new vote tallies. Cbs news projects joe biden has 253 electoral votes, just shy of 17 or rather just 17 shy georgi, President Trump is leading by a few hundred votes. A lot of eyes are on pennsylvania, which holds 20 votes. President trumps lead was 300,000 votes yesterday, but now it is down to roughly 18,000 with 95 of the votes counted. In arizona, bidens lead has shrunk to 47,000 votes, hes also up in nevada by nearly 12,000 votes. And in North Carolina, the president is up by 76,000 votes. Laura podesta is in washington, d. C. What can we expect today . Reporter good morning, annemarie. We can expect tensions to remain high around the country as americans watch this ever changing vote tally. The president has been tweeting overnight, but the majority of his tweets are bei
Employees. Weve got those details. But first we start with some breaking news. The electoral vote count stands right now at 227 for mr. Biden and 213 for mr. Trump. And we still have eight uncalled races. In wisconsin, which is still too close to call, biden holds a narrow lead of just 20,000 votes. Well within the margin of error there. Well within the drift that lets the president call for a recount. The Campaign Says they will immediately do so, request a recount. Another place biden holds a narrow lead, thats michigan thats where we find Brian Sullivan in grand rapids any update on this very close race reporter yes, and no how do you like that im like an economist on the air. Im going to give it to you both ways heres where we stand right now. Heres the reason i answered that way number one, heres the count 94 of michigan has come in. Its that last 6 that is the issue. Now, youve got joe biden who is up by about 45,000 votes right now. To your point, there are far more outstanding
The president has a more than 6point if lead this pennsylvania in pennsylvania, and the Trump Campaign has declared victory and claimed pennsylvanias 20 electoral votes. President trump is ahead of joe biden by more than 1 in north carolina, and the president is is leading biden by about 1. 5 in georgia. The fox news decision desk says joe biden has won the state of arizona and its 11 electoral votes, but the Trump Campaign is adamant that they will protect the integrity of this election and that they will be able to declare victory in arizona by the end of this week. Just over 600,000 votes remain to be counted. The president is behind only 93,000 votes there. President trump expressing his frustration with the delay in states, calling many of those races last night after results showed him leading in a number of those states. Heres what President Trump said earlier today. This is a fraud on the American Public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win thi
From the president for being inaccurate or misleading. While twitter makes it impossible to retweet the flagged post, trump posts on facebook are being spread. We will get to that and more this hour. Meantime, in the last halfhour, we got word that michigan has gone to former Vice President joe biden according to cnn and nbc and at this point, if he wins nevada and holds arizona, where some boats are still being counted, he will win the president ial election, but there are legal challenges a foot. President Trumps Campaign threatening to sue over vote counts. Michigan says it is declaring victory in pennsylvania where votes are still being counted, but first, i want to talk about the market which kicked off one of the biggest postelection rallies in history. Its best day since june. The nasdaq had its best day in months. With so much uncertainty, why are the markets outperforming . Abigail it is pretty incredible because it does not make sense on an intuitive level initially. Investor