And here to help us with that throughout the morning is john. Good morning, pedro, viewers should know were going to be using the Associated Press numbers for calls and results. So viewers may hear about different numbers being reported but were always going to be coming back to the Associated Press numbers. So lets start off with where the president ial contest stands this morning. The key state of wisconsin there on your screen, a state thats being watched closely this morning, its 49. 4 for joe biden, President Trump, 49. 1 . That number has been flipping back and forth throughout the day. That is just one of six key states were watching this morning. The other one, michigan this morning in the wolverine state. The numbers in michigan, President Trump 49. 8 , joe iden, 48. 6 . And then the third state in the Northern Industrial midwest area , once known as the blue wall for democrats. That blue wall that President Donald Trump broke through, pennsylvania, the other key state, 55. 7
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A wide range of topics from the pandemic to Race Relations but who came out on top. Of that im told me a lot of well welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have traded blows in a final t. V. Debate in nashville tennessee with less than 2 weeks to go before election day the exchange was a lot more civil than an ill tempered 1st debate between the 2 men microphones are muted to stop the candidates from interrupting each other and President Trump seemed to adopt a more restrained tone biden renewed his criticism of the president s handling of the coronavirus pandemic while trump said little on actual policies deflecting any criticism and instead leveling unfounded accusations at biden and his family the country should now. Lets get some analysis now from all us Election Team so me so much going to is still with me from washington and stacey bourbons is here in studio city see a very different atmosphere from the 1st debate which candida
President biden will take the stage for 90 minutes and take questions from Moderator Kristen Welker of nbc news. Just 12 days to go in this election. Almost 50 million americans have already voted. A sign of the times. In a president ial race transformed by the pandemic and a sign of how engaged americans are in this race. Also, a warning sign for President Trump. Hes behind in the National Polls right now and the key battleground states. The pool of undecided voters is shrinking by the day. He has to do something tonight to shake up this race. Our chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl is on the scene in nashville. And george, when the president is behind, he goes on the attack. I expect that is what will happen here. I think he will go after joe biden in very personal ways, going after his family, going after his son Hunter Bidens business dealings, regardless of whether. Reporter not there are any questions that lead him in that direction. I think he will do that. The preside