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Soon be over. Joe biden is closing in on the president ial election. Bidens lead over President Trump continues to grow in key battleground states around we do expect a new round of counted ballot this morning that could put biden over the top, but the president is vowing to fight on in court, while biden is urging the nation to come together. This is the electoral vote count. Joe biden has 253. The president has 213. Joe biden is potentially one state away from crossing that 270 threshold. Thatsy we begin with the cnn key race alert. The key state, pennsylvania, has enough votes to give joe biden the presidency. He currently leads by 28,000 votes. That number has been growing. Tens of thousands outstanding this morning. We could be getting some of that in. Its coming largely from democratic areas, his lead is expected to grow. Georgia, we got new votes from overnight. Joe biden leads by 7,000 vote, 16 electoral votes up for grabs. This is a razor thin margin. Joe biden is expanding it
Angry, the people in the country are angry, and there is nothing wrong with saying you recalculated. Look, all i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won this thing. What are we going to do here, i only need 11,780 votes. Gimme a break. On the other end of that phone call, you can hear the georgia secretary of state objecting to the president s requests, and today a source telling cnn that the white house actually attempted to contact Brad Raffenspergers time no less than 18 times between election day and this past weekend. I never believed it was appropriate to speak to the president , but he pushed out, i guess he had his staff push us and they wanted to call. The challenge that we have, first of all, were in litigation mode with the president s team against the state of georgia, and whenever you say anything, you have to have your advisers there, they have to have their advisers there with lawyers, so i preferred not to tal
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