Who knows which administration illustrate will be. I guess time will tell. President trump speaks publicly for the First Time Since losing the election and still refuses to face reality. And another sad reality for the United States, the number of coronavirus cases breaks another single day record. Can anything be done on the slow down this second wave . Live from cnn world headquarters, im Kim Brunhuber and this is cnn newsroom. Joe bidens decisive victory in the 2020 president ial election has now grown to 306 electoral votes. Biden is the first democrat to win georgia since 1992. North carolina has been called for donald trump. Now, bidens overall lead is insurmountable. Still, the president refuses to accept that he lost and insists, falsely, that the election was rigged. Its a fiction even some in his own administration have publicly rejected. All this on a day when the u. S. Broke another record for r for new coronavirus infections. The staggering 184,000 cases were reported in j
Electoral votes to mr. Trumps 232. 306 is the same number of electoral votes President Trump won back in 2016 against Hillary Clinton and he called that, at the time, repeatedly called that a landslide. In the meantime, bidens Transition Team is pressing ahead. Eight say hell spend the weekend considering potential cabinet nominees. One adviser says the biden team isnt interested in having, im quoting now, a food fight with the gsa which is delaying the transition by refusing to sign off on the election. We are also following breaking pandemic news. The u. S. Coronavirus death toll has now topped 243,000 people and more than 10. 6 million americans have been infected by the virus. The country has set another single day record for new cases, more than 150,000. Lets start our coverage with David Chalain with the final projects for biden and georgia. Biden has done what no other democratic candidate has done in 28 years, turn georgia blue. Take us through these final projections. Most of
Good evening, im erin burnett. Out front tonight, trump breaks his silence as bidens electoral vote win surges to 306. Cnn now projecting the president elect has also won georgia. The first democrat to win georgia since 1992. And it comes on top of biden flipping arizona blue last night. Bidens electoral vote tally, now 306. His popular vote win now more than 78 million. 5. 3 million more than President Trump. Look, this is a major victory no matter how you look at it. And the way america scores political wins. Yet the president , who spoke publicly for the first time in eight days, still refuses to concede and accept his loss. In fact he barely mentioned the election, it was just a passing remark while talking about lockdowns. This administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the the, uh, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, i guess time will tell, but, uh, i can tell you, this administration will not go to a lockdown. His pause and a
In a dramatic reversal, President Trump backs away from his claim of absolute authority and says he is now leaving it up to the governors to decide when to reopen for business. And he says it could happen sooner than later. And certainly, sooner than he initially thought on may 1st. The president lashes out at the world Health Organization, freezing funding and blaming the u. N. Led agency through what he says is their mishandlings and covering up of the outbreak. Straight ahead, were going to have the reaction from a w. H. O. Official. The intensified push to reopen parts of the country come as the number of u. S. Cases surges past 600,000 and nearly 30,000 deaths. With a third of them in new york alone, california reporting its highest number of new cases in one day. Also new this morning, the treasury confirms to nbc news that the president s name will in fact appear on those relief checks but denies reports that the unprecedented move is causing a delay in getting them out to folks
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