Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. Good morning. It is veterans day, november 11, 2020. This is washington journal. We will talk about the continuing standoff in this first hour. We want your calls this year. If you are a supporter of joe biden and Kamala Harris, the line is 202 7488000. Supporters of donald trump and mike pence, 202 7488001. All others, or if you did not vote, the line 202 7488002. Also, send us a text if you would like. It is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. Andwitter cspanwj faceb
His Democratic Party i didnt ask them to anxious u. S. Population to remain patients. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program facing growing likelihood of growing defeat in the u. S. President ial election donald trump has again claimed without evidence that he has won and that democrats are trying to steal the election in fact trump is steadily losing ground as the tallies in most undecided states swing in favor of joe biden lets have a look at the latest figures now which show biden with 264. 00 electoral votes President Trump at 214 we go now 1st to georgia we have to take talk about what has just been happening now in the past hour there 16 alike. Toral votes up for grabs it is an extremely tight race but biden has just pulled ahead of trump with a little over 900. 00 votes with 99 percent of the votes counted there meantime pennsylvania it is the biggest prize yet to be decided with 20 electoral votes donald trump currently holding a very narrow 3 tenths of a percent lead that gap t
Has 20 electoral votes should biden pull ahead here and when the states he would of he would have crossed over the magic number of 270 Electoral College votes so that means he would he would win the election. Trump is still ahead by a little bit but its mail in voting ballots that are still being counted that favor joe biden and some of them are coming from the philadelphia area which is also a democratic leaning. Area and so that would mean that biden could pull ahead here and were expecting more numbers from there soon lets talk about the further numbers that are expected we also know from philadelphia that you just mentioned also know that georgia 99 percent of the vote counted and that is really quite a lot given all of this when could we expect to bristle at sort of timeline could we be looking. Well that is of course what everyone is wondering and the short answer is we dont know exactly some numbers and some states as you mentioned are very close to having all ballots counted. S
Im sorry kelly welcome to the program facing growing likelihood of defeat in the u. S. President ial election donald trump is again claiming without evidence that he won and that democrats are trying to steal the election in fact trump is steadily losing ground as the tallies in most undecided states swing in favor of joe biden. Now lets get the latest figures for you they show by the end with 264 electoral votes President Trump with 214 were going now to the key state of georgia where we have Seen Movement in the past couple of hours 16 electoral votes at grabs there its an extremely tight race biden has pulled ahead of trump with just over 900. 00 votes 99 percent of the votes counted there meantime pennsylvania the biggest prize yet to be decided 20 electoral votes donald trump currently holding a narrow 3 tenths of a percent lead that gap has been narrowing rapidly in arizona meanwhile votes are still being counted the a. P. News agency this is theyve actually called the state for
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