Victory in a pledge to unify this divided nation. After a long night of counting, its clear that were winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. When the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. There will be no blue states and red states when we win. Just the United States of america. As for donald trump, he has not spoken today. His Campaign Staff taking the lead arguing they see paths to victory and filing new Court Challenges that will cover later tonight. This is fraud. This is absolute fraud. All of you thought there was some kind of legitimate count going on here in philadelphia. It was totally illegitimate. Well file suit in pennsylvania. This is a concerted effort of the courts that run the democrat party. Were going to win pennsylvania but they are trying to cheat us out of it. Thats the latest from both sides. Now lets clearly and calmly just take in where we are now. Exactly 24 hours out from when Election Night formally be
Candidate in california has defeated an incumbent democrat. She is a Great American woman, one of a record 26 female republicans in the house. In addition to her victory, republicans are leading them to go other undecided races and democratic home districts in california. Running head of democratic congressman [indiscernible] and the 39th district. Republican david is looking to take back a district in the Central Valley from democratic congressman [indiscernible]. Check this out. In the 26 district loss north of los angeles, garcia is running neck and neck with democrat smith. That is a district garcia took in a special election to replace katie hill. If the republican party, although headlines on the disputed president ial vote in the transition. Shocking posters and Mainstream Media along the way. Republicans inching closer tonight to locking in the senate, potentially extending senator Mitch Mcconnells record and his tenure as majority leader. Could be 5048 with republican dan sull
Voting in 22 states and District Of Columbia. More than 95 million americans have cast ballots. Even before the ballots are counted, President Trump is casting doubt about integrity of the vote, suggesting it could end up at the supreme court. Either way the votes fall, people are worried. Businesses in several cities are boarding up ahead of results. The white house is also preparing. A source telling cnn, a nonscaleable fence is expected to be put up, the same type of fence used earlier this summer during protests. We have reporters all across the trail. We have ryan nobles in scranton, pennsylvania. Jessica dean near pittsburgh, Jason Carroll in atlanta. Ryan, i want to start with you. The president is heading to joe bidens hometown. What is the strategy in the final hours . Reporter brianna, no doubt pen pennsylvania among the most important states in the path to 270 electoral votes. Thats why he spent as much time here as any battleground state across the country, why his campaign
Absentee and mailin ballots in michigan and pennsylvania, which along with wisconsin, make up whats known as the blue wall for democrats. Up until 2016 at least that was. Its in those states that joe biden trained almost all of his attention in the final days and weeks of the race, tight races, all outstanding this hour include arizona, nevada, georgia and North Carolina, all of those states still separated by narrow margins and both campaigns have acknowledged privately and publicly just how close this race has become. But joe biden at this hour has more pathways to 270 electoral votes than donald trump does and that mathematical reality has only served to intensify Donald Trumps threats of a legal battle to stop votes from being counted in some of the states still too close to call or too early to call. Of course, trumps legal avenue is emerging after his baseless attempts at lying his way to victory last night by falsely claiming victory in states he had not won. Donald trump is als
Here is what were watching over the next 60 minutes on this election day extended edition broadcast. A live look at volunteers processing the ballots in pennsylvania, a place the president won last time where we learned the last hour his lead is getting smaller as his past to 270 gets narrower. Georgia an update from the secretary of state there, well bring that to you live and in arizona, its joe biden whose lead seems to be getting chipped away a bit as more ballots get counted. The electoral vote count as we speak 253 for joe biden, 214 for President Trump and the states in gray on the map making all the difference. Pennsylvania, North Carolina, georgia, nevada, arizona, check it out. All of them too close to call, the country on edge with protests erupting from coast to coast, and this morning, sources around the Biden Campaign sounding more and more confident about hitting that 270 threshold, while the Trump Campaign is on a battleground blitz of legal challenges including what we