In our democratic process. Lets begin by taking a look at the mornings headlines, though. As we count down to november 3rd, the Washington Post reports Police Departments everywhere are bracing for civil unrest on election day. Quote, while Law Enforcement agencies routinely plan for elections, Officials Say this years preparations are unusually extensive, because of the sheer levels of anxiety and toxicity across the country with fears that a modern American Election could give way to potential violence. Overnight, word of yet another spread of coronavirus among white house staffers. Vice president mike pence releasing a statement saying that his chief, marc short, quote, began quarantine, end quote, after testing positive for the virus. Nbc news learning that pence senior political adviser marty opst also tested positive. He was at the debate on october 7th posing maskless with him and after the event. According to pences office, he still plans to travel right here to North Carolina
They say there are roughly 250,000 outstanding votes in the state of pennsylvania. Now, where are those votes . About 72 say about 70,000 here are from philadelphia, itself. Then if you go immediately outside philadelphia, Delaware County here, bucks county here, between those two, you got about half of what you got in philly, got about 35,000 right there. So between philadelphia and its suburbs, you got just over 100,000 votes remaining there. You also have, heres, you know, one of the frustrating aspects of this, Allegheny County where pittsburgh is, theyre sitting on 35,000 votes. They said they took an administrative work day today and they will do those ballots tomorrow. So there are 35,000 ballots there in Allegheny County. Were not going to get anything on those tonight. Then youve got sort of a scattering, i think one of the bigger places also on the map, lehigh, lehigh county, where allentown is, theres 25,000. Youve got a bunch of sort of counties like that around the state.
Needs to close the deal. Lets go to a key race alert. Lets start off in the key battleground state of pennsylvania, which were watching closely right now. 20 electoral votes, joe biden is ahead by 28,833 votes. He has 49. 6 to 49. 1 for donald trump. 96 of the estimated vote is in. Were also watching georgia, where 99 of the estimated vote is in. Bidens lead has jumped up to 7,248. He has 49. 4 , jump was 49. 3 . In arizona, which has 11 electoral votes, bidens lead is close to 30,000, 29,861, 49. 6 to 48. 6 in nevada. Six electoral votes. Biden maintains a steady lead, 22,675, 49. 8 to 48 , 93 of the estimated vote in nevada is in. Lets walk over to john king, who is watching this as closely as anyone on earth right now. Its getting closer and closer. Good morning. How are you doing . Day five, so you say, why is it taking so long . Day five could very well be the decisive day. Why is that . Heres the national map. Joe biden building an impressive lead in the popular vote. Thats a mor
Campaigns come to a close. You cant go to church, you cant take your family to dinner, but you can let people riot down the middle of your beautiful shopping street, knocking the hell out of people, burning down your stores like in minneapolis, burning the hell out of the place until we sent in the national guard. We choose hope over fear we choose unity over division we choose science over fiction, and, yes, we choose truth over lies we at the reidout know many of you are feeling a lot right now, excitement, trepidation and, yes, buckets of anxiety. Trust me when i tell you, family, because this is true, in real life the only two things that matter right now are keeping yourself safe from covid19 and voting. Thats it. If you have already voted, highfive and now, please, try to get others to vote. Get creative with your civic duty. Take cookies or walk grandma to the poll because tomorrow is. Time to sprint to the tape. What you shouldnt do is give one more second of your time and Ment
Im chris hayes. You know that music. Maybe you love it, maybe it traumatizes you a little bit, but by this time tomorrow night, well be in special Election Night coverage with some polling places already closed and the counting under way, and at this point tomorrow night, the president may have already preposterously declared premature victory as part of an effort explicitly outlined by donald trump and his campaign to stop american ballots and democracy. Today, President Trump and joe biden made a crucial push. Biden in pennsylvania, trump in four states, including the state of wisconsin. This is a live shot of the president s rally in the city of kenosha, in the southeastern corner of a state where right now the Coronavirus Crisis has gone from bad to worse. Cases are spiking all across wisconsin. You can see it in red. Hospitals are nearing capacity. There is no relief in sight. The numbers keep ticking up and up and up day after day. And donald trump is there with huge crowds assem