4. Trump won the other. Were still awaiting the results from several battleground states. Right now georgia, pennsylvania, nevada, north carolina, all too close to call. Arizona too early to call. So here we are. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, november 5th. Along with joe, willie and me, from the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. We will never let her stop working. Host of politicsnation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton. First to pennsylvania, joe biden has cut into the lead of donald trump significantly. Around this time yesterday trump led by 700,000 votes. And now trump leads by just over 164,000 votes. With a lot of mailin ballots still being counted. We could look specifically at Philadelphia County. Home to a lot of biden voters. He currently leads by 60 and we are still waiting for more than 244,000 votes from Philadelphia County. Biden is curre
Back that up, i cant in good countenance continue showing you this. Fox news abruptly cutting away from Kayleigh Mcenanys News Conference yesterday when she tried to make explosive Election Fraud claims backed by no evidence, none at all. Yeah. You know, willie, remember the morning after the election we were telling everybody to take a deep breath. I think its time to do that again, like a week later, because i was i was we sort we dont watch a lot of cable news or any news after we get off the show in the morning. I think three hours is gracious, plenty for anybody. But i was walking through the living room and i saw Mitch Mcconnell. I thought oh, my lord, im going to be getting texts. And without turning up the sound i knew what he was going to do. He was going to do just like he tweeted, we have a right to count all the votes and then present any legal challenges that we have. And so i knew he was going to say that. Then i knew hed Say Something like, the democrats smell so bad, th
11 more electoral votes to his total. Bringing him currently to 290. North carolina and georgia are now the only states left, but the race is still deemed too close to call. Just over 14,000 votes separate biden and trump in georgia where a statewide hand recount has been ordered. But most likely North Carolina will go to trump. Georgia to biden. And perhaps it was waiting on arizona to be called. Also breaking overnight, china congratulated president elect joe biden on his election victory. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign ministry said, quote, we respect the choice of the American People. We congratulate mr. Biden and ms. Harris, proving once again, willie geist, the old saying that my god, you have heard in Political Science classes for the past 100 years, as goes scottsdale so goes beijing. And joe, beijing traditionally waits for the nbc decision desk before making a congratulatory phone call to the president. So keeping in form. No doubt about it. Jonathan lemire, as we said y
Lost now. That number is going to go up. We have the highest incidence of coronavirus cases ever. This is a disease we didnt know about a year ago, and now a quarter of a million americans are going to be dead. Certainly, you know, were going to be most likely close to 300,000 by the time donald trump leaves office. He has by continuing to sit in his office and do nothing and not allow the transition of power to begin and not to keep the Biden Administration in to where they are on vaccines, on strategy, he is making sure that history holds him accountable for every last death that we have during this time frame. Wow. You know, and we have been patient on this show. I mean, i said time and again that Mitch Mcconnell when he tweeted out everybody had a right to count the votes and they have the right to do the legal challenges and then we move forward, well, were there. And, you know, willie, this is of course as you know when we get around the campfire, when we get into the ozarks by t
So hell probably be telling joe biden the same thing about his experience. Well, i look forward with a little normalcy, lawrence, that you and i will be able to talk about health care and get in to some of those policy discussions that we both enjoy having. I look forward to tonights show. You have a good evening and a great thanksgiving. You too, ali. Thank you very much. Bye. Thank you. There are only 56 more pardon days until america gets its Big Christmas present, a new president of the united states. Donald trump has now pardoned turkeys two days in a row. Yesterday he pardoned corn and cob, and today he pardoned Michael Flynn. By 12 00 noon on Inauguration Day, everyone named trump will surely be pardoned along with who knows who else who might be able to give incriminating evidence against donald trump and therefore get a pardon out of him. We have embarked on the most corrupt pardon spree in american history, which will end one way or another in a pardon for donald trump himsel