Battleground states still counting votes but the president ial remains remains too close to call joe biden is urging people to be patient he says he is confident of becoming the next president s biden has 264 Electoral College votes 270 are needed for victory. Donald trump is making false claims that if only legal votes were counted he would win the election he says legal challenges manned up in the Supreme Courts kristen salumi has more now from philadelphia. Joe biden ahead in pennsylvania by just over 5000 votes thats a 10th of a percentage point still a very close race here but the ballots are continuing to be counted particularly here in philadelphia where biden has been winning 87 percent of the vote that lead is expected to expand as it does the president has been attacking the poll workers here the credibility of the county and launching legal challenges if the o. P. s Prime Minister says a military operation in the northern to gray region has clear and limits of goals and so a
2 key states trotted out leads by fewer than 2000 votes in georgia as the remaining votes are tallied up to tuesdays election and has left less than half a percent between them in pennsylvania. Trampas lashed out at the time its taking for remaining votes to be tallied in those key states claiming without evidence that the election was being rigged and stolen saying further legal action is imminent if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in i will really just say certainly were many critical stage. Biden is urging people to be patient he says hes confident of becoming the next president he has 264 Electoral College votes to 70 and they did for victory we continue to feel you know we continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is surely senator harrison i will be declar
Special edition of nbc bay area news. Im janelle wang. Im raj mathai. Democracy is in action and were documenting it every step of the way. This begins our nonstop coverage on this Election Night and were prepared to be here into the wee hours. Here is what is happening right now. The polls remain open until 8 00 p. M. Here in california, but across the country the polls will start closing in about an hour. We dont know which direction things will go tonight, but we do know it could be the highest voter turnout in the history of u. S. President ial elections. Here is a live look now at the white house. The president is inside. Tonight he is watching the results with his family and aides in the residence and oval office. Hes also hosting a party for his closest supporters at the white house, about 250 people on the guest list. Now, earlier today the president stopped by his Campaign Headquarters in virginia. He thanked staffers and reflected on this race. He also said he had not thought
The courts by his Team Republicans have followed legal challenges in several states and trying this Campaign Says its expected to launch additional action in pennsylvania and nevada Donald Trumps Campaign Manager has issued a statement accusing democrats of trying to steal the election alan fisher has more from washington d. C. Theres been an attack from the Trump Campaign on the way that democrats are allegedly conducting themselves. Campaign manager they said that the democrats are lying cheating and stealing running rampant across the country now theyve alleged in several places that there is voter fraud but they have yet to produce any evidence of that and theyve gone to court in the last 24 hours in michigan and also in. Kosovo as president says hell resign immediately to face a war crimes trial at the hague he was indicted in june by a special tribunal investigating the 99899. 00 conflict with serbia that is accused of nearly 100 murders when he was a commander of the Kosovo Libe
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