Wisconsin. Now he has two 53 electoral votes. President trump has 214. There are five key battleground states, they are pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina, nerve a carolina, nevada and arizona. The president leads by slightly more than 23,000 votes in georgia. Alaska has yet to be called but it heavily favors President Trump. Faith abubey joins us from washington, d. C. Good morning. Yes. This race is still way too close to call. In a key battleground states, but this morning the Trump Campaign and the Joe Biden Campaign both projecting confidence. This morning the counting continuing with former Vice President joe biden saying he sees victory ahead. Im not here to declare what we won, but when the voting is f done we believe well be the winners. Reporter projections show hes likely to win in michigan and wisconsin and just 17 electoral votes shy of the presidency. His Campaign Setting the record for most votes of any president ial candidate. Weve won with the majority of the americ
A load of explosives i doubt bomb going off during the election were at your door that the number of wondered now over a 100 more are under treatment and harbored in pressure but peculiarly the lady reading hot producer and theyre all feared dead or gore drives because some of these children who were there are badly wounded a car bomb blast in a special forces unit in eastern afghanistan has killed 2 people fighting is ongoing in the city of cost afghanistans interior Ministry Says 25. 00 others were also injured in that attack including 9 civilians no group has claimed responsibility. The u. S. Secretary of state and the defense secretary are in india where theyre expected to sign an agreement expanding information sharing for military satellites and its part of a 5 day asia trip and strengthening strategic ties to try to counter chinese influence the u. S. Supreme court has a new justice amy was sworn in a short while ago after the Republican Controlled Senate approved her appointmen
Can make the big prize of the night as always is california with 55 Electoral College votes joe biden has got those further north the state of washington with 12 goes to the blue column as well and oregon as well all of these west coast blue states another 7 which we can add to joe bidens tally there and well put in idaho as well which is also closing the south thats a red state that goes to dont trump with 4 so as i said this gives us some shape now because weve now managing to fill in the states which we knew so 209112 right now that looks very strong in favor of joe biden but lets think about this texas 38 florida 29 pennsylvania which we havent talked about for a while will do that in maybe will 10 or 15 minutes well have a little talk about pennsylvania. Not even in the too close to call of the moment but this 20. Heigho a chain North Carolina 16 there are a lot of states and its all the ones which we thought it would come down to of course so whilst that number all just pop out t
Pennsylvania and georgia is he maintained his lead in arizona and nevada bidens a razor thin margin grew is millions of mail in ballots were tallied securing him more than enough Electoral College votes to become the 46th president of the United States well the announcement has sparked celebrations across the country large crowds have gathered in washington d. C. As well as new york city and philadelphia well lets go live now to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan you obviously have been following every twist and turn of this election it took a couple of days but joe biden is now the president elect. Exactly i came to trump in 4 years ago and it looks as if a year when were counting him but the Republican Party are seeing quite yet we are just above the white house you can see Lafayette Park behind me which has been sealed off since around the time of the george lloyd protest. In the summer behind that is the white house the oval office is just over to the right and in front of Lafa
Feeling some like confident about this lead but still taking nothing for granted hitting the state of georgia why is it going there well thats where donald trump has made some inroads particularly with africanamerican men so this is something that the Biden Campaign is 0 weighing in on but overall the numbers looking more favorable for joe biden as ons about his Main Opposition Party says this media has been arrested and 5 people shot dead by police they were reportedly killed during preelection protests that was trying to say ballot papers have been premarked the head of the vote on with an stay. An explosion at a Religious School in pakistan has killed at least 8 people more than 100 others were injured in the city of shah. The Fatal Shooting of a black man in the u. S. City of philadelphia provokes violent overnight protests the 27 year old victim was later identified as Botha Wallace the Police Reportedly asked him to drop a knife after which they shot him several times security gu