The white house after hearing the news trump has continued his golfing trip. Weve got more Team Analysis for you here with the details correspondent Stephanie Simons in philadelphia pennsylvania and im joined by our Annette Choudhry here with me in the studio i want to start with you because you have worked firstly with joe biden you know him as an individual do you think he has the character to bring together the nation as hes been promising as we expect him to say in his victory speech i mean i think part of the real special relationship that i saw him have with barack obama was that they kind of had a head heart you know union thing going on where joe biden just brings poddle of empathy and understanding to any situation that hes put in but i think what needs to be done to bring the country together is to use that thats a good starting point but then to have a program a program that he can really sell in his joe biden manner and so this transition period over the next couple weeks a
Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania with 99 percent of the vote counted in pennsylvania biden it garnered a 49. 7 percent and trump received 49. 2 percent while the 20 electoral votes biden won in this state allows him to surpass the 270 that magic number needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press was also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. And democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect biden success from philadelphia to black lives matters plaza in washington to new yorks times square people showed signs of relief and excitement here some of those reactions to me me everything my mother is a disabled woman who knows the caribbean medicaid and medicare and to know. How to and you can no longer
Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Entire. Government demonstrations prodemocracy protesters. Good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden have been answering questions from voters at separate televised events held at the same time on different channels the t. V. Town Hall Meetings as theyre known replaced the 2nd president ial debate which was cancelled after trump was diagnosed with 19 and then refused to conduct the debate online as book port there you 2 rival show they have very different approaches in both style and substance. Always confident at times defensive as the incumbent u. S. President donald trump now has a record to pick apart and he got a grilling starting out with the nations biggest crisis a coronavirus. I knew it was a big threat at the same time i dont want to panic this country i dont want to go out and say everybodys going to die everybodys got married already you dont have this lady but you can you know theres not going to get and more contentious
Months of protests president you bring back a time resigns saying no blood will be shed to keep him in power but International Observers fear more instability is on the way that as more people in bella bruce joined protests calling for president luka shame go to resign german chancellor Angela Merkel tells him his government lets free Political Prisoners and avoid violence plus a Champions League trophy with the entire southern german speech for the 1st time ever after they arrive slightly in this. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program u. S. Democrats have officially nominated former Vice President joe biden as their partys candidate to challenge President Donald Trump in the november. Action by then celebrated with his family and supporters after clinching the required number of delegates on day 2 of the partys Online Convention speakers including bidens wife jill gave testimonials praising his character the nominee himself will address the convention in a much anticipated acceptance