Thank you for joining us. Voting is underway across the United States and the most controversial and anticipated pole in years. Millions of will have cast their ballots early. There have been long lines at polling stations as voters try to stay safe amid the pandemic. Donald trump and joe biden have been battling for every last vote with joe biden out of pennsylvania and trump in virginia. Im not thinking about a consent acceptance or concession speech. Winning is easy. Losing is never easy. Not for me, its not. When you see rallies, the likes of which in the history of this country probably in the history of the world nobody has ever seen before, there is a tremendous love going on in this country and a tremendous unity. Nobody has ever seen that were you taken airport in the airport isnt big enough to hold the crowds. Nobody has ever seen nothing like that. Our opposition has a few people sitting in circles and thats ok. Thats not abnormal actually. Thats the way it is. Lets go back
U. S. Democratic system. Oh mr noise you know. You go to whats good at putting people to people you trust is a direct threat to i looked at my machine from hes right and he needs to find out what hes fighting for because there is some kind of fronts in this country. Youre watching are to International Special election coverage my name is donald quarter and ill be joining you for the program now its now 5 days since the u. S. Election and it might it looks like we might finally have a result a number of media are projecting that joe biden has been elected the 46 president of america having secured 219 Electoral College votes just a reminder 270 are needed for victory the former v. P. Is win in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that threshold meanwhile stands at 214 we now cross live to atlanta and our tees ben swan so ben the race is being called for joe biden where do we stand now. Yeah the race is being projected uncover joe biden by the a. P. In a couple of states
We have from new york claims of fraud hunger for the Us Democratic system. Hold mr woodward you know. Youve got to do whats good for the people good marriage of people trust is a direct threat to our democracy trump hes trying to time hes to find what hes trying to for because to be some kind of approach to this country and its people the accident scene said not seemingly the rest subdivision of u. S. Society as both by do not Trump Supporters continue to rally all across the country. You want you all to International Im sauce to tell you that this is my calling dont reports on it some day here in moscow so its 5 days since the voting in the u. S. Senate looks like we might finally have a result. A number of media are projecting that joe biden has been elected the 42nd president of the United States having secured 298 up to World College its just a reminder of course 270 are needed for victory the form of the piece when in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that thres
After that, we hear from joe budden supporters. Reportcook Political Editor charlie cook looks at key races around the country. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on this monday, november 2. It is election eve. We want to hear separately this morning from supporters of President Donald Trump, then former Vice President joe biden. We begin with those backing President Trump. Here are your numbers to call. Trump supporters only for this first hour. Later, we will focus on joe biden. Here are the numbers. In eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. If you like to send us a text, 202 7488003. cspanwj is our twitter handle. You can also post a comment on facebook. Again, and pain 2020 come up Trump Supporters only for this first hour of the washington journal. Here is the Washington Post front page. Trump and biden make their closing pitches. Ae president targets based in flur
Think he is going over 300 electoral votes, but i am not quite sure how much farther past that. It sort of depends on does he get six out of six or five out of six of the key six battlegrounds. And then there is the next 4 georgia, iowa, ohio, texas. I will go with north of 300. Host what do you see in those numbers that gets us to the point we are at in the prediction you are making . Electionssidential with no incumbent, those are choice elections, where people are waiting pros and cons. But that is not what these are. If you have an incumbent running, it is a referendum. It is up or down. Do you want to extend the present contract or not . If you have a president that has never been above 50 percent in gallupor national poll, or nbcwall street journal, any of those, and the president ial job rating is the best predictor of how president s go. For historic purposes, use gallup. We have had five president s in the postwar era that had the final gallup job Approval Rating of 50 . On. W