Lifetime seat on the Supreme Court after the Republicanled Senate approved her confirmation following a rushed process to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We will get the latest. Plus, we will speak to alicia garza, cofounder of black lives matter and supermajority. I think black voters in particular, especially as we turned out and shaped the contest across this country, we really do deserve to hear more about what youre going to do to advance the issues that i think all of us care about, the issues of health care, the issues of Community Safety and security, the issues of Climate Change and what is happening in our environment all around us. The issues of low wages that are keeping families from being able to support themselves. Amy we will speak with alicia garza about the election, new bookg, and her the purpose of power and how she was the target of a white supremacist plot that was foiled last week by the fbi. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org
Prescribed by those you elect, and we have in obligation to show you how were doing that. So to that end, i wanted to answer questions that we had been receiving in our office the last few days and updates. Namely, lets discuss the unofficial turnout numbers, election day registration, and the mechanics of a recount. We have alao put out a press release with this information and encourage you to share the facts with others who may have questions or concerns about the election process. So when it comes to voter recount, unofficially, wisconsin voters cast 3,929,374 votes for president. That is the most ever in the state of wisconsin, exceeding the previous record of 3,071,434 set in 2012. That makes the unofficial turnout percentage of wisconsin, which has a voting age population of 4,536,417 voters the unofficial turnout percentage of that is 72. 67 . Note, andimportant to ive heard many questions about this, that some jurisdictions choose to report their unofficial turnout as a percen
Tallying of votes still ongoing trump is threatening to go to the Supremes Court to stop the counting biden says every vote must be respected. And another news ethiopias Prime Minister declares a state of emergency in the region following a deadly attack on a military base. Im joining us roscoe with sports argentina football hero Diego Maradona has had Successful Surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. All the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has so far secured enough Electoral College votes to win but that hasnt stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes that a still uncounted donald trump past threatened to go to the Supreme Court something that bidens team is saying they are ready to challenge the whole. Total vote count could still take several days while we have a team of reporters for you again the south Jamal Allison bidens home state that i am and alan fisheye is in washington
Bobby jindal, congressman brian babin. Here is the state of play right now. Were going to break it down with them. Again well break down what the president ed needs to win the white house. We have for you tonight the really bad calls in the media. Were bringing you more on what we have been reporting about the polls. How they were off. Weve got tonight how it was worse than realized is what was going on with the polls. We debate, are the media and the pollsters really that cut off from the country theyre supposed to cover . Well show you the worst calls of this election wacky. The media is cranking up the fear machine. Should you believe it . A reports growing mutiny of democrats against nancy pelosi in order to remove her as House Speaker. Well name for you what media critics say is the biggest loser of the night. It is something that the media has been hammering away at more than a year. Thanks for joining us. Im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Is. Elizabeth j
In pennsylvania. We start off with jeff flock, with the latest what is happening in milwaukee, wisconsin. Jeff, you were the first to say given some troubles they were having in the milwaukee area, but if they resolve them, they could quickly get this settled. They appear to be moving rapidly in that direction. Reporter yeah. The trouble was essentially just a tsunami of mailin ballots, 169,000 counted in this Building Back behind me. With all due respect to the president , he certainly deserves respect and to this tweet, it is not that theyre finding votes. They simply had a lot to count. And last night, as you know, neil, we showed it live on the air, we had pictures what was going on here, the counting of the mailin ballots. It was about the most transparent counting that i have ever seen. News reporters and other observers allowed to roam around outside the bounds where counts was taking play. To sob i have it, what everyone was doing, when the count came in, took from a trump lead