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Vienna the government is calling it a terrorist attack. On president allison which are as declared the winner of ivory coasts general election but the opposition is refusing to accept the results. And football legend diego about a donor has been admitted to hospital those doctor says its not related to code 19 all of the details coming up later this hour. Well it is now just after 10 g. M. T. And we begin this news hour in the United States where voting for the highly anticipated president ial election is getting underway now polls have already opened in the state of vermont just hours after both donald trump and joe biden poured months of campaigning and often Divisive Political rhetoric to a close now the uncertainty around the results and if they. Ill be accepted as that Business Owners to board up their stores in anticipation of potential on the rest our White House Correspondent can be how begins our coverage from washington d. C. U. S. President donald trump wrapped up his Reelection Campaign still behind in the National Polls but convinced hell pull off a victory and i think were going to have a tremendous victory truck rally in 4 different battleground states but made his last rally in michigan as he did in 2016 with an 11th hour pitch to voters but if biden and harrison the radical left gain power they will collapse our economy and send our nation into a very steep depression trumps rival former Vice President joe biden focused on the Northeastern State of pennsylvania calling in celebrity artists like lady gaga to wrap up the final night and in. Pennsylvania is the same state where bidens campaign started and also where he was born stabs tearing up the dirt back. Where your dough thats where youre preventing the well we burn. Youre big. Youre an idiot states of america as the candidates presented their closing arguments the number of americans who have voted prior to election day has set new records nearly 100000000 people have cast their ballots in early voting. Both polls show early mail in voting favors biden but trump believes his supporters are waiting until tuesday to cast in person votes but in the final hours of the campaign both candidates signaled they may not accept the results on election day sheeting can happen like youve never seen this is their dream and they are they are known for trouble even called a recent Supreme Court decision allowing an extension to count votes in pennsylvania as dangerous twitter flagged the tweet as potentially misleading with an immediate result on election day in doubt both candidates are preparing potential legal challenges to the results under no scenario while donald trump be declared a victory a victor on Election Night casting widespread uncertainty over poll results now appears to be a tactic employed by both campaigns you know weve already seen challenges to extended deadlines for allowing a mail in ballots that have been postmarked by election day but that arrive a few days later they have been challenges to adjustments in the law as American Voters are anxious hoarding food. And boarding up businesses from new york to Los Angeles Joe biden will be in pennsylvania on election day donald trump will be watching the returns come in from the white house or to additional fences have been erected around the perimeter in anticipation of civil unrest can really help at aljazeera the white house. Well 2 very small New Hampshire towns with a fast open to voters in a 60 year old tradition at the stroke of midnight local lawyer says headed to their polling stations near the Canadian Border and those results are already in joe biden has won the 5 votes in Dixville Notch while the no fail to 20 kilometers to the south President Trump won 16 votes to bidens 5 and as can be held at mentioned a record 98000000 americans have already very said and many of them have done it by mail before election day thats largely due to some reluctance to vote in passenger in this pandemic but across the u. S. Theres no single uniform procedure for processing and tabulating those votes from bennetts explains. Theres been a tremendous surge in mail in and absentee ballots cast in this election were going to see tens of millions of more americans vote by mail than have than any other former president ial or any election really this despite president Donald Trumps repeated false claims that mail in voting is rife with fraud no theres theres no evidence of widespread fraud the process catch is that the process is designed in to catch these sorts of issues percentages about 0006 percent of all ballots cast 9 states plus the district of columbia send ballots automatically to all active registered voters in the rest voters may request absentee ballots despite fears that trump appointed postal officials were engineering a mail service slow down observers say delivery time has not so far been an issue weve actually been hearing good stories about very quick delivery when will all these ballots be counted well it depends on the state all across the spectrum of the United States you have a variation in the rules of which the voters need to abide by the way in which ballots are counted be the laws and policies and procedures or the type of equipment that theyre using. Most states begin processing and preparing mail in ballots for tabulation well before november 3rd that means theyll get results quickly its just a handful of states that dont allow that processing to occur until election day or after but that handful includes the crucial swing states of wisconsin and pennsylvania ballot counting there could delay knowing who won if were down to the wire and its all contingent upon a couple of states we may not know the projected outcome and tell long after election day a couple of days maybe a week and as millions lined up for early voting armies of lawyers from both sides are poised to dispute the results in the courts there have been more than 300. 00 lawsuits around Election Administration so far this year just days ago the Supreme Court ruled against republicans allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina to continue counting ballots after election day look im im a former Elections Official litigation can reach havoc in the election process specially in the middle of the conduct of the election there are many variables but the bottom line is have patience unless one of the candidates wins in a landslide americans and people around the world may have to wait a while before they learn who has been elected president of the United States robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. Well the us has a rather unique way of electing its president its called the Electoral College system its complicated and its contentious if youre talking about who actually got the most votes what each state is given a share of electors and that share depends on the size of the states population and therefore the number of their representatives in congress so populous states like california texas new york and florida have more Electoral College votes now the entire nationwide Electoral College is made up of 538. 00 members candidates need just over half of those votes to win that means a minimum of 270. 00 becomes the magic number so during an election when people vote for their preferred candidate theyre actually voting for those electors who intend give their votes to the candidates now most states have a winner take all system so if you get the most votes at the ballot box you get all of the Electoral College votes for that state except for maine and nebraska they split their Electoral College votes so that also means that in america it is still possible to lose the popular vote and still win the election its happened 5 times now twice in the last 5 elections like back in 2016 when Hillary Clinton got nearly 2900000 more votes than donald trump but trump flipped some crucial states with high electoral vote counts and got past that critical number 270 well with 38 Electoral College votes at stake texas is one of the most important battlegrounds in the country it hasnt supported a democratic nominee for president since 1976 but polls do suggest that joe biden is trailing donald trump by just 3 Percentage Points raising hopes among democrats there is a chance for victory how does your caster is in houston with more. I am at a day of the dead raid organized by democrats and showcasing this tradition of the texas work you know community that school rolling and political strength lets you know make up 40 percent of the population in texas and since a favor democrats but historically have struggled with low voter turnout but perhaps not this year because a lesser number of new voters have passed the ballot many of them hispanic in fact more people have already cast their ballots early this election than all of the vote in 26 but perhaps the Biggest Surprise is that polls show joe biden within striking distance of winning this state which is unheard of texas has not supported a democratic candidate for president in more than 40 years a while back in support in places like houston and other big cities is strong in the back rural areas of texas to support her president from 3 main unshaken political analysts say its unlikely that biden will win texas this year but he could come close by and that in itself could cement the states new status as the biggest political battleground. Another key battleground that the outcome of this years election could come down to is florida which is considered the biggest prize now trump won the state 4 years ago but it was by little more than once a sentence point and you got to explain why florida is just so important. It seems like every 4 years when a president ial election comes around we end up talking about florida the states of course has a long history of razor thin elections that have a Huge National impact but what makes it so important well the demographics are tend to reflect those of the entire nation about 20 percent of voters are elderly and theres a very large latino and hispanic population here but perhaps more importantly this state has 29 Electoral College votes only texas and california has more interestingly no republican nominee has ever made it to the white house in almost a century without winning this state now voter turnout here has been huge shattering all records but coded 19 has been a massive issue in this state but one thing is. Whatever happens on election day in this state really matters well back in 2016 donald trump won pennsylvania by 0. 7 margin turning that state red for the 1st time in nearly 3 decades and 4 years later voters there remain more divided than ever with polls giving biden only a slim leans over his rival christensen he has more on how this swing state could determine the outcome. If we win pennsylvania we win the whole thing that was president tribes message to voters at a rally here in the state that he and Vice President joe biden have been crisscrossing in the final days before the election clearly both campaigns think pennsylvania is essential and while joe biden has consistently led in the polls here that lead has been tightening and is now right about where Hillary Clinton was in 2016 when president pulled off an upset winning pennsylvania by less than a percent he has attempted to go back to his previous Winning Strategy focusing on working class voters and the economy while joe biden has focused on management of the pandemic and made a special appeal in recent days to black voters in particular that after a shooting in the last week by a Police Officer of a black man led to unrest in the streets as important as pennsylvania is to this election we may not know the results here for several days after it as the counting of mail in ballots does not start until election day itself and as for how seriously voters are taking this election you can see by the line behind me that interest is high. 2 candidates to contrast in visions for the future of america that start with the coronavirus pandemic trump has promised to develop a vaccine by the end of this year but hes refused to collaborate on global efforts while biden has promised access to free testing and investment of 25000000000. 00 in vaccines to make them free for all americans as well as a nation wide mosque mandate or trump also says hell create 10000000. 00 new jobs in 10 months cut taxes for workers and increase manufacturing at home while biden wants to spend 700000000000. 00 on American Products and recess his proposals include raising taxes for wealthy americans and increasing the National Minimum wage trump has responded to nation wide and he races in protest more aggressively calling for the use of troops and military style equipment hes also against defunding the police will biden also doesnt want to defund the police but wants to spend more on Community Policing trump has promised to continue to be tough on immigration by barring Health Care Free tuition and welfare for undocumented immigrants biden on the other hand says hell reverse trumps travel ban on 6 muslim majority nations reunite children whove been separated from their families at Mexican Border as well as increase refugee admissions well lets speak now to scott gluteus hes a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in the u. K. New joins us from there now thanks for being with us scott i feel like weve got plenty sick of us or lets start with one very divisive issue for americans this Election Health care and support especially for preexisting conditions in the middle of a pandemic and both candidates have very different views on obamacare do you think thats been decisive aversions this time round. I think its important in the 2800 bed terms where democrats gained control of the house of representatives and really sort of recovered from that last 4 Years Ago Health care was the most important issue now obviously the pandemic historic focused everything on whats happening with coronavirus with more than 230000 americans dead but it has that broader issue of if we get sick are we covered and heres the story difference between the 2 joe biden wants to expand obamacare to continue to bring more coverage to americans including for preexisting conditions donald trump wants to bury it and that will put tens of millions of americans at risk of having no insurance at all trump failed to bury this by going through congress in 20172018 narrowly losing the revote for repeal so now hes doing it through the course you clued in trying to get a macone barrett on the Supreme Court in part of the Court Obamacare judicially scott i want to talk about a few other priorities for votes as well as health care now depending on which state there and plenty of voters of either said the economy or the coronavirus pandemic have been the biggest factor in their decisions this time around but theyre also very linked how do you think a shutdown is have affected voting behavior. Well i think the Immediate Impact is it removed what was the trump campaigns initial strategy which was we are hash tag wedding on the economy in fact the growth rate under donald trump was not as great an you know as that under president obama but you could still maintain that argument and then the pandemic grew into between april and june u. S. G. D. P. Fell at its greatest root 9. 6 percent in recorded history now it has bounced back in the 3rd quarter but its done so at the cost of a surgeon coronavirus and because of course when youre reopen the economy if you have to contain the virus you get what were seeing now which is what could 7 cases for the United States even greater than those in the 1st wave of march i think if donald trump would stay focus on the economy in recent days and said look we are recovering you would have a good chance but the problem is hes wound up talking about coronavirus by saying that doctors are making money off inflating dustman by calling his chief expert Dr Anthony Fauci a disaster not exactly the message you want to reassure people now well many also thought that this elections october surprise was the president himself testing positive for corona virus has that changed anything do you think. I think it was the october surprise i think it it focused on coronaviruses the main issue with the Truck Campaign were rude rather talk about the Supreme Court in a county fair or trucks culture wars against supposed extremists in an archivist but what happened is everybody focused on coronavirus and the donald trump instead of trying to connect with those who have died so look i understand now understand how serious this is welled up saying by maybe im into this im a great physical specimen dont be afraid and again it was that distance you know trump what is really happening on the ground doesnt make

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