A military escalation in northern ethiopia as tensions between the government and local groups threaten to spill across the border. Its 2200. 00 g. M. T. 5 pm u. S. Eastern time and 16 hours after the last polls close to the president ial election result is still on a knife edge but it seems it could be tilting the way of former Vice President joe biden and his Democratic Party speaking a short time ago biden said he was confident that he would win enough seats to take him over the line after a long night of county its clear that were when you know states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency im not here to clear that weve won but i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winners all the votes counted. We have won wisconsin by 20000 verse votes virtually the same margin of President Trump won that state 4 years ago in michigan we lead by over 35000 votes and its growing a substantially bigger margin and President Trump won michigan in 2016 michigan will complete his fote soon maybe as early as the day and i feel very good about pennsylvania virtually all the remaining ballots to be counted were cast by mail and weve been winning 78 percent of the votes by mail in pennsylvania we flipped arizona and the 2nd district of nebraska of special significance to me is that weve won with the majority of the American People and every indication is that that majority will grow well tom campaign is announced it has filed a suit to hold a vote counting in the states of pennsylvania and michigan it also requested a recount in wisconsin as the polls closed and results started to come in so were trying to falsely declared himself the winner while this was still being counted within the last half outruns know every day giuliani told journalists they were particularly concerned about 9 minutes. Not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots they could be from mars as far as were concerned or they could be from the Democratic National committee joe biden could have voted 50 times as far as we know with 5000 times the ballots could be from camden philadelphia unfortunately and say this about my own city has a reputation for voter fraud you have a reputation the dead people voting and were going to go look at just how many dead people voted here i dont think we have to do that but we will. Alan fischer in washington d. C. So perhaps as predicted the noise of being brought in and this is going to continue but is there is there a ripoff now potentially to 270. 00 for joe biden. Well there is even with pennsylvania i mean given that wisconsin is no in his camp as far as you see to press and others are concerned just in the last 20 minutes or so that a number of news organizations are saying that michigan will go for joe biden given that arizona was called on tuesday night early whedons the morning for joe biden if he wins nevada hes over the 270 limit that is why the republicans are fighting so fiercely because they see that is the potential that they could lose this election to joe biden you know as far as pennsylvania is concerned is speaking to the Biden Campaign they think they are well ahead but we know the campaign is going to go to court for 3 issues in pennsylvania one is to join a suit thats already at the Supreme Court which bans sensually 1000000 votes being counted after 3 days also questions whether or not they have the right identity for those who sent in the mail in ballots and theyre also asking the courts which could eventually end up at the Supreme Court to haul the counting of ballots to allow republicans to view what is going on so we have from donald trump for weeks before the election he did in the words of one democratic operative say the quiet part that he wants the Supreme Court to be in place that hes going to challenge anything that doesnt give him victory in the court and that seems to be the pattern that were seeing certainly we knew that hes he wanted. Installed in the Supreme Court before the election that happened just last monday yet just last monday. And so it happened really recently and that would give the Supreme Court a 63. 00 conservative majority so is this going to end up in the courts it already highs will it continue to go through the courts it probably will it will get a result in the next couple of days its very unlikely what are the risks association with delays like this. That people get angry that they get upset that we see things that we saw in 2000 when there was what was called the Brooks Brothers riot where republicans went into the courthouse in Miami Dade County and stopped physically before the Supreme Court stopped this. Legally so there are many many issues people people are on edge they were worried about the election anyway their know being built up with the statements that the. Votes are being found with statements that cant be backed up by Rudy Giuliani and others you know when he says joe biden could have voted 50 times he knows joe biden didnt vote 50 times and he is being upset about that but it sure so is division issues so is concern and therefore that is what they are playing with its a very potentially volatile situation someone even see dangerous situation but be under no illusion both sides know exactly what theyre doing when they do this and be under no illusion donald trump knows exactly what he was doing for weeks before this when he talked up the potential of this and the potential of the votes being stolen from him because he was looking at the polls and things were not looking good if you looked at the returns no he sees the exact same thing his path to 270 is restricted. Thank you very much. Mike hanna joins us live from wilmington delaware and thats where we heard from joe biden a short time ago and he felt confident he was saying that his path to victory was assured but he wasnt actually declaring victory how long do you think it will be before we get. You know get a clear idea of whether hes made it to 270. 00. Well within the last half hour a very very Important Development a number of news outlets as my colleague alan fischer just mentioned are calling michigan for joe biden now this would be a huge step towards getting that 270 electoral votes because that means if he also won nevada he would not need pennsylvania at all he would get to that magic number to get the majority in the Electoral College so theres obviously the Campaign Headquarters here at salute to be watching this like hawks and that is why the Trump Campaign is contesting the vote in michigan its contesting the vote in pennsylvania but biden sounding confident but making very clear that hes not claiming victory however hes confident that when the votes are fully come to his campaign will wind pointing out as well that this would be only the 4th campaign in history that has successfully defeated an incumbent president but it wasnt just about him winning or losing by then made an absolutely impassionate call for unity drawing on the constitution referring to we the people as stated in the constitution as saying that theres more that brings americans together than drives them apart saying that now is the time for unity coming together and to heal so with all of the after this viciously contested election still going on in terms of all the legal challenges happening from the Trump Campaign to joe biden still calling for unity still insisting that this is an election that is not about republicans or democrats in the end its about the country itself its about the democracy which is the very stone on which this country is bill and mike i mean once again the polls were pretty wide of the mark and although the democrats seem to be kind of edging ahead at the moment they hadnt appeared to get to have a sort of much better picture in place for several months now whats the kind of discussion about how. Those things went wrong again for the pollsters. Well theres a lot of soul searching going on among democrats the polls did indicate very handy leads in a number of areas that have gone to Trump Florida comes to mind in particular but theres no doubt that what weve seen here is a pattern that weve seen in the past and its a pattern that appears that continues to befuddle the pollsters and that is the mail in votes and the absentee votes trend towards the democrats voting on the day of people going into the booth and putting their ballot in on the day of the election tends to go towards republicans so this is something that has skewed the polls every single time it skewed them in 2016 and everybody threw up their hands in horror it skewed them now it would appear from the results that weve seen all of that being said though the one thing that has held is that the polls indicated an absolute majority for joe biden in terms of the popular vote well hes got a handy lead in that particular issue unlike President Trump in 2016 who did not win the popular vote he lost the popular vote to clinton although got the required number of votes in the Electoral College so for bitin this is the key issue in terms of the legitimacy of his victory should he indeed be declared victory in the end and that is the fact is not only did he get a majority in the Electoral College that Many Democrats coming is skewed anyway by the gerrymandering that has happened over many years but that he also got the majority of votes from the American People now this would be critical to the legitimacy of his standing and would also be critical in terms of carrying on what are likely to be months of contestation by the Trump Campaign were seeing that now the legal actions going on in michigan going on in pennsylvania threats of going to the Supreme Court to join as an applicant in the cases that the Supreme Court has already decided in terms of how long a period will be allowed for the count of hopes so. These are all the issues that we are still struggling with but for joe biden and the Biden Campaign here in warmington the key issue is that he is so close or predicted to be so close to an Electoral College victory but most importantly it is that hes projected to be very very close to an absolute majority among the American People and i can i thank you very much indeed. Obama has moved closer to the magic total of 270. 00 votes actual College Votes for the white house adding the 10 actual College Seats in the state of wisconsin but the Trump Campaign is already demanding a recount in that state and his father lawsuit to try to stop the counting of votes in another key swing state michigan which is looking like it might go to. Lets go to john hendren whos live in nonsinging mission to michigan so president tom is now seeking to hold counting in michigan whats was he trying to shave. The President Trump is trying to stop the counting of the vote in michigan and a lot of self appointed poll watchers have sort of crushed in on this central counting going on in Detroit Police have been called in to keep them out but with 97 percent of the vote counted joe biden is 1. 00 Percentage Points ahead and the votes that remain to be counted are apparently early votes and those break very heavily for joe biden sometimes 3. 00 to 1. 00 form and there are also many of them in wayne county thats the area around detroit detroit is a heavily democratic area majority africanamerican so the horse may have left the stable here for the Trump Campaign but he is trying to stop the count and he just tweeted that he declares that he has won michigan im not sure thats how it works but thats what the president is saying hes claimed a number of states and hes hoping to stop whats going on here but just to put it into perspective 4 years ago donald trump won michigan against Hillary Clinton by 10000 votes well this gap is more like 60000 and last time around Hillary Clinton did not shoot a challenge that the Green Party Candidate did and she was told that she couldnt challenge it because she hadnt got enough votes to make a credible run of it. So this is a pretty uphill battle for donald trump and he did have to go through the state courts before getting it to the Supreme Court which is apparently his preferred venue to have this resolved but the bottom line is michigan seems to be leaning very heavily toward biden by a small margin but by what appears to be an almost unrecoverable margin we expect that vote to continue to be counted and the state of michigan says they will finish counting it later the attorney general has said that the Trump Campaign has had meaningful access to the counting that is the basis of that challenge the truck campaigns as they want to see the vote counting go on the attorney general says they have had access and in fact poll watchers from the Trump Campaign have been seen especially in detroit those heavily democratic areas john hendren thank you very much indeed. Or hes back now to live in miami it tests on the count in georgia. Well its creeping along extremely slowly about 94 percent of the votes have now been counted and that gap hours talking about earlier between biden trump is narrowing now the key thing about georgia with its 16 Electoral College votes is the ballots that havent been counted a mail in ballots which normally favors joe biden and the other important thing is where those ballots are from there from the atlanta area the biggest city in the state of georgia a lot of africanamericans in that community who also lean towards joe biden so this is really narrowing the gap in a state that really shouldnt be in play the last democratic president ial nominee to win in that state was bill clinton back in 1992 so it is on a razors edge like many other states but this would be a big win for joe biden it may not matter if nevada and arizona go bidens way but it certainly would be a huge feather in his cap given how close he is to that magic number of 270 now officials in the state of georgia say that counting is under way weve been waiting all day it still hasnt come through and its 5 15 in the evening here on the east coast so a nail biter once again we are hoping to get those results in the next few hours and youre in florida and then the next why was it so important for trump to hold florida and what are the democrats sort of talking about the disappointment in not holding and not winning florida. Yeah i think they are i mean lets address the 2nd point 1st if you like and that is if you look at what happened here in Miami Dade County joe biden just didnt manage to get any enthusiasm among latino voters and there are a 1000000 cuban americans in this city alone so thats just how important they are in this state and that was essentially because the campaign pushed this idea that joe biden was a socialist and when he say things like that to people from cuba that does not go down well there is a great deal of fear for that kind of political leaning despite the fact its not true now the other point is there are various paths for the president which are closing rapidly if these projections are right and he really needed to keep the state of florida he won it by about 112000 votes back in 2016 a very narrow margin but at the end of the night it was over 300000 votes as 29 Electoral College votes to trump it was a state he really needed to win and of course the state he calls home since he changed his residency tomorrow largo the winter white house nonetheless in the Bigger Picture we are still waiting for georgia to come back with just those last couple of 100000 ballots and what was your impression as to the kind of the way people talk to the polls and i remember reading about one outlying poster who was still calling it this year for trump he was he called it for trump last time around he seemed to be anyone and one of his theories was that people always lie to the pollsters and particularly trump that is what is that is that your impression that people were kind of not prepared to admit to voting trampled you think it would be Something Different that would have skewed the results of the post as were getting. Well i mean lets lets go back in time over the past few weeks here in florida the lead was for joe biden by about 3. 84 percent the margin of error is around the same but they got it wrong and after 2016 we all went through it im sure you did too and it was really wrong so people just simply dont trust the polls for various Different Reasons the pollsters may not be reaching the people that they need to reach people may not be giving honest answers but i think 4 years into the Trump Presidency if youre a trump supporter youre pretty loud about it so you know throughout this entire process i certainly havent been trusting all making any kind of predictions based on the polls its har