Protect the vote. Scenes of devastation across Central America storm and its left dozens dead and thousands more homeless. Joe biden is getting ever closer to securing that magic number of 270 required to clinch the u. S. Presidency with Donald Trumps lead shrinking in 2 key states georgia and pennsylvania thats over georgia for thats where joe biden is now just over 1700 votes behind trump what was a solid republican state for decades has emerged as a surprising battleground this time the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots from the biggest democratic stronghold in atlanta were also still waiting on pennsylvania a very important state the state where joe biden was born translate has been consistently shrinking there about 22000 votes separate the 2 candidates and the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from the do. Democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and the suburbs giving biden a very good chance of catching up lets look at the overall picture now the democratic candidate has a projected total of 264. 00 Electoral College votes while trump is projected to win 214 as it stands remember a candidate needs to 70 to win a hair and the yellow you can see the states which are still being decided nevada in the west and george or of course North Carolina in the south and up north pennsylvania. Has lashed out at the time that its taking for many votes to be tallied in those key states he claims the election was being rigged and stolen it says further legal action is imminent sure they will get the latest on the results but 1st has rosalynn jordan counting the ballots one by one in georgia one of several states that could yet determine who will be the u. S. President on january 20th 2021 the incumbent donald trump demanded again on thursday that the counting is a legal and must be stopped if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes d they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late trump has repeatedly and incorrectly said the process could be sabotaged but its actually common for states to need several days to count every vote but trump isnt just complaining hes suing in nevada the Trump Campaign is hoping this woman story of alleged voter fraud will shut down the count there are going to vote in the cold ira vote i personally can matter and you and yours are her it started in person this current been mailed out the ballot and somebody took my ballot officials denied stuckeys charges saying they did Everything Possible to help her vote and in michigan a judge rejected trumps request to hold vote counting in that state around the clock Trump Supporters have been protesting the vote count even demanding to be let into the rooms where the ballots are being counted after meeting with his Campaign Staff in delaware democratic candidate joe biden said he trusts the process senator i would continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is truly Shannon Harrison i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working the count is being completed and dad will know very soon so no declaration of victory just yet given the 2 big unknowns the status of the vote counting and the status of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges rosalyn jordan aljazeera. One republican in the u. S. House is come out strongly against Donald Trumps claims while not naming him directly. Has tweeted that of course every vote needs to be counted but that if someone has legitimate concerns about fraud then evidence must be presented calling for a stop to the spread of what he called defunct misinformation. A White House Correspondent can be how it is in washington d. C. She explained some of trumps arguments there are regularities that continue to be cited but dismissed not only by some members of the media but also by the Democratic Party is as well that of course says that this is the system working as it should know what other inconsistency that donald trump is offering is that hes saying that there are legal versus illegal ballots and just put a fine point on this what hes arguing is that any vote that comes after election day is a legal thats not entirely true what is true is that that used to be the case until in some states there were extensions granted and they made it an attempt in georgia to try and have some votes counted and what many are arguing is that this was it wasnt it was thrown out because it was in consequential this was a lawsuit involving 53 votes that is not going to change the outcome of the count in georgia especially now that we know that Donald Trumps lead has narrowed to less than 1500 votes so this is a problem for donald trump the campaign is aware of it particularly if they lose georgia many argue that the campaign is over any hope of winning is over and i think that was expressed by donald trump when he was at his press conference he certainly said he was still fighting but his body language seemed to indicate something entirely different that he was in fact feeling defeated mike hanna is in bidens home state of delaware he says the democratic candidate is calling for unity among divided vote. In the course of the day his Campaign Team briefed reporters saying that the numbers that they were crunching indicate that joe biden was doing very well indeed in a number of these absolutely tense fraught states in the course of the day to have joe biden having a meeting with his Campaign Staff and then coming out and making that statement that basically hes feeling good that the campaigns looking good however he continued to call for calm and above all d to call for patience but what hes also calling for as well is an appeal for a sense of unity joe biden very clearly attempting to laze some Building Blocks for what may come next should he be declared victory in this particular election and knowing that he may well have to be dealing with a Republican Senate knowing that hes also going to have to deal with the consequences of 4 years of Bitter Division in particular and hes at this stage attempting to create some sense of unity asking for all to come together at this particular time lets get the very latest now on the results and pennsylvania pedicle hayne is in philadelphia patty as weve been saying pennsylvania is crucial because with 20 Electoral College votes it could settle things well and truly for joe biden were coming to you at 1 am because things are changing by the hour where things stand now. Exactly this is a this is a joe biden get to this he is you can easily clear and declare himself to have legibly enough votes. To be president and if you as president doesnt get that sylvania well its really unclear he has any path to a 2nd term so where are we its now. We went for 8 hours ago were very t. V. Here started and there was a 90000 vote difference so and then we started to see like a huge shift like 10000 votes here 15000 votes there and in the last hour its moved by less than a 1000 votes so whats going on well probably safe to assume it is 1 in the morning and the people who are doing these votes this is a really repetitive task right at any kind of a mind numbing and theyve been at it and they said there are and if you count throughout the night but you know thats asking a lot of all of these people and so where we have 224733 votes to go and theres 163000 votes ballots and something to be counted so thats why the biden team feels so confident in pennsylvania because consistently when theyre opening up these ballots that tend to come from governor practically cities and suburbs joe bidens going about 80 percent of the vote so do the math. It shows you could have a clear lead if it continues of about 100000 votes and so why does that matter well theres a couple of things theres one county that because of a lawsuit can open up about 35000 between 29035000 votes tomorrow and for some of the large chunk of that thats not till 5 oclock tomorrow so if it looks like biden is going to win 5800000 votes it doesnt matter what those 35000 votes are going to say he can they can go ahead and start to call it the other reason it matters is because one of the legal issues that the Supreme Court has taken up is that the state Supreme Court allowed people to send in. Ballots after election day now that was very controversial there important point is those are not the votes that are being cast here and the secretary of state came out so that any fraction like a couple 100 this is a map so it could come if the margin is wide enough that believe me we need to count those votes i mean they can they will but it does of certainly need to be included in the total so that shuts down a legal challenge that President Donald Trump probably would have been successful with because the conservatives on the Supreme Court said that they were. Throwing out those additional ballots that came in late so again it is gone from in 89 hours its gone from 90000. 00 votes 222473 its slowing down now but again its one of the morning. Those feeling pretty confident that by the time possibly by the time the sun comes up here in philadelphia that they will be ahead of us president. Ok patty. Session then we will be coming back to you im sure pedicle home live for us there across the situation in pennsylvania from philadelphia. Lets get now to clyde wilcox who is the professor of Government University he joins us on skype from the genea thank you for staying with us mr wilcox as we were talking to patty call hang about what i was talking about theres a geisha in pennsylvania i want to talk about trump pushing ahead with these legal challenges across a number of states looking at georgia michigan possibly pennsylvania wants a recount in wisconsin could any of this change the game. Well people the real winners lots of possibilities there was kargil results very close there is very unlikely there was no you would have to find a lot of extra votes or disqualify quite a few actual bayne as your last guest pointed out the lead for biden is likely to be very large but upon the thinnest caliber of these ballots and so even the ballots that were postmarked on the day of the election and are alive in afterwards which by the way is allowed many states but in absolutely any of the Supreme Court allowed it so the national Supreme Court could say well i cast to be the legislature very practical and to the issues but essentially no i dont think theres any way that would make a difference i will say though that in georgia we have a candidate in the military but he but 8000. 00 military ballots still to go and then the pro team has done one thing they have approached some of the republican legislators in pennsylvania with the argument that they can simply say. The elect or as we carlos of the election outcome. The constitution actually says that state legislatures Electoral College delegates i think theres practically 0 chance of the republicans and insulated would go along with that but it shows the desperation of the trump hand at this point lets say joe biden does win despite grand Democratic Party hopes if theres a republic controlled Republican Controlled Senate how difficult might that make it for joe biden to get things done. Well sir theres still a chance that the senate could be 5050. 00 it looks like both of the senate races in georgia will go to a runoff and so if the democrats won both of those it would be a 5050 senate with Pamela Harris casting the car breaking vote but assume that doesnt happen what we do know is that Mitch Mcconnell was very kind that of a majority leader who really put a stop to many many things that. Broke obama was trying to do and refused to hold hearings on many of his appoint Court Appointments but were really at a crisis time in america work 220000 cases today 1400 i think people died weve got tens of millions of people unemployed so you have to hope the. Republicans and the senate had a hand joe biden who by the way has personally quite popular with republicans in the senate no matter what theyll say publicly i would be able to come up with somehow to come from us ok thank you so much for your time todd well concept fessor of government at georgetown university. So from here on aljazeera with global economies mild and uncertainty we look at how china is pairing to bolster its domestic market. 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Democratic president ial candidate joe biden is closing the gap with donald trump and 2 key states trump now leads by fewer than 2000 votes georgia is remaining votes are tallied up to choose a selection and theres less than half a percent between them and pennsylvania. Donald trump is claiming without evidence that if only legal votes were counted he would win the election at a wash house News Conference he said legal challenges his campaign has filed may end up in the Supreme Court. Biden is edging people to be patient he says he is confident becoming the next president has 264 Electoral College votes 270 needed for victory. Where the u. S. Has seen another record jump a new corona virus infections 2 days after the president ial election more than 120000 cases were confirmed on thursday exceeding the record set the day before thats according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university an average of 850 people die from the virus every day up from 700 a month ago. A new nationwide lockdown has come into effect in england as it struggles to cope a 2nd wave of corona virus infections Prime MinisterAbbas Johnson says it will be lifted automatically in the next 4 weeks or wednesday night large crowds were seen gathered in london with very little social distancing scotland wales and Northern Ireland have their own restrictions in place. In london with more. There is a very different atmosphere to this 2nd lock down the streets in Central London are reasonably busy and there are people out and about perhaps this time around people are less afraid of the unknown a many workplaces of course of adapted to these changing times meaning that people are still going out to their offices also schools universities and nurseries remain open the streets were busy during the school run this morning but there are big concerns about the retail and hospitality sector where on the strand in Central London many shops here are closed theres also been an announcement of 3 and a half 1000 job cuts and one of their the big supermarkets sainsburys and its associated brands are gas of course they have been concerns about the high street even before the pandemic deep concerns about what kind of Lasting Impact this 2nd lockdown will have and for some stores the 1st lot was already too much force to close their doors then concerns they could well be casualties a 2nd time around the government though says that there is support available the scheme that pays 80 percent of the salaries of workers temporarily will be extended and also the bank of england has announced its injecting 195000000000. 00 into the economy but worries of course about how long the government can continue insulating the economy in these unpredictable and changing times. 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