So acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. Joe biden is edging further ahead of President Donald Trump in key battleground states which will decide the outcome of the u. S. Election biden is leading in pennsylvania and nevada and georgia he needs just one of them to get him over the line trump needs all of them plus North Carolina to hit the 270 electoral seats required for a victory joe bidens been speaking to supporters in his home state of delaware hes still not declaring victory but says he will eventually be victorious i dont also urge people to be patient. Joe biden took the stage looking weary but full of confidence we dont have a final declaration of victory yet. But the numbers tell us its clear to us a clear and convincing story were going to win this race by now leads donald trump in pennsylvania by a significant margin and a narrow one in georgia he also remains ahead in nevada and arizona as vote counting continues and whats becoming clear each hour is that Record Number of americans of all races faiths religions chose change over more of the same theyve given us a mandate for action on covert economy Climate Change systemic racism but didnt call for healing after a bitter and rancorous campaign and put the anger and the demonization behind this story for us to come together as a nation to heal its not going to be easy we have to try the Trump Campaign launched a barrage of lawsuit seeking to halt vote counting or to toss out mail and absentee ballots tabulated after election day but the president s lawyers provided little if any evidence of fraud no i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as jimmy carter did just as george h. W. Bush did and frankly just as al gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country nevadas attorney general called the Trump Campaigns voting fraud complaint in his state garbage multiple studies over the years have concluded that vote fraud in the u. S. Is exteriorly rare in georgia bidens lead is so slim a recount is being planned as we are closing in on a final count. We can begin to look toward our next steps with a margin that small there will be likely a recount in georgia pro trump demonstrators continue to protest around the country convinced that foul play was underway it raises the hair on the back of your neck where theyre trying to plan that where theyre planning their day theyre going to theyre going to steal this election. Meanwhile biden supporters celebrated in the streets of several cities after days of painfully slow vote counting most americans are eager for this election to finally be over but given trumps apparent determination not to concede defeat the legal battles could stretch on for weeks robert oulds Al Jazeera Los Angeles ok mike hanna joins us now live from delaware from biden h. Q. Mike it looks like the numbers are probably there but joe biden is not calling it yet once again asking for patience. Indeed years old joe biden has been very cautious since the polls closed not wanting to get ahead of himself not wanting to declare victory prematurely he has spoken before to the media in terms of what he expects making very clear tonight as he has in the past that hes absolutely optimistic and confident that once the vote is counted he will be the victor however he is not going to declare victory at this particular point is that could all change should as we expect in the next 24 hours a state like pennsylvania gets projected for biden thats very possible given the rate at which the contest been happening slows as it might have seemed but there are so many avenues for biden to win this election its not only pennsylvania its also those other races in georgia in nevada so it does appear very much so that biden is on track for the presidency although as hes done before hes not going to declare victory until its absolutely certain that hes going to achieve it and once again calling for patience calling for calm and calling for those counting the polls to be left alone and lets get the vote of every american counted if joe biden does win how is any transition likely to happen i mean donald trump has made it pretty clear hes unlikely to concede. Well it could get somewhat ugly the whole transition period as you say donald trump showing an immense reluctance to accept the outcome of this election at this particular stage whatever it might be indulging in all sorts of legal should not be good and some observers would say in a bid to stave off what most believe is the inevitable and that is a defeat one must remember too as well is that when trump came to power back in 2016 and in the inauguration week in january of the following year his team did not exactly a cooperate within the transition with the then Obama AdministrationChris Christie was the transition guru for trump however he basically was fired pretty quickly and there was a lack of coordination between the trump team and the obama team not necessarily because of the obama team but because the crown team just simply did not appear to care so this is going to be a major problem if you do dont have a cooperation from the Outgoing Administration it is very difficult for the Incoming Administration to begin to get its work done but there again joe biden and his running mate come of the harris a well aware of the problems that they may face and one must remember too that way back in 2000 when the bush versus gore legal action last for long periods of time both of those teams had a Transition Team in place even though that they didnt know who would win but biden making clear as well in the speech this evening as that he and commoner want to hit the day granting that they are going to start working towards building up a new administration but the fact remains that if there is not cooperation from the Outgoing Administration its going to make the job of whoever the new administration very difficult indeed ok thank you for that mike hanna live for us in wilmington delaware. Election Officials Say there has yet to be any evidence of voting irregularities but Donald TrumpsRepublican Party says legal teams have been sent to 4 states to investigate we have seen some discrepancies in michigan and some irregularities that deserve investigation democrats and the media spent for years and millions of taxpayer dollars talking about a russian hoax on the grounds of Election Integrity now with just over 48 hours after polls have closed in an actual election for president they want to ignore clear irregularities russia call states as one and the selection we will not stand for that every candidate in every office from president down to the local level has a legal right to challenge irregularities that occur in the process of canvassing ballots we intend to ensure that every lawful voter has their vote counted in accordance with the law that observers are granted the access they are do under state law and that any irregularities that have occurred whether by a malicious attack intent or incompetence are fully investigated to the fully fullest extent allowed under the law. Ok roland jordan is live for us now in washington washington d. C. We heard there the trauma team is pushing ahead with litigation but we havent heard from President Trumpet a wee while whats going on there. Well the president has run into twitter managers who have decided that his outright lies and distortions about the way that the electoral process is handled in this country simply cannot be disseminated on their platform remember twitter is a private company and it can restrict who can tweet who can publish information on its private servers and so after a number of tweets which twitter moderators said violated their own policies and also lots of people reporting the president s tweets as being flat out wrong or in accurate the president has sensually gone silent theres also been some reporting that white house lawyers have told people involved with the campaign that since they do work for the federal government they need to avoid any possible violation of the hatch act that is a federal law that restricts how much activity political activity that federal employees can engage in and certainly as the Trump Campaign is trying to make the argument that voter fraud and Electoral Commission fraud is at hand certainly the white house lawyers dont want to see anything possibly getting in the way of those d attempts to sue and to try to slow down or stop the counting process in a number of States Rosalyn given what weve seen so far is there any scenario do you think in which President Trump will conceit. Well there is reporting suggesting that the president does not believe that he has lost the election that he is a very frustrated very angry is insisting that any effort to deal with the count in a way that would make him the victor. Sting that those steps be taken but it also is worth noting that there are people in the punters st sphere who are speaking out and noting that it would be better for the president to take the loss gracefully that he would endure him to his supporters we have seen this with the fox news commentator laura ingram there is now an editorial in the wall street journal which also happens to be owned by news corp and Rupert Murdoch who also owns Fox News Channel again suggesting that the president should think very seriously about conceding the election because there is no realistic way given the process the way that the count is happening in these battleground states that he can make up enough ground in order to claim the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win reelection so that trend is starting to take off overnight here in the states ok thank you for that update rolls and join in that live from washington d. C. Lets take a look now at pennsylvania there joe biden is ahead of donald trump by almost 29000 votes a wind there will propel biden pasta to 70 mark had it all and is following developments in philadelphia. The secretary of state here in the commonwealth of pennsylvania was very hopeful that the votes would be counted by this time theyre not i think a lot of people thought they would be but the group the count has dramatically slowed in stock clear why that has happened what is clear is every time votes are coming in theyre showing the former Vice President joe biden is getting a consistent lead hes consistently taking 70 to 80 percent of the votes as theyre being counted if that continues it is clear that he will win the 20 or longer old votes that go with winning in pennsylvania voters went to the Supreme Court and to try and get something to happen thats already actually happened there were about 4000. 00 votes there were allowed to be sent in after election day as long as they were postmarked on election day they also when the republicans went to the Supreme Court and said those ballots shouldnt be counted they should be kept separate but the point is that already done that the Supreme Court it already said keep those ballots separate but again were talking about 4000. 00 votes if the trend continues it looks like joe biden will win this commonwealth with tens of thousands of votes beyond that so we thought the votes would be done we thought pennsylvania would already be in joe bidens column making sure that he had a clear path to the next president of the United States so far that hasnt happened but here in pennsylvania there is optimism that it will. 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Joe biden has addressed supporters in his home state of delaware late on friday night hes still not declaring victory but says he will eventually be victorious and also urge people to be patient. And Trumps Campaign team remains defiance now trying to raise some 60000000. 00 to fund lawsuits challenging the results president is making unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud cost and donts of the integrity of the election. But take a look now at how voting is going in one of the battleground states weve been talking about george or we can see here that joe biden is leading the by just over 4000 votes in a race that has been far tighter than expected but a recount is set to take place as a margin of difference thats within half a percentage point there as you can name has more from atlanta. Its worth noting that a short time ago that biden said we are going to win georgia were going to be the 1st democratic president ial ticket to win georgia 16 electoral votes since 1992 that was 20 years ago and incidentally thats when bill clinton became president so as far as the biden camp is concerned a lot of optimism the gap between him and trump has grown i wouldnt say significantly but its grown earlier in the day it was more than 1500 votes separating the 2 candidates now its about as you mentioned 4000 about 4200 votes and the counting has not finished there are still provisional military and overseas ballots being counted yet the margin according to the secretary of state is simply too tight and that is why earlier friday the secretary of state said there would be a recount he said that the tally of georgia has huge implications for the rest of the country but it is also worth noting that there have according to Election Officials been no widespread irregularities regarding voter fraud but of course there were pledges by Election Officials to investigate any credible allegations of voter fraud if they did arise joshua meadow is associate professor of Political Science and chair of the department of social sciences at cation State University joins us now from georgia lets talk about georgia what is the result there and the demographics of the people who turn down ill tell you about the state of the state. Well its really just stock its kind of the story of the country but in the state here urban area here in atlanta outside of the metro area is a high africanamerican population so you see the high turnout and the work done by Stacey Abrams to get the africanamerican vote out around the areas youre seeing on the new its about polling county cab Clayton County really where the those are the counties that came in strong for biden helpful at the state lets open the bit more about stacy abrams across london is calling it the stacy abrams effect how much credit should go to her for turning the state blue or explode. So she gets a good amount of credit as she should because the last couple of years this get out the vote effort has been huge but really it was her gubernatorial run in 28 which really helped the this shift but this is been this has been happening here in georgia for a little bit especially in the urban areas atlanta so Vanna Columbus what youre seeing here is these areas have been shipped exits about 2014 when the gubernatorial races so its not jason carter was very close and to unseating the republican governor and then again abrams herself keeping so close to 20 so that since this is the been an ongoing trend but abrams really pushed it ove