Investigation. Our abc news Powerhouse Political Team standing by with realtime analysis. This special edition of nightline, your voice, your vote, will be right back. And mines unlisted. Try boost® high protein. With 20 grams of protein for Muscle Health versus only 16 grams in ensure® high protein. And now enjoy boost® high protein in cafe mocha flavor. beeping sound chit, chit. Jif peanut butter. Chit, chit. Its that jifing good, youd dress up like a squirrel for it. Want another jifing good way to jif . Check out new jif squeeze. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Tonight, Donald Trumps hopes for four more years in the white house now dimming as joe biden is on the cusp of winning the presidency. Biden slowly widening his leads in crucial battleground states. But when will america know for certain who our next president will be . We dont have a final declaration of victory yet. Reporter joe biden addressing a tense nation after another day of uncertainty in america. I know watching these vote tallies on tv moves very slower, slow, and as slow as it goes, it can be numbing. But never forget, the tallies arent just numbers. They represent votes and voters. Men and women who exercised their fundamental right to have their voice heard. Reporter this evening the former Vice President and running mate, senator kamala harris, once again urged calm. We may be opponents but were not enemies. Were americans. Reporter a clear path to victory remains in sight with biden on the precipice of a presidency. Look, we both know tensions are high. Let the process work out. As we count all the votes. You know, were proving again what weve proved for 244 years in this country. Democracy works. Reporter poll workers methodically counting around the clock to complete their vote tallies in four battleground states. The race to 270 hinging on pennsylvania, arizona, georgia, and nevada. Vice President Joe Biden expected to come out on top after pulling ahead in all four states. Meanwhile, the president doubled down, even though he has prematurely and falsely declared victory, tonight tweeting, joe biden did not wrongfully claim the office of the president. I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning. This all coming after a Fiery Press Conference thursday night where he baselessly called into question the democratic process. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. What donald trump is doing is testing. Hes testing the election system. Hes testing our institutions more broadly. It is something unamerican. Its alien to who we are. Reporter the president s supporters reacting to his unfounded claims about a rigged election. We want trump we want trump reporter swarming vote counting sites in maricopa county, arizona, demanding that votes be counted. In michigan, demanding conversely that they dont. Stop the vote stop the vote tensions running high on all sides. Hundreds of donald Trump Supporters have been showing up at the county Recorders Office protesting, some of them armed. State officials are urging patience, promising to count every ballot. Reporter all eyes are on pennsylvania. A win here would put biden over the top. On election day, the former Vice President was significantly behind trump in pennsylvania, but there are more than 1 million mailin ballots waiting to be counted. Though the president has falsely claimed he won the state, biden is now ahead. His lead is expected to grow. Tonight in philadelphia, celebrations in the street. Biden supporters here are confident that they will win the presidency. Were starting to move forward in some democracy. We still have a long way to go. Reporter Brittany Smalls of black lives matter outside the Convention Center where votes are being counted. The numbers are reliant on the black community. Were saying we are part of the process. Reporter she worked tirelessly to turn out black voters and they came through. Biden overwhelmingly winning the city. 2016, we heard the call. And we decided to take action, to turn our anger into action in our communities. Reporter philadelphia native pastor karl day knows about the power of the black vote. It looked early on like black america wasnt going to show up strong at the polls. By tonight, theres a recognition that if, in fact, joe biden wins, its in great part because of black and brown people voting in philadelphia, in pittsburgh, in tucson, and different in atlanta. Detroit. Detroit, yeah. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, and i wholeheartedly believe that. And im truly proud as an africanamerican man, a pastor, a community leader, that weve shown that what it looks like when we all come together, gather, the power that we do have. Reporter at an abc news town hall with President Trump in september, he took the president to task. Youve coined the phrase make America Great again. Right. When has america been great for africanamericans in the ghetto of america . Reporter day, undecided at the time, voted for biden. We wanted to believe the love and celebrate every voter in philadelphia, whether they voted republican or democrat, just to let them know, guess what, we still have to love each other, we have a responsibility. Its ultimately everybodys concern or care with the betterment of all americans. Reporter outside of philly, voters also made big gains for biden. Katie and Morgan Harris live with their two children in westchester, pennsylvania, a suburb of philadelphia. In 2016, both voted for trump. I did have this underlying hope that being in the office, being the president , you would act a little more president ial. Reporter this year they flipped for biden. Im just tired of how we speak to each other. Just neighbors, family, friends. On social media. And i think he is leading the way in that. Reporter they hope their votes can help unify the country. We need to be the United States of america. We need to come together, unite, and move the country forward together. Reporter its been a divisive election cycle. Whos on your list gentlemen, i think reporter the president facing multiple crises. Hundreds of thousands of americans dead in the pandemic. The near collapse of the economy. Ongoing racial reckoning. Now perhaps hes facing the consequences. Black lives matter black lives matter reporter this has been an election largely defined by early and mailin voting due to the pandemic, a strategy democrats strongly encouraged. It was those votes, received before election day, but often counted last, that will likely push biden over the top. While President Trump himself votes by mail, he urged his supporters to vote in person on election day. I like to vote in person. Call me oldfashioned. But a lot of people, a lot of our people want to vote in person. They want to vote. Reporter mailin voting is a legal and secure way to vote. Despite the president calling it fraud. Its a scam. Sending ballots going into the election, looking at the polls, donald trump was already looking for some way to delegitimize it and he seized on absentee ballots, what he calls mailin ballots. Now that these races are so close, in arizona, he now needs those mailin ballots in that state, and in other states, to count. He shot himself in the foot. Reporter President Trump set the stage for legal battles he hopes will help him in states where he is lagging behind. We were winning in all the key locations, by a lot, actually, and then our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away, in secret. On ive been told by multiple people close to the president that if this process ends, the legal challenges dont pan out, they fully expect that donald trump will give a concession speech. But it will be a very trumpstyle concession. Im told that it will be full of complaints about how this election has gone down, suggesting not so much that he lost, but that it was stolen from him. Reporter several of the trump lawsuits have already been thrown out due to the lack of evidence. Donald trump loves to sue people, and hes insistent that hes got to find a way in court to overturn this election, get to it the supreme court, he said thats what he wants to do. Sounds like donald trump wants a lot of recounts in a lot of different states here. The problem with recounts, and its a tribute to how accurate the counts usually are. In america, recounts dont change that many votes. Reporter one state guaranteed to see a recount, georgia, traditionally red state, where biden now leads by a slim margin. Even democrats have been surprised by joe bidens performance in georgia. The president s lead at one point was somewhere north of 370,000 votes. Now separated by just mere thousands of votes. The size of a high school. The big question tonight is how many votes are out there to be counted that are already in the bank, in time for the deadline that could possibly affect the outcome of this race . You use your power. The power to vote. Reporter part of bidens edge here, pushed from the atlanta area and suburbs, where the black vote expanded thanks in part of the efforts of stacey abrams. Abrams narrowly missing the race for georgias governor. Since then shes spearheaded the fight against voter oppression. Still many stand with claims of voter fraud. Stacey abrams complains about voter suppression. Their suppression what theyre doing to us now as well. Reporter other Trump Supporters say they would respect whoever wins. Its going to take you and me. Its going to take the one on one. Its going to take one on one, every day, each person making a decisive choice to respect the other person regardless of what their political stance is. Thats why im very clear that i will respect whoever becomes our president. Reporter at the end of this historic week, a weary and divided nation now watches and waits as democracy plays out in realtime. And next, our political Powerhouse Team on when this divisive election will be decided. In a whole new way. Now roomba vacuums exactly where you need it, and offers personalized cleaning suggestions for a clean unique to you and your home. Roomba and the irobot home app. Only from irobot. Oh, oh, announcer ® onceweekly ozempic® is helping roomba and the irobot home app. Many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. 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Election week, all eyes are still on three swing states in a Grueling Campaign to count all the outstanding votes. Right now im joined by republican strategist sara fag n fagen, yvette simpson, ceo of democracy for america, thank you for staying up late with us. Joe biden spoke to the nation earlier tonight. What was your takeaway . Well, i think he wanted to give a different speech. They had thought they were going to give the victory speech because they thought the networks were going to have declared the race already over but he couldnt do that. He gave a conciliatory speech. It reminded me of the husband, i mean, the father of a bride and the brides seven months pregnant and hes like, am i supposed to tell everybody shes pregnant . No, no, dont tell everybody shes pregnant. Well, Everybody Knows shes pregnant. Thats what bidens position was. Everybody knows how this is going to turn out but hes like, dont say it yet. Yvette, we know the president is making a lot of noise and claiming baseless legal threats. Should biden be more aggressive in responding . I think at this stage its better for him to take the calm approach. We dont want people to get too worried. We know folks are already anxious and might take the lead. I think what he did today was really smart. He went through each of the states he thinks hes going to win. He even said, im going to get 306 electoral votes. After what we heard from the rnc chairwoman what were hearing from Donald Trumps supporters, i think him saying, we got this, dont worry, we know the end is coming, stay in here with me, being calm and being present what is we need right now. Trump turns up the heat tomorrow, we learn more from him, louder rhetoric, then i think we need to hear the other joe biden where he says, wait a minute now, we need to declare this thing right now, or you need to understand that we believe weve got this. Stop throwing a wrench in this election where so many people have worked so hard to vote this year. Sara, if the president does lose, does he have a responsibility to address his followers and urge peace under a new president . And do you think hell do that . Well, if he does, in fact, lose, and were not there yet but its looking more likely that is going to be the outcome of this race, he does have a responsibility to also help unify the country. I dont expect well see that. Hes a very different style from any president weve ever had. And i suspect any president we ever will have. Yes that would be the appropriate and proper thing to do. Thank you for the visual earlier. President trump remains defiant, repeating unfounded claims of voter fraud. Does he comp have any evidence, one, and will the legal action taken by the Campaign Even make a difference, you think . The answer is zero evidence. I was saying earlier to a friend of mine that the president has as much evidence as the democrats have that the republicans cheated in iowa and in maryland and in maine to take those senate races. Theres the same amount of evidence as exist in both of those real worlds. And its none. And so i think this is a more of a psychological process, in my view. I think as weve said earlier, the writing seems to be pretty clear on the wall. This is not an election being decided by 600 votes in florida. This is an election being decided by tens of thousands of votes with margins that are fairly big. Bigger than in 2016, interestingly enough. Weve already seen the margins across the three blue wall states in the midwest. Bidens margins are twice or three times as big as Donald Trumps were in 2016. And so i think theyre going through this process, unless they come up with something definitive and not just a poll worker wasnt allowed to get within six feet or something. It has to be real ballot fraud. And so far, theres been not an ounce of evidence on anything that would attempt to overturn this election. Sara, joe biden has said he wants to be president to all of america. Can he reach across, you think, to Trump Supporters and make them feel like theyre part of this new america . He can. And he will have to work extra hard at it if he wants to get those most loyal trump backers. I do think theres a large pocket of republicans who voted for donald trump, they liked his policies, they were concerned about the Democratic Democratic Party moving too far to the left. But they didnt like Donald Trumps twitter. And they held their nose and they voted for policy. Theyre easier to get. And i think what hes doing over this weekend is hes bringing those people along quickly to his at least to him being a president that they can respect, even when they dont agree with him. Yvette, we had senator Bernie Sanders on the air earlier. How hard of a time will joe biden have keeping the progressive wing of the Democratic Party happy, in line, in this america he hopes to build forward . I think what he has to do is make sure that hes responding to the needs of the people. Progressives have brought this election, i think, black and brown folks and progressives have brought this election to biden when you think about where the votes came from, the type of organizing progressives did. What they expect is for joe biden to make sure that hes taking care of the people who we care about, which is everyday americans. I think thats going to be easier than folks think. Folks that painted progressives into this corner as radicals, we just want people to have health care, we want them to have education, we want them to have a good quality of life. I think thats going to speak across the country, particularly when were in a pandemic where a lot of people are suffering. I think as long as we see joe biden listening, as long as we see we h