The n foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Washington and london. Joe biden has puld ahead in the bone in marquee battleground states, putting him closeusto the white the margins are razor thin but the trend of the ballotou favors the democrat. Mr. Biden has built up a lead of 13,000 votes over donald trump in the crucial state of pennsylvania, a prize that would hand him the white house. The citys mayors says mr. Trump amustit to feet. I think what the president must do is frankly put his big boy pants on, ackwledge the fact that he lost and r. Bidens lead over the president is also increasing in arizona and nevada. A recount has been called in georgia where George Joe Biden has overtaken president trump. Al the fally in georgia at this point has huge implications for the entire country. Im at black lives matter plaza in washington, d. C. Where people have gathered, patiently awaiting the results of the election. As for the candidates themselves, mr. Iden is expected to speak to the nation in the next few hours. He has called for calm and patience and says the process is working properly. Eacd. Ballot must be coun is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winners. But mr. Trumps camp have not given up. He has made accusations of electoral fraud but offered no if you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they canry to steal the election from us. Meanwhile, on the streets, mr. Bidens supporters are already celebrating, but mr. Trumps celebrators are still inwear supporters are still weaving there flags for their man. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the world. Joe biden has pushed ahead of donald trump in two critical states which could hand him the presidency. He is now in the lead in pennsylvania, where victory would push reem over the old of 270 Electoral College votes required to win the white house. A state of critical importance for both candidates because it is worth 20 of those votes. Joe biden is also ahead in t georgia counts in arizona and about it. Earlier, georgia announced a recount due to the razor thin margins. Overall, joe biden needs just 17 more Electoral College vthes to reacmagic number of 270. Donald trump needs 56. Let get the very latest from our north american editor. Donald trump is now trailing. Biden has just taken. This might be the moment that the whole ballgame, the seemingly overwhelming leadhat donald trump had in pennsylvania the day after the election, this morning finally evaporated and has become a bidenead. If the democratic challenger wins here, itthgame over for president. Pretty soon, the hyphen will be gone from Vice President to president elect, joe biden. A happy day for our country. And the march of the maths has been played out in small buildings across the country in arizona, nevada, georgia, a thousand votes here, a few hundred there, all the time, chipping away at donald trumpsp on the white house. There will be a recount in georgia where the margins are so tight. Outside, protests. Some demanding the count be stopped. The whole world is watching. Er oththat every vote must be counted. From the Trump Supporters increasing anxiety, from bidens growing confidence. In las vegas, nevada, ump supporters resorted to prayer. Please let overlook chge. Not the first time that prar has been offered in sin city. Lalast night, a discon president made an unhappy statement, alleging without evidence, that he was being robbed of a victory that was his. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try toteal the election from us. We think we will win the election very easily. We think there will be a lot of litigation. We havemuch evidence, so much proof. It will end up perhaps at th highest court in the land, we will see. We think there will beti lot of liti. We cannot have an election stolen like is. Astonishingly, all the major u. S. Networks pulled away before he finished. Here wein are a in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States but correcting the president of the United States. This morning, Legal Counsel for the Trump Campaign issued this statement. This election is not over. The false projection of joe biden ashe winner is used on four states that are far from final. Biden is belaying on these f stat his claim on the white house. Once the election is final,pr ident trump will be elected. But hold up in the white house, the prident is not enjoying much support from his party. This is the republican senator from pennsylvania. The president s speech was very disturbing to me because he made veryious allegations without any evidence to support it. I am not aware of any significant fraud, any significant wrongdoing. If it has happened, than the ut, wece needs to come need to go to court. [honking] meanwhi, in wilmington, delaware, a declaration is set, that joe has one, and he is the president elect. Determined to be unaffected by the noise coming from the white house. T white house has just released this statement on behalf of the president. Says, we will pursue this process through every aspect of the law to guarantee the erican people have confidence in our government. I will never give up fighting for you and for our nation. Lets go straight to laura outside the white house in what is now called black lives matter plaza. We have seen some demonstrationn he past few days. What is the scene at the moment . It looks pretty calm behind you. Very peaful, people gathering, somewhat of a festive mood. It is hard to find any the moment, mostly people that have gathered to celebrate what they hope ishe end of his presidency. You can see the whibe house nd me, the preside is there holedp with his advisers. That statement that you just read out, a much more somber ne than his tweets in the last few hours about stopping the count and the rest of it. Clearly, the president trying to decide what tack to take. People here waiting patiently for those votes to be counted. I was told by somebody on the ump Campaign Today that there is quite a lot of demoralization among staff, and now we are hearing from the white house that several aides did not show up to wo today. Do you get any sense of what the mood is like inside the building what i am hearing is, h do people approach the president . King kong, as they sometimes call him inside the white housen he ibsolutely foul mood. Th debate with his advisers seems to be, who has the most weight who can say to him, the avenue evitable is about to ppen. The networks may pull pennsylvania, so how do you handle it at thisoment . As always, thank yo we are going to go to atlanta, regeorgia, whe secretary of state Gabriel Sterling is speaking. That is where we stand right now as a 3 08 friday. We know todays the deadline for the military and overseas ballots that would have been postmarked by tuesday, to be counted in the state. We have some updated numbers on that. On the orall side, we have 18 ,008 ballots accepted,ng lea 8410 available to be received. I want to wempsize, that doesnt mean there is a bucket of 8410 votes to be counted. That means there are 8410 votes that could have been postmarked on tuesday and could have been received by today. As i said earlier, it will be more than zero and less than 8410. It will be somewhere in that range, we dont know how manit is. O have a county by count breakdown. I will give you some of the pughlights and then we wil this in a release following this you usually want the big ones, so i will do that. Bibb, 86 still out there. Chatam, 395. Cherokee, woodstock, 171. Clayton county,41 cobb county, 569. Columbia county, 247. Dekalb county, 802. I want to take a personal note of privilege it is dekalb not decobb. Doherty, 74. Douglas county, 1. Fayette, 149. Forsyth,53. Fulton, 953. That isg thew single biggest number. Innett, 741. Henry, 238. Another fun one, it is not houston, but houst. 196. Liberty county, 173. E a military bere. Lowns county, 141. Muskogee, 323. Richmond, where augustine is, 244. Masters coming up soon. Rockdale, 88. Those areig thest ones, and you can add them together. 159ouies i didnt name. After that, we have the provisionals. The initial report from fulton county, the largest, the largest potential impact, total provisional ballots received was 4869. They accepted 3603. That means they rejected 1266 provisional ballots they had on hand. The biggest chunks of those were the voter brought their id in, 1205. And then they were fulton coutey but they were at the wrong precinct. 2398. The unfortunate part were some of those voters and candidates, if they voted out of precinct, that means they can only vote on te things on the ballot that affected the arey shared with the other precincts. President , senator, those will count, but state house, those would not. We dont like seeing out of county votin we encourage people to go to the correct polling location. Rejected ballot justifications out of county, 673. You can only book provisionally not registered voters, 573. Tinoncitizens atte to vote, 13. That was the initial report from fulton. I expect that to change somewhat. There were some other changes moeng on that, as well as s of the absentees that were damaged. Somewhere south o 300 that were cut when they were using the openers that they will scan and sll be added to the tall today. You start to get crazy looking at all of the spreadsheets. As i understand, they have not scanned and uploaded those yet. Let get through all of this, you can come back later. The total number of provisionals in the state, this i not the total number. We have the numbers from 134 o t the 159 counties. E most of the large ones. I think we have a of the big ones in here. Again, a moving target, dealing wi elections workers who are dealing with a lot of things at one time. We are happy to get this information out to the viewers and voters out there. This isle the exciting sion that you all came here for today. Thi is a live update from the state of georgia, which is extremely close. This is the georgia secretary of ste, Gabriel Sterling, who has the fantastic title of the Voting System implementation manager. He is going through county by county because this isua ay absolutely so close to the wire. He describedhe margin as fewer than the amount of people in a large high school. It really puts this into context but we are looking at. Every single book even vote. Just wonder if he grew up wanting to be the Voting System instrumentation manager. Implementation manager. It is super close in georgia, there are some mailed in ballots from abroad. We heard someone say that there was speculation that a lot of those ballots mailed in from abroad, absentees, foreign ballots might be military, and there will definitely be some, but it will also be civilians at have mailed in ballots from abroad as well. In past elections, the proportion of civilians to military, the billieas are in the r number. It is not a foregone conclusion either way. There will be a lot of civilians voting for donal trump, people in the military voting for joe biden. People will listen to all of those numbers out of georgia, all of those tiny counties, pronunciions of those names, and it will make your head spin, and at some point, we. Ll get a resu there will be a recount in georgia and then we will get a result. We can go deeply into those counties. My advice would just be to be patient and wait until we have the state resul ap we are really getting familiar with a of the United States, finally learning every state, and some of the counties as well. You are h right, we ae to have a look at the bigger picture. Another key state, a lot of allies on philadelphia. Early on, cityffials gave an update on what is happening with the elon operations. This is the mayor, who has a message for president trump. I think with the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pant on, acknowledge the facthat he lost and congratulate the winner, just as jimmy carter did, as george h. W. Bush did, and as al gore did, and let us move forward as a country. That is my feeling. I doubt that he will listen to me. Not mincing his words les go over to philadelphia, pennsylvania. We heard those words earlier on. I guess what we are ultimately saying is we will need patience. Very much so. That was the message that they kept reiterating. From theat the moment yor of philadelphia when he said that donald trump needed to put his big boy pants on . The press conference had a mo hnt a to chuckle, think about the fact that we are talking aboutf the president the United States. This has been a nailbiting day. There h been no shortage of surprises during the selection and in this campaign, but there has been one thing the avcampaigners and pundits managed to get right, and that was the importance of pennsylvania. Rtnly has become the focal point in these final days after the election. Lets speak now to b brady, a congressman for the democratic party. Oithanks forng us here on the program. First of all, your reaction to the way the day has panned out . We started out with donald trump ahead by about 18,000 votes, and now coming up to the ethe day, joe biden is ahead by about 13,000. We seem to be having some problems with ur guest. I will take the opportunity to put you on the spot and ask you some more estions. Pennsylvania is so important, thoserual 20 Electoral College votes that would bring the keys to the white house to jo biden. Vermuch so. It is critical, such a big state or the commonwealth, as it is called. 20 Electoral College votes. This is where joe biden began his campaign, came here 19 times, and ended his campaign here. He was also born here in scranton. He made a point of that when he spoke to the workers there, said he understands what it is like to le in this state, to be a son of this state, and he really digged that during the campaign. T,dont forhis is a commonwealth that donald trump won by about 44,000 votes in 2016. He beat hillary clinton. Donald tru has a a hugunt of appeal here as well. Both men have managed to bring out voters in unprecedented numbers. Over 6 million people. That is a huge number here in pennsylvania. Lets try this guest again. Dyb bi believe you are there now. Thanyou for joining us. Your reaction to the way the dad has paut here in pennsylvania . We are extremely happy out it. You are always happy when you are winning,nd we are going to win. The moment, every time a county, philadelphia, allegheny county, every time they drop the numbers, we are getting 80 to 90 of them in joe bids favor. Im extremely happy about the day is going. Joe biden is dua statement in prime time later this afternoon from delaware. You think he is likely to say anything along the lines of saying that he h won this election . E i know den. Joe biden is a very class individual. He will not gloat. People think the people for the hard work they did on eleion day, look forward to the results, and abide by the results one way or another. If they come out to make him the winner, he will accept it. But i donton thinkht will be the night for that because all the boat will be in. Im sure he will thank all of overgain, no red states, no blue states in america, only United States of america. I am sure that he will think the people that voted for him as ll as those that didnt vote for him, he will still be there president. We ha plenty of time after all of this is over to scrutinizehe pollsters and the polls that came out putting joe biden ahead. I was in wisconsin, and at one point, onel p said it would go joe bidens way by 17 perntage points. It has not been a landslide for joe biden. It has been a very slow process, and the votes have been quiteti. Wa ia tight race in a lot of places. The only pollsnthat i c on were taken last tuesday. I ran for elections many times. If you are ahead, you cannot be complacent. Joe bidens campaign didnt read any polls, they ran as hard as theyould. The only polls to count were last tuesday. Biieve they will show that den is the next presiden congressman brady, we will leave it there. Thank you for joining us. There is a lot h happenie in philadelphia, including some demonstrations around the corne from here, Trump Supporters saying they want accounting to stop, as well as antitrp protesters, partygoers now, dancing in the streets, as the counting continues at the convention cter. We are al watching arizona, a state that offers 11 Electoral College votes, and has long been won by republicans. Joe biden is ahead a the moment by about 44,000 votes. Mr. Trump supporters are not happy about that, some protesting in the state catal. Our correspondent is there in phoenix for us. Healthy lead when we are looking at these razor thin margins in georgia. Is it possible for the Trump Campaign to catch up with that 43,000 . How many more outstanding votes it is very loud here, sk i th caught your question. Just over 43,000otes between them. It sounds more healthy than in other states, but that is only equivalent to whether the president n catch up. Peopleere certainly believe he can. They have been protesting here in Downtown Phoenix since this morning. The crowd has dissipated a lot. At the peak this morni, maybe about 500 people. Its been very noisy but nonviolent. There are a number of peopl carrying guns, some of them heavily armed. They are here in Downtown Phoenix because this is where the votes are being counted we can center there. Ounting a fence has been put in place. Hethat was not t until today. They have berotesting since the polls closed, certainly wednesday. They have been peaceful, there habeen a lot ofneeling down, praying, asking god to watch over their votes. Aythey areg they want every voteo be counted. Now, should say, everyegal thte to be counted. Here in arizona had to be received before 7 00 loca on tuesday. It is the third day of cnting, and the margin has been narrowing. As that has gotten more and more narrow, so theav protests grown inside and in volume. Guns. U sayome people have got im looking at the crowd and it looks pretty peaceful, frany. It has been very peaceful. There has not been any sign of troubl when i asked some of the heavily armed man why they brought guns to a peaceful protest, they s