Biden of course does this yet has so egregiously betrayed its base especially labor that they threw them into the republican camp and just as that animists was expressed towards Hillary Clinton i think to a certain extent it will be expressed towards joe biden because biden was very much an architect of nafta and then of course the 1994 omnibus crime bill militarized police on and on and on all the free trade deals you know biden had his hands in all of this so yes i think that this trail on the part of the Democratic Party towards their traditional base is going to be as much a part of this election as it was in 2016 in fact some of the exit polling that were seeing tonight although not conclusive seems to show that the people in large measure who are voting for joe biden are not so much voting for george much as theyre voting against donald trump whereas the people who are voting for donald trump are actually voting for donald trump what do you make of that. Yeah i mean in america you pretty much get to vote against what you hate thats the way the system is run. My last book america farewell tour was in anderson indiana which was a city that had 25000 unionized jobs for g. M. They all left for monterey mexico all the plants closed down and what was interesting to me is that all these old u. A. W. Workers had voted for sanders in the primary but they would never vote for clinton and i think dead they found not a particularly palatable figure but they werent going to vote for a party that had destroyed their livelihood and destroyed their city so there is of course a very fervent base that supports trump but i think theres also a lot of people who feel that because the Democratic Party turned their back on them and traditionally as you mentioned the Democratic Party and watched out for their interests they will vote for trouble no matter what so i think its that mix but youre right that the i mean its hard for biden to fire up much enthusiasm and that and through as he has and gap is played Just Campaign all the way back to the primaries but of course hes not his is his main asset is that hes pitches to the voters that hes not. The kind of a pandemic has found a massive influence on which way people decide to vote according to political punk justin young. There is no doubt that this pandemic affected the race in the biggest possible way when international we are afraid on coronavirus people have locked down in on lockdown and are either anxious economically their actions about their businesses theyre anxious about spreading it. On any level and i think what youre seeing is just natural human inconsistency when you look back through american israelis recent American History incumbents have a tremendously strong position to work from the only times that that doesnt happen are in circumstances where you have the same party in power for seeking a poor term like you did with george h. W. Bush and when you have extraordinary circumstances like you did with jimmy carter and i do think that between the Economic Uncertainty and the covert death toll that that is something akin to what we saw with the iranian hostages and the gas shortages back for carters unsuccessful reelection attempt. Well some day you now with a look at the state by state look at how america chooses its president 23 states are leaning in favor of trump those of the red ones that while 14 others are backing biden in blue it all comes down to the Electoral College of course not each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of People Living there whichever candidate secures the simple majority of votes in each state and wins now the only exceptions are maine and nebraska which allocate electors based on local district votes and so far the race is tight as you can see with biden securing 223 electors and trump having the backing of 212270 thats the key number and so many needed to win the white house. Across the atlantic the e. U. Is nervously watching for the us Election Results as are all of us and the last 4 years a bit probably particularly a testing time for relations between the e. U. And america are seen as peace all of our explains. Its not being comfortable of relationships between the European Union and the trumpet ministration over the last couple of years in fact train troops even the old tantrum that had a tendency to dominate proceedings back in 2018 the u. S. President was talking tough on trade with trump threatening tariffs on his european allies thereby the barriers on cars and lots of other things even medical equipment where its very very difficult to sell into the European Union and theyre going to be coming on july 25th to negotiate with us we said if we dont negotiate something fair then we have tremendous retribution which we dont want to use but we have tremendous powers tariff tit for tat is what ended up happening with 25 percent price increases on the telly and cheeses scotch whiskey and french wine coming into the United States the e. U. Responded in kind with tariffs on orange juice bourbon Peanut Butter and Harley Davidsons the trade bottle had its real roots in a 16 Year Aerospace slugfest over the subsidies paid by the. Us which the w. T. You know later ruled gave it an unfair advantage over us competitor boeing another w t a ruling this autumn gave the green light for brussels to put in place more tariffs on 4000000000 dollars worth of u. S. Imports for guess what the Us Government giving unfair subsidies to and boss but by summer of last year the beef had moved on to beef today were signing a breakthrough agreement that will make it easier to export american beef into the European Union and weve been in negotiations quite a while. The farmers we didnt think were being treated fair but the European Union stepped up and we appreciate it by august of this year though the trade war had calmed a bit with washington in brussels agreeing to scrap some of the tower of the could see both sides make an extra 200000000. 00 annually. Easing some of those tensions in the trade relationship thats worth 1. 00 trillion dollars annually in matters of defense when it comes to nato in the e. U. Member States Donald trump has his mind on the u. S. Is money and the money firmly on his mind many nations over sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the United States in 2017 a very diplomatic german chancellor Angela Merkel stood alongside the u. S. President and acknowledged that some in the e. U. Needed to pay more towards nato i was gratified to know that the president underlined how important he thinks nato is nato is its prime importance for us and it was not. Without very good reason that we said during our summit meeting in wales that also germany needs to increase x. Expense. By this summer that particular snafu gone from bad to worse with President Trump pulling nearly 12000 u. S. Troops out of germany all still demanding that and others pay more into the nato part in fact trump was very clear on how he felt about germany and their bill paying on defense. Its been a rough few years and thats without even mentioning the Iran Nuclear Deal which trump pulled the us out of unilaterally leaving the e. U. Pulling their collective hair out or nord stream to the gas pipeline which german Industry Needs but the us sanctions are stopping being finished all. All the paris climate a cordon of the multinational agreement torn up by the trumpet ministration trump does have his supporters among the leaders Hungarys Viktor Orban and the us president have similar and the migrant answer to all the polish leadership looked likely to benefit from the redistribution of some of those troops leaving germany was so also very much against the north stream pipeline one thing almost d everyone in europe can agree on is that the u. S. President is box office and we can expect more than a few all nighters being polled across the European Union as people stay up on Election Night into the wee small hours and beyond to see if this particular rocky relationship has another 4 years in it the u. S. Election results are also heavily anticipated in the middle east which is that a particularly tumultuous time under President Trump our correspondent paula slayer has more. Trumps approach to World Affairs has been unconventional at best especially in the middle east with his actions have courted controversy from the moment he entered the White House Trump has made it clear that he would be adopting a very different policy to that of his predecessors when it came to addressing the many different challenges facing the region so this to moving the American Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem then recognizing these raids sovereignty of the Golan Heights and not to forget his much touted deal of the century a peace plan they gave precious little to the palestinians who rejected it outright while awarding israeli hard line is with pretty much everything they wanted when it car comes to israel and palestinian he changed the paradigm norm more inside out meaning 1st of all deal with the palestinians and then bring the arab world is changing it 1st bring the arab world and then the palestinians. Which he did in securing historic peace deals between israel and the United Arab Emirates and kuwait in the moderate sunni countries share with tel aviv a hostility against shia iran and cheered when trump withdrew from the nuclear deal and we imposed sanctions against iran want to trump the restoration approaches to solve to for example the iranian issue. Its true that telling it like it is is a very appreciated quality in the region and not you know not appeasement or laxity however. It remains to be seen whether its again bitter a gamble you see whether the maximum Pressure Campaign for example towards iran will obtain the result that it is selling to obtain or else would it lead to further deterioration of trumps a genuine assassination of the powerful all could force commander because some saudi money met with iranian retaliation and both the United States and iran to the brink of war still they would not try to challenge the u. S. Because they would one they would want to be on the good side of the u. S. In terms of relaxing the sanctions coming back to the year round deal of 2015 and enjoying better relations with their surroundings trump american 1st approach meant that washington no longer supported large scale military interventions that have become the norm in the region since the september 11th attacks in 2001 trumps priority instead has been to focus attention on withdrawing American Forces from the region at the earliest possible opportunity in february the administration signed a historic agreement with the taliban agreeing that u. S. Forces would be removed from afghanistan after almost 20 years. The promise to pull out by christmas i would say that coming from the best of intentions it will be the 1st american president to make that complaint promise or pledge to boil. But it remains to be see i wouldnt want to speculate on the bigger means to be seen it currently is highly unlikely that would manage to do so but when it came to throwing troops from syria trump abandon the kurds who had fought alongside the us against Islamic State in favor of ankara it seemed to miss it to be wary of trusting the United States i think that donald trump promised to his voters before before the elections that. He will remove a. Certain amount of soldiers from syria and i think on the whole us are tired from on relentless quests to try and transform the arab societies and. Resolve the palestinian israeli conflict so basically. This is a this is what he tried to achieve and i think he did it trumps bromance with the turkish president added one lefty american president standing virtually alone between and and congressional sanctions of the letters decision to buy russias is 400 a Defense Missile system for air the one on yahoo and kim young moon the leaders of 2 key is one in north korea the ledger of the past 4 years has been almost entirely positive trumps ejection would confront them with immediate challenges making trump not the only loser should he fail the november elections policy r t tel aviv. Lets give you an update now with a state by state look at how america chooses its president 28 states thus far leaning in favor trump while the 18 others in blue are backing biden know it all does come down of course to the Electoral College each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of People Living that whichever candidate secures a simple majority of votes in each state wins the only exceptions are maine and nebraska which allocate electors based on local district votes now so far theyre raised as you can see is extremely tight with biden securing 224 electors and trump having the backing of 23270 is the magic number how many are needed to win the white house. But joining me in the studio once again is eagles dial of ego thank you for coming back in to keep us up to date on everything thats going on as i see it right now joe biden the counting is still continuing as we know joe biden has 49. 9 percent of the vote while donald trump has 48. 5 percent of the vote thats excruciating lee closes and say electoral votes why is joe biden has 224 donald trump has 213 now im thinking which camp is preparing the champagne now because it is so nail biting really close weve seen anti trump protests the already on the streets of washington d. C. They look like why were they protesting when their votes already counted dont finish counting well it seems and they queued seems that this election will one way or another will leave a lot of people who are you bitter and. With a very you know strong desire to vent their anger in the streets let me just put it out there because there are diehard supporters plenty of diehard supporters on both sides who will pretty much be too much of an exaggeration but to say that the. I hate the of a counter that the hate the well that the root share a very strong discontent with the with the with the stance of another of another camp so but essentially when you talk about the champagne its a very peculiar situation because it seems that both camps have not just prepared the champagne but theyve already popped some bubbly and enjoying themselves and both sides while donald trump has outright claimed victory already he has on his twitter he said he teased an announcement to his supporters saying that he will talk about a big victory or a big win this is this is how he put it on twitter time and weve got joe biden in delaware speaking to his supporters saying we believe were on track to win this election in fact lets hear it from the mountains from the mountain lips excuse me its not my place or doubt drugs place to declare whos wrong this election thats the decision of the American People but im optimistic about this outcome were going to wear this thank you thank you thank you. So he says hes optimistic that hes going to hes going to win this and it seems biden. Wants so much to be trump in everything he even beat him in the 1st speech of the night so im not sure how the donald feels about that but shortly after the speech he teased one of his own but its interesting to look at joe bidens reasoning as to why he feels so comfortable and why he feels so up to mystic about the election because right now the number of delegates indeed he has secured so far as of now he has secured more delegates than trump by the margin is not large both candidates still have a long way to go to the magic number of 2270 but so far indeed biden is in the lead but the key states the socalled swing states the ones that are viewed as you know if you look at them you can project how the rest of the country would vote most of those states still have not announced the official victor and according to joe biden for instance when he says that he feels comfortable comfortable that he will win pennsylvania and some other states he says that there are hes did say that they were still in the race in georgia but you feel look at all of those states as of now trump is enjoying a very Comfortable Lead take pennsylvania more than 60 percent almost 70 percent of the ballots counted trump is enjoying a more than a 10 point lead even though its closer to 2 a 15 point lead than rather than 10 take wisconsin 92 percent of the ballots counted trump is enjoying a 4. 54 and a half point lead so and thats thats thats pretty much the situation all across the states that still the swing states that still havent been counted so it is interesting as to where joe biden is getting his figures from where hes getting his numbers from does he know something that we dont know or my guess would be hes pinning a lot of hope on the mail in. Ballots because for instance in polls in pennsylvania as far as we know a lot of these mail in ballots early voting they still havent been counted and some people are saying that they are who want to be predominantly democratic predominantly pro biden but again you know how how the 2016 or the pulses go to terribly wrong how out of touch out of touch excuse me with reality they turned out to be when they projected that Hillary Clinton would have 97 perce