November 6th, our fourth election day in a row. Lets begin with the breaking news this morning joe biden has taken the lead in georgia. This just happened a few minutes ago with some new votes that came in. The margin almost couldnt be more razorthin. There are only 917 votes that separate biden and President Trump in this state. They are tied at 14. 4 . And as of 10 30 last night, there were just over 14,000 ballots left to count in the state. Again, we got a batch of those, so were still trying to figure out exactly how many we have outstanding, where they are, and Steve Kornacki has been breaking that down for all of you. But biden did take the lead this morning, thanks to clayton county, a democratic stronghold outside of atlanta, where the votes have been trickling in all night. This, i want to remind all of you, is john lewis country. Meanwhile, in gwinnett county, another suburb of atlanta, georgias secretary of state said last night that there were at least 4,800 votes still to be counted. We learned at 11 00 p. M. That election workers there were done for the night. Im sure theyre just as tired as we are. Its also worth noting that the Georgia Senate race between republican senator david perdue and his democratic challenger, jon ossoff, appears headed for a runoff. Perdue has fallen just below the 50 threshold thats required to win the election outright, and that means both of Georgias Senate races would go to a runoff and that those senate races will end up determining who controls the u. S. Senate. Were all going to be learning a lot more about georgia in the weeks and months to come. Lets go now to pennsylvania, though, this morning. This race still close to call. We are waiting on pins and needles for the answers out of pennsylvania. The former Vice President continues to cut into the president s lead here. Donald trump is ahead by just over 18,000 votes. But with some 360,000 votes remaining, and many from areas where biden has been dominating, the former Vice President is expected to overtake trump. More than 60,000 votes are still out in philadelphia county, where biden has been winning more than 80 of the vote. Out in allegheny county, on the other side of the state, bidens been getting more than 58 of the vote and more than 34,000 votes still yet to be counted. Go back across the state again, back to bucks county this is a philadelphia suburb. There are more than 20,000 outstanding ballots. Biden has been getting more than 51 of the vote there. Whats really important, he seems to be outperforming where Hillary Clinton was there back in 2016. Thats the numbers folks are watching. Nearly 14,000 votes still out in lehigh county. Bidens been winning there by more than 52 . Biden also flipped erie county, and that is seen as a bellwether. You can see it there up in the top western corner of the state. Trump led electionday voting by 24,000 votes, but mailin ballots pushed biden ahead of the president in erie yesterday. Its one of those counties that was a reliably democratic county but that trump narrowly carried in 2016. Looks like its now going to land back in democrats column. Joining us now, nbc news political reporter maura barrett, who is live in pittsburgh for us. Maura, good morning to you. Thank you so much for i think youve been up overnight, so, thank you for staying up late on your end to be with us way too early. We obviously just had that breaking news out of georgia, but that race remains too close to call. And the big question as we head into this protracted third, fourth i have lost my ability to count whatever day it is of this election, everyone is looking at pennsylvania to figure out if these votes are going to potentially push joe biden into the lead, and potentially put news organizations in a position to call the race for biden the entirety of the president ial race, for joe biden. Obviously, nbc news still has not made that projection, as we wait on this vote. Walk us through what youre expecting for the next few hours. We showed some of those counties on the map. Where are we still waiting on votes . What have we heard from officials about when they are going to come in . Reporter good morning, kasie. Well, what is sleep when history is potentially about to be made, right . So, we are here in pittsburgh, across the state, philadelphia. You kind of broke down the numbers that were waiting for. Election officials over and over again telling everyone to take a deep breath, be patient, and wait for these numbers to come in. Philadelphia has been kind of sporadic in how theyve been reporting their numbers. Weve seen some tricklein continuing overnight, but we have no timeline on when any more might be coming in. But like you said, just a little bit more than 50,000 votes. For context, yesterday throughout the day, we saw about 60,000 votes come in over the span of 12 hours. So, i would be hesitant to say that we get anything before midday today out of philadelphia. So, that brings us here to allegheny county, where the returns board can start looking at those remaining 35,000 ballots that need to be checked out. Remember, overnight wednesday, allegheny finished all of their mailin ballots, for the most part. The ones that remain are ones that were replacement ballots sent out to correct a printing issue that sent incorrect ballots to voters back in october, and also ones that need to be checked to ones that couldnt go through the scanners. They need to be checked by hand. So, that starts at 9 00 a. M. Today, and well see those be processed throughout the day. And you also mentioned lehigh and bucks county. Theyll get started later this morning. And so, with such a small margin that biden is trailing President Trump by right now, we could be looking at any of these counties, depending on how quickly or slowly philadelphia ultimately reports, but there are other pockets of the state that we can be looking at throughout the day to see, ultimately, where this all lands. Maura, very quickly, i feel like a lot of my sources have been declaring democratic sources that bidens going to win in pennsylvania. The Trump Campaign has mounted some legal challenges. But is your sense from talking to folks on the ground there that democrats still feel like theyre in a strong position . Thats certainly what im hearing. Reporter yeah, thats absolutely right. Democrats have noticed, as we all have noted, that these mailin ballots that are coming in are incredibly skewed for joe biden. Now, remember, just overnight, you know, this time two nights ago, donald trump was ahead by 600,000 votesish. And that was because of the inperson turnout. And as youve seen these mailin ballots come in over the past couple of days, thats obviously shrunk considerably. And so, democrats feeling extremely confident. Im hesitant to say what theyve talked about different leads that they expect to see with biden, but obviously, we are seeing as we get things coming in, they do feel strongly that he will come out ahead. All right. Nbcs maura barrett, youre doing great work out there. Stay safe. Try to get a little bit of rest, but your point about history is well taken. Meanwhile, the race in arizona also remains too close to call this morning. Joe bidens lead has narrowed to about 47,000 votes with about 285,000 ballots still to be counted. Many of those votes are in Maricopa County. As of last night, maricopa had about 204,000 remaining uncounted ballots, about 175,000 of those were mail ballots that voters dropped off on tuesday at the polls. We expect the next batch of roughly 75,000 ballots to be reported at 9 00 a. M. Local time, so thats 11 00 a. M. Eastern. The number im watching for here in arizona is 20,000 votes. If joe bidens lead drops below 20,000 votes, i think youre going to hear democrats sounding a lot more nervous about the state of play there. But if thats about where this race is, i think theyre going to feel all right. So, after taking most of wednesday off to release more results, lets go now to nevada, which remains too close to call this morning, as we anticipate more votes coming in later today. Right now, joe biden leads by a slim margin of just over 11,000 votes in the silver state. Clark county, where biden currently holds a lead of over 64,000 votes with 88 of the total count in, expects to update their total around 9 00 a. M. Local time this morning, which will include 51,000 mailin ballots. The countys come under criticism for how slowly they have had updates and injury, jo ling kent reported that the county facility can process 70,000 votes a day, but officials more focused on getting it right. County officials note that there is about there are about 63,000 mailin ballots that are still left to process. And on top of that, they expect to receive more mail ballots from the u. S. Postal service. Under state law, ballots postmarked on or before november 3rd have to be accepted until next tuesday, and there are also roughly 60,000 provisional ballots that are being processed along with 2,100 ballots that are in a more complicated process known as curing. And then there are 44,000 ballots that need i. D. S. Statewide, the nevada secretary of state announced yesterday afternoon that approximately 190,000 ballots are left outstanding with 89 of the vote in. So, we still have a lot of vote out in nevada, watching, of course, to see if joe biden maintains those margins in clark county. But obviously, of course, were holding off on a call there. Lets go now out to North Carolina, also too close to call this morning, as President Trump holds a slight lead over joe biden with 95 of the vote in. As it stands now, the president leads by 76,000 votes, and the North Carolina board of elections last updated wednesday morning that 116,000 absentee ballots have yet to be processed, and the board has extended the deadline for ballots to be received from today to november 12th, so that extends out this counting process. These absentee ballots, though, must be postmarked by election day. Counties have until november 13th to continue counting. North carolina, a state where republicans feel good about the president maintaining his lead there. Joining us now, senior politics editor for nbc news and msnbc, beth fouhy. Beth, good morning or maybe its goodnight, if if youve been up all night doing this data. But i hope its good morning to you. Lets talk about this good morning. In the broad context of whats been going on, because we did not hear from joe biden yesterday evening, after we heard from the president , who, without any evidence, you know, claimed that there were all kinds of issues with the election. I dont even want to repeat what he said at that statement when he went to the podium at the white house. But the biden team still confident going into this morning that some of what we just broke down is going to ultimately break his way. And im curious what youre hearing from them about how theyre thinking about all of this. And you know, frankly, republicans, there was some urging from the white house for, you know, rank and file gopers to get out there and defend the president on television. And were seeing a little bit of that. But im also hearing a lot of ambivalence, i would say, about whether the white house has a strategy, whether they should be doing this at all and what the appetite is for that. Yeah, thats something i really noticed, kasie, is the fact that republican elected officials and other Senior Republicans almost uniformly are not stepping out and stepping into this cause with President Trump. I mean, think about it. The people who are out there standing up for the president and, you know, echoing these claims of fraud or raising questions about how states are going through their process are basically President Trumps family and then some very close sort of personal associates, like Rudy Giuliani and corey lewandowski, who was President Trumps Campaign Manager for a time back in 2016. The silence is really kind of deafening on the right among republican elected officials. And in fact, if any of them are speaking out, they are urging President Trump to sort of knock it off and to let the process play itself out, because, frankly, you know, they may not like the outcome here, but there really isnt evidence of fraud anywhere. I mean, people are frustrated that its taking kind of a while to get through these votes, that some states are sort of taking chunks of the day off, before they then go back in and read some more ballots. Of course, were in the middle of a pandemic, and thats challenging a lot of these states. But for the most part, really, entirely, the process appears to be going just fine, except for a couple little minor, teeny glitches here and there that have nothing to do with fraud. And ultimately, were going to get a winner based on the balloting, not based on going to court. And elected officials on the republican side seem to know this, and they are doing what they can in their way to say, President Trump, please, stop raising questions about the process, let it play out, and theyre not stepping into that arena with him at all. I mean, i think its a theres nobody saying that if theres legitimate standing to go to court, not to go, take your evidence, show up, let a judge decide, if you have standing. But the thing is that, so far, if the Trump Campaign cant come up with evidence of that, theres no reason why a court would say, oh, yes, we absolutely need to look at this issue. I mean, the one thing i would say, beth, is if you looked at Sean Hannitys program on fox news last night, you saw Lindsey Graham stepping out there, you know, talking about donating to the president s Legal Defense fund. You saw ted cruz using the word lawless about this. Kevin mccarthy out there just blanket insisting that the president won the election, also on fox news. So you do have a few that are going out on tv, but i do agree with you that the bulk of them are doing exactly what you said. Im not trying to take away from what you just outlined. But can we just talk for a second about why Lindsey Graham and ted cruz and Kevin Mccarthy are all on tv in the last 24 hours . Well, certainly, Lindsey Graham is, you know, has decided that he, you know, is going to attach himself to the president at the hip and has for four years. But these guys also have political ambition. They are looking at running for higher office, perhaps, in the next four years. And fox news and the sort of conservative media world is where President Trump thrives. And those guys feel that they can do that in that bubble, in that vacuum, and you know, perform for the audience of one, you know, President Trump. So, they can sort of safely do it. So, yes, there are a couple here and there who are speaking up. But for the most part, were seeing many more republicans just urging calm and saying, lets let this go. And honestly, kasie, i would also say, we should sort of take another big step back and just say, you know, remind our viewers how divided this country is. I mean, the fact that weve got this, like, four or five, you know, states, big states, that are coming down to this tiny, little margin between these two candidates is absolutely extraordinary, and it does remind everybody that, you know, no matter who we support or what have you, the country is not together. Were divided roughly in half. Whomever is going to win this is going to leave a lot of other people very unhappy. We have a whole lot of sort of soul searching to do about how this country could come together and figure out a way to, you know, unite, to solve some of the countrys problems, because right now what were seeing is americans just sort of at loggerheads. And thats whats playing out in a big state like georgia, where were talking about, like a margin of a few hundred votes separating the president of the United States and his democratic challenger. Well, and i think all of this helps explain republicans behavior as well, because there are 70 million americans, approximately, almost, who voted for President Trump, and republicans got help from that, and in many ways, President Trump is going to be he is the present and potentially a big part of the future of the Republican Party. So, beth fouhy, thank you he pulled them across the finish line, those senators who we didnt think were going to win. He did. He absolutely did. He is the one who made them win. All right, beth fouhy, thank you so much for being up early with us after a marathon couple of days. Still still ahead, some republicans starting to break with the president over his claims of Election Fraud. Well walk you through more of the details. 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