Stuff right right weve we saw what happened then. The year 2000 with George W Bush and al gore that was a mess you dont want to have that repeated so. Pennsylvania still waiting on that georgia. Lot closer lot closer in terms of counting all the votes lot closer in terms of how the 2 candidates are relative to one another this is another state that trump had been leading since tuesday. And took the lead early today just like in pennsylvania, but its much closer 22,000 p a its about 4,000 in georgia 99 of the vote counted though so again theyre still getting these mail in ballots, it said the Covid Campaign led to the pandemic election and here we go no one has seen this before with all of these votes come in after election day because so many people were urged to vote by mail to avoid potential exposure. So many folks did and thus thats why were here waiting. The lot of the blue on your screen is where these mail in ballots are coming from because its just a fact of life people who wou
213 the states. That are lightly shaded are the ones are still in question this morning and to the Vice President s point. It is a bit too early to call in fact we saw one of those states change color michigan earlier this morning which was leaning towards President Trump has now shifted is now leaning towards President Biden we could see other states shift as well one way or the other depending on the final vote and it will take a few days to get that process done were joined live this morning via zoom by Jason Mcdaniel a Political Science professor at San Francisco state university. To talk about this process, good morning. So everybody was urged to be patient and yet the president went on tv. Before midnight saying we need to stop counting. The votes now and im going to the Supreme Court now. What would go to the Supreme Court for at this point. At this point he wants to try to get any ballots that mailed ballots be counted some even that level arrive later, according to state laws,
Considerably and here is where things stand right now as we. Bring you out to the big board obviously the magic number 2. 70 and the 2 people that are vying for that office are stuck really to 64 for biden hes obviously much closer to 2. 70 donald trump there at 2. 14 the big states where watching tonight. Our georgia and pennsylvania, both of which see joe biden surging donald trump still has the lead this map from our broadcast partners with the Associated Press has a light red for pennsylvania meeting trump is still leading a light red for georgia meaning trump is still leading however a click on georgia where there is now a razor thin lead for donald trump we zoom in we scroll over and with 16 electoral votes at stake, you can see donald trump here still has the lead. But it is fewer than 2000 votes. And that is with 99 of the vote counted. So still votes out there still looking through all those mail in ballots because of the pandemic so many of them to sort through, but this is a
And a very tight one to a handful of states cant be called at this point just because the tally is to close the margin. Is too close and yet so going to be tracking for. Well east today for sure and least a few days to come as we take a look at the big wall and you can see that biden has a lead in the Electoral College to 38 to to 13. James even talking about how this count is far from done in their 60s talk a little bit more about also the battle for power in the senate which also is. Up for grabs still at this hour. It is and it seems like a lot of these senate. Voting down ballot sort of follow it follow along party lines to right from the top of the ticket places that democrats thought theyd make inroads turns out voted in line with pretty much how the president ial election has been going so far so lets give you a quick look on the National Scene democrats were able to flip one seat. And that was in the state of arizona, they also got colorado, but them last, alabama so that kind
Election and we will tell you how kron 4 is your local election headquarters. And thank you for joining us tonight at 5 im pam moore and im ken wayne were now just hours away from a historic election as a divided country grapples with country grapples with the pandemic which has caused Many Americans to cast their ballots by mail election offices across california of already received more than 11 million mail in ballots with more to come. That is historic especially when you consider that during the 2016 president ial election. Just 8. 4 million vote by mail ballots were cast and among the spots that could see a historic turnout locally is San Francisco. Thats where we find kron fours dan kerman he is live. Outside the citys outdoor Voting Center Near Civic Center plaza dan. But we can tell you the more than 300,000 ballots have already been received by the department of elections. This year they are doing the ballot processing in that building you see behind me the bill graham Civic A