A state of emergency ethiopias president moves to replace the Regional Government and the trouble. And ivory coasts Opposition Leader is a rested for forming a rival government challenging the president s reelection for a. While it is now 1600 g. M. T. Thats 11 oclock in the morning on the u. S. East coast and President Donald Trump has begun his day with new accusations of voting irregularities without giving any evidence in a series of tweets hes demanded the counting be stopped in pennsylvania a battleground state where democratic nominee joe bidens lead a steadily rising meanwhile lets take a look at where we stand by been is also ahead in nevada and in georgia he is projected to have won 264 Electoral College votes by the Associated Press trump has 214 the number acquired is 270 that all means that biden needs to win and only one of these 3 undecided states to get over the line now in an address to the nation lays on friday evening the former Vice President called for calm and for
That might not be enough because it looks as if joe biden has more than enough force to get over the 270. 00 Electoral College vote threshold which of course means he wins the white house but ideally the biden team would like to get to 360 thats within their grasp theres a couple reasons for that one it makes it look slightly more comfortable than just squeezing by on one Electoral College vote id take so we. Only got there because of problems with the voting systems but also 306. 00 is what donald trump achieved 4 years ago so for many in the Biden Campaign there would be an ironic symmetry that biden got to 306 but celebrations here in front of the white house and even here in the. Goodbye that was played i remember. 12 years ago when. The. Obama won the white house for the 1st time but a truly historic moment if this is to go through because of course we get joe biden as president in the United States but also elected for the 1st time to the office of Vice President we have a woman
A number of other states. Broughtwsuits will be starting on monday. The first time it was discovered was here in pennsylvania just a couple of days ago. The people you see behind me are i would say 5060 poll watchers who will all testify that they were uniformly we will wait. That they were deprived of the part to inspect any single of the mailin ballots. As you know from the beginning, those ballots where the source of some degree of skepticism, not a lot if not a lot is being prone to frog fraud. The New York Times written that 10 years ago under different circumstances but then changed their mind once it was a situation involving President Trump. Herresswoman jordan and voter of various forms of fraud cited mailin ballots as the most prone to fraud. With all of that you would have expected that the decree of security and high degree of inspection that would be provided for mailin ballots, instead and the wisdom of the officials, Democrat Officials here in the city that has been demo
Be officially called by the fox news decision desk. Those five are pennsylvania where i am, georgia, nevada, North Carolina, also alaska has not been called. The Trump Campaign is mounting a number of legal challenges in these states. The Biden Campaign calling the legal challenges meritless. Well get into both sides on that. Look for a moment at current vote tally in pennsylvania, as counting continues throughout the day, the margin between President Trump and Vice President biden has continued to narrow. President trumps leads with well over half a million votes, just over 100,000 votes as mailin votes continue to be tallied in places like philadelphia. Here in harrisburg, we had protesters out on the streets on the steps of the state capital. A number are still there behind me right now. They have been chanting things, stop the steal, stop the fraud. Well talk about those challenges, the legal challenges on the merits from the Trump Campaign but also keep an eye on the other story,
Addressing the virus. Cases are on the rise nationwide and were nearing 240,000 deaths due to covid. And our hearts go out to each and every family thats lost a loved one to this terrible disease. In america, the vote is sacred. Its how people of this nation express their will and it is the will of the voters, no one, not anything else chooses the president of the United States of america. All right. Former Vice President biden urging people to stay calm and be patient and he says he has no doubt that when this is all said and done, that he will now we have yet to hear from President Trump. He is on social media. His last tweet was three words, stop the fraud in all cap, by the way, without evidence of any fraud, but with that we want to bring in our first guest, we enjoyed his conversation so much on midday that we invited him back. Dr. Derek madonna with the center for politics and Public Affairs and franklin and Marshall College coming to us from pennsylvania where its all happening