Donald trump is still refusing to concede and legal challenges to Voting Results in key states are still in play and the news is celebrations in azerbaijan has the government announces in now controls the city of shut in disputed nagornokarabakh. Welcome to the program we start in the u. S. Where president elect joe biden has declared it is time to heal a deeply divided america even as his predecessor still refuses to concede defeat in a bitterly fought president ial election biden vowed not to divide it but to unify and called on americans to give each other a chance reaching out to the 70000000 people who didnt vote for him his running mate kemah harris will be the 1st woman black american and american of asian the scent to serve as Vice President and she paid tribute to the women who paved the way for her victory donald trump meanwhile is threatening multiple lawsuits in an attempt to challenge the results but Election Officials in states across the country say there has been no evi
I love you. And thank you. From cbs election headquarters in times square, this is a cbs news election update. 2020 america decides. Reporting tonight, norah odonnell. Odonnell and good evening, and welcome once again to our special coverage. It is hard to believe it is already friday night, and still the country continues to wait and wonder who will be the next president . With each hour, more ballots are counted, and tonight the path to the presidency is becoming clearer. Tonight, joe biden, the former Vice President , is now leading in four states, though still not decisively enough for cbs news to project a winner. Were standing by to hear from mr. Biden tonight in this hour. He is expected to speak to the nation from wilmington, delaware. So we will bring that to you live. And like most of you, we have spent the day mesmerized by the democracy. We want to show you the live pictures of volunteers carefully opening and counting mailin ballots in maricopa county, arizona. And weve se
A recount in one crucial battleground state. And the military escalation in northern ethiopia d as tensions between the government and local groups threaten to spill across the border. Its 19 g. M. T. Thats 2 pm in the eastern United States and the race for the white house is still too close to call the results from 7 states are still outstanding and most could go either way while counting polls for the night in some states wisconsin has continued thats where we are expecting results to come from next in the last hour the Trump Campaign announced it will request the recount there were also expecting to hear from trumps democratic challenger joe biden soon hes urging his supporters to be patient insisting he is on track for victory well this is how the race is stands at the moment a winner will only be confirmed when they reach 270. 00 Electoral College votes hundreds of thousands of ballots still need to be counted with results unclear in the key battleground states of michigan georgia
Is clearly it was a more civil debate. It was a debate where mr. Trump got much higher marks on first blush then he saw in the first debate, but with 11 days to go, i am going to say what i think say not what i think, maybe what we all think, but what we hear from the pros, the money matters, and the genoa one from delaware has the money the gentleman from delaware has the money. I saw a number of reports this morning that clearly, mr. Biden is ahead in this poll, that poll, but the president is tightening up, as was widely predicted. Jonathan 11 days to go before we can get a deal on capitol hill on fiscal stimulus between House Democrats and the administration and republicans. Lisa oh, come on. We are not getting a deal. Ifo want to say on pulling, say on polling, if the polls have it wrong, political polling, the whole industry is dead. I am interested to hear what larry kudlow says. He is joining some bloomberg show and some guy who hosts the show at that point. [laughter] jonathan
Ve what changes are in store . Politicals to spread disinformation via social media, now a permanent part of the american election, i hope not. The Vice President for communications and strategy at the Brennan Center of justice, where she leads the and digital presence. Take it away. Lisa thank you very much. Is john on the call . Um, because he was going to be joining us to talk in particular about polling, but i do not think he is here yet, so we may have to wait for him. In any case, fortunately we have a panel here that can talk about anything. So i wanted to start out by noting that in the first 20 four 24 hours after the ballot counting started on Election Night, the media and polling classes had declared that the polling was the biggest loser. Playbook said the industry is a wreck. Lots of folks were talking about embarrassed to support trump voters that were skewing the results. Too many people are refusing to engage with posters because they do not trust the results. The presi