Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are being tallied. In other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation intentions ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into the tikrit province following in attack on a military base. Welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the western georgia and North Carolina in the south and up there in the northeast as pennsylvania powers lot of legal action in several states over the votes still being counted well lets look at Georgia State stream really close race there doldrums initial lead has been steadily falling most of the remaining votes are from
With the tallying a vote still ongoing trump threatens to go to the Supremes Court to try to stop the counting biden has threatened counter legal action. And ethiopias Prime Minister declared a state of emergency in tikrit region following a deadly attack on a military base that. On the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has yet secured enough Electoral College votes to win but that hasnt stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes still uncounted donald trump has even threatened to go to the Supreme Court something that bidens team says they are ready to challenge the total vote count could still take days. Well this is our team of reporters on the ground the salad rob reynolds as monitoring developments from Los Angeles Alison bidens home state that away and allan fisheye is in washington d. C. For us but fast also in jordan takes a look at how this night unfolded. Shortly after 2 am on wednes
Georgia and multiple swing states counting was halted for hours d and hours on Election Night with the results withheld from major democrat run locations only to appear that later and they suddenly appeared and they all had the name biden and were just about all i think almost all they all had the name but none of which is a little strange i challenge joe and every democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes. Because they talk about votes and i think they should use the word legal eagle votes we want every legal vote counted and i want every legal vote counted we want openness and transparency no secret count rooms no mystery ballots no illegal votes being cast after election day you have election day and the laws are very strong and that you have an election day and they dont want votes cast after election day and they want the process to be an honest one its so important we want an honest election and we want an honest count and we want honest people working back there becaus
Electoral votes, President Trump has 214. 270 votes are needed. If any of the states that are still undecided go to biden he will have enough electoral votes to win the white house. President trump needs to hold onto pennsylvania, georgia and North Carolina and then take either arizona or nevada to take a second term. The closest race tonight is in georgia which is now a virtual type. That had not gone for democrat since 1982. Today several counties are again counting ballots into tonight. And in pennsylvania joe biden has steadily been gaining on the president but President Trump is Still Holding a small lead in a state he must win to keep the white house. Arizona has been called for joe biden although his lead is narrowing a bit as more votes are counted. Theres also a very close race in nevada, they will likely be counting ballots into the weekend. Biden has been building a small lead there, right now he has about a 12,000 point advantage. The tight race and unprecedented number of
Hard to digest the news. Well cut right at it, give you the details in a moment. Overall, the market lacks real direction. The dows going to be up maybe 15, s p up 10. Nice gain for the nasdaq though, all green at this point. Politics [laughter] can you say softballs . One after another, they were lobbed towards joe biden at the cnn town hall last night. Not very good preparation for the first president ial debate which is, by the way, 11 days away. The standout for me came when biden suggested that if the president had acted sooner on the virus, all those people would not have died. So the president killed 190,000 people . Not a word of pushback from the moderator, cnns moderator. Today biden goes to minnesota, an opportunity for him to clarify his position on urban rioting and defunding the police after the minneapolis disturbances. And get this, the president will also be in minnesota today. You can bet hell brung up law and order bring up law and order. Mr. Trumps press secretary,