With german cars being driven on american streets youre going to have someone who looks at germany as really the biggest partner in europe and in a world where you need more rather than fewer friends and allies. The United States can be trusted to want more cooperation on a lot of different fronts with germany so in that sense germany instead of having the sense that the United States wants to knock it down a notch will in fact see its role in europe and the world strengthened by the. Genuine respect that someone like biden would bring to germany. Nonetheless Many Americans did a fod donald Trump America 1st approach to Foreign Policy while thats making it harder for vine to build bridges now say with nato. Well you know 70000000 people did vote for donald trump this is you know a huge proportion of the American Public so this stream of america 1st has been a a long historical. Part of domestic american politics but the u. S. President has a lot more room for maneuver with out the appr
Coronavirus pandemic. Officials say more than 100 million votes came in before election day, the most ever. The university of florida is analyzing the trend and says about 65 million of the ballots came in by mail. The surge in mailin voting could have a major effect on election calls. Many people in florida said they wanted to make their voices heard. I know a lot of people especially on social media, younger people are really pushing the voting. Some said the voting process was unexpectedly easy, though there were adjustments for the coronavirus pandemic. There have been no extra long lines, and once the line got started everything just went smoothly. A lot of attention is on the results of six swing states, arizona, florida, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin and north carolina. Those difficulttocall states are essentially the tipping points and often decide who wins the electoral college. The two candidates appeared in public on the crucial day. Were doing very well in florida. Were
A sort of Foreign Affairs minister who talked about a new beginning a new deal when he congratulated president elect joe biden and Vice President campbell arias so the relation between the u. S. And germany has been really really difficult over the past 4 years remember in 2017 when after the g. 7 summit bank of america was saying at the times during which we are doing which we can count on each others are over now referring to tribes attitude towards its western allies so theres really a sense of relief tonight in body and of course German Government would have congratulated donald trump how do you run a lecture on bets. That didnt you knew relation a new era between the u. S. And germany come stocked with these new presidency of joe biden our reporters have been out talking to everyday germans about what they think until their reactions. Im far too often i think what you want about trump but he has divided the United States lets see what mine will bring in the end it can only get bet
Back a as well have congratulated joe biden and his running mate harris after Major Networks to clear them the winners of the u. S. President ial election in a statement posted on twitter she wrote i look forward to working with president by our transatlantic friendship is indispensable if we are to deal with the major challenges of our time and to talk more about these Transatlantic Relations lets bring in detail be a correspondent. Whats the reaction in germany been. Well i think its a sense sort of for at least tonight here in germany youve read out the statement by uncle americas spokesperson on twitter its really about really really shuffling the cards between germany and the u. S. Its really about restarting again the trends that the transatlantic relation as a sort of Foreign Affairs minister talked about a new beginning a new deal when he congratulated president elect joe biden and Vice President. Arias so the relation between the u. S. And germany has been really really diffic
So i welcome you watching our international maybe the morning after the Election Night before but the race for the white house is still on a knife edge results are hanging in the balance in a few key states yet to declare but in the last hour joe bidens Campaign Manager has claimed their man is now on course for victory when in fact counting has not finished in several key states they are in gray on this map and a sea of red does show that trump has won more states but of course biden actually has more electoral votes at this stage which is what counts big population starks states like california for example ok from 55 electoral votes and so far biden has 238 trumps 213 with 270 the magic number needed for victory so lets bring in our u. S. Correspondent kelly moppin who joins us now. Hello again everything to play for team biden is claiming victory is in their sights that said donald trump is now talking about foul play and surprised ballot what does he mean by that of course the late