How are both sides of the aisle in Congress Reacting live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with smith. Good evening. Joe bidens tiny lead in pennsylvania grew all day long as he inches closer to winning the pennsylvania lets take a look at pennsylvania at this time last night President Trump led in that state by 75,427 votes. Now joe biden leads President Trump by 16,784. If he wins his home state, its all over the commonwealth secretary of state says the overwhelming majority of mailin and absentee ballots has been counted, and now its on to the provisional ballots. I want to tell you and show you some pictures now of what those states look like pennsylvania first here are the numbers, as i was just describing. Joe biden now leading by 16,784 votes. Here is whats going on in the state of nevada. In nevada, 93 of all votes are in, right . At 93 i hit the wrong state. This thing is touchy theres nevada 93 in 22,000 separate them a new batch of counted votes d
You at this hour. Lets show you first where the president ial race stands right now. With 80 lets show you that right now. We have joe biden with 220 electoral votes and President Trump with 213. A candidate needs 270 to win. So far tonight no state has flipped parties from how it voted in 2016. The country is still waiting on key battleground states to finalize their results. Election officials in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania say it could be days until we know the final results due to the large number of mailin ballots. Heres where the popular vote stands. Biden at 49 , donald trump at 48 . Here in california now were going to target here not surprisingly joe biden winning the popular vote by more than 30 points. All 55 of californias electoral votes will go to joe biden. By the way, the last time california voted for a republican back in 1988, george h. W. Bush. Now, the roller coaster of emotions through the night, they are running high. An entire block of San Francisco was
The president s Team Planning legal challenges, all of this as the president s chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus and the u. S. Is hit with the most cases ever. Who will be the next president to handle the pandemic . And will today be the day a president ial winner is declared . America is watching and waiting, today, saturday, november 7th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. Peter and i are so happy to be joining you from new york. Typically of course we would be in d. C. , but here we are in our election headquarters as we watch and wait for results today. Thats right. We had election day that turned into election week. We welcome you to election weekend. You were in wilmington, i was at the white house. Were in new york for as long as it takes to get you results. It
You through so lets get into it louisiana 8 Electoral College votes to dont drop again a lot of these are going to be fairly predictable ones ones like north dakota which is going to go the way of donald trump only a small state there with 3 Electoral College votes we look at nebraska next to rick. It is nebraska now just going to polls on this for a 2nd 3 Electoral College votes for donald trump there are 5 on offer in nebraska i think you may remember early i mention that nebraska and maine split their Electoral College votes so if this point we can say there are 3 for donald trump he is the projected winner in those 3 districts 2 other ones which could be picked up by have a candidate. Lets move on again in vienna or wyoming no its wyoming 1st of all with its 3 Electoral College votes in indiana as well excuse me indiana is the next one with 11 Electoral College votes and the state of nevada as well now this is when we start looking at some blue states the state of too early to coal
The most intelligent president s we have ever had. I mean, he is up there in the top half dozen. And when we go through his life, by the end of it, or the middle of it, youre going to start laughing because youre just going to say no, that cant be, he cant be that good in that field, its just not possible. And then well find something else. And youre going to say, no, he is just incredibly bright. And the hope for his presidency was enormous. And so were going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before. And he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. Its i dont know how you test Something Like that. Its not as if you give president s iq tests. Its a lot easier with things that are easy to measure. Tall and short. I mean, we all know that madison was our shortest president , lincoln was our tallest president. Thats easy. I dont know how you know who the most intelligent. Certainly the two adams, jefferson, madison, lincoln. Garfie