Christmas with fears that travelers will deepen the crisis. Plus, reaction t a Supreme Court decision involving how many can worship together. To the rescue, the militarys new mission stepping up to help hospitals out of rooms and resources in the heartland. The effort to feed families this thanksgiving long lines across the country and a shocking new report, 1 in 6 without enough to eat. Black fridays best deals and a shopping season like no other, the one simple thing you can do to get the best buys online. And thanking health care heroes, the outpouring of love and kindness bringing smiles this holiday. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening and happy thanksgiving im kate snow in for lester tonight and we begin with late breaking news, President Trump continuing to insist he won the election taking questions for the First Time Since the election and saying hes not ready to concede but the president also pledging to leave the white house if as expected the Electoral
Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati
Hington journal continues. Host back with Howie Hawkins the green Party President ial candidate and hell tell us how his campaign is going and what the green party offers for his candidacy for president. Howie, good morning. Guest good morning. Host we havent seen each other on this show since july. So tell us what has happened with your campaign from july until now and how your campaign is going. Guest well, the first thing weve focused on, july is when we got the national nomination, me and my running mate angela walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and i
Since july. Tell us, what has happened with your campaign from july until now . Your campaign is going. Guest well, the first thing weve focused on, july is when we got the national nomination, me and my running mate Angela Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is gettin
Purchase it. Of course youre going to want to purchase it for yourself, your relatives, your neighbors and friends because theres a lot riding on what he says. So please go ahead and purchase pauls book and help support this discourse that hes, hes lending to all of us in the next few months and beyond. I just want to say that any night of the week wed be thrilled to have either one of our guests for a p and p event, but getting them together is kind of like a hallelujah moment for us at p and p. I dont know how many of you are counting or have that thing that shows the days, minutes and seconds until the election, but if youre not counting, there are 88 days remaining. Personally, i kind of wish the election was today, but were to wait 88 days. And given whats riding on the outcome, its such an to introduce my old friend and former colleague paul begala. He is going to tell us how democrats could win in america. That would, of course, rid america at least one of the two plagues curren