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absurdity of life and the responsibility of what actually should be on television. and it really pays to be able to talk to those colleagues during the course of the day like today. thanks for joining us this hour. we are 15 days out from the presidential election. there may or may not be a final presidential debate this week. the president today openly mused about how he could illegal extort bribes in the form of campaign donations from big companies who want favors from his administration. the president today openly in front of a crowd of people suggesting that exxon mobile might want a couple controversial permits and he might green light those permits as president in exchange for exxon spending $25 million to boost his campaign. exxon later in the day had to tweet publicly to let everybody know that they re not actually planning on doing this. this was just the president musing out loud hypothetically about him committing that crime. he didn t actually already com ....
4. trump won the other. we re still awaiting the results from several battleground states. right now georgia, pennsylvania, nevada, north carolina, all too close to call. arizona too early to call. so here we are. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, november 5th. along with joe, willie and me, from the associated press, jonathan lemire. nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. we will never let her stop working. host of politicsnation and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. first to pennsylvania, joe biden has cut into the lead of donald trump significantly. around this time yesterday trump led by 700,000 votes. and now trump leads by just over 164,000 votes. with a lot of mail-in ballots still being counted. we could look specifically at philadelphia county. home to a lot of biden voters. he currently leads by 60% and we are still waiting for more than 244,000 votes from philadelph ....
line. today both major candidates were in key battleground states. president trump is holding his fourth pennsylvania rally of the day. he won pennsylvania by a razor-thin margin, less than 50,000 votes. a new morning call poll shows mr. trump trailing joe biden by five points in pennsylvania but mr. biden s lead falls right within the poll s margin of error. so statistically they could be tied. today in michigan joe biden reunited on the campaign trail with president obama. it was the first time they ve taken the stage together this election cycle. and what a cycle it has been. a spin cycle. and frankly, if you re like me, you re probably a little dizzy. it s been 555 days since joe biden announced his candidacy, back in april of 2019. take a look at some of what s happened from then till now. it is just 659 more days. 477 days. 285 days. 100 days. just three days till election day 2020. after months of speculation and front-runner status in the early polls ....
presidential transition. president-elect joe biden set to speak today to address the fight over the affordable care act while president trump again not scheduled to make any public appearances. he had zero plans to speak directly to the american people, except on twitter where he s continuing to push baseless voter fraud claims that have been flagged as misinformation. so we ve got our correspondents positioned with all the latest on the transition. mike memoli still in wilmington with the biden team. peter alexander at the white house and yamiche alcindor. great to see all of you this morning. what do we know about the president-elect s remarks today on the affordable care act? what s the strategy here moving forward? well, chris, i think most americans remember that moment in the east room ten years ago when president obama signed into law the affordable care act and vice president biden called it a big blanking deal. to say the least for president-elect joe biden a ....
100,000 daily coronavirus cases on wednesday. more on that a little later. let s get right to the latest on our election results. here is where the road to 270 stands right now. it hants changed much over the last few hours or so. election workers across the county counting ballots at this very minute in many states. let s start out west. here is a look at the state of play in arizona with 86% of the vote in there. still too close to call. the difference roughly 68,000 votes. vice president biden with a narrow lead in arizona. from arizona to georgia. we are expecting expecting being the operative word new votes to be dropped in just a few moments out of fulton county. georgia still too close to call with 96% of the precincts reporting. president trump with a slight lead there. the difference, though, about 18,000 votes. to nevada we go. in nevada you can see vice president biden with a slight lead. still too close to call. the difference in nevada, just 7,647 votes ....