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Can put all this is there a line from dawn also coming up. In news of bidens win brought supporters out to celebration cities across the u. S. And outside what else. But donald trump and his supporters a defiant president is showing no sign of conceding as he prepares to challenge ballots celts several states. But that hasnt stopped leaders from around the world applauding joe biden including many who had booky relations from. Joe biden has declared victory in the u. S. Elections earlier he and his running mate called the harris addressed the nation from his home state of delaware he spoke of uniting a country that has seen deep divisions with a pandemic and racial unrest often dominating the headlines the people of this nation have spoken. They delivered us a clear victory a convincing victory a victory. For we the people. Weve won with the most votes ever crash from president ial ticket in the history of the nation 74 married in the. Well i must admit a surprise mary tonight were see ....
Considerably and here is where things stand right now as we. Bring you out to the big board obviously the magic number 2. 70 and the 2 people that are vying for that office are stuck really to 64 for biden hes obviously much closer to 2. 70 donald trump there at 2. 14 the big states where watching tonight. Our georgia and pennsylvania, both of which see joe biden surging donald trump still has the lead this map from our broadcast partners with the Associated Press has a light red for pennsylvania meeting trump is still leading a light red for georgia meaning trump is still leading however a click on georgia where there is now a razor thin lead for donald trump we zoom in we scroll over and with 16 electoral votes at stake, you can see donald trump here still has the lead. But it is fewer than 2000 votes. And that is with 99 of the vote counted. So still votes out there still looking through all those mail in ballots because of t ....
Quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer well, mr. President , for more than a year and a half, leader mcconnell and Senate Republicans have refused to take action on the housepassed for the people act. At a time when our democracy is under siege in so many ways, the for the people act is a bold proposal that will restore Peoples Trust in our democratic system, a trust that is fading. It is under it is for the people. In order to make a more perfect union. It would shore up our elections from threats from abroad. Thats something we have just recently read more and more about. Why arent we doing more on that . In fact, when senator van hollen a few days ago put on the floor the an act u. C. Of an act that would say russia should have sanctions imposed on it if they interfere with our elections, the other side blocked it. I hope theyre n ....
You my intentions on how i will vote, id like to start by just expressing my disappointment with where we are in the senate as a whole right now. Theres been some good discussion hering this morning as were considering discussion here this morning as were considering the unanimous consent agreements, some statements made, but not action moving forward. I i had hoped that if we were going to be at this moment in time just over a week out from our national elections, that we would be here on the floor debating debating the merits of a receive relief bill. And in my home state of alaska, as in so many states around the country, were seeing unprecedented numbers now. The news just yesterday, friday, that the United States reported the highest single day recorded of positive cases. 83,757, really staggering. In alaska we have seen this virus spread to some of our small outlying villages, villages that are not accessible by road, village ....