Battleground states still counting votes but the president ial remains remains too close to call joe biden is urging people to be patient he says he is confident of becoming the next president s biden has 264 Electoral College votes 270 are needed for victory. Donald trump is making false claims that if only legal votes were counted he would win the election he says legal challenges manned up in the Supreme Courts kristen salumi has more now from philadelphia. Joe biden ahead in pennsylvania by just over 5000 votes thats a 10th of a percentage point still a very close race here but the ballots are continuing to be counted particularly here in philadelphia where biden has been winning 87 percent of the vote that lead is expected to expand as it does the president has been attacking the poll workers here the credibility of the county and launching legal challenges if the o. P. s Prime Minister says a military operation in the northern to gray region has clear and limits of goals and so a
2 key states trotted out leads by fewer than 2000 votes in georgia as the remaining votes are tallied up to tuesdays election and has left less than half a percent between them in pennsylvania. Trampas lashed out at the time its taking for remaining votes to be tallied in those key states claiming without evidence that the election was being rigged and stolen saying further legal action is imminent if you count the legal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in i will really just say certainly were many critical stage. Biden is urging people to be patient he says hes confident of becoming the next president he has 264 Electoral College votes to 70 and they did for victory we continue to feel you know we continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is surely senator harrison i will be declar
The courts by his Team Republicans have followed legal challenges in several states and trying this Campaign Says its expected to launch additional action in pennsylvania and nevada Donald Trumps Campaign Manager has issued a statement accusing democrats of trying to steal the election alan fisher has more from washington d. C. Theres been an attack from the Trump Campaign on the way that democrats are allegedly conducting themselves. Campaign manager they said that the democrats are lying cheating and stealing running rampant across the country now theyve alleged in several places that there is voter fraud but they have yet to produce any evidence of that and theyve gone to court in the last 24 hours in michigan and also in. Kosovo as president says hell resign immediately to face a war crimes trial at the hague he was indicted in june by a special tribunal investigating the 99899. 00 conflict with serbia that is accused of nearly 100 murders when he was a commander of the Kosovo Libe
English is their only means the whole romney a reminder of our top stories the u. S. President ial race remains too close to call theres a full battleground state still counting any of them could give joe biden the win over donald trump and donald trump is making unproven claims that if only legal votes were counted hed win the election he says legal challenges may end up in the supreme court. Biden is a people to be patient he says hes confident of becoming the next president he has 264 Electoral College votes 270 are required for victory our White House Correspondent Kimberly Houk it has more from washington d. C. Now we are watching as joe biden is closing in on Donald Trumps lead we expect by the next time that the votes are announced that dont trouble potentially have lost that state and digitally have lost the election at that point because there are very few paths for donald trump without also winning the u. S. State of georgia and this is why were seeing the u. S. President fig
World headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. With his campaign losing ground and his party locked in a civil war over whether to even support him, donald trump has proclaimed the shackles are off. The republican nominee lashing out today and making it clear that any republican who isnt with him will pay a price. A brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll taken after sundays debate has Hillary Clinton with a ninepoint lead over trump, 4637, in a fourway matchup. To get back on track, trump appears to be reverting to the combative unscripted candidate we saw in the primaries. Already today, demonstrating that nothing is off limits. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has details. Reporter throwing red meat to his supporters, a donald trump tweet storm, hitting fellow republicans and Hillary Clinton. So nice that the shackles have been taken off me, trump writes. The last 15 months, apparently trump hes not a war hero. You got to see this guy, oh, i dont know