Synod for god and everybody to hear that he had total authority i was done it is against democracy while trump does have a sturdy base the strength of republicans coming out against him cannot be overlooked. All right its coming up to 23 actually actually gone past 2300 hours g. M. T. 6 pm on the east coast and youre watching aljazeera special coverage of the 2020 u. S. Election as you can see from the truck at the top right of your screen were about an hour from the 1st polls closing on the east coast go straight to our White House Correspondent kimberly. Kimberly the big question looming of course is when when when when will we have an election whats the feeling at the white house behind you. I can tell you that the feeling at the White House Well the president projected a lot of optimism you can tell that there is a lot of tension behind the scenes the president has been very optimistic promising that there will be a red wave that he will be able to flip states that were typically d
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
Contest the election in the Supreme Court biden meanwhile addressing supporters in his home state of delaware said that it wasnt up to republicans or democrats to call victory but for the American People he urged patience. Look at the results my colleague michael is standing by. A look again at how its going and some of the nights a key battleground states is america waits with bated breath a. P. Has called arizona with its 11 Electoral College votes for joe biden lets take a look at the rest of the map here we see in the middle again most of those states taken by the president Montana North Dakota south dakota all the way down to texas and of course key states like california with its 55 electoral votes new york with its 29 electoral votes for joe biden but of course picking up the key states of South Carolina and florida with 29 electoral votes lets go to the next graphic here for you and you can see that North Carolina with its 15 electoral votes a key state in this fight for both c
But that has not stopped president from from coming out to address his supporters at the white house this has been one of the most divisive and unpredictable u. S. Elections in memory and even though trump initially trailed biden he quickly picked up Electoral College votes theres no clear winner yet we have just learned that arizona is going to joe biden lets cross over to rob reynolds in los angeles in california hes following the returns on the west coast and rob we were speaking 56 minutes ago about the importance of arizona and then moments later the flip happened tell us more. Yes and the important part is one of the important aspects is that this is a flip this is joe biden taking away a state that was won by President Trump in 2016 and its all the more remarkable because arizona has always been one of the most rock ribbed republican states in the union it is the home state of Barry Goldwater who considered the founder of the modern conservative movement although some of the dev
The east coast so its actually no longer election day there isnt its moved on to november the 4th but in other parts of the country and in fact way out in the Pacific Ocean is the state of hawaii with 4 Electoral College votes going to joe biden of course the home state of his old boss barack obama. So were just adding that to the total mostly the total later on right now though i want to talk about North Carolina 15 Electoral College votes still too close to call but when we break down the numbers we start to get a little bit more of the picture. 100 percent reporting i believe its just short of that actually at the moment and donald trump has a 75000. 00 vote difference but once again North Carolina its the story of the night in so many states that rural urban split there is maybe still a little bit of a runway left for joe biden in the urban areas but it would only be a very small amount and remember in this sort of part of the United States when it goes North Carolina you could pos