Toer that joe biden speaks block religious leaders in souls to the at a polls. Then President Trump campaigns in north carolina. Host we are looking at what has become a scene this year, long lines at polling places. Matt, you study this for the bipartisan policy center. Covidear with the pandemic to we have baselines to understand electorate going into this election . This election is unlike any in the past so it is hard to know if theres a good corollary. Already we have seen far more early and absentee voting then it 2016 so it is really off the charts this time around. That lookse a chart at early and in person voting and how it is trended the last couple of years. As folks can see from watching it, the trend has been for more prior voting, either by absentee or mailin ballot, then in person on election day. What is happening in thinking about the conduct of elections, that has led to this . And then accelerating this trend this year . Matt sure. It has been a trend 20 years in the
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Were looking at what has become a typical scene, long lines at polling places. Youve studied elections and polling at the bipartisan policy center. Do we have any real baseline to understand what is going on with the electorate going into this election . Matthew this election is unlike any in the past so it is hard to know if theres a good corollary. Already we have seen far more early and absentee voting than we saw in 2016 so it is really off the charts this time around. Host i have a chart that looks at early and in person voting and how it is trended the last couple of years. As folks can see from watching it, the trend has been for more prior voting, either by absentee or mailin ballot, then in person on election day. What is happening in thinking about the conduct of elections, that has led to this . And then accelerating this trend this year . Matt sure. It has been a trend 20 years in the making. Ever since colorado, Washington State and oregon state made it easy for their vote
Georgia has not been called yet. The count continues to arizona, North Carolina and pennsylvania. Liz kreutz has been following the election closely and joins us with a look of the intensifying race for the white house. As you show there, we did just hear from President Trump minutes ago. I think hes still speaking now and hes been tweeting quite a lot over the past 24 hours but this is the first time we seen him publicly since his remarks the night of the election. Once again, hes claiming hes being cheated out of a win. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. 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 to them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late. Again, we have to say no evidence for this right now. Patience is really the word of the week. Were anxiously awaiting results in those Battle Ground states including pennsylvania. There was hope we would know the outcome tonight. As the day
Economists are desperate to get clarity on the labor economy. We will ramp up coverage until jobs day later in the week. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika president is denouncing a blockbuster report on his taxes as fake news. According to the New York Times, the present page 750 on u. S. Income taxes in 2016 and 2017. The paper says he reportedly lost millions of dollars from his golf courses, and is hundreds of millions of debt and is in hundreds of millions of debt this coming june. Democrats are previewing the to oppose the confirmation to Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett. By zeroing in on the risk to Americans Health care coverage. The Supreme Court will hear a case in november that could lead to obamacare being ended. Regardless, that confirmation seems assured because republicans have a majority in the senate. The Trump Administration has suffered a setback in its showdown with tiktok. A federal judge has temporarily bloc