those bottom 10 states are five blue states and five red states. so even though the thumb isn't a scale to benefit them it is a benefit doesn't have a partisan valence to it. and finally it embraces the state-based model of the framing design because it allows each of , these states to run their elections however they want but they resolve it just at the question of the electoral votes as the electoral votes are concluded okay. so ergo. and it is not really appropriate for ago but every debate needs an ergo somewhere in it. [laughter] no one i think should oppose this kind of solution this is the lodge gossiped solution updated a little bit. no one because no one i think can defend the intended the intent of the existing system . the existing system was intended by nobody. it has no purpose relative to any democratic principle that one can articulate no one has defended its basis. and if we're going to have to fix that. if the electoral freedom problem crates a strong motive. if the supreme court declares that electors are free to actually address

swing states are a minority of the united states. apminoritypeal to swing state -- all i am saying is let's have a federalist system to give them incentive to think about how we will play everywhere. because everywhere would matter if you have this proportional allocation at a fractional level. justhat allocation is not better in that they will give more of the country a voice in choosing who the president is, it is also better from an equal protection perspective. he said there is nothing not democratic about the system. the supreme court has expressly said that a winner take all system like this, which basically resolves the allocation of delegates at an 1963im level, like in footnote 12, the court expressly which is that system, basically electoral college at the state level, is a system for counting the votes of the minority for the purpose of discarding those votes. whathat was a violation of equality would require. this alternative would eliminate that problem. givethis would do is everybody more power relative to the current s

you have al gore who litigated for 37 states in one state really three counties but one state went to the supreme court twice. and yet it seems like joe biden, democratic party everybody else is in a very big to get an answer today isn't it better to go through the process? the constitutional statutory process to make sure everything is right in every state? >> yeah particularly because resultses aren't efficient until election officials and state officials certify the result and they won't do that until the canvassing recanvas has been done and reorder won't be down until recount has been completed, and if there's litigation, serious litigation contesting the outcome that they also are foolish and i don't think they will, certify the results, if, in fact, that litigation could change the outcome. mark: reason why it is fool picture because final check is the united states congress some state jumps gun and significant litigation or recounts county completed so forth congress can reject electors and that particular state. we'll be right back. i'm erin. -and i'm margo. we've always done

that makes 10 states plus d.c. and other states are also making it much easier. by most estimates, 84% of americans are going to have the chance to vote by mail this year. host: going into this discussion, how about providing baselines that will help people understand how large is the eligible u.s. electorate in 2020? matt: the eligible u.s. electorate is in the range of 180 million. i think we expect 150 million ballots cast in 2020. we had 130 million ballots cast in 2016. host: the anticipation is how many this year? matt: about 150 million to 160 million. host: we are taping this 8 days from the election. dave wasserman who studies house races for the cook political report tweeted last night, breathtaking, state like texas surpassed 80% of its total 2016 votes cast, leading the nation. and there is still a week of voting to go. is that what other states are seeing as we lead into election day? matt: yes, it is breathtaking. that is the right word for it. in 2016 we saw 33 million absentee ballots cast. as of one week out before the election, we already have 4

to state. the first problem and ultimately what dooms it is you can see from how it is signed, the signing is going to take place right when the continental congress comes back in the british army is left. the british leave till adelphia in june. congress's meeting back in july and on july 9, they are ready to sign the articles of confederation. the way the signing of that one works is a little different. the signing of the declaration of independence is signed by the delegates and most sign on the same day. it's signed as each day approved it, their delegates will sign it, so they are waiting for the states to make their decision. about half or so are going to sign that first day. over the next weeks, most of the rest will sign. ultimately, maryland will hold out for close to two years. it won't finish until march the first of 1781. you're talking about two and a half years of time. for most of that, it is maryland by itself. technically, it can't go into effect until all of the states have si

— by—state, it's so balloting system that we have state—by—state, it's so different that it will take a while to count these results. but we may still get close to something like the electoral college result we thought we we re electoral college result we thought we were going to have. patrick, the trump campaign has been telling me forfour trump campaign has been telling me for four years that there are people out there who didn't vote for donald trump in 2016 but were going to turn out next time he was on the ballot. is that what happened and whilst that undetected by pollsters? right, it happened on both sides. there we re it happened on both sides. there were new voters looking out for biden and trump. it doesn't appear to be what we missed. we are not exactly sure what we miss. there are some odd voting patterns. for example, if you look at the state of florida, the poles were pretty right on the money, except around miami where there was a different dynamic play. that is where the pollsters missed. there are things that have to do with donald trump. we had a midterm election two

michigan a key state to the president of the united states. nevada. clinton state but one the president hopes to flip tonight. you see all across here. not quite 20% plus but in the teens. that is when it started to hit and the president's calculation about re-election changed dramatically. that is april. then you look at may. starts to get better, right? remember in may is the reopening. some businesses reopen. as you follow it through this is what the president hopes you forget april and may and you start to come through here and you see june and gets lighter. july lighter still. august. and september. so the president's hope is that you still see nevada, tourism industry still hit very hard. can the president make his case? most of the rate the country is coming down. stock market had a rough last week. the president is hoping you look at the stock market' what he is talking about the last several weeks on the campaign trail what he calls the v? it's not a v. economic recovery is uneven. but growth in the last quarter was quite significant. preside

the vote in 3 states. frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and trump protesters demanding every vote be counted. in other cities like here in seattle a similar story. in portland a sign that many here have had enough of u.s. politics all together. but in phoenix arizona pro trump supporters making their voices heard outside an election center. this is a country divided. i believe personally as a republican that's trying one in a landslide but because of culvert and the ballots that 300000 ballots overnight were found in every city in the swing states were by then i'm just overwhelmed i'm so stressed out yesterday with like you know inside the but this morning i broke down and cried because of the possibility that trent might be in office again. across several states votes are still being counted the majority of them have been sent in by post and in this election costing a vote by mail has been favored by many democrats every vote must be counted no is going to take our democracy away from

and other states. that we knew were in his camp. >> if you look at those rust belt states, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin pennsylvania, let's say they don't finish counting until friday afternoon at 5:00 or even next week worst-case scenario, if you look at michigan, wisconsin, if donald trump wins both of those does he need pennsylvania? do we have to wait until they finish counting? >> it depends on north carolina and georgia. right now biden is 238 electoral votes. if he wins nevada which i think, nevada is leaning in his direction than he is at 244, then he needs 26. the combination of wisconsin and michigan alone would get him to 270. donald trump needs to win georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, and one of those two or possibly the main second see the where the president is ahead. >> on pennsylvania, there is 1.4 million ballots that aren't counted yet, the president is up by 600,000, unlike wisconsin it looks like when it comes to pennsylvania these are counties the where the president h

they're less than that, i'm told now, that state is a traditionally red state. the president here tonight listing a long list of his accomplishments and he did have many in this election. he won florida, he won ohio. he won a number of other states by convincing margins, but the state of georgia is in play for democrats right now which indicates that republicans are having trouble there holding on to a historically very red seat. this is a situation that the president is in, he's now declared victory in this election, shep and he's out here tonight in the briefing room of the white house talking to america and the world and saying that he's been dealt with unfairly. one thing to note, shep, not at his side today for these comments was the vice president mike pence, shep >> i was going to ask you about that mike pence was nowhere to be found. the lawyers that he's been using throughout the day are from his inner circle rudy giuliani, jay sekulow, pam bondi and other, but it was our understanding he was trying to recute other lawyers for these legal challenge, by

of the race 238-2213 those states in yellow the ones that lifts the swing states the battleground states the states which will ultimately decide this 2020 election thanks so much well let's now go to washington d.c. and a white house correspondent candy how it can be a much tighter race than the democrats wanted or hoped for especially looking at these latest wisconsin under. yeah i'll get to those wisconsin numbers in a moment what we are really focusing on is the fact that we don't have a winner yet and as the mail has highlighted there are a number of states that are still in play there's going to be a lot of soul searching for democrats with regard to that why this is happening but there's no question that the u.s. president is already mapping out a strategy as he spoke to his supporters in the east room of the white house sensually saying that he believes he's won that he has claimed victory now what's astonishing about this is that the u.s. president to be evil for all the ballots have been counted is saying that this is an attempt by his opponent to try and steal the election the

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lawyers are preparing legal challenges in several states particularly states where trump is not doing so well. this could still get very messy couldn't it and actually could i mean that arizona is one of the states that the trunk campaign is currently considering to take legal action in michigan nevada pennsylvania where there was a decision allowing ballots to be counted after the election so we can expect. the counting there to drag on for a couple more days in wisconsin also another state where biden is up by less than one percent which gives trump the right under those state laws to demand a recount so we're looking at a process right now the really does appear that it could be dragging on and it also means that even if biden backs nevada if you win georgia if you want pennsylvania which would take him to 3 $106.00 electoral votes which is the same amount of electoral votes that trump won by and also with a clear lead in the in the popular vote you know that would be a decisive victory and it would still take weeks probably before we have an official winner. ok what should we be l

midnight in the united states and georgia is one of several battleground states where the result of choose days presidential election remains in the balance these are live pictures now from atlanta georgia capital city where the vote counting continues it's the extremely close race in the traditionally republican state trance initial lead has been steadily falling. now it's about $28000.00 votes and thousands of absentee ballots are still to be counted now we're expecting more data in the coming hours but what might help joe biden most of all is the remaining votes that are from atlanta and its suburbs which normally lean towards the democrats but winning georgia could be crucial for by news extended his lead in the race for the white house let's have a look at the map and he's already flipped michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago biden now has a projected total of $264.00 electoral college votes while donald trump has $214.00 remember the magic number to become president is $270.00 here in yellow you'll see the states that are still in play nevada in the wes

i've stated my view very clearly. i don't find any difficulty in stating that view. in my judgment, it is the view of american catholics from one end of the country to the other. because as long as i can state it in a way which i hope is satisfactory to you, why do you possibly doubt that i think that i represent a viewpoint which is hostile to the catholic church in the united states? i believe i am stating the viewpoint that catholics in this country hold towards the happy relationship which exists between church and state. >> do you state it with the approval of the vatican? >> i don't have to have approval in that sense. i'm not submitted. -- i have not submitted my statement before i read it to the vatican. i did not submit it to cardinal cushing. but my judgment is that cardinal cushing, which is the cardinal of the diocese of which i am a member, would approve of this statement, in the same way that he approved of the 1948 statement of the bishop. in my judgment, and i am not a student of theology, i am stating what i believe to be the position of my personal

the state of pennsylvania has gone his way. the state of wisconsin has gone his way. he received the call from hillary clinton. he will be the next president of the united states. >> that was the moment four years ago. can lightning strike again? let's talk about it with chris christie, rahm emanuel, sara fagen, and donna brazile, former dnc chair, now fox news contributors. chris, i have to start out with having you explain if you can the strategy of the president going after doctors during this covid pandemic in the final days of the campaign. >> let's talk about what's going to happen on election night, george. on election night i think the president and what they're focusing on now -- because i have no explanation for that. i don't. i don't understand it. on election night we have to look at the two most important states for a path to the president's victory are north carolina and pennsylvania. i think he'll win florida. i think he'll win georgia. i think he'll win arizona. north carolina and pennsylvania are the biggest key for him. those are the ones -- >> he ne

of this involves a state in a bad state of georgia state of michigan the state of pennsylvania so he's just doing that open wide to gotland of all these accusations were before there was really only one specific question that was was going down in florida but here he has created some some worldwide or nationwide conspiracy so you can kind of it seems a little bit more desperate a little bit more grasping at straws and doors open against the wall see what sticks were before and bush v gore you saw one specific issue that was being litigated and i will say that for those who remember that no one really looked whether you agree or disagree no one really looked too far away on that decision because they don't want the courts to decide who's the next president i want to put a question to you that i had also put to adolfo what do you think of these claims of you know that ballots are being counted without observe those that there's voter fraud what do you think that these claims do to trust in the democratic process well i think i think it erodes the trust and i'm disheartened that the sitti

guest: that goes state-by-state. i want to assure readers -- viewers, because we hear so much about fraud and a lack of integrity in these elections, every state has processes, by legislatures, for how people vote, how they register and for what id, if any, they need to show on election day. and recount procedures. nation,istory of our there just is not any evidence. that there is actual fraud. these people are doing their jobs. there are many mechanisms in every state, in place, to make sure that if they are audited, they are safe and secure and accurate. just like i believe the counting procedures are accurate, there are opportunities to watch. it is happening in michigan and pennsylvania. the recounting has clear procedures in place. if we don't like people falling through the cracks, i don't like people falling through the cracks. andanswer is more money more consistent procedures across the country so that mistakes are not made. the answer is not to throw election results out. i hope people who are watching can

but what is this is the state department in the united states and the big shake and chop wood troubling issue globally. one of them is forced marriage. u.s. department of state views forced marriage as a human right to d.c. and in the case of minus a foolish child of peace. if you are a u.s. citizen and a victim of a forced marriage overseas, you got a whole lot of advice about what happens if you scrutinize overseas. meanwhile, at hime, they have made jack, she yeah, yeah. let me bring in, let me bring in unicef, because unicef is working on this as, as guests today. and this is how unicef framed the challenge they have with child nights in the u.s. . you know, i have called child marriage, a helpful practice and a violation of child rights, and believes that marriage under the age of 18 should be prohibited and all circumstances. yet you're in the united states. there's actually no federal law around child marriage. rather, each individual state is responsible for setting their own requirements. this is why unicef usa is a member of the national coalition and child marriage working al

from that state's capital. we're taking a short break on >>> how you doing? >> ok, fine. >> we are back on air, folks. of course we have elections tonight. let me check in with my producer. we are going to continue our chat with our two experts here, carla, political reporter and paul mitchell who's your data guru for california, setting all the political data. >> you said the word. >> paul, after today, after the election, after it's said and done, what are you going to be looking at? how are you going to ascertain whether the pollsters got it right or wrong this time and what were the factors? >> as soon as election is over, we're going to be looking at a lot of states around the country where not a lot of attention has been paid to races. we're going to look at the data on who turned out. did democrats actually benefit from this early voting pattern? were republicans harmed by this strategic decision to vote on one day and tuesday in november in the middle of a pandemic? we have to be able to break down thos

state of israel. and you can attest to that in a variety of ways. but you also worked hard to prove the other thing that i'm saying and contribute it to personally, that israel that no better friend in the world than the united states of america. and over the last four years under president trump and his remarkable team led by you and ambassador freepedman and jared kushner and others, israel he with the u.s. has reached unprecedented heights. thanks to president trump, the u.s. recognizes the embassy moved here. thanks to president trump, president trump recognized golan heights and pulled out of the dangerous nuclear deal with iran nd eliminated the -- [indiscernible] >> thanks to president trump the united states proposed the first plan for peace between israelis and palestinians and thanks to president trump, israel was able forge peace with three arab earl countries. israel is deeply grateful for all that president trump has done with you and the others of the team to strengthen israel and advanc

state. it could be a blue state. this was six years ago. you have worked very hard to bring about this moment. how are you feeling right now on the eve of an election which georgia is undeniably a battleground state? >> i'm energized. i know that this is work that i've been a part of, but so many others have invested in, have worked towards, and have done so despite our evidence being met with skepticism. for this election and in 2018 we finally got the investment we need to turn demographic opportunity into actual progress. we have been able to turnout voters who were ignored. we've been able to expand access to the right to vote and we've been able to protect voters. it didn't come soon enough in 2018, but i believe 2020, fair fight, has done its work. mark has done his work. organizations across the country have invested, and native-grown georgians have done their best. i'm energized. i believe this is going to be a tight race and i think the odds are in our favor. >> joe biden right now

we are the united states. have a great weekend, we'll see you back here on monday, let not your heart be troubled, laura is on next. >> laura: this is speech when he went from washington. at joe biden and kamala harris had a big speech planned where they expected to declare victory tonight, but that is suddenly changed. what has our competence so shaken? a few hours ago, a huge ruling was handed down by justice alito at the supreme court, temporarily ordering all ballots received after 8:00 p.m. on election day in pennsylvania to be segregated and secured. now, if those ballots are counted, they must be counted separately. this was already supposed to be happening, but apparently, secretary of state could not confirm that county boards were complying. now,

another must-win state, his home state there, he took up residence, florida. 29 electoral votes. he got it by a point in 2016. if biden gets florida, look at that. biden getting florida, he would have wisconsin and michigan. he's well over 270 at that point. with florida, he can afford to lose wisconsin, for instance. would still be over 270. florida, for biden, that would be a devastating punch. he would land on trump there. again, trump has to get that. what it comes down to here, trump from this point forward on this map, he would have to win texas. he's got to shore up iowa and ohio. he would have to win both of these states in the northeasoutp for grabs. if jump did all of that, you come down to arizona. arizona is a state here. 11 electoral votes. the democrats won in the 2018 midterms. they won the senate race there. polling had biden ahead in arizona. if biden were to get arizona, 269, there's also this congressional district in nebraska, omaha, where trump was campaigning this last week. he won it by three in 2016. demographically, college degrees, the kind of place wher

states. >>after polls close in florida election officials are expected to announce results of millions of mail in ballots that were cast early. >>if president trump does not win florida he's going to have a rough time capturing enough states to stay in office biden has a slight advantage in most polls in pennsylvania. that's a big state to be watching today bucks county once of philadelphia's most gop heavy suburbs has been now trending democratic and we have team coverage all across the bay area where registe ares voter offices today kron four's charles clifford is in san mateo county flea chagall is in contra costa county has dillon is over in alameda county talking with law enforcement officials as they prepare for any unrest. >>but we begin in the south bay with kron four's morning kelly who is live outside the santa clara county registrar's office morning. >>that's right sanaa's just seen i am here in san jose out in front of the santa clara county voter registrar's office this is where

this is the state board. two democrats, two republicans who at the state level are supposed to do the certification of the vote on monday in michigan. and what have we seen here already, right? we've seen the president already basically successfully lean on the two republicans who are on that canvassing board in that one crucial county. he botched it timing-wise, and so it's screwed up. but he very nearly succeeded in stopping them from certifying the results in that county. given that, what's to stop him from leaning on the two republicans at the board of canvassers at the state level, right, who have to sign off for the whole state? there's two democrats on that board and two republicans on that board. the two republicans who the president has in his sights are, number one, a young attorney who serves as a policy adviser and staff attorney for the republicans in the statehouse, and the other guy is a republican county chairman whose wife is one of the people who filled out one of those bananas affidavits fo

you appoint me, i'm going to be an american president, no red state or blue state, it's the united states. we are going to pull together. a better position than any nation in the whole world. our workers are three times -- we have more great research in america that all the rest of the world combined. we have to remember who we are. the united states of america. this tell him who we are. choose hope over fear. choose truth overlies. choose science over fiction. we can take this, i promise you, i promise you. when i make a mistake, i'll admit it. but i tell you what, i will never break my word to you. and by the way, thank you for your service, pal. thank you for your service. okay. the last thing i'll say. the presidents done a lot of really not some good things but the one that has bothered me the most is when he said that this -- let me tell you something, no president ever said anything like that before. i'm not joking. and by the way, my son bo biden was attorney general and gave up that seed to go fight in iraq. he was no loser. all who serve, these guys don't understand, doesn't und

it is about the big states, the medium states, but also the little or states. we forget that nevada is really contested right now with six electoral votes. mr. biden has some form of number of 50.2%. 47.9%, withp at almost 80% of the vote in. maybe we will get an update on the votto as well, as the contestedd midwestern states. the support of our military for their next president -- jane street us in the 6 -- james stavridis in the 6:00 hour. stay with us as the election evening unfolds. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: the presidential race is still too close to call, but president trump's claim he won. earlier at the white house he denounced several battleground states that are still counting votes. pres. trump: we will be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. we will win this. ritika: it is unclear what the president meant. it is routine for states to keep counting votes after election day. that is happening in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georg

this state. of those about 90% are from clark county. we learned yesterday we should get the results for clark county from 51,000 ballots today. so we're looking for those numbers from clark county and over the weekend they expect to process the remaining 63,000 or so additional mail-in ballots that they received in drop boxes on election day and were delivered on election day and the day after. even as we get the rest of the results in and the secretary of state say they know of about 190,000 ballots that need to be processed statewide, mail-in ballots in this state can arrive up until the 10th, until next tuesday if they were postmarked by november 3rd they'll be processed and have a couple days to make sure if they have any issues that need to be dealt with before they need to have the final tally in clark county on november 12th. >> these four states very? john, biden is ahead but the most important is clearly pennsylvania. >> it gets him over the top, 273. and the flip side is there's no way

if you give him all the states that hillary clinton won plus the states he's up by 5 states except for pennsylvania. if you give him arizona and nebraska, that gives him 12 additional electoral votes. you see it now. joe biden at 258 in the states that he's up by at least 5 points. if you then add in the second congressional district plus arizona, what do you get? you get him to actually 270 electoral votes. that is why you should care about nebraska's second congressional district. >> and the reason nebraska is one of two states you would ever talk about, it is one of the only two states. >> essentially what this means, if you start biden with the 258 and then you give him arizona and nebraska's second district, those are where they will be kounlth on election night. all this talk of pennsylvania. if biden wins in arizona and you add in nebraska's second congressional district, you get him to win without pennsylvania. if he loses in all those and the other contests on the screen, then you go to pennsylvania on the screen right now where biden does hold the 6-point advantage. >> where

south carolina as a state was one of the earliest states to reopen. you've had absentee ballots available for months and also vote or drop boxes where people can walk right up and just put it right in the box. >> south carolina's got voter drop boxes? i wish you'd show them to me. i've lived in south carolina for all of my 80 years. we do not have voter drop boxes. that's to how lies get out. martha: well, i -- it's my understanding that every state has them. if south carolina doesn't, that's a big question that south carolina should address immediately because it's my understanding that every state has them. >> we -- well, your understanding's wrong. we tried very hard to get drop boxes, and the legislature would not e approve them. no, we don't is have voter drop boxes. that's why i'm saying, when this campaign is over, we need to go to work and say to every state that for federal elections -- do what you want for your own state and local government, but for federal elections congress and president, there must be drop boxes. martha: i stand correcte

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swing states. just as the presidential race goes so does the fortunes of the g.o.p. in the states in the senate races. i think over time you look at lindsey graham. is he going to be the big takedown for the democrats? we'll see. i think there are indications that the g.o.p. is showing up some of those races and some voters are coming home. it all depends as you know on who shows up tomorrow. >> bill: let's talk about the presidential level. i'm hearing that it's tight and i'm hearing that a lot of this depends on who shows up to vote, as you mentioned a moment ago. i'm also hearing the african-american vote is down a pointer to which could be significant in florida. georgia, north carolina. maybe even wisconsin by tomorrow night. >> listen, 95 million people are early voting. 90 for something. that's astonishing. so depending on the state we are going to get those numbers right away when polls close. other states do it differently. the early vote is tough because you have republican ballots, democ

under state law, there are two types of state mandated adu brackets. the first here we're calling this streamlined adu. they are in existing single family or multiple family dwellings. they can only add one adu. the adu is the most flexible for property owners because there are no requirements for setbacks. the second bucket is the ministerial adu. this applies to existing and proposed single-family dwellings, or to existing multi-family dwellings. this closely resembles our current in that the adu requires planning code clients, such as rear yard and open space. the only exemption is for density. and under this bucket, there is also a new type of adu called the junior adu. junior adu can convert up to 500 square feet of a single-family dwelling, which requires an efficiency kitchen and may or may not share sanitation facilities with the dwelling. the owner needs to occupy either the junior adu or the primary dwelling. so with the different buckets under state law, keep in mind our local program, a property owner may qualify for more than one type of a

so you see it, tonight trump has got to win state after state after state to stay alive. if he does, we can start talking about pennsylvania. must-win pennsylvania. he's got to get through -- donald trump does all of the other states to bring it down to pennsylvania. if he's able to bring it down to pennsylvania that's the state where we expect to have the slow count, the mail-in ballots that could take days. it could take a while, but donald trump's got a lot of work to do before he can get there. >> so, steve, it seems before every election there are one or two states that get a lot of buzz. and before this election, again, over the past few nights you have had a lot of people talking about georgia and texas. well, georgia for the past week or so. set up that state for us. obviously, very interesting, very interesting state. chris matthews always reminded us that georgia gave jfk his biggest vote margin in 1960. pretty interesting considering he was the first catholic to be president of the united states. but georgia's demographics obviously are changing, but the greate

but let me go through a few states you can see. there's your national spread. battleground states. in iowa this is a state we expect to be very close. look how close that is, 49-46. let's go to another one we expect. north carolina, somewhere in between. it was 51 for the virus, 45 for the economy. a bit tighter than that national number. here's pennsylvania. this looks more like the national number. a few more older voters in pennsylvania. we have a feeling older voters are prioritizing the virus. and finally let me take you to florida. same thing. so if you're the president here and you just see this, you don't like what you've seen in florida and pennsylvania in particular because you see by a 10-point margin in both states they prioritize the virus over the economy, i promise you if that does correlate to the vote this is not good news for the president. >> all right, chuck, thanks very much. let's go to the key battleground of pennsylvania now where the vote count may not be very fast this evening. rehema ellis is in philadelphia. rehema, what are you seeing there? >> reporter

so there are states like florida, states like texas, states like north carolina where you refer to something -- you would mix up the early vote and mail-in vote and say it was all cast before election day and it looks even on paper. it looks roughly even on paper. but in pennsylvania, voters got two choices. you either vote in person on election day or you vote by mail. and the polls in pennsylvania were showing us all fall people who said they were going to vote by mail were going to vote for joe biden by margin of about 60 points. that's what the polls were showing us. and that is what happened on election day. the people who voted by mail -- in the mail, i should say, that is what happened when people went to vote. they voted overwhelmingly for biden if they used the mail. >> okay. so steve, although you make the weeds fascinating, let's pull out a little bit and just the basics now. we're waiting for 130,000 more or so votes? >> uh-huh. >> out of pennsylvania. what's the timing for 30,000 or 40,000? is there any way of knowing, given what you've gauged so far over the past 24 hours when

this state, in this state, it was a 23,000 victory statewide for donald trump. with that, joe biden has moved up to 11,000. this is a state, a tight state. >> are we going to be able to call wisconsin tonight? >> i want to confer with the decision desk and see what they think about it. again, this is exceedingly narrow. si i do know there is some other vote out. i want to confer, that's a margin right now that came down to 10,900. >> if joe biden wins withes with, that's an if, we're not calling it. if he does, where do we land in our race to 270? >> that's a hugely significant victory for joe biden if he does get it in the road for 270. he had all of these opportunities, florida, texas, et cetera, so far, he's not hitting any. we'll see what happens in georgia and north carolina, if he didn't getting georgia and north carolina, the path that exists is win arizona. hold on to nevada, we'll see what happens. but he leads in the tabulations by a dozen in both of those states right now. you're not seeing it right now on this map, but biden did flip the congressiona

, those are the democrat run states, is it coincidental that there's five democratic states that don't know how to count and move balance forward in the law and the rules surrounding the prerogatives of the opposing party, that seems to be the case but the big majority of states know how to get it done. >> not just that, think about joe biden he saw all the polls and they were all wrong, the poll that matters is emerging public and president trump knew it, you know what he knew the pull of the american public because he was listening to them and talking to them i've never seen a man with this worth ethic doing five rallies a day we end up at the end of the night being exhausted, can you do a telephone town hall with more people inside the congressional race as well, joe biden could not get out almost anything, that's why the end of the day president trump is going to win another four years because the american public knows that he is the one who can rebuild the economy and we can't take anything for granted that's what we have lawyers on the ground, inside and will have to fight becaus

in all 50 states each state handling their own certification of what we are seeing right now is a challenge to this certification in a number of states including in pennsylvania there are lawsuits by the trump campaign in pennsylvania possibly in ga ga's going to the recount even though it's leaning towards light and it's an automatic recount so no official legal challenge there yet we're also seeing a legal challenge in michigan and a legal challenge in nevada and just late today a legal challenge in the state of arizona where republicans claim that in maricopa county the most populous county where phoenix arizona is located that poll workers were not helping republicans to fix their ballots if they were beings how we incorrectly and that they were being discriminated against in that way so there's now a lawsuit late today in the state of arizona here's what president trump had to say about all this. we all know why joe biden is rushing to full sleep pose as the winner and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him they don't want the truth to be exposed the simple fact is this el

the state does not get to the counties job under state law. anything other than certification is an unlawful power grab and would mean a wholesale disenfranchisement of the millions of michigan voters, including those right here in eyman county. if you are presented with a complete returned by the secretary of state, you do not have the ability to postpone the certification. and duties are ministerial mandatory under michigan election law. processigan democratic has come from many different directions over the last three weeks. samet all stems from the source -- president trump. now he is pressuring our elected and appointed representatives to bend to his will and commit acts that will be remembered as a subversion of the free and fair election. the likes of which our state and our country have never seen before. it has been reported in the news that at least one of you is considering voting to not certify the election today. i find this shocking and disgusting. the time for political games is over. the eyes of our nation are on the board -- o

state role watching this hours. that's where the counting is continuing as well joe biden has a substantial lead of press already calling this state for joe biden which took his electoral college count to 264 on wednesday president trump has been tweeting of course saying that same easily wins the presidency with the legal votes cast he says the observers were not allowed in any way shape or form to do that job and therefore votes accepted during this period must be determined to be illegal votes . well we see that the no evidence to support those allegations well the republican national committee chairwoman has also question the integrity of the election want to mcdaniel announced legal teams are on the ground in 4 states following several allegations of voting irregularities we have seen some discrepancies in michigan and some irregularities that deserve investigation democrats and the media spent 4 years and millions of taxpayer dollars talking about a russian hoax on the grounds of election integrity now with ju

georgia one of the states still too close to call is set for a recount and legal battles loom. want from continues to make baseless allegations of widespread ford in states like pennsylvania which officials flatly reject. what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. and on resolved election the nation on edge 3 days after one of america's most divisive and knife edge presidential votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of president donald trump and battleground states which will decide the final outcome biden leads in pennsylvania nevada and in georgia so far is projected to have $164.00 electoral college votes trump has $214.00 and of course the number required is 270 the needs to win in only one of those undecided states to get across that finish line. his magic white house correspondent can you help it who is in washington for us. in wilmington delaware joe biden's home state we have passed culhane standing by for us in philad

lou: well, it's not true, and the fact of the matter is, it it is state after state after state and most of those battleground states in which that fraud could determine who the president-elect really is, whether it would be president trump or whether it would be joe biden. but right now i don't think most americans -- and i don't think, by the way, there's anything wrong at all with what i'm about to say -- i think most americans don't believe a damn thing they're being told about the outcome of this election because they're, frankly, just too many questions. we don't even know, talking earlier with a pennsylvania state republican leader and elected official, they don't even know who the owners of dominion voting machines and voting software, they don't know who they are because they're private companies. finish the same with ess, and it goes on and on and on. there's just no explanation. and when they had an opportunity to give an explanation today to the pennsylvania state legislature, they decided not to. >> yeah. we're not allowed to ask questions. only the left is allowed to ask qu

i do also wa nt to state of the commonwealth. i do also want to point out to our viewers how significant philadelphia is. it is the birthplace of american democracy. this is where the declaration of independence happened in 1776. this is also where the constitutional convention happened in 1787. so, the fact that democracy is being played out here in pennsylvania is incredibly significant. that was yalda hakim live in pennsylvania in the latest reports we are getting a saying that joe biden is ahead there. you're watching bbc news. just an update on where we are at the moment. counting is still continuing the key battleground states in this us election and we understand that a recount has been confirmed to be taking place in georgia and, as yalda just laying there, in pennsylvania it has been very close indeed but every single vote does indeed but every single vote does indeed count. now, donald trump has released a statement in the last few minutes or so, saying that he is going to continue, vowing to continue, with his legalfig

he is the secretary of state, he is elected state—wide in the state of georgia. not every state but many states have a secretary of state, typically they supervise the administration of elections, business licences. a sort of miscellany of government regulatory duties and they become very, very important in a big election year like this, especially a year in which most americans were voting ina a year in which most americans were voting in a different way than they usually did, either early, in person or by mail because of the pandemic, so or by mail because of the pandemic, so there is this huge crunch all year among election officials across the country to prepare for this most unusual election and brad raffensperger was on the front lines of that in georgia where there were a lot of difficulties dealing with the pandemic and the crush of mail balloting in the primary season and then they sort of prepared and did a lot more smoothly, it was administered much more smoothly on the 3rd of november, it went quite well by most accounts. the 3rd of november, it went

so one of the states that we've been looking at is georgia in georgia is a traditional red state that mitt romney the republican nominee in 2012 won by about 9 percentage points donald trump won it by 5 percentage points what we've seen over the last 4 years is an increase in registration of african-american black and hispanic voters and actually a decrease in white voters in georgia and georgia is one of those states where i believe 16 electoral votes that could swing to joe biden tonight and that would be the result of years of voter registration drives to kind of change that state we're seeing a similar pattern in texas there's a large growing population of hispanic voters that generally vote democratic and because of that we're seeing a swing in a state that went for 9 points last time to donald trump to a race that we think it's a tossup today. took us through for those of us sitting outside the u.s. i'm watching this talk us through where we should be looking to trying to get some sort of an indication of what the end result is going to be. well i think as andy mentioned florida

the state of georgia, the state of north carolina, and even the state of south carolina. we'll go to north carolina first. democrats have long thought this was a prime pickup opportunity. thom tillis the incumbent. cal cunningham rung into some issues, an extramarital affair, many other issues. democrats still think they can pull that out. maybe he is is the 51st. you go into georgia and you've got two races, two very, very crucial races. david perdue is the incumbent. jon ossoff has been closing fast, leading in some polls. democrats feel like ossoff can win this. the big question in both georgia races, this one and the special election down here where you see several candidates is can anyone clear the 50% threshold. afghan one or maybe two races will be going into a runoff. a runoff that could end up deciding the future of the united states senate. and then don't sleep on south carolina. jaime harrison broke every record in the world when it comes to fund-raising, raising $57 million in the third quarter. don't make a mistake, south carolina is ruby red country. donald

they are depends if big states or small states. if he switches florida and texas, game over, assuming he holds hillary clinton states. if he takes florida, that alone may be enough to close the election down, although there are couple of paths that would get trump to 278 without florida. if texas -- to 270 without florida. if texas goes, the game is really over. texas probably only goes to biden if other states were going to biden as well. sabato's crystal ball is saying florida is leaning republican. georgia you think is leaning to the democrats. the last time they voted for a democrat for president was 1992, william jefferson clinton. larry: that is absolutely correct. there been a lot of demographic changes in georgia, and those changes have switched other states in other parts of the country. colorado and virginia being two obvious examples. you have to keep a close watch on how the population is changing. his georgia guaranteed to go to biden? no. it is a coin flip. the reason we gave florida to trump's because it is tied in t

states and more restrictive in some states like california. that is not because of compromise. it is because political energy supports the gun safety reform movement in those states. like i say, we are seeing a reinvigorated gun control movement that hopefully can overcome that sense of fatalism that nothing can change. brad: final comments on areas we can find commonality or make some progress? i think it isiz: a chicken and egg thing. people whohave support gun control elected to office, but how do you do that in aa congressperson lives where they are going up against the incumbent who is a republican -- let's say in the central valley, which i know well. a lot of guns. it is a red state within a blue state. attempts to flip those seats. when they do, they do not talk about guns, the candidate on the democratic candidate does not talk about guns because he will not get elected if he does. you have this dilemma of that that isf blue and red kind of intractable because it is partly the politics but also partly the guns. congress -- let's say i