pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania. >> right. you watch this. new votes came in from bucks county. you come here in the philadelphia area, move up to the north of philadelphia, you see one of the suburban collar counties around philadelphia, this one more competitive. you see overall, 51-47. votes came in here. you noted joe biden stretched out the lead a bit. short time earlier, wolf, in the northern part of the state, president trump picked up a modest number of votes, counted several hundred votes, the president picked up a bit, 100 or so votes on joe biden. you saw in one of the counties. we have been saying even in the republican counties when we get mail ballots, joe biden is gaining. in that one, there was a modest gain for the president. a lot more live in bucks county. every time votes come in in philadelphia and suburbs around it, joe biden builds a lead. >> pennsylvania the lead for biden over trump is 9,746. let's look at how that increased. we have the numbers if you want to put them on the screen. this is coming in from bucks count

trump takes pennsylvania. >> if donald trump is able to hold pennsylvania and the rest of the states he won four years ago, he's at 280. he stays president. here's where it gets tricky. if joe biden is able to pick off any of the southern states -- look here under the biden number. north carolina he gets to 273. trump gets north carolina. if he picks off georgia, 274. if joe biden can pick off florida the largest battle ground, 287, he becomes the next president. >> tom, nate, thank you. >>> let's look at the issues of election integrity. i want to bring in our legal lel panel, pierre thomas, dan abrams and kate shaw. pierre, let me begin with you. you were talking to homeland security and the fbi. what's their greatest concern about election day? >> george, with emotions running so high in a bitterly fought campaign against a back drop of racial tension and a pandemic law enforcement is feeling the stress. there's several concerns. there's a real worry about white supremacists, anti-government extremist and anarchists. there have been a number of suspected extremists placed under cl

-- of the pennsylvania statutes that they require for voting systems in pennsylvania. though they all look a little different and feel a little meetingt, they are all the high standards of security and accessibility. they all have a voter verifiable paper trail. pennsylvaniat in is also mandated under federal law to provide an ada accessible ballot marking device. some counties allow all voters to use it. some try to limit it to voters with disabilities. those are all within the context of the law. they meet the highest standards of security and accessibility so any voter can have tremendous confidence that your vote is secure and your ballot will be counted accurately. >> [inaudible] the dominion system recommends that you use a black marker versus a black pen. said, i was told that if you use a black marker for this system, it will be thrown out. >> no. aboutpe of pen is really the ability for the scanner to read the ballot. let's say you mark your circle with a red pen. most systems work with black or blue. the dominion system, montgomery county tends to say that bl

number one, do those ballots determine the outcome in pennsylvania and number two, does pennsylvania determine the outcome of the election? if the answer to both those questions is yes, i think the supreme court will hear the case. but still going to be an uphill battle for the trump campaign, because you're talking about literally discarding votes with the potential of it having the impact of winning the election. >> all right, you're going to be tracking for us in the days and weeks ahead. dan abrams tonight, thank you. >>> now to the bat until the south, georgia and north carolina. as you know, very close in both of those states. democrats with their strongest performance in many years there. the president ahead in both of those states. in georgia, the votes in key counties are still being counted. there have been some delays. i want to get to steve osunsami in atlanta tonight. steve, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, david, if biden were to win here, he would be accomplishing something that even president obama wasn't able to do twice here, and this is a state with a larg

we're talking about a lot of different states but we're focused in on pennsylvania because pennsylvania right now, although it's in the category of too close to call, there are 28,000 votes right now separating the candidates. we're waiting for 130,000 more votes to be counted. and the areas where these votes are coming from are trending 75%, i think that's a safe bet. 75% toward biden. so pennsylvania looking very good for joe biden right now. if joe biden wins pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, that gives joe biden the presidency. >> that puts him over the top. you've been get something numbers from steve kornacki. 5,587 is the difference. he received 27,000 votes in the latest batch that came in. >> so very, very slim margin. >> it's a slim margin. it's going to expand throughout the morning unless something radically happens with trend lines that would be like, for instance, my old district in pensacola, florida, giving joe biden 90% of the vote. wouldn't happen. never gonna happen. it's not going to happen in philly nor pittsburgh as well. we know based on voting history and

the eyes of the world pennsylvania. so all eyes on pennsylvania. and the eyes of a lot of world leaders are trained towards what is happening over there in the united states with you jane, of course — and the uk's prime minister borisjohnson is among them. but in an interview he's just given, he didn't give us much further insight into what he thought about developments in the race for the white house. if i were a voter in america i don't think i'd want anybody in another government commenting on my election, our election in our country, and i think while the votes are being counted we should wait and see. and i have every confidence in the checks and balances of the american constitution. donald trump had been a big ally of yours. he backed you to be pm, he backed you over brexit, standing by you during probation. if he does go, would you miss him? look, i, let's be clear, the prime minister of the united kingdom is always going to work very, very closely with whoever is the prime minister, the president of the united states, and that's going to

joe biden's running mate put her radical environmental agenda ahead of pennsylvania jobs, and pennsylvania farmers. but i promise you, on international trade we will jobs andt american american farmers first. on energy, so important pennsylvania, jobs in the state are in economic brutality. joe biden and kamala harris went to crash energy under the green new deal. would raise the cost of electricity for every home in every business in america. last year joe biden even told a group of coal miners they should learn to code if he became president. with president donald trump, we have stood for an all of the above energy strategy. we are now a net exporter of energy for the first time in 70 years. harris,biden and kamala they might be saying something different these days but the most is both of them spent all of last year talking about how they want to ban fracking and abolish fossil furor's. bending fracking -- abolish fossil fuels. it would destroy thousands of jobs in pennsylvania alone, and they said they would do it over and over again, until he showed up in pittsburgh a few weeks back a

we're talking about pennsylvania. biden, closing in on trump in pennsylvania. a win there would put him over the top in electoral votes. and that could potentially happen very, very soon. we're standing by for more votes from pennsylvania, at any moment now. biden also gaining momentum in georgia, taking a slim lead over trump in that traditionally red state. at this hour, biden is looking to add to his 253 electoral votes, aiming for the winning number of 270. president trump with 213 electoral votes is seeing his options slipping away right now. let's get a key race alert. all right, let's start in georgia right now. 16 electoral votes, 99% of the estimated vote is now in. and biden has a lead. a small lead, 1,096 votes over trump. look at that, 49.4%. 49.4%. there are still votes outstanding in georgia. we're watching georgia very closely. in pennsylvania right now, 95% of the estimated vote is in. about 5% remains outstanding. 20, 20 electoral votes in pennsylvania. trump has a lead, a narrow lead, it really has shrunk, 18,229. 49.5% for trump. 49.2% for bi

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in pennsylvania in the commonwealth of pennsylvania, look at this, 163,000 mail-in ballots left. in any moment now we are expecting philadelphia could report the latest results, they had workers overnight, there was a shift change, but we are expecting results soon. right now in philadelphia they have 50,000 outstanding ballots, the update is expected, again, any moment now. then you look at georgia, 10,000 ballots left to count, we saw joe biden take the lead in georgia overnight. and then in arizona, maricopa county, populous county there in arizona, democratic stronghold, 204,000 early ballots left there in maricopa. the next update there should be coming at 11:00 a.m. in nevada, clark county, 51,000 ballots left in clark county, the home of las vegas, populous county there in nevada, democratic stronghold, next update there at 1:00 p.m. we are wcatching this closely. >> we will get back to you. john king, we are looking at this contest, you take a look at the popular vote nationwide, 91% of the vote is in and biden is beating trump by more than 4 million votes. >> and that li

in pennsylvania right now. that's the big prize. 20 electoral votes. 96% offest sh esthe estimated v. biden has 49.5%. trump has 49.2%. in georgia right now, 99%. almost all of the votes are in. 16 ooelectoral votes. 4, 273. 49.4%. 49.3% for trump. those are the key battleground states. john, let's go through those four states right now. tell us what we're waiting for. let's review because this is a ball game right now. >> this is the ball game and could be the decisive night friday night. the election was tuesday. let's start in the biggest prize on the board. pennsylvania, 20 electoral votes. donald trump must win it to stay many the hunt for re-election. must win it. the president has to win this state. joe biden doesn't need it but if he wins it, pennsylvania would put him over the top. you see a joe biden lead of 16,784 votes. at 9:00 this lead was 5,500 votes. joe biden has been growing his lead but steadily and consistently throughout the day. joe biden is winning the county and he's been getting even hi

of pennsylvania law school. at me tell you that biden has big fund there at the university of pennsylvania and i don't know if he even went there. but the chinese are the people that gave him the money for that fund at the university of pennsylvania and my father would be turning over in his grave. secondly, pittsburgh. i used to live in pittsburgh. i love pittsburgh. oozing withtely people. you can barely get across the street. they had to put in new bridges. within a year of trump coming into got a $6,500 raise. anything that people say about trump didn't do this, nobody actually tells me what was the lie he told. host: are people saying that they are better off in pennsylvania than they were four years ago? don't think so and i'm not sure that even the president supporters are saying that i still think they look to the president as the one that can improve that situation. his success in 2016 was largely based on a message around change. he is in a lot of ways trying to repeat that message even though he's com

i am worried about pennsylvania. counting the votes, simple and dimpled and perforated, i am worried about pennsylvania. >> china gave us the virus, the virus gave the democrats an edge, democrats used that edge to push through mail in voting, mail in voting gives us perhaps an election result that otherwise would not have occurred. >> changing deadlines. >> that's what we are seeing in the united states of america.

we'll win pennsylvania. >> we'll see about pennsylvania. it likely won't be called for several more days. in some of the other states the former veep is leading by narrow margins, 8,000 votes in nevada. 20,000 in wisconsin. another development overnight after the president spoke and claimed victory as kristin just laid out, biden's campaign manager put out a pretty strong statement slamming those comments saying the president's statement tonight is trying to shut down the count of ballots was outrageous and incorrect. when i mentioned the movement could prompt remarks, remember with 238 tally that biden has going there. he only needs 32 more to get to that and we're up to 70 and behind me you have the secret service still having things locked down. there are no cars, no supporters out here but certainly the footprint of the secret service and protective detail here is such that quickly the vice president could take that stage behind me and perhaps declare victory or concession depending which way it goes. trace. >> trace: 32 to go, griff. a

voters in pennsylvania. they showed up at the polls. that's why we have such a tight race. but the question is was it enough? >> like i said, the blue wave and the red wave -- they crashed into each other. >> a tight election. we will continue to follow it. we're going to pause in a moment here so that we can have other stations join us as we get ready for the top of the hour. but we are watching the votes come in. we are very close to resolution, perhaps, in pennsylvania, which is that all-important state. we still watch arizona, georgia, nevada, we have a lot to cover. let's take a pause here and thank you for being with us. we will rejoin you in just a moment. >>> hi, everybody, good morning again and it is 10:00 in the east and 7:00 a.m. in the west coast and in breaking news and special report and counting the vote counting in key battlegrounds this morning. if you just woke up in the west coast or sleeping in on the east coast because you were up late, there is a lot to tell you about. joe biden the fo

should know that pennsylvania is a numbers game. 2016ry won pennsylvania in by 565,000 votes. 105 thousand in philadelphia. she started with a 460,000 vote lead. yes, there is corruption in philadelphia, but i'm telling you right now, president trump will have major, major support in the city. it is not just the downtown areas, it is not just certain sections. philadelphia is the largest voting bloc in the city, and everyone will come out and they will support president trump. one more thing to say, somebody needs to start talking about hunter biden's laptop. it is ridiculous that this is not getting attention. nbc, andnn, >> what is the likability factor for these two candidates in pennsylvania. guest: the likability factor is a little starker than it was in 2015. they called joe biden pennsylvania's third senator. he is very well-liked around here. donald trump is not. at the same time i think that falls under sampling that before they need to sample so i would not put too much stock into that. at the same time likability does matter. this is a bastion of political moderation. people her

pennsylvania is famously joe biden's native state you probably heard him mention scranton pennsylvania more than a few times but it is important for anyone who wants to win the white house pennsylvania has 20 electoral college votes on offer and the pollsters believe the keystone state could in fact hold the key in deciding who wins this time around but if history for you here we go back 299246 straight presidential elections it has backed the democrats bill clinton and barack obama who won twice john kerry and al gore who didn't but pennsylvania still became part of the so-called democratic blue wall but like so many things all of that changed in 2016 pennsylvania flipped red and he just when donald trump beat hillary clinton by less than one percent now we're going to bring up the 26 electoral map to see who did well where and you've got the democrats down in the southeast they did well the other cities in the suburbs the republicans who won in mostly rural areas did pick up some urban centers and then the 3 counties which we've colored in orange who switched from barack obama in 2 e

been threatened in pennsylvania in philadelphia by the city attorney for arrest if they're not pennsylvania license attorney, that is not the law anywhere in the country people have a civil right, they don't have to be a lawyer to be observed, as corey lewandowski mentioned observing from 30 feet away is meaningless and then impossible to compare signatures or jack to a mismatch, the fact that the ballots under the secretary of state rule can be counted even if they are not postmarked is p outrageous and also a violation of the united states constitution which gives only the legislature or congress the right toe, set those rules,y changing arbitrarily and having not endorsed by the pennsylvanit supreme court that is one of the things that we expect to go back to the court in that state, hopefully as we continue counting and continue being aggressive in insisting on a rate we will win the raquel and maybe not need to go back into the courts but that's a battleground and we have lawyers including getting pennsylvania lawyers into those rooms where they're allowed legally to observe in other a

we are going to win pennsylvania. on twitter, donald trump again expressed frustration at seeing his election night lead "miraculously disappear". but it was the counting of postal votes that shifted the numbers so dramatically — a process donald trump had told his supporters not to trust. but as results trickle in from other battleground states, the picture building isn't in his favour. in both nevada and arizona, joe biden‘s is head. joe biden‘s is ahead. georgia's results are so close that an automatic recount has been triggered, but it's unlikely it would change the result by more than a few hundred votes. donald trump has filed legal action in several states in an effort to turn his fortunes around, and there's no evidence of the widespread fraud that he alleges. the legal hurdles may create a bumpy path, butjoe biden increasingly seems to be on firm footing on his road to the white house. lebo diseko, bbc news, washington. there's nothing peculiar about donald trump tweeting, especially at such an uncertai

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 does this leave trump? >> in a situation where he's well behind coming into election day. he needs to win states that not only is he leading in now but states in which joe biden is leading and he needs win all those states in the previous page plus pennsylvania. if he wins michigan, wisconsin and parx by 6, that is 278 electoral votes. and trump is donnell. >> why does this president seem to be very much banking on that being the state that matters? >> it is because it is the state that matters, right? he who is the win there. even though he's down by 6, it is essentially if you were to build up a path way to 270 electoral votes, pennsylvania is the state that he would need to win in order to stop

we're waiting on pennsylvania. pennsylvania republicans made this choice. it was an affirmative decision by them to put us in a situation where in now. commissioner, i do want to ask you about the legal challenges to certain ballots that have been filed around the country. save one case, which is a case dealing with ballots that have arrived in pennsylvania after the polls closed on tuesday night which are being segregated. i'm not aware of any lawsuit that deals with a class of ballots or a large group of ballots. you're talking about individual ballots here or there. is there anything out there that even in some conceivable world could overturn thousands and thousands of ballots in any state, any lawsuits? >> no, the lawsuits seem to be for the most part going after a few ballots here and a few ballots there. and given the margins there does not look like anything could affect the outcome. before i was on the fec, in private practice, i did recount work. really, if the margin is more than a few hundred votes, recount lawyers know that you're not able to f

i was so immersed in pennsylvania. i think it is pretty remarkable what's happened in the presidential race in georgia. i think that provides a really good foundation for the senate races. stacey abrams and so many others who work here for so many years, especially the loss couple of years, i think their work is born a lot of truth -- hasborne a lot of truth -- has borne a lot of truth. what is the reality for the senate in 2021? a leader mcconnell? do you actually have a real believe that something, a big ticket item, could be achieved? >> we would be better off if we win the two seats in georgia. we effectively have the majority. we want to get things then. we want to tackle the virus. we want to jump start the economy. we want to expand health care. confront climate change. so much we've got to do. if we are in the minority, even will be narrow, that difficult for the country, because leader mcconnell seems to believe by virtue of the last couple of years that the senate is a nomination machine and little else. i th

pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania. the rest of america is probably saying why is everybody talking about pennsylvania. it could welcome down to pennsylvania and 20 electoral votes. joe biden will be in the western part of the state later today. so is the president. butler county, this is one of the super counties, trump thinks he can gin upturnout to overcome early voting. 2016, 66% to 29%. more importantly, 64,000 votes to 28,000 votes. there are counties in your state and around america where the president thinks he can juice it up, super trump counties. what's happening in western pennsylvania on the ground. polls show a five or six point biden lead. do you believe them? >> i do. hard to say how big the lead is, but what i have seen consistently across the last six months or so is that joe biden is talking about the actual problems in our community, things that are happening in real life to people here who have family members in nursing homes and are worried about covid, who lost jobs, who have seen construction pro

pennsylvania has huge electoral couege pennsylvania has huge electoral college votes to give, that is 20 that this particular state so that would put him well over the line at 273, and then it's game over for donald trump but, as i said, and that preference or press conference, they said thatjoe biden is on his way to getting the state of pennsylvania and, really, i wasjust in wisconsin and this area, the midwest and pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania were part of the so—called blue well. that is what hillary clinton called it in 2016, and donald trump managed to smash that's blue well and we are now seeing that blue wall of blue wave return here. in pennsylvania if joe biden does in fact when the state of the commonwealth. 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

from pennsylvania who worked as poll workers and canvassers as he continues to allege fraud in pennsylvania. despite the legal setback, the president praised giuliani the phone. listen to this, lou. >> and i want to thank rudy giuliani for having the courage -- [cheers and applause] a lot of lawyers that backed down because they were being screamed at. rudy is the greatest mayor in the history of new york, and there's a reason. he's got great courage, and he doesn't care. he wants to do what's right. >> reporter: outside the hoe e until at least a hundred supporters of the president chanted four more years, others screamed 2024 hoping he'll run again. interesting to note though that there were witnesses here, but this was not a court hearing or a legal proceeding. there was no judge, the claims today stood a different standard than those made in court under oath, and you know julian and his team have taken this case to several courts. they continue to fight in pennsylvania despite votes being certified in favor of president-elect biden. the pennsylvania governor made that announcement yeste

pennsylvania and georgia. to help break it all down for us, we are joined by cbs evening news anchor norah o'donnell and senior political analyst and "60 minutes" correspondent john dickerson. welcome, welcome to you both. remember at the beginning of the week on tuesday, election night, we were all calling it a big puzzle. we were all putting the puzzle pieces together. waiting for the puzzle pieces. we have a big piece of that puzzle as we sit here right now. >> i'm going to let john address because it was his metaphor about the puzzle. >> once you get into those metaphors you can break a wrist trying to keep them going. >> if you are just waking up, significant developments. overnight joe biden taking the lead in georgia in part with some of the votes coming in from john lewis' district. an historical significance. >> something poetic about that. >> and then, of course, in pennsylvania, joe biden taking the lead. at cbs news, we are not projecting the race at this point, nor are we projecting any of the bat

we may not know for days because of pennsylvania. let's start with the electoral board and where things stand. you have joe biden 238, donald trump 213. they are not there yet. florida went to donald trump, winning handily by some three points. a blow to joe biden. another big prize the lone star state, texas, 38 electoral votes going to donald trump. then we got a first swing state, wasn't much of a swing state this year but you can't mention ohio without calling it that went to donald trump. pretty strong showing in the buckeye state. then a blow dealt to the president, joe biden picked up arizona and it was a surprise. the white house for a time upset that fox had called it so early but the ap backing that collins another big pickup for biden minnesota going. what is becoming clear, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin will hold the keys to victory and you can see from these boards they are very much outstanding. we will find out how that goes. back to what happened here after 12:30 a.m. cars honking, joe biden came out and addres

we've been talking about pennsylvania and president trump's focus on pennsylvania. what if president trump wins the state of pennsylvania? even if he loses wisconsin, he's still at 270 votes. that's why florida is so important. it's a jump ball, it's a toss-up, it's within the margin of error. if joe biden wins florida, there is no way for president trump to win enough electoral votes which look viable at this present point in time. the difference between 2016 and 2020, different candidate on the democratic side and different states that are in play. i talked about florida. that's always a jump ball, that's always a toss-up. but right now democrats are looking at georgia, they're looking at nevada. they feel confident that nevada may flip their way. what happens if joe biden wins georgia, joe biden wins arizona? all of a sudden he starts rolling up actual electoral college. he's lengthening that lead a little bit. you add the state of florida, you add the state of north carolina. you saw biden go to ohio. the biden campaign is seeing something. if you're winning ohi

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pennsylvania not so much. so the reason these ballots are appearing in pennsylvania so heavily weighted towards donald trump is because donald trump said that's what he wanted them to do. >> and, claire, about these republicans, devil's advocate, who are they and where are they going to come from? i noted in the last 24 hours, rob portman of ohio exited the witness protection program, stuck his head up and just put out a statement saying we should count all the votes. we won't hear from him now for a while. where are they? who's going to speak up? >> well, they all should be held to account if they don't. this is a speech tonight that was given that will be taught in history class. it will be taught for years about the lowest point in the american democracy. and if they don't weigh in, then they ought to have a couple of lines in that chapter in the history books about how they stood by and patted him on the back when he did this kind of damage to something that we should consider sacred. >> michael steele, th

just yesterday, pennsylvania republicans declared they would run some kind of an audit of pennsylvania's 2020 election. they'd run this audit in the legislature to try to turn up what they said were inconsistencies in the election results. now, there aren't inconsistencies in pennsylvania's election results. it's not clear what material impact any real audit from republicans in the legislature might have aside from the assurance that it would definitely cast doubt on the election results and turn it into even more of a partisan thing, that republicans don't believe in election results anymore and democrats still do. so the republicans tried that election integrity thing before the election, couldn't do it. they did pull off this audit plan. they just keep looking for something they can do. but this fever dream that pennsylvania republican legislators can do something about the fact that biden won, that they could somehow try to overthrow the results of the election, not just cast doubt on it but throw it out, that fever dream is alive and keeping people awake in pennsylvania and beyond,

state of pennsylvania. we are joined by senator pat toomey and senator bob casey in a moment. two senators from pennsylvania. first, the headlines. georgia is heating up. the secretary of state announced a hand recount. president biden is up in the votes. that is going to be a state that everyone in this country will have their eyes on between now and the january 5 runoff. ntry will have their eyes on between now and the january 5 runoff. speaker pelosi meanwhile in the house remains in charge. challengended off no despite democrats losing seats in the house of representatives. it is a testament to her power. it's also a sign democrats were ambitious -- who were ambitious in the house are probably going to wait it out until pelosi decides to retire at one point. when you lose seats, usually there is a leadership challenge. not this time. finally, biden and prime minister boris johnson had a phone call that was productive. boris johnson spoke to the house of commons in recent hours and said it was a producti

and pennsylvania, this is just a fascinating race to watch in pennsylvania. president trump ahead with 135,072 votes, but a lot of votes still to be counted. a lot of votes still to be processed. and his lead has been shrinking, even today throughout the morning we've been seeing the president's lead come down little by little, 5,000 votes here. 6,000 votes there. we'll see how many votes have left to be counted p. we'll see who wins the all-important state of pennsylvania, if vice president biden wins pennsylvania, that could be it. that's the shape of the battlefield right now. remember it is changing by the moment. john king is here to walk us through all of it. the race tightening in three crucial states, pennsylvania, arizona, georgia. take us through it. >> let's walk through it as you noted. today could be the decisive day, joe biden needs to get to 270 to win the presidency. i'll start in pennsylvania, that alone would do it if joe biden can overtake the president. the president had a bigger lead, midnight tuesday night, it was giant, yesterday it was

pennsylvania is always close. so when the polls show a five or six point spread between donald trump and joe biden, that would be a big pennsylvania win. not a tight pennsylvania win. the other thing that's interesting about pennsylvania is that pennsylvania has no history of early voting. pennsylvania is always an election day voting state. this time, there have been about 2 million early votes which is highly unusual, but that's still less than other states around the concerned, which is why i imagine there's so much focus from the campaigns right now. >> there's so much focus from the campaigns, there's so much uncertainty surrounding pennsylvania, certainly right now. and that's why both campaigns are paying so much attention to the state on the eve of election day. jeff pointed out earlier that both joe biden and kamala harris and their spouses are barn storming the state, basically all corners, just underscoring how important the state is to former vice president joe biden's victory. he has emphasized his sc

, pennsylvania, pennsylvania. it will be interesting, they voted six-point -- over 6 million voters last time around. we have 2.5 million mail in ballots this year. if they are going to have a long time and a lot of work to do to get those counted. >> martha: we are still waiting for that. coming into focus, pennsylvania's shaping up as the epicenter for the selection. >> bret: here's a look at the latest data on the boat. it really being tallied in the keystone state spirit of mail in ballots can be received and counted through friday. correspondent aisha hosni is live in philadelphia with the latest night. >> good evening to you both. you've got about 100,000 mail in ballots here in philadelphia that still need to be counted. about 160,000 ballots so left statewide that need to be counted. tom wolf and his secretary of state a short while ago really pushed back on the trump campaign filing this lawsuit to temporarily stop the vote counting altogether. to be secretary of the commonwealth said this, we will oppose

and so do people in western pennsylvania, that why he will win pennsylvania. sean: how big is the energy no fossil fuel, no fracking issue in pennsylvania? >> it is -- joe biden said that, i knew it would be a death sentence for him. in western pennsylvania, wouldn'1 17,000 jobs are supported by, that we should not be towing is talk about raising people's taxes, and banning sectors of our economy when people in western pennsylvania are having a hard time putting food on the table in the middle of a pandemic, we should be unshackling our economy, like president trump is recommending, this one of many reason that people in western pennsylvania will support donald trump, and i think i'll win in november too but, i tell you president trump will win pennsylvania. enthusiasm for him here is like nothing i have seen before. i was with him yesterday, we had over a fast 50,000 people in small butler county western pennsylvania, they are crawling across broken glass to vote for this president, they tell their family and friends to do it too. sean: corey and dave, you bi

i want to start with the one in pennsylvania. i was talking about this with our earlier guest about there was an extension. so the ballots that arrived after normally election day and that's the normal deadline between that and tomorrow, and they're being counted sort of separately, you know? because there are court challenges to those ballots and i'm just wondering is it possible for a supreme court to get involved and say, hey, pennsylvania's state supreme court, you guys said that those ballots were still be counted if they arrive by friday and actually, even though you said that and even though we do give states the right to decide how they run their own elections and sorry, actually those cannot be counted. >> can the supreme court do that, and is there a federal route for them to get in there? >> yeah. it's certainly possible. the federal route is not the route you might expect. you might expect that the federal route might be based on pennsylvania law that suggests that ballots have to be issued by election day or had to b

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and the ballots in pennsylvania. first, pennsylvania would have to be determinative. if biden wins wisconsin and michigan and nevada and arizona, he doesn't need pennsylvania. so pennsylvania is not a key. if pennsylvania turns out to be a key, then this is an issue of the burden of proof, savannah. the way the pennsylvania supreme court found the case was there is a presumption that the ballot was sent in a timely basis. that's the essence of what the legal challenge would be. is that burden of proof, should it be shifted to prove you didn't mail it as opposed to having to prove that you did mail it before election day. or on election day. >> we want to check on those numbersin pennsylvan in numbers. fishs -- first you have numbers coming in from wisconsin? >> look at this. we now only think there is 100,000 votes remaining we have biden up 20,000 votes so his lead has basically doubled. this is shrinking. it's going to be less than 1% but i will tell you this, the question will be is what you guys are going to ask, what are the recount procedures? well, luckily, we

pennsylvania as well. >> pennsylvania as well. and it's a bigger prize. it's the biggest prize left on the board. 20 electoral votes. and again, the president of the united states cannot win without it. if he loses pennsylvania and georgia, we're done. the president needs both of those. pennsylvania and georgia. joe biden can get there even if the president wins them, mind you, joe biden has an easier path. but here we are. we're below 50,000 right now. 48,854. and we know starting here in the largest city of them all, largest vote area of them all, is philadelphia. and we know we're still waiting for more ballots here. >> only 89% of the vote in philadelphia is in. >> you're looking for another 10% of the vote to come in and he's getting 80% of the vote. he does not need 80% of the rest of the votes out statewide but he's been getting consistently, joe biden has, 80% or more of the count in philadelphia. just going back through my notes just to make sure i have this right. in pennsylvania earlier. there have been votes since then. earlier in the night jo

it may have had some effect in pennsylvania. i went to pennsylvania. i went up there and talked to some people in the scranton area and talked to some democrats who were concerned that the democrats would vote for donald trump. now the biden campaign is in earnest and every day with big, you know, big stars like president obama and former vice president biden. but they are investing the time. you look where they are going today. touching base in pennsylvania. >> trace: i want to read this from hillary clinton's rapid response director. in certain moments i have a fear that everything will fall apart like it did in 2016 waiting at the javits center with high hopes and leaving in utter despair. a moment that will live with me the rest of my life. on the other hand feeling optimistic because a view of the numbers show differences in the races 2016 and 2020 in terms of the base of support joe biden has. a lot brought on by the failures of a president trump. is it a fair assessment in your case finally, bret? >> i think so. listen, the democrats are nervous

pennsylvania could potentially shift. the biden camp is saying they will favor the vice president and trump is holding steady. they are having some legal challenges. we are waiting on more word. i want to go to those what if scenarios that we were talking about. let's consider alaska for president trump. in the south with georgia and north carolina he has a lead. let's assume he holds onto those two states. what happens with joe biden? he got wisconsin. let's say he gets michigan and let's say he gets nevada. 270, there is his path right there. things could change. let's take nevada back because bill hemmer said as close to call. let's go ahead and say the president does cap pennsylvania. all of the sunday game changes. i want to go back to the biden scenario for a moment because it was so interesting. yesterday his campaign put out this notion that he doesn't need ohio or pennsylvania, texas or florida. he still has a path. what has been interesting about his path at this moment, they're both murky. nobody has it outline

david: it really is pennsylvania. we are watching nevada and we are watching arizona, even know it was projected, some people are questioning that. president trump has a pretty good lead in north carolina but it all comes down to the commonwealth of pennsylvania. westin, host of "balance of power" will be hosting "wall street week" about an hour from now. thank you for your insight there as we continue to wait for more votes. the conversation about how to unite a country that is so divided, has been ravaged by a pandemic and economic recession is happening. andrew yang, who ran for president, has some idea about how to get to a more united front. he's the founder of you not -- of humanity forward and has launched a new advocacy campaign. we will talk about that but first we have to talk about where we are. multiple states still in play, but the former vice president has the lead in four of them. where is your head in your heart? andrew: the math says joe biden will be our president-elect in a matter of minutes, hours

>> pennsylvania of course. interesting things in arizona and georgia and the trump campaign is fighting for all of these states. but pennsylvania the most important. i am very curious to see whether -- you have a great take before with andy mccarthy talked about the potential legal avenue in pennsylvania. as your guest pointed out it only matters if it's a meaningful number of ballots that can be contested and taken to the supreme court. the biden camp is projecting confidence that the margin is greater than anything that could be made up with such a challenge. i am curious to see. the trump campaign insisting that they squeak home in pennsylvania. >> dana: what do you hear about arizona? fox news and the ap, called it for biden to be the projected winner. there is still a lot of controversy surrounding that call. >> right. when that call happened on tuesday night, my phone was blowing up. i was texting with a bunch of trump campaign people and white house people all night. they were just enraged about that cal

pennsylvania and georgia may be become the fallback just in case. that goes to the point that joe biden has multiple pass to get to 270 whereas president trump has one path, only through pennsylvania and that's why you see him fighting so desperately to cling there and not allow those votes to be counted. he challenges results everywhere else because he doesn't have any option. this is the only way you can try to keep the math alive, if not the vote. ifjoe biden gets one of the pairs, he does not need the other pair to get to 270? that is exactly right. whatever happens, there will be many of people, millions and millions of people who are going to be opposed to the result, whoever wins and it seems millions and millions of people who will think that the process possibly the whole structure of democracy in the united states, is broken. how to reconcile with those people? i think it starts with the speech that joe biden gave today. a conciliatory tone, not an arrogant one. one that talks about unity and creating unity not one looking to stoke more an

you asked about pennsylvania. we feel good about pennsylvania. but it is going to be close. and there is a path to 270 for our campaign without pennsylvania. but we are playing to win. >> is georgia a part of that path to 270 without pennsylvania? >> absolutely, absolutely. in georgia, over the last three days of early vote, we saw a 67% increase in african-american voters who voted early in the last three days. that says to me that there's enthusiasm on the ground, andrea. and there's enthusiasm for our campaign. as you know, vice president biden, former president obama, and senator kamala harris were all campaigning in georgia. your reporter, i just saw, was in duluth, senator harris was there on sunday. we feel good about our options in georgia and feel like we can win georgia. we don't have to win georgia but we believe it's in play. voters, when they go to the ballot box and check that box for joe biden and kamala harris, but also check that box for jon ossoff and reverend rafael wa warnock. >> there is some complaining that you guys were not competing actively enough i

votes at 26 electoral stake in pennsylvania. according to the associated press, it's one of five states that has yet to declare a winner in the presidential race. >> thank you again for joining us this evening, everybody. as you know, pennsylvania has made important progress in counting millions of mail-in ballots. that continues as we speak. across the state, thousands of volunteers, election officials, worked last night, most of today already, to open process and count ballots. their work is not easy, and i want to say thank you to everybody in all 67 counties who have been working so hard and so diligently. i know this is something we do every election and is part of the election process, but they .ave really worked hard the eyes of the world are on pennsylvania, so it is especially important. an important thing we all do is protect our democracy, and that is to make sure we have an accurate and full count for our vote, and that is exactly what pennsylvania is doing right now. it is not surprising, as i've said before, that t

pennsylvania. if that's the case, if that continues and joe biden wins pennsylvania, then he wins the presidency. he is over 270 electoral votes. the president and the trump campaign are trying to compile a list of allegations, a bill of particulars in which they say there has been corruption or voter fraud or irregularities that would make a difference or at least would send this all to court. we'll have to see what, if anything, they come up with. in pennsylvania there has been another controversy which is the idea of counting ballots that arrive at election facilities after election day. the state legislature earlier this year-in-law said that all ballots had to be received by 8:00 p.m. on election day. then the state supreme court said no, no, no, give it three more days. some wanted to give it six more days for ballots that had been postmarked by election day to arrive and some ballots with an unclear or no post mark at all. it went to the u.s. supreme court which declined to intervened. alito