His supporters are continuing to protest outside Voting Centers but elsewhere celebrations of broken now in anticipation of final results. Joe biden is edging closer to that magic number of 270 Electoral College votes that will make him the next president of the United States in the past 12 hours the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 key battleground states pennsylvania and georgia so this is where we stand at the moment there are just a few battleground states still being counted at this point biden is leading in all of them based on the count from the Associated Press he secured 264 Electoral College votes so far donald trump has 214 and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach 270 but bidens lead in these 2 states is growing as the mail in ballots continues to be counted in georgia is extremely close though most of those remaining votes are from the city of atlanta and its suburbs which tends to lean heavily democrat anyway thats helped joe biden get ahead but
Steadily as more and more councilman coming in President Trump has been eating into that margin. And at last there was only about 47,000 vote difference between President Trump and Vice President biden so well see what the new update reveals lets go to David Mckeown because he is a Political Science expert we are watching. The votes come in a lot of people have a lot of questions about how this is all being conducted good morning. Pleasure to be here with and to you so that im sure you heard the president yesterday as he was saying that there are all these irregularities and shenanigans as he said not not pointing to any concrete examples but just kind of a blanket statement. You can say that but when it comes to actually launching some kind of an appeal. You have to have more than just a general acts like a chanel. Yeah, i mean if you think about this what the president and his team of put forward his Political Team and his legal team and hes joining those 2 operations they want votes
On that picture that you showed, that was the cold front, the clouds, they are moving south right now. They dropped some rain in isolated areas near the coast, the peninsula and there was a report of light rain in napa earlier. The big story is this afternoon and this evening when the chance of showers and thunderstorms, lightning and hail rolls in. Locally heavy rain and gusty winds out there. The cloud cover is moving rapidly to the south. Behind it, 20mileperhour to 30mileperhour winds. We had gusts up to 54 Miles Per Hour on tamalpais. So the blustery conditions are, in fact, developing. As you head into the afternoon hours, temperatures wont change much. Upper 50s to low 60s. Notice the yellows and oranges in the north bay, those are the showers and thunderstorms. Ill put a timeframe on it coming up. You can track those showers today at any time on your abc7 news app. Im sure you will also be checking out the Election Results as we inch closer to knowing who the next president wil
Completely. And they control law enforcement. And unfortunately, they have some friendly judges that will issue ridiculously irrational opinions, just to come out in their favor. And he said, he has witnesses who have sworn they saw all kinds of illegal activities at polling places across the country. Watch. Abiding is in the lead because of the fraudulent ballots, the illegal ballots that were produced and that were allowed to be used after the election was over. Give us an opportunity to prove it in court and we will. Kennedy and then rudys co council, said that zero intention of backing down. I with the American Public to know right now that we will not be intimidated. American patriots are fed up with the corruption from the local level too the highest level of our government. And we are going to take this country back. We are not going to be intimidated. We are not going to back down. We are going to clean this mess up now. President trump landed a child one by a landslide. We are
For the nations better angels to prevail. Some specificity in the speech by joe biden, roll call saying the president elect says he is going to name a team monday to get a covid19 plan ready for january 20. Our capitol hill producer craig kaplan, pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the office of the Vice President. Senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet from julian ross of the pittsburgh gazette pointing out the history of the state. Today is 48 years to the day biden was elected to the u. S. Senate from the news journal, the headline, november 1972. This is from the president elects granddaughter naomi, a tweet of the family hug. You saw a lot of the family gathered on stage. That, from one of the president elects granddaughter. Greta . Greta the former twoterm Vice President and 36year Senate Veteran joe biden will be the 46th president of the united states. Heres looki