News, an announcement that there has been progress made for a successful vaccine. Soon, the expectation is the fda will run a process of rigorous reviews and approval. The process must also be grounded in science and transparency, so the American People can have every confidence this vaccine is safe and effective. At the same time, it is clear this vaccine, even if approved, not be widely available for many months yet to come. Challenge before us right now is still immense and growing. Although we are not in office yet, im just laying out what we expect to do and hope can be done, some of it, between now and the time we are sworn in. The purpose of this is to let you know what we are going to do once i am in. There is a need for bold action to fight this pandemic. We are still facing a very dark winter. Nearly 10 million covid cases in the united states. Last week, topped 120,000 new cases on multiple successive days. Infection rates are going up. Hospitalizations are going up. Deaths
The votes are being counted in North Carolina where senator thom tillis leads cal cunningham. A lot of ballots still need to be counted in alaska where senator dan sullivan faces incumbent al gross. We will continue to bring you results here on cspan. Toas the Senate Returns begin the lameduck session of chiefss, we are joined by Congressional Correspondent for the Washington Examiner susan ferruccio. Good morning. Lets leap ahead. Lets leap ahead to january and the two runoff races in georgia, the race against the incumbent senator david perdue any other race with senator Kelly Loeffler. Have we ever seen to Senate Runoff races in any state before . Guest not my history of covering congress. Its really unusual. Its also unusual in georgia that the race has ended up in runoff territory. Georgia had been traditionally a very red state where republicans could usually count on an easy win in the statewide races. That was the last few election cycles. There has been a shift in the electora
Our country and one of the oldest constitutions in our country. We all know philadelphia is the birthplace of the country and that is where the declaration of independence was written and that is where the constitution was written. Its very, very important battleground states and the democrats wanted to make sure that in 2020 it came out for biden because in 2016 it came out for trump. What am i talking about . You hear this phrase is systemic fraud and there is no evidence of a systemic broad and you see reporters interviewing officials of various State Government saying there is no fraud whatsoever. Let me ask you a question. Fourteen months ago in the state of pennsylvania if you had voted by mail in ballot it would have been discarded. If that mail in ballot have been counted that would have been fraught. Fourteen ago in the state of pennsylvania if you sent in a ballot without a signature that ballot would be discarded. If it was counted, that would be criminal fraud. Fourteen mon
Or will democrats get it back . It is within your hands. Tonight the results of two high profile Senate Runoffs, democrats jon ossoff and warnock want to build on the obama victory. Georgia voters sent donald trump packing. Republican incumbents david perdue and Kelly Loeffler seeking to hold on to their seats after President Trump lost georgia and reelection. We are going to show america this is a red state. Were the last line of defense. Will the outgoing president help or hurt his party by denying his own defeat . We will never give in. We will never give up. Georgia certainly wasnt going to stand by and let donald trump toss out your votes. This is cnns coverage of Election Night in america continued. The balance of power. The biden agenda and the big stakes for the gop. Everything that weve achieved together is on the line. This is it, a new day for georgia and for america. The people are choosing. The nation is watching and anything is possible until the last vote. These are live
48 democrats. Two of them independents. They caucus with the democrats. If the democrats win both of the Senate Runoff seats in the georgia right now it will be 50 50. The incoming Vice President Kamala Harris is the president of the senate. The democrats will have the majority. Thats why the democrats need to pick up two seats. Both of these seats in georgia tonight in order to be the majority in the u. S. Senate. We shall find out fairly soon. Tell us what youre seeing right now. Reporter we have really fascinating exit poll results now that the polls have closed, wolf. We can take a look at how some of the voters are splitting between the candidates. Look at voters of color. Voters of color made up about 38 of the electorate. Jon ossoff is winning 84 of them. That is a slight increase from what he did in november. He won 78 of voters of color back in november. They were about the same slice of the electorate, so this is a really good sign for ossoff, perdue at 16 with voters of colo