Narrow vote to advance the nomination this afternoon. Live coverage when centers return on cspan2. House Democratic Caucus leaders talked to reporters about their goals during the current lameduck session in preparation for the next congress in january. Good morning everyone, thank you for your patience. Good to be back here in the United States capital. Weve had our first caucus meeting this morning, we did it virtually. Subsequent to the november elections, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them and the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north, south, east and west and other incredibly diverse plans that we have to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before, more africanamericans, more latinos, or asian americans, more members of the lgbt q community, to muslim americans. Women, two native american women serving in congress for the first time in history and our
Tonight, we will get the majority of the results. At the white house, President Trump and Vice President pence are hosting 400 supporters. The president is expected to talk later tonight. At the chase center in wilmington, delaware, a party for the biden harris ticket. The former Vice President is at home with his wife jill. They have been joined by senator , harris and her husband. The che center is where they spoke at the conclusion of the Democratic National attention. Thank you for joining us. We will be here all night with and concessiony speeches and most importantly, your voices. We want to hear from you about this election cycle, about your experience voting. The issues that are important. Here is how you can participate in our program. 202 is our area code. 748 if you are supporting vice there is biden, another number. If you are supporting a thirdparty, did not vote, or neither candidate appealed to you and you did not vote for either one, here is the number for you to call.
And here to help us with that throughout the morning is john. Good morning, pedro, viewers should know were going to be using the Associated Press numbers for calls and results. So viewers may hear about different numbers being reported but were always going to be coming back to the Associated Press numbers. So lets start off with where the president ial contest stands this morning. The key state of wisconsin there on your screen, a state thats being watched closely this morning, its 49. 4 for joe biden, President Trump, 49. 1 . That number has been flipping back and forth throughout the day. That is just one of six key states were watching this morning. The other one, michigan this morning in the wolverine state. The numbers in michigan, President Trump 49. 8 , joe iden, 48. 6 . And then the third state in the Northern Industrial midwest area , once known as the blue wall for democrats. That blue wall that President Donald Trump broke through, pennsylvania, the other key state, 55. 7
A lot comes to mind on a night like tonight. But first and foremost is gratitude. Grateful to live in a democratic republic, where the People Choose our representatives. Grateful to be citizens of the greatest nation in history. Humbled and, i am grateful that you have rehired me to keep fighting for your families and serving our commonwealth for the next six years. You know, the great hero, henry clay, said, the greatest of all human powers is competition. The competition of ideas is crucial in a free society. He stood up for our views and one a lot of votes her views and won a lot of votes. I want to thank the team that worked so hard with kentucky to make our case. Especially josh holmes, my on all things , forical, kevin golden running this campaign, and Terry Carmack has been with me since , mostly answering the question, mitch, who . Most of all, i need to think my best friend and thank my best friend and partner. Elayne is essentially accomplished as a leader and a public servan