Election but in some key states could it now delayed the final result and austria a country on high alert dozens of arrested in police raids after mondays attack in vienna. Hello thank you for joining us voting is underway across the United States in the most controversial and highly anticipated poll in recent years 100000000 people have cast their ballots early setting the stage for a record turnout there have been long lines at polling stations as voters try and stay safe amid the coronavirus pandemic doubletalk and joe biden meanwhile have been battling for every last vote with biden out in pennsylvania and trump in virginia speaking in arlington trump told reporters he will scald fit into a victory you know im not a concession speech your acceptance speech. Hopefully will be only for doing one of those 2 and you know. Winning is easy losing is never easy now for me its the. But i think we have when we rallies the likes of which in the history of this country probably in the history of the world no. Hes ever seen before. Theres a tremendous love going on in this country and theres really a tremendous unity theres a tremendous unity nobodys ever seen that we take an airport and the airports not big enough to hold the crowds nobodys ever seen a thing like that and our opposition has you know we have a few people sitting in circles and thats ok thats not abnormal thats not have normal actually i mean thats the way it is to live now filing fisher who joins us from washington d. C. Alan you saw the president there speak about 2 hours ago seeming almost enough called the flames its certainly very tired because this has been a Controversial Campaign an intense campaign and that exhausting campaign as well. Well the campaigns will start to get the stakes it palls theyll have their own polls coming to their headquarters to give them an idea of exactly how this race is going donald trump didnt sound overly confident didnt he was a step away from the very bullish donald trump that weve seen on the campaign trail over the last 3 days remember hes done 17 events in 3 days thats the kind of normal pace that you expect of a president ial campaign but this is been anything but a normal president ial Campaign Just the fact that hes saying we havent looked at a concession an acceptance speech as scriptwriters probably have and then not attacking the idea that he would be sending lawyers into every county and thats what he was saying in the campaign trail for the last couple of days and when asked if he would confirm and accept the result when he was on t. V. Today he said now we will declare victory if theres a victory to declare this isnt the time for games thats not the donald trump weve been listening to for the last couple of days but hes convinced that there are echoes of 2016 we had that in some of the speeches when he attacked his opponent as being part of a crime family of being incompetent of being in the pocket of china he said the same thing about Hillary Clinton but he believes that when he looks at the polls which also 4 years ago at this point gave Hillary Clinton the chance of winning in a member looking in those polls and thinking everyone every single one said that hillary was going to win then he thinks that theres a cause and that he will pull off an unlikely a victory certainly what were hearing from across the country is that this time now it is very high add that to that 100000000. 00 voters across the u. S. Have already voted early that would suggest that this is going to be a record turnout and normally that tends to favor the challenger rather the incumbent all donald trump also know is that his campaign has failed to articulate what the next 4 years will bring when asked that on several occasions he said. More of the same only better its hardly a message to inspire people but he believes that hes a better choice than Joe Biden Joe biden of course is older donald trump has accused him of not being fully in command of his senses and thinks that he will tank the economy one of the biggest insults that donald trump could fire 4 years ago that was that barack obama should have been a one term president that he was washed than Jimmy Carter Jimmy carter of course you remember lost after just one term in the white house to Ronald Reagan is something that donald trump wants to avoid he wants to avoid politically he wants to avoid it for legal reasons but also his ego just wouldnt accept the fact that after 4 years the American People said youre fired. Allen says she was the latest from washington to the moment alan thank you. Well speaking of joe biden making his last bed for philadelphias votes fight invalided to be a president who would unite the country. We have a normal for opportunity i want everybody to understand the public nationwide is bigger that i know youre going to drool over congress cars are taken from smart move. Career were going to grow but certainly were going to rebuild a middle class yes. Im all right. This country or you know you dont know. Our property. Or is a proud democrat if you elect me im going to hurt your prayers and im going to cover you know road states or blue states firstly youve heard specter. Joe biden speaking there a little earlier aloud. Joins us live now from wilmington delaware which is joe bidens home state so things like i mean i guess will biden said just say or in general how of bidens book claimants being going down in his home state generally whats the mood like there. Well theyve been receiving get very well messages of unity messages that this country can do better is something thats resonated with a lot of people particularly here in wilmington Delaware Delaware being a states that is very diverse in nature those recent remarks or the latest remarks that came from the contender joe biden also struck at the working class he remembered how it was for him growing up and spoke about his grandfather and father and it was trying to a message i was trying to reach maybe a section of society that donald trump had managed to reach 4 years ago and that had helped him into the white house so were looking at a few key messages that have been coming out from the democrats particularly in the past 24 hours the central the 1st and most pressing one was this that they were trying to canvass people to make them believe that what was at stake here wasnt just a simple choice that comes around every 4 years but what was at stake was the quare of americas identity namely its democracy number 2 was that the division that donald trump or that they believe donald trump and played on in terms of garnering and polarizing society so that he actually garnered support for him was actually something that was destructive and that he was positioning himself joe biden as somebody who was going to be a uniting force a number 3 now what were seeing is this constant underlying underlining of their policies or the attempt to try and recover the economy after the blow its taken or it continues to take because of coalwood but also because of what they see is a mismanagement by a president who essentially dismissed the virus in the beginning and since hasnt been able to grasp. This situation so those are the messages that have been coming out from the Democratic Candidates and his aides whats also. Porton to look out is as we heard there talking about sending his lawyers is out and was talking while the Democratic Party and joe biden also have very kind of war room set up where theyre fundraising to ensure that they have enough assets to contest also from a legal perspective if there are any of those contentious states that will go on to recounts or other issues so there is some sort of cautious optimism amongst them they feel theyre in a strong position but as the saying goes its not over until the fat lady sings i mean they see here or biden said earlier its not over until they cross not ribbon to cross the finish line so theyre waiting until the results come in and i guess at least when we start getting some results well get an idea of how much longer it could be protracted if it is john lets show you live with the latest from wilmington delaware which is of course joe bidens home state jim thank you. Now one of the key stories of this election is how many people have voted before election day itself and this could change how the results come in more than 100000000 people voted in person or by mail ahead of polling day a huge chunk of the total 136000000 who voted in any way back in 2016 that in some states those votes will already have been counted although the results will not be known until polls close in the other batch of states they will currently be counting them as election day polls are cast elsewhere they are stored and counted along with the ballots cast until polls close and in a small number of states counting of early votes can vary even within the state itself finally new york will not even count them until tomorrow adding to the time that it will take to get the full picture rob reynolds explains. Theres been a tremendous surge in mail in and absentee ballots cast in this election were going to see tens of millions of more americans vote by mail than have than any other former president ial or any election really this despite president Donald Trumps repeated false claims that mail in voting is rife with fraud no theres theres no evidence of widespread fraud the process catch is that the process is to bahrain to catch these sorts of issues percentage is about 0006 percent of all ballots cast 9 states plus the district of columbia send ballots automatically to all active registered voters in the rest voters may request absentee ballots despite fears that trump appointed postal officials were engineering a mail service slow down observers say delivery time has not so far been an issue weve actually been hearing good stories about very quick delivery when will all these ballots be counted well it depends on the state all across the spectrum of the United States you have a variation in the rules of which the voters need to abide by the way in which ballots are counted be be it the laws and policies and procedures or the type of the quitman that theyre using most states begin processing and preparing mail in ballots for tabulation well before november 3rd that means theyll get results quickly its just a handful of states that dont allow that processing to occur until election day or after but that handful includes the crucial swing states of wisconsin and pennsylvania ballot counting there could delay knowing who won if were down to the wire and its all contingent upon a couple of states we may not know the projected outcome and tell long after election day a couple of days maybe a week and as millions lined up for early voting armies of lawyers. From both sides are poised to dispute the results in the courts there have been more than 300. 00 lawsuits around Election Administration so far this year just days ago the Supreme Court ruled against republicans allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina to continue counting ballots after election day look im im a former Elections Official litigation can reach havoc in the election process specially in the middle of the conduct of the election there are many variables but the bottom line is have patience unless one of the candidates wins in a landslide americans and people around the world may have to wait a while before they learn who has been elected president of the United States robert oulds aljazeera los angeles. Peters is the executive director of the center for Information Technology and public life at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill she explains how the corona virus could contribute to a delay in the announcement of results i think the pandemic is absolutely changed how we vote and i believe that those changes change always creates some degree of uncertainty and i think Election Officials have been very careful to communicate how those changes are happening how theyre securing the vote and how theyre serving voters in this time unfortunately the fact that that uncertainty is still present allows bad actors to be able to for there so that uncertainty i think as an Elections Community weve been working really really hard to ensure that voters have faith in the system but yes were seeing challenges to that and people taking advantage of the novelty factor to try to undermine trust in our voting process. The rule in elections is everything varies based on what state youre talking about im here in North Carolina where the election boards have been counting mail ballots and been counting early votes as theyve come in and we expect to have results by tonight or tomorrow in michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania the rules are a bit different and we know that it may be a little while and so the answer as to when well really know the come of the election depends on which states it really comes down to and how close things are so we have to be prepared to be patient but we may also know quite a bit yet tonight. Well were watching all 50 states to discover the election result it often comes down to just a handful of them these 21. 00 which include wyoming and alabama are almost certain to support President Trump these 17 including california and new york are set to vote for the Democrat Joe Biden so that leaves these socalled swing states which will go either way and which the campaigns have focused their efforts on but some are more important than others and the election is the cited by the Electoral College 270 state votes given that either candidate is what it takes to become president now more populous states have more meeting places like florida with 29 pennsylvania with 20 michigan was 16 and wisconsin with 10 are crucial. Or for nearly 5 decades the Electoral College votes in the state of minnesota have gone to democratic president ial candidates in 2016 President Trump lost at the state by less than 45000 votes now its one of the battlegrounds that could determine the outcome of the election and the sugar name travel to minnesota to speak to voters. A patchwork of soybean and corn field stretches across the plain of Blue Earth County minnesota the campus of Minnesota State university is in manned kaito the seat of the county its attracted a Small Community of immigrants in 2012 the county voted for president barack obama in 2016 it pivoted to president donald trump. Is a somali immigrant hes the 1st person of color elected to the mancuso school board the democrat says the evolving demographics of the county are at the root of its political whiplash in 2016 that really gives. A lot of my. d or White Brothers and sisters a lot of anxiety that change of 4 generations there of lived in you know they feel a sense of belonging but of a ledge and the system so that being threatened. Was something that from exploited. A 20 minute drive away on the duncans and family farm there harvesting the last acres of corn sold to make ethanol and probusiness anti regulation mindset of the trumpet ministration i appreciate we dont like people telling us how or what. We theres a sense of freedom out here agriculture and hog production are the economic drivers of Blue Earth County the population is about 90 percent white according to u. S. Census data the counties biggest city bank cato is the site of the largest mass execution in American History in 86238 members of the dakota tribe or hong after the u. S. Dakota war trials when westerman is dakota and the director of the Humanities Department at the university we have to acknowledge. The injustices of the past. According to native news online the native american vote could be a factor in swing states such as minnesota there has been a Robust National get out the vote push thats one way that our voice can be heard is to vote and participate in the process and get in there and help make those changes the local say you wont see Many Campaign lawn signs or hear arguments about the election though they may disagree about politics what people value more is what binds them together as neighbors natasha going to name just 0 Blue Earth County minnesota. Offer more now lets go to john hendren hes live for us in chicago so just talk us through why states like where you are illinois and minnesota are so important. Absolutely 1st let me set the scene for you we are in Downtown Chicago beneath the train so you may hear that while were talking and you can see theyve been expecting long lines here all day right now theres a bit of a low but local chefs are handing out food to the people who are waiting in line and then inside this is a super site so this is one of the larger ones where people are coming in to chicago to vote theyve been doing this all day long and this is going on all throughout the u. S. Midwest why is this region so important because it used to be the democratic blue wall there was a line of states from pennsylvania theres are train from pennsylvania to minnesota and then in between the very key straights of my old michigan wisconsin all of them in play all of them he stepped minnesota were flipped by donald trump in 2016 at wisconsin in. Michigan by the way had not voted for a democrat for a republican for president since the 1980s so when donald trump flipped those states it was a shock to the system hilton to have to interrupt him there at his own handwriting in chicago its just that we have to go and listen to joe biden who is speaking with reporters now lets listen. I was overwhelmingly africanamerican but all