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To joe bidens home state in delaware as well as texas illinois florida and california weve got you covered still stay with us over the next 9 hours special coverage of this pivotal election and we begin in the heart of the u. S. Capitol with kimberly honk at our white house correspondents. Paul a he came to washington to be a disruptor and donald trump did just that the question now will donald trump win reelection or will he go down in history as a one term president what we know is that 15 states participate in the u. S. Election but this year like so many years we know that this will really be decided by a bloc of battleground states that will ultimately decide whether donald trump spends another term in the oval office or will his challenger joe biden become president elect kimberly how can it at the white house the view now from the biden camp mike hanna is in joe bidens home state of delaware. The woman is the city that joe biden tend to as an 11 year old and one that used cold home full malt then 6 decades hes run for president twice before in 88 and in 2008 will this be 3rd time lucky. Mike hanna in wilmington delaware so those are some of the correspondents who we who will be with us in the United States ill be here in doha and here for the duration and house number cruncher back for a 4th u. S. Election but listen i think its going to be very different though it feels different already i hope youre comfortable i think were in for the long haul folly thank you hello everyone great to be with you for this as well this is a special 9 us election coverage we do it every 4 years it is no less exciting or challenging each time right now less than 2 hours away from the 1st polls closing which is when me and my team will swing into action it is in case you needed reminding the big showdown between donald trump and joe biden trump the republican incumbent seeking a 2nd term by then the democratic challenger in his 3rd shot at the presidency so what i want to do right now is take you through some of the types of the graphics and the terminology what youre going to see and hear from us so when things get busy later on it will all make sense this is the main board 1st of all we call it the state of the race right now the tallies all set at 0 all ready for us to start adding our projected win is in for each state and each candidate as always the magic number is up in the middle in greatest 270 the number of Electoral College votes needed to win the white house there are a total and thats what all these great stars represent 538. 00 up for grabs of course each state with a Different Number of Electoral College votes relative to its population i will explain all of that later we will also show you some more detail scorecards kind of like this one which will show you percentages of the popular votes which each candidate has won along with their Electoral College votes and the number of states they have won but of course not all states are created equal and these ones. The more important ones the swing states where the race will be decided again we will go into more detail later on but you can see a lot of the usual suspects there florida pennsylvania ohio iowa the likes of wisconsin up in the north of course which sent donald trump over the top 4 years ago and some new ones as well georgia texas would have seen those in previous years i bet one final point to remember is that these elections are of course happening at a time of a Global Pandemic so millions of americans have already cost their ballots counting those takes time so it is quite possible we may not know a projected winner on Election Night itself so i follow you i never know what you will over the world but its going to be a long night possibly a very long week yes and you will be here for their generation not leaving thank you now as we mentioned these elections are happening during a Global Health crisis on a scale we havent seen in 100 years daily infections are rising in 47 of the 50 us states and the death toll is higher than anywhere else in the world their response of the rival candidates and their plans to deal with a pandemic has been stokley different take a look at the virus theyre working hard looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away i hope thats true rob that is a tweet could somehow stop the crew of our wired news for donald trump like the rest of us this virus is not impressed by his tweets i think wearing a face mask as a great president s Prime Ministers dictator is kings queens somehow i dont see it for myself earned a mask is not a political statement its a scientific recommendation. Social distancing business political same its a scientific recommendation to see the disinfectant but not say that in a minute one minute it is a way we can do Something Like that. Injection. Or almost a cleaning as you say gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number of so be interesting to check i trust vaccines i trust scientists but i dont trust donald trump this moment the American People cant either im a mule and i could come down and so i just figure that. Every guy. That anyone is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of america so more than anything the race was defined by the pandemic to discuss this further lets welcome our 1st guest tonight jenelle king a republican analyst and cofounder of georgists speak and also with us that pramod democratic strategist former Democratic NationalParty Spokesman who served as barack obama spokesman welcome to you both thank you for being with us on Election Night joe now let me start with you more than 230000 dead over 9000000 people infected how is donald trump suddenly going to protect americans when he cant take the basic steps to protect himself. So 1st thank you for having me the president has done a tremendous job protecting america dr burke said it very beginning in this pandemic that if we saw our 200000 deaths which he clear one day is too many however its a virus so we knew that there will be casualties and dr bird said that we saw 200000. 00 it would be because we did everything perfectly right so i have around that same number in the. Show but efforts of our president but just last night sorry to interrupt you you mentioned dr burke said but just last night she contradicted the president actually went to get his strategy saying he needed to ramp up the strategy against a covert pandemic well you know i dont know how dr bird can can you know contradict a strategy bad she helped write she was a part of that way it was her strategy as well so shes also contradicting herself best when she said but i know what she said earlier on and based on that strategy and this is what it would be and so now hindsight is 20 twentieths a very easy to be critical after me look bad when you have a virus that was sprung on on on american on this world this nation and without any warning whatsoever and then you have a president who acted very swiftly by quote shutting down the borders as it relates to travel to china that was a huge step he was criticized for that cause enough and you know what he did that and he did it because he knew you had to protect the people here in america and im happy lets hear from dagshai now derek now says its very easy to be critical so how would joe biden approach this National Emergency that the u. S. Finds itself in. Yes a couple things one to think its not i think its its easy for to know to want to forget history because the history tells us that there was a pandemic playbook in place the time for ministration through that playbook out to the president wasnt honest and transparent the American People 3 key did not and still does not have a National Strategy to actually address the pandemic for he has not listened to his scientists so he has not was to dr prouty he has not listened to dr burkes he you know question science he questions facts despite him getting coated and so less than a month ago because he helmly that at the white houses supersport event hes continued to put his. Supporters at risk there are now 200 to your point probably theres no 200230000 americans that are dead because of the incompetence of this president there are now 9000000 americans who have contracted coat it because of the incompetence of this is ministration ok so thats idea that this just happened miraculously no damage or to your response so dad lets genoud to respond. Why did the president knowingly mislead americans about the threat of coronavirus its an important question to ask he did not mislead americans at all he was talking about the coronavirus nicaragua viruses being this but of anyway the flu he said he was just a little flu in the beginning didnt he. But you did not think just a little blue in the beginning that was not what you said at all when you said was we need to travel which we did the coronavirus has been in december but you know why it was no mean topic because the Democratic Party was trying to impeach the president over a russian hoax the bad why we didnt hear a lot about it on january minute back in the news on the day they told me why are bad what were your past the way it was ringback on 5 page news about the coronavirus ok well let me just its because the Democratic Party was too busy trying to use the president of the boat right so let me just ask you about the stimulus package derek how we could go on obviously about the strategy of each of the candidates and not agree on it millions of american derek are still waiting for congress to strike a stimulus deal that would provide additional relief and the republicans are saying theres no agreement because you know nancy pelosi and the democrats keep moving the goal post why why is that whats your response. Yes it was really interesting in look at the todays election day here in the u. S. Theres now 100000000 americans who voted early and i think youre seeing such a tremendous turnout because people recognize that the emperor has no clothes dont trump is not the master negotiator that he says he is he has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of americans because of his accomplice and so i think when it comes to the cinemas package the real question is you know why hasnt the president being been able to get his party to a place where they need to be supporting the working men and women of america and so what youre seeing right now is hundreds of millions of americans right now at least 100000000. 00 plus have said you know were going to make our voices heard and you know im im i would be very good if i were there who got my position if i were joe biden because of the president s failure to get a stimulus bill passed his failure to get this pandemic under control oh by the way you know we have now seen. Americans lose diction productions weve seen americans Lose Health Care protections ok weve seen americans lose. Derek said lets allow you now to have to respond to now your response what are we going to see if they miss package additional aid for americans. Well you know with all due respect i feel like there it sounds a little bit delusional i dont know what world or where hes been on this time the house and the control of his party but we want to get it to the senate so we can vote on it the house has passed it and even in the senate even in the senate when we presented our queen what we want to do is republicans hope the American People come out of this dark hole they were in as a release the pain that is endemic has and yet the president he did not cuckold it up in his backyard. That we have to pretend like he created this image but number 2 when it comes to the stimulus packages this in this package is should hell be only company in the slum business in america and it should not go towards illegal immigration or Illegal Immigrants it should go towards the Green New Deal not the other stuff the democrats want to pass inside and still in hiding disguise it as an help in relief for the American People that is what the Republican Party pushes back on helping you know finding a way to work well leave it there well leave it there guys we could go on obviously about the response to coronavirus and how it should be dealt with but ill be happy to speak to you a little later next hour about Race Relations and criminal justice in the u. S. And what the 2 camps strategy is a 2 Administration StrategyGoing Forward thank you for the moment. Now swing states key states battleground say words that get us all over and over in every us elections so in a country of 50 states why are just few of them so important to winning the white house come on santa maria is back to explain. In short swing states where elections are won and lost they call this because voters here can sway from one party to the other depending on the candidate and the gear and the outcomes on the tory asli hard to predict were going to look at the last 5 elections where these states for the most parts have reliably voted for either the republican or democratic candidate red or blue but not these ones here 12 of them which have tended to switch sides since 2000 including ohio which is always picked the winning candidate since 960. 00 thing is Donald Trumps presidency has been completely unpredictable and so this year weve got a slightly different map were looking at 11 potential swing states youve got your traditional battlegrounds of ohio North Carolina youve got the likes of wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania where donald trump broke the socalled blue wall and narrowly won against Hillary Clinton in 26 stay in minnesota as well voting democrat since 972 but trump came close there as well there are a couple of surprises in the south look at georgia and even texas republican strongholds for decades but democrats have managed to make some inroads here and you can add arizona as well another republican stronghold where trump managed to win with a very slim margin over Hillary Clinton and finally we have florida the most coveted prize of all of these states with 29. 00 Electoral College votes all together we are looking at 189. 00 electoral votes in these states more than half of what is needed to win the race to the white house. Check in with. Castro who is live in Houston Texas texas a traditional republican state but its now a neck and neck race between donald trump and joe biden their Electoral College votes up for grabs in texas heidi with each election it seems its moving closer to going democrats good thats actually turned low in 2020. Perhaps fully and you know ive covered many of these elections and taxes and i can say this is the 1st time that being on the ground here you sense that real tension between these parties as both realize that perhaps for the 1st time in more than 4 decades each vote who would challenge this is a state that hasnt supported a democratic president ial candidate for so long but in 2016 President Trump lead over Hillary Clinton here was 9 points which was much smaller than the double digit lead that republicans would normally get then we saw 2 years later in the senate race here the incumbent senator ted cruz winning over his democratic challenger by just 2 points and now polls show joe biden within 3 points of reaching President Trump now that has democrats on the ground in texas very excited and there has been huge turnout the vote drives and weve seen the voter turnout shatter records from the past in fact more people cast their ballots in early voting in texas than all of the votes in 2016 and he is where the high drive of voter turnout is happening and were seeing more of this happening in the cities and in the suburbs where we know that demographic changes with more latino voting for the 1st time in more of the youth vote those are changes that favor democrats Fort Bend County which is a suburb of houston case in point announcing already more than 70 percent voter turnout that simply unheard of in texas a state where typically 40 percent of eligible voters would cast a ballot for president theres also been allegations of Voter Suppression levied against Texas Republicans those notably yesterday we saw a lawsuit filed by Texas Republicans seeking to invalidate 127000 votes cast here in very democratic leaning Harris County their argument was that because the votes have a