Tallying of votes still ongoing trump is threatening to go to the Supremes Court to stop the counting biden says every vote must be respected. And another news ethiopias Prime Minister declares a state of emergency in the region following a deadly attack on a military base. Im joining us roscoe with sports argentina football hero Diego Maradona has had Successful Surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. All the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has so far secured enough Electoral College votes to win but that hasnt stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes that a still uncounted donald trump past threatened to go to the Supreme Court something that bidens team is saying they are ready to challenge the whole. Total vote count could still take several days while we have a team of reporters for you again the south Jamal Allison bidens home state that i am and alan fisheye is in washington d. C. For us but fast often jordan takes a look back at how these last few hours have unfolded. Shortly after 2 am on wednesday President Donald Trump told his supporters and the nation that democrats were trying to steal his election day victory and trump said he was suing to hold on to the oval office so well be going to the u. S. Supreme court we want all voting to stand but with the vote count still unfinished in at least 10 states trumps claim a victory was dubious earlier in the night trumps democratic rival joe biden urged his supporters to as he put it keep the faith i heard tell your night we believe were on track to win this election. We will because of the odd pressure down early voting a mail in vote is going to take a while were going to have to be patient until way on the hard work of tally of votes is finished its long been Standard Practice in u. S. Elections to count all the ballots no matter how many days it takes this year the delay is considerable given the more than 100000000 ballots being cast weeks ahead of time as well as the millions of votes cast on election day swing states such as michigan and georgia announced late on tuesday that they would resume counting on wednesday morning and at least one swing state pennsylvania said it might not be done until friday that states governor pushed back against President Donald Trumps accusations that counting ballots after election day is illegal we may not know the results today as a result but i encourage all. All of us to take a deep breath in and saying just be patient which most important that we hear is that we have accurate results and that every vote is counted even if it takes a little longer for news organizations had biden ahead with more than 200 Electoral College votes but the winning candidate needs 270 to be declared the winner is that likely wont happen before wednesday at the earliest roselyn jordan aljazeera. Santa maria has a breakdown of all the numbers so far this is the state of the race 238 to joe biden 213 to donald trump its very tight its very close and even though clearly joe biden has a lead and is closer to 70 than his rival there are paths for both candidates at this point because there are 5 states left and were going to run you through them all too close to call at this stage 10 Electoral College votes in wisconsin part of the socalled blue belts of course which donald trump picked up 4 years ago that includes pennsylvania 20 Electoral College votes which would be vital for either candidate to pick up the presidency at the end of well whichever date ends up being were also looking at michigan in that part of the country with its 16 Electoral College votes completing the blue belt there important probably more for joe biden at this stage than it is for donald trump there are 2 other states to think about and that is North Carolina with 15 Electoral College votes and also the state of georgia. With that 16 votes Southern States donald trump would be eyeing those ones up to try to get him over the line with some extra pick ups along the way that might include nevada with 6 Electoral College votes which we would expect to go blue but then you can always expect the unexpected county so a final look at the state of the race 2382213 those states in yellow the ones that lifts the swing states the battleground states the states which will ultimately decide this 2020 election thats now speak to alan fischer who is in washington d. C. For us and just outside the white house allan no blue way that Many Democrats were hoping for but as come all the same there still a number of paths potentially to victory one well a number of which could include wisconsin which could get cold at any moment. Exactly i mean ive been in communication with someone whos closely connected to the Biden Campaign there are no having a bad day by any means they still see a path to 270 and wisconsin is certainly part of that weve also had from michigan in the last hour they have started some of the absentee ballots were talking about hundreds of thousands of votes thats important because 1st of all the absentee ballots the mail in vote tend to favor the democrats the 2nd thing is that they come from a lot of democratic areas so were not saying all those votes will be democratic but they would tend to favor joe biden so if you get wisconsin and michigan. Arizona to that which looks possible and probably likely divided that and buying joe biden is almost 270. 00 he doesnt need to win pennsylvania as much as he would like to and he doesnt win to need to win North Carolina so if he takes the great lakes states hes almost but theres still a lot of work to be done before we get there we were saying 24 hours ago the results come on Election Night and people accepted that and then got very excited by saying why is there no result on Election Night this is going to take a couple of days to sort out the concern of course for the democrats at the moment is that donald trump me go to the Supreme Court you dont automatically go to the Supreme Court youve got to go to the lower courts 1st the Supreme Court then decides to hear your case donald trump has outlined what his case would actually be illegal to continue. After the election day he might try and disqualify a few ballots in some key states like this a couple of weeks ago saying that he might well go to the court to challenge the result thats why he said he would like to have 9 justices on the Supreme Court why he. Nomination to the Supreme Court but theres no guarantee that the Supreme Court would. I think we rule with donald trump so everyone across the United States and from what i gather from my twitter feed as well everyone of course the world just needs to take a breath this is going to work its way through the system and it will be done maybe in a couple of days but we could actually get results that make joe biden the president by the end of the day he could lose 2 states and that means donald trump retains the white house things could become clearer in the next couple of hours everyone just. Breath indeed alan fischer there for us in washington d. C. Thanks so much allan i want to dig now into some of the legal questions here with amy pope she is a former u. S. Deputy Homeland Security adviser to president obama shes now a partner at the international fam sellings in london and she joins us from there now amy i do want to start with the obvious question which i think is really important for us to understand can President Trump stop the vote counting no i mean is the basic answer he can raise all sorts of litigation but he has to have a valid basis for doing so in order to get his claim heard and counting votes after the election day is not one of those you do have to cast your vote on election day that has been litigated but the basis for it to stop the counting thats just not really credible so i mean if he did want to go ahead with some sort of legal challenge can you talk us through what the process might be here and and some potential legal grounds if he did try to push ahead. There are there are actually pending lawsuits around many many of the issues any one of which could proceed for example there are questions about whether its appropriate to continue to count votes at 3 if they arrive after election day that was litigated through the Supreme Court they were allowed to go forward but there were some basis that the judges basically reserved judgment on some issues so that could be litigated likewise the manner in which people voted there you probably saw there was a lot of press around drive through voting in texas i would expect other kinds of challenges around anything thats a bit nontraditional whether those succeed its fairly unlikely in general the courts will want to make sure that people can vote. Ready. I mean i do want to take up the question of pennsylvania i believe that we have lost amy we will try to get have back now and very shortly later on in the show but for now lets speak to jim he isnt delaware station in wilmington jamal there must be great disappointment there after what all the polls had seemed to promise. Well disappointment here because they were hoping for maybe a much more favorable turnout however its not bunya and as we heard from the democratic candidate joe biden when he addressed Party Supporters and the media late last night he Still Believes there is a path for him to ultimately end up at the white house and what the focus is on now are on those 3 main states which they always said from the beginning were going to essentially make or break bidens campaign in wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania michigan coming into the early hours donald trump had a 1. 3. 2 percent lead thats been reduced to less than half a percentage point now and when you look at where the votes are going to be counted from particularly in kind of cosmopolitan areas the detroit area there is an expectancy there were a hopefulness that by then well actually overtake trump there wisconsin is another place obviously and that would bring it down to the much contentious state of. Pennsylvania but at the same time aside from that its a small disappointment or a more maybe sizable disappointment that they havent got that blue wave that they said was going to sweep across the United States there is some sort of anger and frustration at the comments that have come out from the president there was a statement that was put out by bidens ahead of the campaign and he said that. They believe they were out rather they were outraged at what trump said and they believe that this was an effort to centrally strip the American People of their democratic rights and this is something that has been a consistent message coming out from here that trumps policies over the past 4 years have eroded american democracy and now what hes trying to do by preventing votes counted by preventing everybody from having their say is a naked attempt and thats the exact words that they use to essentially get rid of the democratic rights of millions of americans when youre looking at such a high turnout one of the ngos here said that more than 160000000 americans voted that might not be the highest turnout when you look at elections elsewhere but its definitely higher than 2060 and it shows that there is a significant increase in the amount of Voter Participation in terms of political kind of participation among support relation amat is why the democrats are saying that must be respected every vote must be counted and its not over until that happens. That for us on the ground and bidens home state of delaware thanks so much tomorrow well i do want to pick up on some of what jamal is saying without guess refinished get any any there are already questions now being raised about the extension of that vote count pennsylvania it was already agreed and thats a state that as tamala saying could determine this election where is that process. So right now the state is allowed to count the votes that are coming in after election day and thats one of the reasons why we havent yet seen an outcome if pennsylvania goes for either candidate it significantly increases the likelihood that theyll win what i and to supply though is that if it really comes down to just this one state and that is the tiebreaker then we will see increased litigation from both sides to make sure that the votes that they think should or should not be counted or are allowed to come into play well the latest Supreme Court justice any kind about has always throughout her whole confirmation process has tried to be very explicit about her independence from the white house do you think if this does become Supreme Court math of do you have faith that she will maintain objectivity. I really have the most faith in the chief justice who was rip appointed by a republican but he has really put a lot of emphasis on the importance of the judiciary maintaining its independence and i think thats absolutely critical here and hell want to demonstrate that the Supreme Court operates independently from the president so thats really where i think the emphasis will come from. Arent a lot of bases to invalidate an election despite the fact that many many people are going to try its really about protecting the right to vote in the 1st place that such a critical part of it because they need legitimacy of a an election really comes down to Public Perception right how did it how much do you think all of this drama has eaten away at the credibility of this poll in the eyes of voters themselves. I think that is President Trumps intent here he wants to undermine the credibility of the election and hes been doing it really for months now when the polls started to show that his support was slipping he started to suggest that the election might not be fairly decided i think thats a strategy that hes fairly deliberately employing as a way to undermine an outcome that is not in his favor any pope there the former u. S. Deputy Homeland Security adviser to president obama and also a lawyer hes given us some great analysis here thanks so much anything joining us on out of their pleasure one of the states that joe biden has won is california it has the largest number of Electoral College votes with 55 has more from los angeles on by than success on the west coast today. Arizona became one of the bright spots in the Biden Campaign and for democrats in general when they were able to flip it from the republican column to the democratic column a states 11 electoral votes will go to joe biden and arizona voters also elected a new democratic senator ousting the incumbent republican otherwise however the high hopes by the democrats to flip the state of texas for example came to naught and as of our latest tabulation of results from the state of the vada joe bidens lead there has been shrinking. Americans who have endured sometimes a rancorous and bitter and confusing campaign full of heated rhetoric and. Sometimes difficult debates and other events in the midst of a terrible coronavirus pandemic will now be waking up throughout the land to find their the boy house really in a state of limbo without any clear winner until more of the votes can be counted another state with a lawn chair of Electoral College votes is texas how does a cast of his and she stand where President Donald Trump has been declared the winner. Well thats no surprise here that President Trump one texas however his margin of victory at just 6 percent as nearly all of the votes have been counted that is a surprise because it confirms that texas for the 1st time in a long time is a competitive state for democrats that margin of victory is smaller than any other president republican president ial candidate in texas in modern history and you can see that that translated to tension on the ground here as both parties fought for every vote now the question is whether or not trump most fervent supporters who are the ones that delivered him this texas victory who reside in the rural countryside of texas where some townies have gone for trump and more than 90 percent margins of victory for the president is how they will react to the president s latest statements from the white house in his premature Death Corporation a victory and indicating that he would contest the election result that is not in his favor some of these most rural parts of texas are home to right wing militias and thats thats had authorities in texas city is preparing for civil unrest in the morning when voters here in texas wake up to the news to hear their president s comments certainly there has already been tension on the ground in the last week of campaigning where we saw Trump Supporters surrounding a band Biden Campaign bus nearly forcing it off the road and there certainly been verbal altercation between supporters of biden and from outside of polling locations so it still remains to