Votes shy of victory. Votes are still being tallied Spectrum Campaign is already demanding a recount and one crucial battleground states. And in other news ethiopias Prime Minister or his troops into the 2 brain regions on an attack on a military base. And its 4 hours into the football hero Diego Maradona has Successful Surgery to remove a lot of calls from his brain. Just gone 800. 00 g. M. T. Thats 1 pm in the eastern United States and there is still uncertainty about who the next president will be the country is awaiting for a few key results with 43. 00 states counted results a neck and neck that leaves 7 states to decide the direction of the country and most could go either way while other states paused for the night counting continued in wisconsin we are expecting to have that result soon in the last few minutes the trunk Campaign Says it will request a recount there. And we have correspondents across the United States the seller john hendren is in lansing in the battleground state of michigan we have hired your castro following developments from houston in texas we have an gallica for us in Miami Florida tonight shall is fine developments in bidens home state of delaware but let us start with alan fisher who is covering all of this from washington d. C. Alan lets start with that demand for a recount in wisconsin just explain that to us is there a margin within which you know each side becomes eligible to request the required tool does it have to provide some sort of justification i mean how does it all work. Well wisconsin confirmed in the last so that theyve counted all the ballots and joe biden had a lead of around 20000. 00 votes thats within the one percent margin of error therefore the Trump Campaign absolutely within their rights to demand a recount and thats exactly what theyve done so they may not be that the whole state has to recurrent it may just be certain counties have to recount but they will go back through every single those ballots that are earmarked and hopefully well get a result at some point today possibly to morrow if you add into the fact that georgia see that they wont be completed counting their ballots until friday its possible michigan might be in the same position but certainly pennsylvania im not predicting that theyll have the result of before friday either this election is very much up in the balance but people shouldnt panic if you remember 24 hours ago we were talking about the election saying we wont have a result on Election Night and then the results start to come out and people start to get very panicky it still hasnt changed were not going to get a result until possibly friday what weve heard from donald trump in the last couple of hours is a few tweets he says that the Biden Campaign is desperately trying to find half a 1000000 votes to close the gap in pennsylvania that is roughly the figure that they are behind at the moment but. Without any real evidence that they are trying to stuff theyre trying to invent these ballots and theres absolutely no suggestion from any other party that this is happening is also retreated someone who said that in one county in michigan they suddenly found votes that 128 percent were all voting for d Joe Biden Donald trump quickly tweeted that the person who tweeted that originally i said they misread the figures as were drawn that tweet and deleted that donald trump hasnt changed his tweet saying that this is a problem as well so were going to get this over the next 23. 00 days theres going to be cant claim and counterclaim but lets just see that the secretaries of state and each of the states where theyre currently still counting have made the pledge that every legally cast vote will be counted and that includes all the mail in ballots as well that includes all of those who currently serving overseas that sent their ballots to the new roughly what the numbers are so theyll have an idea of what they should be expecting back and weve also got a judge in washington d. C. Telling the department of justice that he expects a senior figure from the United StatesPostal Service to be in his court at 130 this afternoon that follows his order yesterday that there has to be a sweep through all mail facilities for ballots that havent yet been delivered the post office on thursday on tuesday said that they were going to ignore that court order this is a court order you dont get to ignore them so that is why the judge has said i want someone from the Postal Service here in about 30 minutes time and he will order them they think theyre somewhere in the region of 330000 ballots that havent been delivered that need to be delivered to make sure that those are all sort counted essentially what were seeing is organized chaos both parties trying to make capital out of it and donald trump tweeting out saying that he thinks the election has been stolen nothing new there. Of course has made that claim several times in the last few weeks he said he wouldnt claim victory until it was absolutely certain but nearly 0 as of Tuesday Morning he did exactly that it was referred to me by someone who is a Democratic Political operative of essentially claiming victory in a football much 60 minutes. And you suddenly see that weve won the game theres still a long way to go. Ok thank you for that alan fischer live for us in washington d. C. Lets move on were going now to get the view from delaware bidens home state. And whelming 10 jamal game the south for us as it stands if biden takes wisconsin as we know the republicans want to recount but if he takes wisconsin he gets to up 248270 is the magic number so talk us through how that might play out what combinations could he get to get to that magic to 70 number. Well this a couple ways he can do its the probably the swiftest the best way would be him getting michigan pennsylvania as well that would probably keep him there roundabouts in terms of the numbers but pennsylvania although be the most comfortable route to the white house for the biden camp it isnt the only one there is still several other states in play 6 others including georgia which the biden camp are expecting to do well in as well when we look at michigan and i know were going to head over to our colleagues there theyll break it down for you better but they are confident that theyll be doing well there the democrats as well the sense amongst the few of the Party Operatives and officials and supporters here in bidens hometown is that they are fairly confident that they will eventually have their candidates announced victor however they are stressing that the democratic process needs to be respected and above all it needs through an order for it to be respected in needs to run its due course whats made this election so much more complicated will not necessarily more complicated but drawn out longer is that because of cold because of the high turnout theres been a lot more people who either voted early because they didnt want to go and queue up in the polling stations or decided to vote by ballot that is something that maybe the United States has realized doesnt necessarily have the best infrastructure to count as quickly and as swiftly as those would like would have liked having said that bidens. Had a chief of the camp of the Biden Campaign jen or molly came out and she spoke very clearly about where they view their they will be getting their votes from theyve also kind of juxtaposed the language coming from their camp with that of the trump camp has been one about. Doubting the electoral process of talking about forgery or talking about cheating or talking about magic ballot ballots that are either appearing disappearing depending on which treats you look at many of these treats have been flagged up whereas biden here has been quite consistent in saying that what is taking place here is an attack on american democracy by trying to stop the counting of votes saying that everybody who has cost that of all it deserves the right to have that voice heard regardless of who they voted have voted for and therefore as we heard from him late on tuesday night into the early hours of wednesday morning people to be patient and i guess thats what theyre doing right now ok thank you for that jamal in wilmington. On the battleground state of michigan joe biden has a raise if in the trump but there are still lots of early and mail in ballots which have not yet been counted in secretary of state has said she expects a very clear picture by wednesday night john hindraf is live for us and the capital lansing ok john all eyes then on michigan less than one percentage point in it last time i looked it walk me through this what we threw michigan it was trump smallest margin of victory in 26 states. Thats right this is not unusual for michigan last time around Hillary Clinton lost this state to john and trump bites 10000 votes it was ciro point 2 Percentage Points is actually less than we are currently seeing in the vote count and bad stuck in the end the votes that we believe are yet to be counted are early votes they are mail in votes they are votes in each case those 2 more by the margin could actually expand from where it is we dont actually know that for certain but that is is what we are given to understand so the margin is likely to stick here but as in other states as in Wisconsin Badgers state where the margin is slim is well. Were going to were just going to have to wait for those counts to take place in wisconsin the places where the vote was yet to be counted where the urban areas particularly milwaukee which was counted last so what were seeing is at the end. People here the secretary of state in michigan says there are about 100000 votes yet to be counted is it possible that that could make a difference yes but is it likely no its not so the trumpet ministration is doing what it ministration to do when they get this close this is become such a common thing in american elections but here in michigan its not unusual at all for these elections to get this close interestingly comolli harris the Vice President ial candidate on the democratic ticket came here on election day to detroit to try to drum out the vote possibly one reason was that they werent seeing the kind of turnout in detroit that they really wanted to see but in the end it was in those urban areas in detroit in flint where people turned out for the democratic nominee joe biden in fact in flint there was an issue with robo calls telling people that because the lines were long they could vote on wednesday not true the f. B. I. Was looking into that but that is how bad this election has gotten and it is likely to be possibly the end of the day before we hear the secretary of state announce exactly what the tally is here in michigan but given the trump administrations opposition to Trump Campaigns opposition we expect this could actually go on for days. Ok thank you for that john hendren live from michigans financing. Lets take a look at the state of play as it is right now joe biden has 238 Electoral College votes well donald trump has 213 the magic number of course is to 70 here in yellow you will see the states that are still in play georgia and North Carolina in the south nevada in the west and the 3 midwestern states of pennsylvania wisconsin and michigan the last 3 known as blue wool states were narrowly carried by trying to 2016 securing him the presidency. Well lets go now to how to do castro she is live for us in texas. First before we talk about texas talk about our a zona arizonas been called for by the perhaps the biggest went to but in so far. Thats right this is a. Not one that bidens camp had been counting on as of course they of course had been hopeful but what this represents for the state of arizona is a sea change in its Political Landscape not only as a blue in supporting the democratic candidate joe biden but now also it will be represented by 2 Democratic Senators and that hasnt happened in arizona in close to 70 years and this is a significant take for joe biden because arizona with. Electoral College Votes significantly eases bidens pathway toward victory and its whats surprising though is also who turned out in support of biden we knew that demographers had already predicted the latino vote with these strong in favor of biden guessed indeed that happened but the surprising part is that voters over age 65 also preferred joe biden over President Trump now we skip over to where i am now the state of texas the big question is when and if the state of texas with its robot 38 Electoral College votes will one day perhaps in the near future be the next arizona because those same demographic forces of more immigrant voters more latino is where young voters and the growing suburbs that we saw at play in arizona this year well those things are happening here in texas as well and we saw a reflection of that in the results in from texas yesterday yes donald trump was declared the winner here but by only 6 points and that is significant in that the republican president ial candidate would normally take tests as by double digits. So political analysts are watching this and saying that it is only a matter of time before texas becomes the next biggest political battleground. Ok lets talk a little bit more about texas as you say predictably went to trump but that mob jhon is becoming smaller and smaller that is obviously going to be worrying the republicans as they look forward to the future of the republican policy tell me a little bit more about the changes that are happening in that state that is going to disappoint. Sure it is this urban and rural divide that course weve talked about my colleagues in other states have talked about throughout these days and what were seeing is that the urban the trouble is of texas are growing in population and very importantly the suburbs surrounding them as well and from the results from texas counties last night we saw some surprises in that some of these suburbs that had a long lean conservative flipped for the 1st time in support of joe biden so its these suburban voters its also 1st time voters more immigrants becoming citizens voting for the 1st time and more of the young voters and these are groups that all tend to favor democrats why do trump in the end take this state well its because he still has that firewall of rural white voters in texas who dependably turnout for him and they were enthusiastic this year despite record breaking turnout in the cities of texas we also saw that enthusiasm match in number and obviously superseded in number in the vast Rural Regions in the towns of texas which ultimately is why President Trump is taking texas and its 38. 00 Electoral College votes had he not won texas we would even be here right now talking about the possibly contested Election Results because this is such a largely populated state with so many Electoral College votes at stake and why it will be such a significant prize in elections to come. Ok thank you so much for that how does your castro live for us in Houston Texas lets now go to florida. There for us he is in miami and so miami has a Diverse Community intros a High Percentage of elderly hispanic and africanamerican voters joe biden obviously wanted florida he wanted those voters but he didnt get them. Yeah i mean what happened in Miami Dade County is the real story of bidens loss here he should have done well among latino and hispanic voters he really did not he got nowhere near the figures that clinton managed back in 2016 and theres a good reason for that President Trumps campaign really pushed this idea the biden was at the head of some kind of socialist movement that is something that really has people who are latino here whove come from places like cuba extremely afraid to remember theres a 1000000 cuban americans in miami alone who are the majority we expected to vote for president now clearly this is the biggest battleground state it went to trump by about 350000 votes he increased the lead by about 3 times over what he won clinton in 2016 so theres a real lesson for the Biden Campaign when they came here and joe biden only came to this state 4 times versus President Trumps 14 times he wasnt really focused on the latino vote that extremely important demographic in this state he more focused on the africanamerican vote with souls to the polls president barack obama came in did the same thing so i think they will be kicking themselves really put not capturing that latino vote in Miami Dade County which is traditionally a very very blue county miami just a few months ago was seat is the the u. S. At the center of the coronavirus pandemic we know that joe biden has its work todd you know to really take a at the trump administrations dealing with the coronavirus pandemic but obviously that didnt hit home. It didnt it home if you look at that particular demographic we were just talking about because the fear of socialism is bigger than the fear of the code 19 virus i mean at the peak here back in july we had one day with 25000 new cases it steadily started dropping again and now its steadily starting to rise again 16000 people in this state died the number of cases and the Positivity Rate all once again going up and if you t