The next 30 minutes donald trump demands a recount and files lawsuits in key states as his path to victory narrows also the outcome of the election hinges on 4 states where mainly postal votes are now being tallied. And in other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation of tensions as ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops into tikrit province following an attack on a military base. Welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden is now just 6 Electoral College votes away from the u. S. Presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago by now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the west and georgia North Carolina in the south and theyre up in the north pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states over the votes being counted well lets look at georgia still extremely close race Donald Trumps initial lead has been steadily falling now its less than 40000. 00 votes and about 90000. 00 absentee ballots are still to be counted now were expecting more data in the coming hours but what might help joe biden most of the remaining votes there are from atlanta and its suburbs which generally lean toward. Wards the Democratic PartyNorth Carolina is another crucial state its one of several where trumps claimed victory but the result is still too close to call here mail in ballots postmarked by election day still accepted until november the 12th and were still waiting on pennsylvania the state where joe biden was born Donald Trumps lead is shrinking and the remaining male ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and their suburbs give biden a good chance to catch up or trump has filed a lawsuit here too and calling for an end to the counting of those mail in ballots on the 4 remaining states biden would only need to cling on to nevada to claim victory while nevada has 6 electoral votes which would take biden from 264 to the magic number of 270 and hes in a very narrow lead in that state well joe biden is urging his supporters to be patient insisting that hes on track for victory shortly well get the latest from our teams across the United States who are on the ground but 1st particle hain wraps up the days events former Vice President joe biden projecting confidence he will be the next president and he may have taken a step closer to press declaring hes won the state of wisconsin and michigan giving him more Electoral College votes and an easier path to that you 70 that will get him to the white house and now after a long night of county its clear that were when you know states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency im not here to that weve won but i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winners. 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President donald trump is demanding a recount in wisconsin after falling short by around 20000 votes even his most ardent supporters doubt that will change anything former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tweeting out a recount in 2016 trumps numbers went up by 131 and the counting continues in the states that will decide the election with state officials asking for patience give the Public Servants the opportunity to do their job and what i will tell you is that karen pennsylvania were going to follow the law and we will respect the will of the people and the crop her victory will be certified based on who got more votes the president is suing to stop the counting in some states his surrogates saying falsely that the election is being stolen to win for a republican to win here how many votes we have to be at 400000 is not enough with 80 plus percent counted i think theres only 14 percent of the vote to go if you think were stupid you think were fools the president is complaining on twitter theyre finding biden votes all over the place in pennsylvania wisconsin and michigan so bad for country to be clear theyre not finding ballots but counting ones that come in on time according to state laws. And there is a question about whether the Postal Service run by a trump loyalist interfered in getting ballots delivered on time define a federal judges order tuesday to do a sweep for ballots they refused potentially leaving hundreds of thousands not counted the one thing this election has clearly shown america is a nation divided it really does seem like people live in 2 different realities given like the news they consume and with a surround themselves with so i i not bad surprise that a lot of people decided to vote again for a president who has brought us to where we are with several cases winding their way through the courts as the votes are counted and america and the world waits to see who eked out a win in this fractured country patty calling out dizzy or what rob ruggles is standing by for us to discuss the volatile in a little while we also have a White House Correspondent kimberly how to get in washington d. C. But 1st lets cross over to mike hanna bidens home states of. The vote count isnt over when it hasnt even been declared yet the legal challenges are beginning and its trouble thats making the 1st move. Indeed yes but the biden camp is responding it sent out legal teams in various states to contest the trump applications and in many cases judges and courts in a number of states have rejected to what they required as a baseless attempts by the trumpet ministration and the Trump Campaign to interfere in the ongoing count down visor to joe biden one of his Legal Advisers describing the trunk Campaign Actions as baseless and as he put it stupid pointing out for example that the demands of the trunk campaign to stop the count in michigan would count against them as trump is leaving according to the lawyer in michigan so by ending the count biden would win in that particular state but there is one case that has got some traction the Trump Campaign had asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to be allowed to join a case against the pennsylvania secretary of state as a intervention as a petitioner now the Supreme Court has actually instructed the secretary of state in pennsylvania to respond to the trunk campaigns request by 10 pm thursday evening so the Supreme Court getting involved albeit in a limited way at this particular point but that is the only case in which weve seen the Trump Campaign gain traction in terms of its legal challenges in a number of areas mike hammer in wilmington delaware thanks for the update turn lets cross over to complete health at our White House Correspondent watching events unfold for from the white house obviously the trouble monitoring events across those crucial states that are still counting the votes but theyre also not accepting the results as they stand. Thats absolutely right and the challenge is is to really keep the momentum going were getting a sense that there is a growing realisation that this is starting to have a bit if anality to it given the fact that there are News Networks that are here in the United States beginning to call very close this race for joe biden and as we watch these totals many of the tribes supporters are getting increasingly discouraged but what i can tell you is that there are still those legal challenges that are in place and this is something that the Term Campaign according to the White House Press secretary kelly mcenaney they believe it is justified because there has been a history not just in michigan specifically detroit but also in philadelphia pennsylvania of corruption particularly when it does come to other races that are far less significant in terms of magnitude on the National Scale so they believe that while they have a lot of the evidence of ballot. Tampering if you will move this time around what they are suggesting is that they need to have more close scrutiny well see what happens in the coming hours for the moment kimberly thanks very much for the update. Me lets cross over to rob reynolds on the other side of the United States in los angeles a robot keeping a very close eye on 2 states lets begin with our reserve because a developing situation that were hearing about protests whats going on. Yeah thats right sale the some reports that we have become aware of that are somewhat disturbing about a relatively small but growing group of protesters many of them armed with weapons with guns who are gathering outside the Arizona State capitol in phoenix as well as the Maricopa County thats phoenix as well election. Operations center there demanding an end to the counting of the votes they shouted down a republican official who attempted to explain the vote counting process to the demonstrators and theres been a lot of shouting back and forth between demonstrators and other people on the scene no reports of any arrests of any violence or anything like that at the moment but its certainly something we would want to keep an eye on indeed and thats also talk about involved because this is states now that its tantalizingly exciting fold the biden comment because it could obviously confirm the president s a. Exactly you know you might think that with all the casinos and gambling institutions in the vodou that theyd be a lot better at counting things very quickly. The situation there is now that the that joe biden has a slight edge over donald trump its less than 8000. 00 votes about 0. 6 percent of the total the votes are coming from primarily from clark county that is the Population Center of the state and about it includes. Las vegas and other cities and it is a democratic stronghold these are mail in ballots that are being counted as as the night goes on the officials in that county say that they will release new information on thursday morning about what theyve discovered in terms of their counting the mail ballots are valid if they are postmarked by election day yesterday and they can be counted up until the 10th of november at stake here is 6 electoral votes which as you mentioned could be crucial for joe bidens. Attempts to reach the magic number of 270 that would win him the white house i think we might have to set them a few abacuses over that to nevada and help them with the count rob lets see what they say to that for the moment thank you. Victory in the swing state of wisconsin has given him 10 electoral votes sometimes campaign is demanding a recount and residents have taken to the streets the towns are going to report from the regional capital madison. Despite the comeback story of the Democratic Party here in the state of wisconsin grad a rally at the capitol and people here are saying theyre here because this isnt over theyre standing for democracy and they say they will not leave until every vote is counted in the United States it was a good day for democrats in the state of wisconsin bitin flipped the state by 20000 votes edge to head of trauma as absentee ballots were counted in the cities of milwaukee green bay and had no shot in 2016 troth one wisconsins 10 Electoral College votes by less than 23000 votes earning him the distinction of being the 1st republican president ial candidate to win in the state in more than 30 years that was clearly something the democrats did not want to have a repeat of it was a bruising loss for them so in the intervening years they dumped a lot of money into the state biden campaigned heavily here so did trump now the Trump Campaign manager has said they will ask for a recount here in wisconsin the manager said that without any evidence without citing any specific examples that there have been reports of voter irregularities in several counties in wisconsin he also said that quote public polling was a kind of Voter Suppression tactic wisconsin like many other states had legal challenges coming into election day with regard to absentee ballots the Supreme Court ruled that wisconsin could not continue to count absentee ballots through november 6th even if they were postmarked on election day and the reason the state had planned to do that was because of the pandemic because there have been real mail shortage are real mail delays in the state of wisconsin. And any of that as the state braces for a possible recount its worth noting that trump when he won the state in 2016 he won it by less than one percent. Who also been protests in new york april and sunday has the latest. Protests on the streets of new york city here in the heart of times square these people are protesting what they say is Voter Suppression in america against black people this is just one of multiple protests there were in new york city earlier in the evening thousands of people took to the streets in midtown they walked a more than 30 blocks and they were chanting count every ballot every vote counts they were people who really showed some anger that the election was even being called into question by the president and they said that they had to get out to the streets because they felt it was their civic duty to make their voices heard that the all the votes of everybody are counted call people into the streets call strikes call actually shut this place down im here because i want to join my voice to the thousands of the mandate that every vote be counted by luck its a democracy and everybody should happen boy im out here for all the people mailed in their ballots and are wondering whether theyre going to be counted we know new york is going. To swing states will be counted if drama has its way. And the only way to stop an attempt like the one trying to suggest that you would like to. Is by having lots of people out in the streets peacefully demanding our rights protesters here say theyre prepared to come back out to the streets in the coming days if every vote is not counted. Remind us of our latest developments surrounding the u. S. President ial elections democrats. Nominee joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house hes now with the state of michigan giving him 264 electoral votes just 6 shy of the 270 required earlier biden said he was confident of securing enough states to win the presidency but the top campaign has filed lawsuits to stop vote counting in michigan georgia and pennsylvania calling for a recount in wisconsin and its also looking to intervene in a Supreme Court case to stop pennsylvania counting votes up to 3 days after the election. And the count of absentee ballots continues in battleground states like pennsylvania georgia and arizona its a tight race in nevada where joe biden has a narrow the. This is how those results look on the map with wisconsin and michigan now blue states still in play or here in yellow georgia North Carolina nevada and pennsylvania joe biden just has 6 Electoral College votes away and needed for victory. Charles moore is a republican political strategist joins me now live via skype from washington d. C. Could have with us on the program 1st ask you how you react to these potential cases that the trump camp wants to bring to court to stop the postal vote count. Well we know that theres a lot of issues with the mail and voting procedures that were implemented as a result of the code 19 antimarket the problem is that in so many of these different circumstances all of the typical rules and all the regulations that are typically used to deal with mail and voting were not able to be implemented on such a wide level the Truck Campaign has correctly identified that in places like wisconsin and michigan that there are so many irregularities given whats gone on and that there are so many things that were not done appropriately that it is wise to go ahead and ask for that recount since there are so the margin is so tight between the 2 candidates in terms of a cutoff point the courts have a very difficult task or an easy task ahead of them will they abide by the letter of the law let me to be a bit of a leeway how do you see that working well what the republicans and President Trumps legal team are going to do is just simply say that the letter of the law and needs to be followed in our country every state has the ability to set its own rules and regulations on that type of leeway so President Trump is clear that every vote must count but its every legal vote must count and votes that are cast illegally should be counted and i think thats something that all sides can agree upon and that probably thats the genesis of the legal action the republicans and President Trump are going to take and it is the dumbos should cannot legally vote should and it is the definition isnt it of what it said the legal vote has to and that each state is very different in the way that they count a vote to or allow a vote to be legal whether it was post stamped on the 3rd of november and whether a ride on the 3rd of the event but after the 3rd of november thats the real issue isnt it. Well there are things like that but also the amount you look at other things how do you track whether or not somebody has done their mail in ballot and is actually walked into the polling place the day are to cast a vote and making sure that theres the ap