And no fly zone to stamp out a separate a struggle here in flags of concerns of war crimes in the goal of care about or for armenia and azerbaijan are accused of committing atrocities. There its been 4 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president s race to the white house is headed for a 4 to finish with every hour narrowing the gap between donald trump and joe biden heres the overall picture as it stands this hour there are just 4 battleground states left to count and any one of them could give joe biden the win that he pulled ahead in georgia in the last hour or so and he also has a lead over in nevada donald trump however is ahead in the others. She states but the margins are razor thin no those states being counties are the ones that you see here in yellow nevada georgia North Carolina and of course pennsylvania by the nih has 264 Electoral College votes trump meanwhile has 214 that still puts both in range of the magic number 207 see a likely result is now hanging on to states that the 1st of those is georgia where as weve been saying biden is ahead a 1000 votes there the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots for the city of lancer that is a democratic stronghold were also hearing that a decision in pennsylvania the state where joe biden was born is just hours away now trumps leads has been consistently shrinking it stands around 18000. 00 or so votes but there are still tens of thousands of remaining and those ballots are mostly coming from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and theyre suburbs that gives joe biden a good chance to catch up and as the vote count drags on supporters on both sides are becoming an agitated cancer protestors have faced off in michigan nevada philadelphia and georgia Trump Supporters have backed the president s cleans condemning what they see as ballots manipulation by the democrats mean for bides involved cers are demanding that every single ballots be counted so we have correspondents covering the story across the United States in a moment well head to jim ill show you whos standing by for us in joe bidens home state of delaware but 1st lets go to alan fischer in washington d. C. Our weve had some encouraging news for the biden camp coming out of georgia with those margins narrowing joe biden is ahead but as dawn breaks in washington were yet to hear from President Trump has there been any indication of how theyre taking this new. Well we know hes not happy with twitter because that was his last tweet about 4 hours ago when he said that twitter was out of control thats because they have been flagging up a lot of the president s tweets when he claims that illegal votes are being counted when hes talking about electoral fraud that has been the issue of course for republicans over the last 182436 hours theyve been claiming fraud in various states but the of yet to put up any evidence of that in fact when they were in one court case or in the 3rd state the judge essentially said look what youre bringing me as someone told you youre not bringing me any evidence youve got to do that we know there are going to be legal challenges is almost certainly going to happen and certainly what were looking at with the figures in georgia that there can be a recount there if one party is just half a percent behind the other so almost certainly georgia will go to a recount as well and then we will see more and more legal challenges across the country what is interesting is that there has been a mixed reaction among republicans to Donald TrumpsNews Conference we call a News Conference it was really just a statement just over 12 hours ago when he came out and said that if you count legal votes he wins if you count illegal votes he loses again he didnt explain what he meant by illegal votes i think hes mixing up the idea of late ballots coming in and being counted which is perfectly legal and states have that and the law is that they can do that for a number of days after the election but some of the republicans were saying it was dangerous what the president said it was not the time to be doing that he struck their own court and theres a couple of other republicans who have gone the other way saying every vote has to be counted maybe the president was right what is interesting is that his sons have said they are going to remember republicans who were supporting their father at this point particularly when it comes to 2024. Essentially Donald Trump Jr and. Trump saying that theyre taking names of republicans who are not looking in to help the president but its not looking good for donald trump the biden camp they would like to in georgia they would like to get more than 27270. 00 ones the presidency thats what theyre focused on they would like to get to that point but they would like there to be a little bit more than that they would like to win one or 2 or 3 more states so its not all a boat a recount in wisconsin its not a vote a recount in georgia they want to push it around 3 or 6 because they see an irony in that that 4 years ago donald trump won with 306 Electoral College votes were talking about how it was a landslide how he was given up big mandate by the country how that meant he could go in essentially do it wanted a no theyre saying that they would like to get to that number as well theyre saying that privately and they think they might they think theyre going to squeeze pennsylvania they think that georgia is looking good theres been a huge getto the vote effort there because they thought they could flip this state and it no looks as if thats what king but in the next couple of hours were going to get some decisions from states but just remember these wont be final because inevitably were going to be heading to the courts which is exactly what donald trump has been seeing for weeks that he was going to do so here is trying to get in the courtroom what he couldnt get at the ballot box which is a victory in the president ial election ok alan fischer there in washington d. C. Thank you very much indeed lets cross over night to jim. Hes live for us in wilmington delaware this of course is where joe biden is holed up there he hasnt declared victory yet to be very diplomatic has seen nor has there been anything coming out of the biden camp so far especially given the way the polls on the cancer tightening in these crucial battleground states. Well you know the saying how actions speak louder than words and i think thats what the biden camp is trying to demonstrate here acting a lot more president ial than they are speaking about becoming the president or at least claiming victory and what i mean by that is that obviously whenever biden has spoken over the past few days hes been centering his message to his supporters that actually each of the wider nation. Main message is one that every single vote needs to be counted democracy must be respected and the process of the election needs to run its course and true a call for calm across the country in order to maybe have some sort of hope through the Huge Division that currently exists in us society. He met yesterday with his. Force as well as an Economic Force as well in that there is an admission that one of the main issues with this election among voters was covert the fact that he views this as a main challenge if and when he is announced as president s and therefore he is essentially getting down to business without necessarily claiming that victory in fact there is a transition websites that the democrats were getting ready for the eventuality of if they were to win this election that is now a life by the way you can go online and check it out it doesnt announce him as the next president of the u. S. It does on its own page have a message again centered on the same ideas which i just spoke about there but the fact that that is live the fact that hes meeting with these people is something to it so essentially what were seeing from him is a huge contrast so thats which is whats coming out from the white house its a lot more respectful to the process there isnt any doubts being called over the legitimacy of the millions of americans who voted. Its a call for calm like i say essentially a confidence message from somebody who believes alternately that you will be declared the winner of this hugely contested president ial election ok jim there d lie for us in wilmington delaware thank you very much in deeds well as alan was saying earlier some republicans have come out strongly against some of trumps claims of Election Fraud while not naming trying to wreck plame one of them is kid singer and he has to say that of course every fall its the its to be counted but if someone has legitimate concerns about frauds then evidence must be presenting it is also calling for a stop to the spread of what he describes as bunk misinformation. Lets get more now from joseph euro hes a professor of Political Science at texas a and m. University and joins us now by skype from doha good to have you with us here on aljazeera once again i was seeing 2 competing narratives here donald trump is attacking the legitimacy of the election joe biden is urging caution what do you think realistically will happen next because normally at this point in a president ial campaign one comes that will realize that the odds are slim theyll concedes do you think that is likely to happen or. How are the next few hours and days like this. I think its a very likely. Both campaigns will wait until there are much more final counts if we go back a couple of decades there was a candidate we tend to call the candidate inconceivable that this was the run on but the outcome was clear i think your given the history of the last 4 years particularly President Trump but also President Biden wait until there is of course a final count so there are people who are making any public decorate declarations about certainty and even then i doubt president from will concede the election you may lose and leave but i dont think youre better at mitt publicly that you are there right well thats that thats a problem is it not by if one candidate does not concede where does that leave the electorate because certainly the the angry messages that weve had from donald trump and from his family surrogate says being that this election is being stolen from him illegal votes are being considered which is why hes losing what are ordinary voters in the United States to make of this because this is the president of the United States alleging something very very seriously here and that will have an impact. Yeah i expect the way the President Trump leaves office will reflect his conduct over the last quarter years and he has not shown much concern for the kind of norms and traditions of government in the United States and i expect that hell continue to get as he leaves and then as you suggest in the question i think that will ask a long shadow over the country there will be a lot of this. You know by and ministration eventually wins the election there will be a lot of work to be done to secure the country. To try to bring the country back together and its going to be a project both for the Democratic Party were going to try to read from the white house and also for republicans to try to balance the kind of moderate part of their party whos going to be willing to move on and try to govern as best they can and then the more extreme part of the party are committed to this idea of the illegitimate election. Its i mean we can you say this goes back 4 years he could almost argue its been more than 4 years because when donald trump was elected Many Democrats were saying hes not my president thats what you hear the chants of protest as sore night you can argue republicans will say the same thing even if joe biden does when hes not my president so how do you think the u. S. Will overcome this do you think there is any type of candidate in the next 4812 years who will be able to bring the country back together because america looks more divided now than at any point over the past sadly over the past few years. You know its hard to to imagine what will change the trend of Political Division in the United States the last great period of polarization in the United States with the mere earlier part of the 20th century and it was sort of beat down by the combination of the Great Depression and world war 2 and then you know we have sort of a period of a greater part of an overlap that lasted through the 1950 s. And big these and then the beginning of the 19th that in the. Wig i mean in some of the we dont want to go through the kind of great externally imposed crises to bring it together but at the same time the the cost of not having anything to say you know by have it seemed to be quite huge i might have thought that the pandemic would be the kind of thing that would rally the country together and create opportunities for bipartisanship and maybe President Biden if he pursues that that in a good basic way i could begin to bring the country together and reverse those trends you know im hopeful as a citizen but as a man with them as a mythic because the divisions really do seem quite big and part of the solution might be the republican as and their leaders here except the olive branch when its offered and you know pursue the vehicle together we can only wait and see how this well unfolds thats nigels if youre out there in texas a and m. University thank you very much indeed. 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