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Continues to make baseless allegations of widespread fraud in states like pennsylvania which officials flatly reject. What the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on knowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. And on resolved election a nation on edge 3 days after one of americas most divisive president ial votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump in battleground states which will decide the outcome. So far biden is projected to have 1264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 the magic number required is 270 by the needs to win in only one of those undecided states to get him over the finish line lets start with pennsylvania where biden is ahead of trump by just over 19 and a half 1000 votes the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from democratic leaning cities like philadelphia and pittsburgh biden is also leading in georgia by nearly 4000. 00 votes in an unusually tight race but Officials Say they expect a recount as the margin of difference is within half a percentage point and the state of nevada could well be the last showdown it has the highest percentage of votes left to count but those 6 delegates could make or break either candidate and right now joe biden is in the lead there as well. Lets take a look at North Carolina where trump leads 576076 nearly 76 and a half 1000 votes thats not a surprise the state has voted republican in every election since 1980 apart from when barack obama won back in 2008 so while the race is yet to be won us House Speaker democrat nancy pelosi is already describing joe biden as president elect and she accused trump and his team of hurting the nation by denying the outcome it appears that the Trump Administration will use its final moments in office and the desperate last step to destroy every possible ritek should for American Health and well being so many people have said to me and some of you along the way. What damage do you think that trump will do between losing the election and the swearing in the inauguration of joe biden maybe you didnt phrase it quite that way but thats how i heard it and we knew that he would be up to mischief separate and apart from that trying to destroy the credibility of our elections which we criticize other nations for doing and now we all enemies foreign and domestic make an assault on our elections when we have one domestic election Officials Say that has yet to be any evidence of voting irregularities but Republican Party says legal teams have been sent to 4 states to investigate we have seen some discrepancies in michigan and some irregularities that deserve investigation democrats and the media spent 4 years and millions of taxpayer dollars talking about a russian hoax on the grounds of Election Integrity now with just over 48 hours after polls have closed in an actual election for president they want to ignore clear irregularities russia call states as one and the selection we will not stand for that every candidate in every office from president down to the local level has a legal right to challenge irregularities that occur in the process of canvassing ballots we intend to ensure that every lawful voter has their vote counted in accordance with the law that observers are granted the access they are do under state law and that any irregularities that have occurred whether by a malicious attack intent or incompetence are fully investigated to the fully fullest extent allowed under the law. His own team this hour mike hanna is in wilmington delaware joe bidens home state patty call heinous standing by for us in philadelphia in the all important battleground of pennsylvania of course we have Andy Gallagher who will bring us up to date with whats going on in georgia and we have rob reynolds who is monitoring developments for us in our a zone and nevada but lets begin with our White House Correspondent kimberly whole kit so bring us up to date whats the mood from the trump camp today. One that is really very resolved to fight there is the email that is being sent multiple emails in fact we sent to supporters not only asking for donations to be matched in terms of the fundraising but with a specific purpose that this would in the essence of out to a legal fund that theyre looking to tap it least at 60000000. 00 to fight all of these legal challenges that are being launched across the United States in these battleground states now the u. S. President for his part has been quiet front of the cameras since we saw him late thursday in that press conference in the White House Briefing room but hes continued to tweet on twitter he his latest tweet has been moaning the large lead that he had that he is now saying has evaporated but he hopes will come back when these Legal Proceedings get fully underway hes also referring to his rival democratic president ial nominee joe biden saying that joe biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the president i could make that claim but also Legal Proceedings are just now beginning now to be clear joe biden has not claimed that he has won the white house what he has said is that hes come put it he will donald trump for his part has claimed hes won but he is not very happy that hes joe biden needs even insinuating that he has one when donald trump believes once these Legal Proceedings are done that he will be the president for another 4 years and to me weve been hearing from a number of members of the Republican Party have the last sort of 24 hours to 48 hours what have they been saying. Well there are really mixed reviews in terms of the president s strategy in fact what were seeing is a bit of a schism in the Republican Party those like some of his staunch supporters like representative jim jordan is continuing to be in the president s camp but increasingly were seeing a number of republicans starting to publicly criticize the president for not conceding to joe biden also concerned about some of the claims the president s made with respect to voter integrity and Election Integrity so what were seeing really is a distancing of some members of the Republican Party from the president particularly as they i their own futures in congress where the republicans so far have picked up a few seats in the house of representatives and are fighting for control of the currently Republican Controlled Senate ok many thanks for the White House Correspondent kemeny. There with the very latest from washington we can go to my account i was in bidens home state of delaware mike earlier on in the night we were pretty sure that we were going to hear from joe biden but that may not be the case anymore what is what do we hearing from the biden camp. Theres been no clear guidance from the Biden Campaign at this particular point however it is apparent that biden will not be speaking until this a major projection for him in particular pennsylvania in other words it doesnt appear result hes going to do another lets hold to the way type speech as he did previously it does appear that hes waking for a concrete result before coming to speak here at the Convention Center certainly theres no sign of his motorcade he is still at home that would appear watching as the results come in the campaign though remains confident they say that the eventual result is going to show joe biden as the next president of the United States but theres no claims of victory as yet joe biden himself was very careful not to do so the one time when he did speak publicly saying very clearly that although he was convinced that once the result is in he will be victorious he is not claiming victory before the fact but it would appear at this point that joe biden is waiting for a projection off a major victory in pennsylvania in particular before coming here to the Convention Center to address his supporters its interesting that we heard from the speaker of the house nancy pelosi earlier today describing biden as president in legs perhaps jumping the gun a little bit. Well yes it was very surprising particularly as joe biden himself is carefully steering away from any such term at this particular point 5 its been making very clear that the vote has got to be counted that he has got to be confident that he has secured this victory he doesnt want any premature claims either personally hes steered away from doing out and certainly obviously instructions have gone down to his staff as well but they will be no premature claims of victory obviously if a victory in pennsylvania would clinch it for biden or a projection of a victory in pennsylvania certainly that might result in him claiming a win in the election but until that point to because were not going to have any premature claim sense it is rather surprising that the speaker of the house getting ahead of the president ial candidate himself in terms of using a term like president elect so a campaign here as i said still remaining confident obviously watching these votes very very carefully but ultimately waiting for that big projection before joe biden comes out and talks again mike hanna there for us in delaware many thanks we can turn to pass a call hane who is in philadelphia and so obviously way you are is key in the votes there are key clearly at least biden very much waiting to hear a definitive result from there what are we hearing in terms of the counts. These are its going to get crickets really and loud motorcycles this is really i cannot tell you whats happening when we started reporting about 29 hours ago donald trump was ahead by about 300000 votes every hour and weve seen that move but theres no rhyme or reason to how these vote counts are coming in the latest number now says joe. Biden is up by about another 4000 votes 2820000 vote lead over joe by over donald trump but its not moving very much we still think we have just under 100000 votes to go. Cart it could be people are tired theyre in rooms. At this Convention Center theyve been Wearing Masks theyve been working long hours this is very tedious work im just assuming that that could be played a factor in it but its not moving as much as it has been moving but officials will tell you we are getting there as far as there is some news to tell you from from the Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito telling the state of pennsylvania to do with the state of pennsylvania has already been doing so basically all of this legal challenge and talk from the centers on really about 4000 votes that are those are votes that were sent to the polling places that were postmarked. By election day and they were able to arrive by today friday at about 5 pm so thats 4000 votes so the republicans have gone to court and said make them keep these ballots separated and basically the state people say you know were already doing that because we agree to do that last i knew of the Supreme Court so what does this matter quite frankly it doesnt really 4000 votes if youre talking about 20000. Rows the hours count down possibly to as much as 7200000 votes if you throw out those 4000 votes doesnt change the end game and i think its important to point out when the president talks about all of these legal challenges that he thinks is going to get him back to victory what hes talking about and the only way that that would be successful is if a judge or negatively the Supreme Court would say all mail in voting is illegal those votes dont count that seems like not even a remote thing that could be come close to a possibility because beilin voting is something that we do in this country so its not clear exactly what theyre trying to ministration thinks they could possibly do in a state like pennsylvania that could make up what is expected to be a fairly large margin but its clear theyre going to try. Well as you say there has been a lot of focus on the city by president try a lot of those. Cases have been focused there and it seems that the mayor has had enough hes been hitting back this morning with some interesting comments took us through them. Exactly so the philadelphia known for its 2 steaks and the way people talk around here the mare was very blunt as will be but officials here are very frustrated if you think about this they are only here because the Republican Legislature refused to let them do anything with mel and mel and ballots before election day it didnt have to be like this we could have on tuesday appear likely said who won here so it wouldnt be this back and forth the votes were stolen so obvious frustration from the officials even bringing up big boy pants lets have a listen. You know i think what the president he said do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as jimmy carter did just as george h. W. Bush did and frankly just as al gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country the votes will continue to be counted until every valid mail in ballot absentee ballot and provisional ballot is counted so while some including the president continue to spew baseless claims of fraud claims for which his team has not produced one iota of evidence what we have seen here in philadelphia is democracy pure and simple our Founding Fathers who could see the system just a 15 minute walk down the street i know would be proud. Now philadelphia. Craddock city weve seen a lot of protesters they say celebrate actually say count every vote weve seen a few Trump Supporters that could change tomorrow theyre calling for a rally just about half a block from here so well see if Trump Supporters come out but i dont think its going to be here there is a big brother who are these president s of these dimensions that are as the votes continue to get counted or at least we think theyre going to continue to theyre not making much progress but well see what happens many thanks that patty called pain speaking to us there from philadelphia lets get more on the race in georgia and we can speak to andy caddick he joins us live from miami in neighboring florida we had today that georgia is going to see a vote recount do we have any idea of what the timetable for thats going to look like. So heres the deal these votes have to be certified by state officials by november the 13th and then by the state by november 20th so this is all going to take time people have to be patient with the state of georgia or it may not matter in the end especially pennsylvania and nevada and arizona goes to you martin but the state of georgia is really playing a huge role in this election it shouldnt even really been a factor because for decades its been a red state democratic president ial nominee hasnt won there since bill clinton in 1992 but here we are now if we go back to election day trump was ahead of biden by about 370000 votes and then over the preceding days as those mail in ballots came in from democratic areas that vote was eaten away until now joe biden has a lead of 4000 but its within the point 5 percent margin so no controversy here this is the law there will now be a recount because that margin is simply simply so tight Something Else to watch in georgia are a couple of congressional races that really may shift the balance of power in the congress for the next 4 years those races also too close to call because each candidate needs to get 50 percent point plus one and they didnt so thats another important race going on in the state of georgia a state that has been republican for decades is now a purple state a battleground state if you like and may even go blue and again again many thanks lets go to reynolds who is in los angeles that is monitoring the races in arizona and nevada arizona in particular the count there very interesting because biden is leading there but that lead has slowly but surely and narrowing what is the latest. Well i dont have any really dramatic new numbers to give you the state boards of elections in arizona and nevada have not been disgorging many new tabulations but interestingly in nevada where joe biden is leading over donald trump by 23500 votes a state judge has thrown out a legal. Complaint filed by the state Republican Party and the Trump Campaign says this was a legal action that involved a claims that the signature verification machinery used in the ballot tabulation as well as some of the rules about how close. Partisan observers could stand to watch the the process of counting the votes was somehow faulty or illegitimate the judge james corden declared i am not deciding this case on a technicality im deciding it on the basis that plaintiffs have not come to court with sufficient evidence to get what they want so hes basically saying that theres no nothing there there in terms of this case that the Republican Party and they trumpet ministration brought so theres a significant i think legal defeat for the Trump Campaign meanwhile in arizona biden leads trump now by 38000 votes course this is a narrow margin its certainly not landslide material but its worth bearing in mind that just 4 years ago donald trump beat Hillary Clinton by 90000 votes in this traditionally red republican state so theres been a big shift in arizona at least for this election and as for trumps a continued claims about chicanery in the vote counting the secretary of state katie hobbs in arizona said that she has seen absolutely no irreg

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