Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during a pandemic indicating just how important todays vote is for them i voted for the greatest president in history donald j. Strong trump is doing nothing for us so that hes going to have very thing more in the control than was. Loved as intensely as he is loathed donald trump has become the Biggest Issue on the ballot and tonight americans and many around the world will be watching how you react to their results win or lose they get a better concession speech your acceptance speech. Hopefully you will be only doing one of those 2 and you know. Winning is easy losing is never easy enough for me its the. Right oh joe biden is the man determined to turn tramp into the loser hes campaigned through much of election day promising to heal americas divisions of proverbs. Oh id rather have a proud democrat through work ready im going to. Go for those birds that are. Both contenders have presented the battle for the white house as a struggle for the countrys soul leaving many in the United States preparing more 1st storm than for an Election Party. All right lets take you now to our teams on the ground in the u. S. In this poll is in washington outside the white house and well be airing it from all over solid in joe bidens home state of delaware in just a moment but in this one to go to you election day on like any other in the midst of a Global Pandemic set the scene for us what have you been hearing from voters there. Right well i mean the pandemic is really present everywhere that is true and we mustnt forget that how many thousands of americans already have died and this is somewhat overshadowing this whole day and Election Night what did we hear from the people here on the ground we talked to both sides and both sides are actually pretty convinced that they will make it to be talked to some Trump Supporters who wont for him because hes antiabortion we talked to others they are very much in agreement with his immigration policies they think you should finish the wall because they think no more socalled Illegal Immigrants should end to this country than on the other side we talked to young biden and come a long hair is so poor they are all for fighting Climate Change and supporting human rights so both sides are here and it was a very joyful atmosphere youre on but slowly the mood is changing and i think the happy hours are over today the happy hours are over indeed because polls have just closed in about i have a dozen more states whats next what can we expect. But people are still in life so it is far too early to call anything i mean we should. We will guide our watches of yours through every single step but at this very moment we have to wait and see because again it looks come down possibly to very very little margin so its far too early to give any solid predictions all right ines paul thank you so much will of course be checking in with you throughout the evening i want to go now to oversell it in joe bidens home state of a delaware all over are people fired up among by and supporters where you are and are they confident that their candidate joe biden will oust the incumbent. Well they certainly are but theres also this big sense of nervousness not only among biden supporters among every will reach spoken to today me and our team here in wilmington delaware and that is because its really that that feeling that this election is crucial that this election is what many people told us the most important election all of their lives and we are looking at a polarized nation even more so weve been saying that 4 years ago already when we covered the election of donald trump well now the United States are even more polarized and really drifting apart on both sides of the political aisle and therefore a lot of people fear the outcome of this election here tonight and all of this of course amid what could be a record turnout in modern times in memory even with huge interest this election day what lies ahead all over. Yeah thats right some more than 100000000 voters took to the polls even before today in early voting and that was never that has never been the case of course we are looking at penn demick situation that needed some special solutions of course for election day among them was early voting but then of course also mail in ballots with all the debate whether or not these mail in the ballots are prone to fraud or not and thats the case donald trump made here and that also gives you a little ideal for lies ahead so if we get a clear decisive result tonight then things might move on very quickly but that its very unlikely because of these mail in ballots that have to be counted there are different rules in place depending on the 50 states every state has different rules and different legislation when it comes to counting those ballots so that is basically key to looking out whats going to happen within the next days we going to get a clear result tonight or not and if not then the president has also already announced that he might not accept the outcome of the election and specifically looking at the mail in ballots so hard were just going to have to be patient and wait for. The votes to be counted all over south reporting from delaware talk to you in a bit lets bring it back to berlin now and weve got a great set of guests here that im going to be leaning on this evening im joined by a and cherry a film maker who worked on a barak obamas campaign in 2004 Bernie Sanders in 2016 and for the viewers. Youre already familiar with the william glue croft he is part of our u. S. Election Team Gentlemen welcome great to have you on board well you want to give you the 1st word biden versus trump this is where were at i mean this is one of the most closely watched elections in memory whats at stake here exactly i mean whats at stake is which kind of democracy what kind of country do American Voters want to have as we just heard from oliver we have a sitting president who says he doesnt maybe not going to trust the numbers hes not going to concede if he looks like hes defeated he might he might find ways around that he might be you know launching legal challenges. Where in the midst of a pen demick that has not gone very well and this country is facing really a very stark choice you know America American elections tend to be very aspirational regardless if theyre republican or democrat candidates come out with a very aspirational very hopeful view of america and donald trump whats different about this this election in this campaign also in 2016 hes really the 1st president i can think of that one on a campaign of fear on a campaign of american carnage and a campaign of anger and violence of divisiveness not trying to bring people together actually not coming around the center of the american politics but actually moving further conservative that its completely flipped the logic of elections on a head and thats what were facing now that kind of a raw angry america versus a more aspirational american which one voters want is where were going to find us. Elves tonight tomorrow and weeks to come arent you were part of very aspirational a campaign that of barack obama so i mean. William touched upon it alluded to it that there is a chance of maybe violence after this election is this is that a real possibility you think i think it is and i think kind of the conventional ways we think about it like some sort of mass uprising is probably not on the table but i think as the days start to go on and theres recounts and little counties in pennsylvania you may find folks who happen to have access to firearms and get outside and things get escalated and something happens i think a lot of little incidences like this could pop up and its a very scary proposition all right were going to leave it there for just a 2nd want to send you over now to apollo who will be bringing us all the latest results pablo. Well this is more like an election deadline than an election day and voters have been casting their ballots for weeks smashing records for early voting along the way and i tonight will get to know most of the results but not all im going to stressed out as the tallies come in now remember that both candidates are trying to reach that number there 270 im are already seeing some votes come in 3 there for joe biden and 8 for donald trump and of course we cant forget that some states get more votes than others in the college and electorate and this is just a representation of just how important each state is and you can see there on the map that california the biggest state it gets 55 votes no texas is another big prize and florida with its 29 votes may well decide this race now well be tracking the state by state results with polling data from the Associated Press and we already have several states that have closed their polls indiana there in the midwest and kentucky kentucky is already looking red at the moment and up there in the northeast were seeing vermont as well 2 states which tend to vote respectively democrat in vermont and tend to go more for republican leaning state there in kentucky and you know with 8 College Electoral votes there in kentucky its good safe 8 votes for President Trump and the result could be 90 Percent Complete tonight indiana has 11 votes its also the home of Vice President mike pence of keep your eye on to georgia is another one down here in the southeast just above florida of course thats now become a swing state and going into this election there was a tie between President Trump and joe biden for ginia as well over there just to the east of kentucky that is also a big 113. 00 votes its considered a swing state but actually the republicans havent won that in 16 years and says carolina a pretty solid republican state and also were going to be keeping a ride and theyre on florida and in the next 30 minutes. So it will be seen that North Carolina ohio and West VirginiaNorth Carolina and ohio are swing states theyre going to be closing their polls very soon so weve got to keep our eye on those and to see which way theyre swinging tonight back over to our panel all right thank you so much apollo a room when it come to you now what do you looking out for what will be the indicator for you in terms of how this evening will unfold and its exactly happening now so its exciting i think were seeing glimmers of how the sun belt is going to go all the way from florida georgia even arizona when we see the 1st things come out in North Carolina and in florida and in georgia but especially North Carolina where they will have counted the early vote already and where we will have a much better look i think other things well see in the rust belt will tell us if there are the shied from voters if they are coming out and already we have some interesting tea leaves from kentucky in that we are seeing more folks break for mcgrath then for trump showing that there are people splitting their tickets which is a rarer and rarer thing in american politics interesting out william is there a particular state that you are specifically intrigued by and that will give you an idea hint of where the country is headed i mean the states that obama won in 2012 that trump one of the 16 that democrats traditional rely on to win that being wisconsin michigan pennsylvania especially wisconsin michigan which are known as these kind of Like Old School working class blue collar democratic labor kind of states you know a lot of former industry there been hurting hard by you know outsourcing to china which is what was very resonant from trump with a lot of his rhetoric in 2016 and those 3 states pennsylvania wisconsin michigan and cameras have enough that was 80000 votes less than 80000 votes thats what the side of the election 2016 and thats why you know if you look at all the polling data we could see you know how far by then is ahead consistently 7 to 10 points nationally up in all the in all the swing states but you know. The simplest way to look at the challenge to donald trump is you know he lost the popular vote nationally by 3 by almost by 2 points in 2016 you have those voters in those states also big states with big electoral votes and this election is biden so we discuss them with wisconsin michigan pennsylvania and florida of course is always every election the big surprise florida florida florida. All right so it doesnt end. Up and joe biden have vastly different backgrounds and offers starkly different visions lets take a closer look now at the choice facing American Voters. One has dedicated his life to Public Service and the other dedicated his 2 winning. 2 men with contrast in styles. And competing visions of the future. We choose hope over fear unity over Division Science over friction and yes truth over a lie this election is a choice between a trump super recovery which were in right now or a by a depression. Joseph biden story is one of triumph and tragedy of overcoming a childhood stutter to reach the u. S. Senate just 30 years ago only to lose his wife and daughter in a car accident. In 2015 biden was again left. When his son beau died of brain cancer. I found the best way through pain and loss and grief is to find purpose. Donald trump inherited a new York Real Estate empire and turned the need into a brand. His life of waiting to parties and my with some of the were talk of the tongue. Followed him everywhere and so too did bankruptcies. But it was a hit t. V. Show the apprentice that revestive for. The prestigious helped turn trump from hapless new york businessman to longshot president ial hopefuls. Wilder to a vast citys a white man in their seventys the similarities end. For decades biden rode the train to work. While crumb enjoys the croppings of wealth. Biden spent his career shaping his Foreign Policy beliefs. And forging friendships a broad. Trump peddled conspiracies tonight for the 1st time our president has finally released a birth certificate and run for office on a nationalist take it for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States so help me god to bring your life to promising isolationism. Its going to be only america 1st which saw him embrace dictators and foods while pushing need to allies around the tour deal after deal. I am announcing today the United States will withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal from the paris. Climate a court. Staged on treaties with russia. So were going to terminate a brit were going to call that hes gone where few president s have he was impeached and he repeatedly cozied up to violent White Supremacists. Very fine people on both sides. For Biden America 1st means america alone hes on a mission to rewind to trump years and hes hoping his folksy appeal will win over swing voters. We are in the battle for the soul of this nation. Though he too is no stranger to fighting talk doing this big you know what youre wrong. When you stick to the script his pitches the after 4 years of chaos on hundreds of thousands of crudely 1000. 00 day he is uniquely placed to mend the country battle for the soul of us thats the job of a president to hear. The Trump Campaign by contrast has been lights on unity and heavy on fear and misinformation for the president this is about coming fast at any costs. Reject left wing fascism vote for American Freedom vote for america 1st vote for make America Great again. Both candidates have cost themselves as americas salvation but the truth is in this high stakes bottle the result will reverberate well beyond her borders. And i want to go now to return if you were part of the 2008 Obama Campaign as you know very well biden ran for president or lost to obama obama surprised everyone by picking biden as his Vice President what did he see in him and were you able to glean during your time there what his personality is i mean is he the way he appears is that the joe biden this is the thing that unites both those men is that they are the only people you will meet who are exactly the same on and off camera just 100 percent just course a rare thing in politics but youre right to point out that it was surprising and they were sort of originally an odd couple i think now we think of them as this walking buddy cop movie you know because they had such a successful presidency together but no it was they were at opposite ends of the party you saw them taking different views on the iraq war and even though biden was sort of always a crowd fav. Brit he wasnt getting any sort of traction beca