Because it was his metaphor about the puzzle. Once you get into those metaphors you can break a wrist trying to keep them going. If you are just waking up, significant developments. Overnight joe biden taking the lead in georgia in part with some of the votes coming in from john lewis district. An historical significance. Something poetic about that. And then, of course, in pennsylvania, joe biden taking the lead. At cbs news, we are not projecting the race at this point, nor are we projecting any of the battleground states still outstanding because there are still votes out there to be counted. These are narrow leads. In pennsylvania, its about 5,000. And as we noted in pennsylvania, its 100,000 there are paths for both candidates but the path for President Trump is narrowing, as we say. The lead in georgia is translieutenatran transluce translucent, its so thin but in pennsylvania for the last day and a half, whats going to happen around philadelphia and pittsburgh . Traditionally in philadelphia, going back to 1932, democrats, its a strong area. Whats going to happen when those vote comes in . Experts said joe biden will go ahead. And that is now what has happened. So if so it seems likely that will continue to happen which means that joe biden is on his way to getting the magic number. That magic number is 270. Lets go to Major Garrett for the latest numbers. Good morning. Let me orient you to this map. This is the National Vote total and percentages. 253 projected electoral votes for joe biden. 213 for President Trump. Were going to go by state byy state and start with pennsylvania. 20 electoral votes in pennsylvania. Push that. Theres 95 of the vote in and counted. You can see the percentage here. 94 49. 4 . 49. 3 . Very close. About 7,000 for joe biden but as was discussed at the desk, the trend lines have been moving for the last 24 to 36 hours in the former Vice President s direction in pennsylvania. 95 of the vote in and counted. Lets go to georgia. 16 electoral votes in georgia. You can see the percentage. 49. 4 , 49. 4 . About 1,000vote advantage for the former Vice President. Georgia appears to be under state law heading toward a recount. Lets go out to nevada. Six electoral votes in nevada. 89 of the vote in. 49. 4 to 48. 5 . You can do the math yourself. Just under 12,000vote advantage for the former Vice President. Well get more results out of nevada later on today. And in arizona, 11 electoral votes in arizona. 90 of the vote in and counted. 50. 1 to 48. 5 . If those trends hold, not only will the former Vice President win nevada and arizona, he is on pace to win pennsylvania. Georgia simply too close to call. Ill show North Carolina because thats remained stable. 95 of the vote in. 15 electoral votes there. The president has the lead. Hes maintained that lead. But as this map indicates, and all the vote totals indicate, he needs much more than North Carolina. Gayle, back to you. Thank you, major. John, the bottom line here is the president gets to the 270 number just by taking pennsylvania, true . No you mean joe biden . I mean joe biden, yes. The Vice President , yes, joe biden. No wonder, john, you looked dazed. Yes, of course, i mean some kind of math i mean joe biden of course. Yes,s, and thats why everyby has been waiting around and why, frankly, President Trump has been throwing so much whatever you want to call it at pennsylvania because he knows how crucial that state is. But i think if you are Vice President biden, what you really, really want is, geographical diversity in these next 24 hours, which is to say to be able to say youre doing well in pennsylvania, georgia, arizona. Three different regions of the country so that the opposition, the president cant claim this is some idiosyncratic thing that happened in one narrow place. And so that, for the Vice President matters not only in winning this election but also in building the platform which hes got to be thinking about already for governing. Theres also some them attic significant between going over the top with pennsylvania. Joe biden was born in scranton because his father couldnt find a job they moved to wilmington, delaware. The biography of him being from scranton. Hes the guy from main street not the guy from wall street, meaning, of course, donald trump who lives on fifth avenue. So thats been part of the thematic role that joe biden has tried to lay out. And also it helped. He did regular joe, uncle joe, whatever you want to call joe biden and he likes to call himself, helped him win over White Working Class voters that essentially fled the Democratic Party in 2016 that led to Donald Trumps victory. So that was always the battle. Michigan was that one state that was Donald Trumps most narrow lead. He won by just 10,000 votes, and it looks like joe biden has opened up a relatively large lead 150,000, i think. A relatively big lead compared to the other margins. Could go even larger. Thats a thematic. We kept thinking earlier in the week it would be arizona and nevada that put joe biden over the top. Yesterday i started thinking, wow, i bet they would rather have pennsylvania. They would rather have pennsylvania. We saw both candidates spent so much time in that state for the very reason they knew how important it was and how much it symbolized, really, this clash of the two parties. The direction of the country. There is something about your home state, too, that your home state in the end came for you. Cant underestimate what that means. Might as well throw in they did the declaration of independence and constitution there too. The whole thematic isnt that where barack obama gave his, of course, Convention Speech right there at the philadelphia theres still about 140,000 votes outstanding in pennsylvania. But we had the Lieutenant Governor on a short time ago who was saying he thought, given those were mailin ballots which have been trending to joen ingi, everything is in joe bidens favor. Lets go to Jericka Duncan in philadelphia where workers have been counting ballots since tuesday night. Whats the latest there . Well, the mood is starting to change. Of course, the news is spreading. For those who were supporting and are supporting joe biden, they are excited. About a block away from me, people still with their signs saying count every vote. As you mention, we still have people inside that are counting those ballots, those mailin ballots. But theres also a more of a Police Presence that were seeing and feeling where were standing. Authorities say that they received a tip last night about a group in a hummer possibly carrying weapons and planning an attack on the Pennsylvania Convention center where votes are being counted. We actually just heard from the Police Department to confirm that the two men they arrested did have guns on them. Now tensions, again, were high all day thursday. Supporters of both sides of the political divide gathered outside separated by barricades. You had Trump Supporters that repeatedly called for the stop of the ballot counting. Despite no evidence of voter fraud and then you had people that backed joe biden that were again saying count every vote. Now before biden even took that slight lead this morning, the president suggested that there was fraud happening here in philadelphia when it comes to counting ballots that are potentially for him. Interestingly enough, though, we went back and did research and found that hes actually up 11 right now, even though all the votes have not been counted versus from 2016. So he actually got more people voting for him in philadelphia which is heavily democratic. So, you know, just when you look at some of the arguments made and you look at the actual numbers. Here in the state of the largest city, philadelphia, there are about 21,000 more ballots to count. And at last check, a total of around 163 mailin ballots to count for the state of pennsylvania, although that number, we saw, has not really been updated on the states website in a few hours. Jericka, the potential for violence that you mention is something im sure were going to be talking about. Those fraud accusations as well. Pat toomey, republican senator of pennsylvania said earlier on our air that those claims were disturbing and he had seen no evidence of fraud. Well be talking about that. First to Nikole Killion with the Biden Campaign in wilmington, delaware. Good morning to you. I saw late last night and into the night, the lights came on, on the stage there, where we expect remarks. Now its the daytime. No need for the the sun is out. When do we expect to hear from the former Vice President . Its certainly possible that well hear from former Vice President joe biden at some point today, although the campaign has not provided any official guidance. What we do know is that the campaign is feeling increasingly confident and enthusiastic about its prospects to potentially reach 270 electoral votes today. Bidens Campaign Manager expected these numbers to tighten, and the campaign has really been waiting for this moment to overtake the president in states like georgia and pennsylvania, although at this point, they are just closely watching to see if this holds. Yesterday the former Vice President urged patience with the vote count. He also attended a briefing on the coronavirus and the economy. Cbs news has also learned that there are plans for Additional Secret Service protection in the event that biden wins, although the agency says it cant specifically discuss its methods and temporary flight restrictions have also been extended over bidens delaware home. Back to you. Niko le, thank you. Pen tracy is at the white house. Weve heard the president claim victory and also claim fraud at the same time. Whats the reaction now . Sources here at the white house say President Trump has no plans to concede even if joe biden is projected to be the winner and declares victory today. But we can also tell you that there is a sense of resignation. Acknowledgment amongst members of the white house staff that the end is likely near and that biden is likely going to win. The Trump Campaign, however, is not admitting defeat. They put out a statement just in the past hour that says the election is not over. The false projection of joe biden as the winner is based on results in four states that are far from final. But you know, last night we saw President Trump in the White House Briefing room clearly seemed to be deflated while he made his remarks. Well aware that he may lose. And some republicans are heavily criticizing his attacks on the voting and democracy itself. Maryland governor larry hogan tweeted, there is no defense for the president s comments undermining our democratic process. But there are other republicans, like senator Lindsey Graham who repeated the president s baseless claims of fraud and said he was going to donate half a Million Dollars to the president s defense team. Now the Trump Campaign still does not have a coherent legal strategy moving forward. They dont have anybody who is going to lead that. We have been told that jared kushner, the president s soninlaw and Senior Adviser has been looking for someone to fill that kind of james baker role for the campaign as they continue to wage these legal fights which they say they will. We have also learned the campaign has raised more than 10 million in just the past 24 hours to keep these legal challenges going. Gayle . All right, ben tracy, thank you vrery much. This election is not over. The false projection of joe biden is false. Whats the reaction to that . Nobody has projected joe biden. There is no projection. And the more nor have we called it. But what is the reaction to the president s reaction to saying that . I think that is a statement from his campaign at this hour, not from the president himself. Its a statement from his campaign at this hour. And that is what you would expect because the networks have not yet called the race. So you can expect sort of this is, what do you call it, roughing up the ref . Thats whats going on is that bravado. We still have do you think the campaign would put it out without a sign off from the president . To say that . Knowing how they operate . I think that i are reflecting the president s mood, no doubt. We saw the president s mood not only at 2 30 in the morning on wednesday. We saw it yesterday where the president believes that they have had an historic election, that he believes, as he said yesterday if all the votes are counted legally, that he would be declared the winner. So were still in a period where hes not ready yet to concede defeat. That is for sure. But if this continues in this direction and joe biden comes out and basically says, im the winner, but you have the president in the white house saying, no, youre not, have we been through Something Like this before . Well that gaze and that sigh. Im looking up here because thats where all the memory is. Well, heres how lets go to 2000. In our memory. 2000. Didnt have been incumbent. You had two challengers. Through a normal campaign you have deny, deny, deny, concede. The fact the campaign would put out something, thats normal are go campaign. Then you have the trump posture which is always deny. Always fight back. Always so the question is can the president fight back against the relentless march of ballot counting by these individual states and individual counties . I dont think weve ever seen that. A president who well see how many days this goes by. But weve never seen 98 of what President Trump has done through his presidency and hes behaving in this moment as wed expect, which is to do none of the things youd naturally expect. So we have to expect whats what hes going to do Going Forward. Were waiting on five states to call here at cbs news. In four of those five states, joe biden holds the lead, but yet we are still waiting for votes to be counted. Some of them more narrow than others. North carolina, the president still holds the lead in that state, as does the republican senator there who hopes to regain the senate seat there. So thats sort of the general picture that were all basing our conversation on right now. And yet were waiting still for more of these votes to come in and where we are waiting for those diligent Public Servants who spend their time putting those ballots through the machines to count them. Were being very cautious here. Theres been no projection. And, john, a Standard Campaign strategy may be deny, deny, deny, concede. But the president is not standard in the sense that hes accusing, accusing, accusing of fraud and surprise ballot dumps. Thats a big change and that worrying report out of pennsylvania of armed men heading toward the Convention Center where theyre counting. This feels like a dicey moment in america with that kind of thing coming in and the president taking the posture hes taking. Its a very dicey moment. Again, i keep going back to this. If the numbers march in the way they appear to be marching, the president is not the only political actor in america. There are other voices. There are people who have spent their life asking to be on stage in a moment just like this. They have their chance. The other distinction from florida in 2000, those votes had already been counted. This was a recount. I think the president seems to lose sight of that as well when hes complaining. Thats right. It was a recount because they were checking those hanging chads. The gentleman with the thick glasses holding it up and recounting. This is a different experience here. Were giving it the time that it needs and deserves. They are moving much more quickly than we had thought. Even though it seems like a long time that everybody has been waiting, pennsylvania was able to move a huge tranche of votes this morning. Still some outstanding. Id love to touch base with our reporters about where those are. Some of them in allegheny county, the pittsburgh area. Bidens lead is up to 6,800 votes. As we speak it continues to grow. As we heard from the Lieutenant Governor, he expects, given where those votes are coming from and that they are overwhelmingly mailin ballots, that the advantage is distinctly bidens. As major was pointing out, it looks like Vice President boide is on track to win in michigan, pennsylvania that donald trump pulled away in such a victory in 2016. Wisconsin may be just roughly equivalent. When you think about size of victories, joe biden is winning by many more many, many more votes in michigan and appears to be on his way to winning more in pennsylvania than donald trump did in 2016. All right. John, well have to hold it there for just a second. Right no we have much more news ahead. Coming up, Atlanta MayorKeisha Lance Bottoms will join us for a look at the race in georgia where overnight, for the first time, joe biden pulled out in front. 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