President ial race. Thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis boy tight is son under lets go and get. Right to it the results in georgia the state of North Carolina pennsylvania and nevada will determine whether Democrat Joe Biden or President Donald Trump wins the waiting game will be over soon grant is at the big wall to break it all down for us, heres where things stand right now the 2 states have you had to pick 2 that everybodys focus on right now over on the east coast pennsylvania, and georgia. Both states have poll workers diligently counting votes as we speak well start with georgia click in their zoom in here and slide over 16 electoral votes are at stake and donald trump right now is clinging to a lead that is now fewer than 2000 votes. You see the numbers right here, 99 of the vote has been counted so his trend hes been chipping away chipping away at trumps lead there that if he wins georgia. That ends it. He gets it to 71st eclipse is 2. 70 georgia is one state that would do it the other state that is really trending in bidens favor. Again the trump is still leading in see the light read right here. This is the dark red the light red is pennsylvania. Click on pennsylvania take a closer look there because pennsylvania still has a lot of votes that have not been counted and Donald Trumps lead there is getting smaller and smaller and smaller right now about 24,000 votes separate the 2 and that is with 94 of the vote thats been counted. So were really watching pennsylvania and georgia. As donald trump is trying to hang on to his lead in both of those states people who are tracking the way these numbers are breaking say that biden could eclipse could trump in pennsylvania. Early this morning east coast time which would be late tonight so dont go anywhere we could have a the Associated Press our broadcast partners have been working with us to call these states the dark red obviously for trump the dark blue for biden and on Election Night. The a p along with fox news who is very reputable full when it comes to calling states along with politico they called arizona for biden however interesting things are happening in arizona sort of the reversal of what were seeing in georgia and pennsylvania, here joe biden is trying to hang on to a lead. And that led right here is about 46,000 trump is trying to claw back and trump has in doing so hes been chipping away at bidens lead in arizona now. Obviously you figure biden holds on if the 80 and fox news called it for him but the trump team is very hopeful that they can overtake biden in arizona and that would reset the balance of power here so to 64 for biden hes trying to get to 2 71st jump with 2. 14 hes trying to get to 2 71st trump needs pennsylvania. And georgia. If hes going to win this thing so hes very hopeful that he can reverse the trend that weve been seeing however, nevada is one other state that is still hanging in the balance for whatever reason i mean they count things for a living in vegas, but they are not counting the votes quickly in nevada. And right now with the 6 electoral votes that nevada has here we go 6 that alone would put biden at 2. 70 and right now joe biden hes increased his lead was 8,000. Yesterday, it is up to about 12,000. Right now in nevada, so. 4 key states that were watching the biden camp does not really figure that they have a shot in North Carolina biden feels very good about georgia, the way things are changing their buying feels very good about pennsylvania, the way things are trending their use of more than a 100,000 outstanding votes that havent been counted all these absentee ballots because of covid in pennsylvania and again. The vote is getting narrower and narrower trump still leads but biden is inching towards him. Yes sure we want an answer you know take your time to care right. Yeah, both candidates yet again have starkly different messages for america. This President Trump doubling down on his unfounded claims of voter fraud. Our kron fours Ella Sogomonian live for us in the studio with what each of them had to say today. A key the incumbent is convinced election is rigged against him President Trump is not accepting the mail in ballot counts believing many of them in favor of his rival arrives pastor deadline. After bunkering down in the white house all day wednesday resorting to tweeting his disappointment and skepticism. President donald trump stepped into the public eye thursday afternoon with an unwavering an unfounded message do not trust the ballot counts. I usually win. If you count the illegal votes. They can try to steal. Election from us if you count the votes that came in late. Were looking at them very strongly that a lot of votes came in late. The incumbent vying for another chance of the highest seed in office is trailing behind his challenger former Vice President joe biden an electoral votes as the remaining absentee ballots are being processed other his allegations have not been supported by concrete evidence. President Trump Supporters have heard him loud and clear talking to several sites and chanting stop the count. Meanwhile biden is insisting every vote must be counted. He appeared on stage once again calm and collected. Democracy sometimes messy. And sometimes requires a little patience as well. But that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years. The system of government governance and thats been the envy of the world, the procedure is not a new one once a ballot is received postmarked by election day. It must be counted. But again the president wants that to stop as hes seen many of them coming in are choosing biden to replace his seat. And you might remember grant and vicki the president discourage his supporters from the vote by mail option live in the studio Ella Sogomonian kron 4 news. Thank u so for some analysis on what the candidates had to say were going to welcome in Sonoma State UniversityPolitical Science professor. David mckeown. Hi havent seen you since Election Night it so many great hours of analysis for us then hard to believe its 48 hours later, and we still dont have a president or president elect, but i guess if you follow the trends with all the absentee ballots to the pandemic you knew this was a distinct possibility, what is your analysis now as you see the trends in not only georgia and pennsylvania. But on the flip side in arizona. All right first lets kind of set the scene right of voters are anxious. Theyre exhausted theyre worried and eat it either person who moves forward. Is going to face a divided country. However, you have voting that has slowed in philly voting thats loaded pennsylvania writ large. But lay this out when that county in georgia Clayton County in georgia. The home of john lewis who just this past year. Those 2 counties, Gwinnett County and john lewis is county of clayton, georgia Clayton County georgia. Theyre going to deliver the presidency, the job i did and whats going to happen tomorrow is that will happen late tonight early tomorrow. The biden team then waits for pennsylvania, his birthplace. They then move forward with an announcement after this a few networks of called as youre kind of laid out and they will stand there about pennsylvania, his birthplace with the ghost of john lewis and regardless of what happens in arizona the ghost john mccain and hell become the president elect thats whats going to happen tomorrow. All right were taking notes on you david. Those of us on the west coast. You know art is somewhat of a disadvantage were going to be heading to bed tonight for those who can sleep. These decisions maybe made it may be coming in in the wee hours of the morning in say pennsylvania. Can we sleep or should we have one eye open for for these massive changes in announcements coming down the pike well. Well like that this is this is what happens late tonight Early Morning in georgia the new shift in pennsylvania and the count is there but the president and his team are set up for legal fight and theyre going to continue to push forward, they dont have a lot of legal avenues and really they have a lot of political avenues. So what that looks like moving forward in terms of challenges recounts those types of things that will be critical after the press conference today. The president shed more republican support. So theres a difficult kind of slow march air that has happened since election day democrats clearly didnt do well enough as they as they thought they were going to do and the polling clearly was a mess. However, joe biden and his team knew it would be slow and come down to a few states. The poetry of this is going to be john lewiss county john mccains ghost those places are going to deliver along with pennsylvania, joe bidens birthplace thats pretty good poetry to start even in a divided country i think thats what you watch tomorrow as we move forward sleeping tonight with one eye open. But david could that foam have a a tragic ending if president with these unsubstantiated claims i mean you know what russia thinks what china thinks what iran thinks when they hear him go in front of the world basically and say this direction is league is rigged theyre stealing it from us. I mean. How i hate to you know prognosticator has some is about how ugly could get if if biden does get georgia pennsylvania, he has 300 electoral votes. It looks like a very you know secure victory but then you know the president continues with that rhetoric. Yeah, the keep going on with that the president is print as planning a transition. There are not a transition a second term theyre already staffing up for what that looks like the transition to the for their reelection, so that theres theres a fight ahead that clearly is what is going to happen but youre going to have networks are going to republicans youre going to have over 300 electoral votes. Given what i just laid out probably 3 06, 3, 07 somewhere in there. Nevada hasnt been called the president can win in arizona that could that could easily happen in North Carolina man be out there for a little while we have a count goes into next week and some of these states by law we still have more military ballots 8,000 military ballots that have to come in and overseas ballots into georgia that probably doesnt affect the outcome will the president go gently into that for night, no way there isnt there isnt anyone who believes that that will happen but the numbers and the data and really kind of the momentum has slowly been moving towards joe biden that will continue even into tomorrow. You know both candidates in each of them has a vastly different the tone. You know the words that the take away for the rest of the country whats your reaction to to to their messaging leading forward in terms of their their leadership and what people should look forward to. Well theres a theres a lot of ironies here for what i just laid out for what happens with what joe biden tomorrow, but also one of the most powerful tools of the president is from San Francisco, the coast and city he and thats the power of twitter so if hes not the president he can still use the power of twitter and social media to sell his message and to stay relevant so he doesnt go into that place, however, the the attention will quickly shift it will shift to georgia and those senate races and what happens in early january that make Stacey Abrams and Mitch Mcconnell, hugely influential all a sudden so so the drama will shift the spotlight will come off in that transition, the president will try to stay relevant and i think thats where we have to watch because he has had a tendency to go into hyperbole and rhetoric. Thats and even this is a problem we saw that when he was when he had covid doesnt go off the rails like that and what happens to those around him what happens if you will and that lame duck period we see a new donald trump we keep talking about that but we havent seen it and so how and to what degree the he and those around him who are closest michaels family, what they do and that period for the rest of the member into december thatll be something to watch youre asking the question but thats what we want to know is he going to listen to so i dont think he does i think he uses the power of twitter i think he uses the power to keep his relevance as much as you can, but what im saying here is that the focus changes away from him quite quickly that he wont be able to stand and i think that that being relevant because you know hes got relevance for 4 years or by february hes the frontrunner right for the Republican Party, he is in some ways of the frontrunner but Mitch Mcconnell will be the leader of the party Kevin Mccarthy will be moving to become speaker in 2022 the focus and the stage changes quite rapidly you can stop the march of time and what has happened is the march of time since tuesday has been away from donald trump that he can stand he has lashed out, but it doesnt have a lot of legal and political avenues when youre no longer president does have the Power Twitter well even if President Trump were to be ushered out of the white house it doesnt necessarily mean that trumpism goes away does it. Now i think thats a key question what was going to happen after this election democrats didnt do so well, one of the what is the Democratic Party look like after this election. What is the Republican Party look like after trump and trump is not reelected. He doesnt go gentle into that fair when and what is the extent of trumpism down ballot. What does that look like in states all across the country where they got all the rural vote or much of the rural vote and how does that move march forward and what the republican politicians to do the trump. Presidency, the trump name its brand owns the Republican Party does that begin to change as theres a slow walk to 2022 2020 for what it says were elements look like he will try to be relevant. But there will be many in the Republican Party who want to exercise x or size that the human and move farther away. There will be folks looking forward to that and to create the inroads that and maintain the inroads that they had with latinos and latinas slight next population to grow it happened in southern florida to grow that across the country not just in rural areas all across the nation. All right we want to get ahead of time we appreciate really rich. Timely and expert as David Mckeown he is the chair of the snow state university, Political Science department and he is a crown for political analysts friend of the program. Thank you again david. Thank you thank you very questioning. Protesters in las vegas held a rally tonight over the continued vote fight this comes as we continue to wait to hear which candidate will win the state. Trump supporters counts as say that counts that showed a Democrat Joe Biden leading are getting ground are wrong. As of tonight protests have not been violent there. These may manage stirring up strong emotions from neighbors tonight after hanging a joe biden effigy from his home. Brentwood Police Responded to the house on craig court bill earlier after angry social media post started circulating the man has since taken the effigy down but that is not kept the protesters from gathering outside of his house tonight kron fours dan thorn is live in brentwood tonight, he joins us. With more on this controversy. Dan what do you know. Grant neighbors tell us that this is just the type of attention that this man likes to attract. He had a mannequin outside of his home with a sign around its neck saying sleepy joe cheater and thats in reference to the election and thats been drawn out over the past couple of days, this man has been involved in controversy before and neighbors tell us the hang of this mannequin was just the latest races thing that hes done and theyve had enough. People gather along garan parkway in brentwood angered by an effigy hung in a neighbors yard. Theyre protesting this mannequin found with a sign around its neck saying sleepy joe parentheses cheater the action is not only being called outrageous but racist we bring the whole its really disappointing the mans neighbors on craig court have known him as a trump supporter who likes to draw attention. Some are fine with him showing his support for the president , but the mannequin went too far anytime that you put a noose next american blacks. And that just brings up way too much divisiveness you got to be smarter than brentwood. Police convinced the man to take down the effigy thursday after people expressed disgust with it on social media to redneck thing the homeowner identified as eric harvey has created this type of controversy once before. In 2017, he flew a Confederate Flag outside of his home harvey telling kron 4 news at the time it was patriotic but neighbors say it shows a history of racist behavior and he doesnt know the implications of that symbol. And he said to get himself its racist and we dont stand for that umbrella and everybody is entitled to free speech. But it gets to point when youre hanging what looks like a black man on racism is racism. Police were forced to block some streets near harveys home to keep the neighborhood from being taken over with protesters, but it didnt keep people from letting harvey know that what he did is not welcome in this community, he does this for attention as if hes loving this right now im well harvey is right now not facing any charges. The Contra Costa County da says that although. This mannequin was offensive. He is protected by the first amendment. Me