And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election president ial Campaign Event for a democratic candidate in this part of the state since the mid90s. That just tells you th
His supporters are continuing to protest outside Voting Centers but elsewhere celebrations of broken now in anticipation of final results. Joe biden is edging closer to that magic number of 270 Electoral College votes that will make him the next president of the United States in the past 12 hours the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 key battleground states pennsylvania and georgia so this is where we stand at the moment there are just a few battleground states still being counted at this point biden is leading in all of them based on the count from the Associated Press he secured 264 Electoral College votes so far donald trump has 214 and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach 270 but bidens lead in these 2 states is growing as the mail in ballots continues to be counted in georgia is extremely close though most of those remaining votes are from the city of atlanta and its suburbs which tends to lean heavily democrat anyway thats helped joe biden get ahead but
And here to help us with that throughout the morning is john. Good morning, pedro, viewers should know were going to be using the Associated Press numbers for calls and results. So viewers may hear about different numbers being reported but were always going to be coming back to the Associated Press numbers. So lets start off with where the president ial contest stands this morning. The key state of wisconsin there on your screen, a state thats being watched closely this morning, its 49. 4 for joe biden, President Trump, 49. 1 . That number has been flipping back and forth throughout the day. That is just one of six key states were watching this morning. The other one, michigan this morning in the wolverine state. The numbers in michigan, President Trump 49. 8 , joe iden, 48. 6 . And then the third state in the Northern Industrial midwest area , once known as the blue wall for democrats. That blue wall that President Donald Trump broke through, pennsylvania, the other key state, 55. 7
Talks about social Media Companies approach to misinformation on their platforms. At 945 a. M. , virginia senator tim kaine host this is the washington journal for october the 20th. Pennsylvania,p in Vice President pence planned a stop in cincinnati, ohio. Two recent polls suggest when asked about the impact of social media and political discourse, most people responded it had a negative effect. What about you . What do you think of social medias impact on the way we get information about politics and how we talk about politics . You can let us know on the lines this morning. 2027488000 hooves 2027488001 who support President Trump and mike pence, 2027488000 for joe biden and Kamala Harris. 2027488002 if you are undecided or support another candidate. If you text us, you can do so at 2027488003. Our Facebook Pages facebook. Com cspan. Those polls, one of them comes talks about social medias impact. Heres a result of the survey saying by Political Party, there slight while 83 to republi
San mateo county and other bay area counties by the registrar of voters in that county. This however is not an official drop box nor is this. Theyve been discovered in la orange and fresno counties the problem here is with starters unknowingly delivering their ballots to an unofficial mislabeled and misrepresented as an official drop they do not know who it is theyre surrendering their ballot because the impression they have with the word of this well top boxes that theyre surrendering to a county official and thats not the case and now Californias Republican Party says they own these collection boxes and authorized an official ballot drop boxes are not permitted by state law in the state of and to misrepresent unofficial boxes as official further misleads voters erodes public trust at a News Conference late monday afternoon. The secretary of state and the attorney general made it clear these boxes are illegal. And they filed a cease and desist order against the cal gop requiring they