we produce more energy than we consumed through fossil fuels. that's not necessarily where our future is headed. i do wish harris will a bit stronger on that issue, but it's not an actual substantial difference extended to canada and i will wait and see what happens in pennsylvania. thank you. german both for the moment, james and our shots. thank you. the head is one g, m t and you are watching ology or a special coverage of the 2020 for us presidential election. i'm fully back to your life, my global headquarters here in doha. the 1st result was, have been voting in and they have been no surprises. so far vermont has gone to come to how is while west virginia, kentucky, and indiana have gone to donald trump power to just close in a crucial battle ground state of pennsylvania. we are waiting to see what happened

today. let's go live to my kind of in philadelphia. so mike, the pose of clothes that when can we expect the 1st results, any indications of well, how long is a piece of string in pennsylvania is problematic in terms of the speed with which results so much because of the fact that the ballots at the mail invalid, so only opened when election day begins, the slows the whole process down, and i must mention to that in the mid term elections in 2022, nearly a quarter of the votes with mail in ballots. so to take a while before we start seeing trends, so the what we will start hearing perhaps and then. okay mike, i'm so sorry. i'm going to interrupt adults from my to the to hold on a 2nd. i'm going to interrupt you because 0 is at the dates and well with some results here. well, i told you a couple of minutes ago that 19 states had their polls closing right now, right? so let's find out what populates in the data while i by the way,

i don't know what's about to show if i have a pretty good idea because we have expectations. there you go. complet harris, the vice president. this projected to carry the state of maryland not a surprise to intellectual boats in the blue call them so calmly. harris. now, the democrats are expecting about one 3rd of their electoral votes to come from the northeast corner of the united states. here's another one, connecticut 7 electoral votes. so for now, for now, things are going according the plan for the democrats, vice president would not be surprised by this same thing with rhode island for electro votes. again were in the northeast corner of the united states. this is where the democrats get so many of their electoral votes for electro votes coming from rhode island. they've just closed, they've just been cold. that's how predictable this was massachusetts. same story, we're in the same part of the country. 11 electoral votes for couple of harris coming from massachusetts. so right now, she's running up the score where you would expect the democrats to get a lot of their electoral votes from. and now flip the script. donald trump getting 9 electoral votes from alabama. now we're in the south, a deep south ruby red southeast was always expected to go for donald trump. he is

projected to win alabama. he is also projected to win mississippi and carry those 6 electro votes. let's see what else we have coming up in the screen. in oklahoma several extra votes again, were in the south a little bit further to the west. if you can still picture the map will look at, you will look at it in the 2nd 7 electoral votes coming from oklahoma in the red column. and the same thing for tennessee. again, this is the south, donald trump is supposed to get most, not most, but he's supposed to get many of his electoral votes over here in the south. this is a republican stronghold. it let me electoral votes coming from tennessee. donald trump is projected to carry the states. so if we look back, let's see if something else is coming up. do we have something else? yes, we do. florida. this is a big one. this is a massive one. okay. it's expected, but it's massive and there are no surprises. now, this is one of those maybe for the 1st time this evening. i'm going to tell you republicans looking at this. breathing a sigh of relief. yes, they thought they were going to carry it,

but you never know. you never know. surprises do happen. he is carrying it with 30 electro boats. it's a very, very big one. remember, you need 170. you need to 70. i beg your pardon to 70, to win the white house. south carolina has now been cool to donald trump before the president projected to win the state of south carolina. again, same kind of story. we're in the south. we are in the deep south. the republicans are supposed to do well here. there are 2 battlegrounds in the south. that's georgia and south carolina. beyond that, the republicans is supposed to carry everything, and it's supposed to be pretty straightforward. no, georgia, we keep looking at it. why? because it is one of our 7 battle grounds. but again, you always have to be mindful of this, this little black corner here. and if you, if you can't see it well on your tv, zoom into something because it's an important number. 3 percent of the vote reported donald trump carrying. i beg your pardon, not carrying the state. don't let me get this wrong. donald trump with 56 percent of the boat, but with only a tiny fraction of the boat actually reported in georgia. all right, let's be clear about that. net. let's look at the state of the race before we headed back to fully. this is where we stand right now. 95,

remember florida alone was worth 3095 electoral votes for donald trump. 35 for the vice president, complet harris. one more thing. this map here looking exactly like what we thought it would like look like roughly this point in the evening. democrats getting their votes from here. republicans getting their boats from the south, from the midwest here in oklahoma as well. so by the way, one last thing does this mean that he's crushing her right? no, no, it doesn't. no, it doesn't. it just means those are the states where we expected republicans to get their votes. same thing with the democrats. these numbers are going to keep changing throughout the our field. i'm going to keep changing, but uh, definitely the republicans breathing a sigh of relief with florida going to truck. oh absolutely. yeah. if, if they had lost florida, that would be, i mean, that would be, you know, as synonymy of change. right. thank you very much. so for the moment sale vonny at the day to well then let's go back to my kinda was in philadelphia, falls also closing in pennsylvania this hour. any early indications them like

nothing yet. that's time we'll still be waiting. i must just add to what? so that's been summarizing the, the state of vermont, a predicting that it will go to harris. that's some 20 percent of the vote counted the. so we electro votes at stake and vermont every little bit to cons. the issue of, of the mainland folks, this is something that the laser focused in pennsylvania and does do year election opt election. but there's a very important factor to consider as well. what we've seen in terms of the patterns throughout the a number of elections is that the republicans tend to vote at the polls democrats to into a male in vote. now what you have seen in pennsylvania in the past is an early lead for the republicans because those votes on the day in person are being come to the 1st and will quickly then you see a search towards the democrats as the mailing votes are counted. so it's very

difficult to establish any kind of defining pattern in the early hours of the predictions within pennsylvania in particular, it tests to take time and it will take time in terms to get a full, a and more clear picture. emerging as the election goes on. right. and, and mike, we've heard trump allege massive cheating in, in philadelphia, in pennsylvania. what, what is that about as well, he posted on the social saying that there is massive cheating in philadelphia that law enforcement is getting involved. well, that was news to the philadelphia district attorney who said it says absolutely no basis whatsoever to the claim on trump's media page as saying that there had been no reports. what so any of any irregularities in philadelphia or indeed any other part of pennsylvania? one issue in pennsylvania wasn't cambria county, where there was

a software malfunction. and some of the bandit boxes ballots had to be processed by hand. digitize, they shouldn't have to go on by hand. and the county election bold that decided to keep the poles open for another 2 hours. so when we say that polls have closed in pennsylvania, they've closed everywhere else, but it can be a county where they to remain open for a couple of us longer. all right, mike, thank you very much. we will of course go back to as some early results. start to come in uh from pennsylvania and let's now head to michigan. another crucial battleground states reasonable is in dearborn. teresa, we saw both candidates during the campaign spent a great deal of time in michigan, have they been able to when boats? well, michigan is a crucial battle ground state, a swing states where donald trump one back in 2016 with little over 10000 volts,

10704 volts and joe biden defeated him later on in 2020. and the big question is, who is going to win this time? we saw donald trump coming here to michigan on friday and meeting with members of the arab american community in this state. that is very, very important in this election. i'm promising them that there's going to be peace in the middle east. later on. we saw in south of a cabinet how we signed on on sunday, i'm sorry, cabinet harry's for us and here appealing to the african american community. she went to a church service. she met with an american football player later on, she went to a barber shop and, and did her riley here in a university appealing again to the african american vote. that polo suggested that she was lagging behind, especially among african american men. so suddenly, both candidates have been spending lots of time here. every vote counts in the selection was appealing for people to turn up to go out and vote because the fit,

there's 15 electric votes that this fate has are crucial for any of the candidates to make it to the white house. what about the arab american vote in michigan? theresa? it's very important this time around as well. certainly this is a knife edge election. it's a razor scene election where a very small fort margin could define who is going to win this state then who will make it in a way to the presidential palace those to the president into the white house. i'm sorry, a so suddenly they play a crucial role. traditionally, they have food for the democratic party that's been changing best buy. so you're especially since october the 7th since the war on gaza since the war and living on people are very angry, very upset, especially with a democratic party. the blame joe biden, with what's been going on in the be lease with us in the support. it's been given by the white house to the state of as well. so sadly, many of the people that have spoken to see are saying that they know it's going to

vote for a camera hurries. and they've been telling me that they're going to boat for a green party candidate deals time. but many others are saying that they will vote for donald from. so this is a crucial electric in this selection. and they're, even though they represent the wrong one percent of the registered voters in the united states, they're located in p swing states, such as this one. so, and this election where i am right now, this is a watch events where people are gathering to watch who is going to win in this as city dearborn, with the highest highest concentration of arab americans in the united states. what everybody is watching, the impact that they are both is going to have in the selection. teresa, thank you very much. that's very simple. lives in dearborn, michigan. well, as the post close at this crucial time in a number of states including florida, let's check in on out in fisher, who's in palm beach, florida outside the convention center that where donald trump's, the watch bodies being held. so florida, going to trump not a surprise,

but i imagine that the reading a sigh of relief of the yeah. but there are no surprises. i. i think the d. c were pretty well convinced that florida would be, and donald trump call him by the end of the night. and that's exactly how it's happened. he's winning all the states you would expect to win, but there is need of optimism around the trump campaign. and among the supporters of the convention center behind which they think that the at least indications are that donald trump is going to have a very good night there. looking at places where a couple of how does is pulling to lo, total, the job i was pulling in 2020. and the thing that's important indication, one example was a county in virginia, a state that the trump campaign has been talking about over the last 48 hours as possibly slipping the polls towards the desktop. but if you look at this county in virginia, near washington b. c, it's traditionally democratic, but couple of how does this lead there is we don't know what to abide and hide in 2020. so for all of those reasons, the term campaign seems to think that their own course, but

a very good night. and donald trump did we take the white house? the one thing the critics are pointing to is that donald trump, because without any evidence, claim that there was some commonality in the way that both were being come to the voice being administered in the likes of pennsylvania and also michigan senior republican figures. and both those states, i've said that simply not true, critics points to the fact that i show as donald trump is what do you do enough that he's floating the idea of the selection being stolen. but the supporters don't need that at the moment. they're looking at the results and thinking, trump is doing very well indeed. and are you seeing all and exit polls about the big issue for american voters in this each well, it's a mixed bag for donald trump, in that case, the policy, that's the thing, the consent, which is most was the state of democracy. and of course, that has been the one of the leading themes of the hottest campaign. the 2nd thing was the economy now come on,

how this has going with the public's view of how she would handle the economy during the election campaign. but donald trump has to use the economy in his closing message, taking a theme from ronald reagan in 1986. i do, you feel better off, you know, than you did for years ago. and that resonates with many people because the simply doing everything seems to be much more expensive. so the thing on the list was abortion. so that, so when for how does and we down below is immigration. and that's really the main theme that donald trump has been hammering that immigration is a problem that they've got to close the border. they've got to get rid of undocumented microns out of the country. right? so the fact that that wasn't as high up in both as concerns me gives a high discount, a bit of poll when it comes to looking at the time those in pennsylvania and also georgia where it seems that that has to be massive. so no, of course turner is going to decide the selection in those key see. so while the trump camp is cars is a mistake,

i need some cases. it was described to me as katie is still a long way to go before the end of the night. thank you very much, allan not an official life or a say in a palm beach florida. let's now well deeper into some of those issues at all and was just mentioning that and go to james phase in his final in washington dc fully we'll be with the panel in just a moment here in washington dc. but 1st, let's get reaction from getting to emily, how could she's covering the harris campaign to some of the things we've seen some of the results we've seen recently. kimberly took us through that reaction to what i see the yeah. james, what we're seeing in terms of the things here on the ground at howard university. i can tell you that the projections in terms of the states that com, la harris is already winning if be received very well here at howard

university. obviously there are thousands of person for it that are gathering here for this election night watch party respect, about $16000.00 in total by the time the night is fully in swearing. and what i can tell you is, but in terms out of those election projections, they have them being projected here on a big screen. and each time one of those things is called the crowd of rocks in here. and so, so far, what we've been hearing, james is of vermont, massachusetts, new hampshire, connecticut, and maryland have all gone for couple of harris, but that, that's not a big surprise. the fact that would be a problem to get things even though for popular harris. these are predictably what we call the news states, and other words, they're predictably leading democratic. so what we expect is that the ones that we need to still be watching for those 70 battleground space that we still have to

watch for. and of course, those are the ones that may take a lot longer in terms of counting. so that is still what we're watching very carefully for. we know that in fact, when it comes to states like north carolina and georgia, we know that in the case of north carolina, very early result shows that comma harris is a little bit ahead. but of course, they're only one 3rd of the votes that have been challenging so far and in georgia, we know that donald trump is the head, but again, they're far from complete in terms of counting. so it's way too early to know about these battleground states. so again, when we look at what's been called so far, it really is very predictable results. kimberly, the democrats had an impressive organization and they ramped up in the final weeks . do you think that has helped there's no question

that they believe that helps. what will determine whether or not it really has helped us the results in terms of the valid fox. but let me just give you a sense of the ground games. what is it really entails is the translation of the fund raising that cala here is, was had on for many, many months. she had a very short campaign, but she inherited a campaign from her predecessor jo by them. and so there was a war chest of millions and she inherited as well as an infrastructure. and so those millions meant that she had office stab. she had hundreds of people, if not thousands of people as well as 350 offices. but she was able to knock on doors, she was able to put outside them. and even on the election day, probably harris herself was able to make phone calls to make sure the people turned out and were able to vote at the polls. so they believe that in a very close race,

this is going to be the definitive difference and get pamela harris into the oval office and make history as the 1st female president moment of color. president of the united states. generally, how it fits with harris campaign. not far from here. thank you very much for joining us. i'm with the panel now of course, which still early days of this long night with the race for the white house. but let's discuss where we are right now with me is in the, i'm be conscious associates professor in school, the public policy, or the university of maryland. we have joined cheney, a democratic political strategist, the 70 a bomber administration, and john ferry, republican strategist, and part of the the advocacy a strategic advocacy for representing corporations. thank you again for joining us . so we are getting some results in, and i think probably the most significant one near m b is flow it up because go back

a couple of cycles. and that was the big swing state. it's definitely in the republican camp now firmly in the republican column, and i think florida is what we expected. i mean, it's a big state with a lot of electoral votes, so i'm sure that's a boon for the trump campaign. and certainly if he had not one florida, that would have been a f it with a for the campaign, but it's very much what we predicted john reaction. yeah, i mean, i'd say, i think that's largely right. and the one thing that out of florida is most interesting is miami, that they became republican for the 1st time and a pretty overwhelming fashion. and i think that that shows you that the republicans are doing better with hispanic voters then people might have expected. um that yeah, i remember when we had the hanging chad. i mean florida we switched florida every year. yeah, the thing about florida is rick scott, one for the fairly easily that was one of the pick ups of the democrats wanted to get. um, so that, that's good, good, good for the trump campaign. we'll see how it goes. joy, you are flung. florida. miami dade pauses is interesting. that is seen the voters and we were talking earlier about puerto rico and the condemnation of that madison

square garden and raleigh. and whether it would hurt trump doesn't seem to affect him. that it doesn't seem mostly what happens when we look at the entire country in different, you know, spot, the puerto rican latino voters elsewhere. but hey, florida, had it not gone for trump? it would have been an early evening and it would have not been fun. but i think what democrats have learned is florida. let's not spend so much time focus there. right now. it's firmly read. we have to do some other work there. right now. it's with trump no surprises. we're not gonna stay for me. focus today. we're gonna have to wait until you have a look somewhere else on the electrical map and we're going to go to arizona now and rope. reynolds joins us from maricopa county tabulation and election center in phoenix rule, but in any security problems or irregularities that this evening so far the

so think we have brought the can you do me? have we seen any security problems or any irregularities that this evening? i think we've got to, they may not, they may not be security problems. this need to be some sort of problem. so let's go, let's go back to, to the panel in terms of that now be we've already had donald trump, all his truth, social, social media network, talking about problems in pennsylvania. i mean, he is constantly been talking about problems with the electoral system to, to think this is a responsible thing. this stage for kind of that to be doing. i mean i never think if aerospace responsible will be a sore loser. i think donald trump is shown as time and time again that if he does

it when, then it's someone else's fault, not the fact that he didn't really put together campaign, not the fact that he didn't really tell people concretely what he would do. so i think he's setting this up in case something goes awry in pennsylvania. busy or in other places that he needs to win in order to win this white house. i don't think it's responsible. we saw january 6th for those of us who were in the district and live in that city and lived in that city at that time. that was very scary and dangerous and so we still have people, you know, going to trial and being in prison because of january 6. so i think that kind of thing is very irresponsible, puts a lot of people's lives in danger, including his own supporters. let's suppose that the conversation i'd like you need both of you will be on the 2nd, but we'll try once again the most amount of coupon county tabulation and the election center and phoenix, arizona. i hope you can hear us this time or of any problems, the security problems irregularities that with a we're hearing there in arizona so far nothing much

so far though you. i'm standing here at the outside the tabulation center and inside the workers, the election workers are doing their thing. they're opening the ballots and counting them and checking them. uh and uh, this was the site, however, uh, 4 years ago and 2020 of a very notorious incident with when the news media began reporting that joe biden had, in fact carried the state of arizona many uh, people, uh, approved from group of people angry, a crowd gathered here, many of the members had the weapons, they had guns, they had the other types of weapons and they chanted stop the steel and they intimidated election workers trying to gain entry into the, the bit the building here, this time around. it's a different story. this facility is surrounded by high fences, top with barbed wire. there's a considerable police presence and

a large number of police on call as well ready to move into action in case any trouble develops. now in terms of election interference, there were service bomb threats made today against polling places in northeastern arizona. this is a part of the state that is populated mainly by native americans. so there was some disruption there. as these reports were checked out, but the secretary of state of arizona adrian front a says that these turned out to be unsubstantiated hoaxes. and based on his information, he said, the emanated in one shape or fashion, or another from russia. the justice department is also investigating the same bomb threats here in arizona, as well as in other states, but they wouldn't comment on any russian connection in terms of turn out. we'll find out a little bit later when polls, those are what those numbers are. but just based on our observations here in

maricopa county, the biggest jurisdiction in the state of arizona. there were long lines at the university of state, arizona, state university, where we were all day and sources in tucson that i've spoken with. also say they saw very long lines there, so it looks based on that anecdotal evidence that there is pretty heavy turn out here in arizona today. rob reynolds in arizona. thank you very much. i'll just say we're have correspondence across the united states and in all 7, the same swing states, back to the panel. joan of 2 things. that one we're hearing of these bomb threats. arizona also um we're hearing in pennsylvania, but also i want to ask you about the point we were just discussing trump's comments . is it responsible to be questioning the voting system complaining about cheating this early in the night? well it, especially if you're winning, it's probably not

a great idea. i do. there has been some, some concerns with some of the voting machines and some county, especially republican counties that have been shut down in long lines. the observation that we make about pennsylvania is that the democrats have to get uh, at least $500000.00 votes out of out of philadelphia, if they want to make it better for the rest state. i think they're well below those numbers right now. so we'll see how this goes. i mean, i, if you're a republican right now, you think you have a really good shot at winning pennsylvania. so it's probably not the greatest idea to start working the rest, you know, and which seems like he's work in the rest of and from the american perspective, i'm is yelling at the referees, if they make a bad call, that you don't like it. so, you know, we'll see how this works out, but i don't think it's really good for him to do it so prematurely unless you're going for specific instances where machines are broken. and republican and people have long lines when they can't vote. i'd like to talk a bit more would join a movement about the of electrical problems potentially, but now be,

but that stuff about buttons, threats, and then russia being involved. i think it's worth pointing out. there was a statement yesterday from the office of the director of national intelligence, the f b i n, the cyber security and infrastructure is security agency warning of this thing, russia and the wrong we're targeting the election. so i mean, we think that phone interference again to stay up to be late believed. well, absolutely. i mean, i think we've known this for a very long time that information creek that happens with the box online and sharing and flies let me difficult. i was trying to think of a nice way to say that right, but misinformation, if we want to call that just information, which are really made to depress, turn out, and they target in particular low information motors. they target younger people, older people, black people, and we, we seen this in 2020, it's a shame that we have not really taken any real lessons from that. but it's still the case that our electoral system is pretty secure. but this interference that's

largely happening in our online communities. i think it's something that we have not been as attended to as we should have been on so much of it. joy is on social media. it's right on some of it. if you follow x, which is not the biggest social media platform, but probably the biggest for people, distributing new stories kind of comes from the own room itself. that's right. i mean, look, if you're watching 0, then perhaps, you know, you're not part of the problem. but for any of us getting news from social media, you're getting skewed news, you're getting things. and the social media companies, just simply forget donald trump for a moment. they haven't been as responsible as they need to be in order to curb this . and we all have to be talking to our young people in particular and all of our family and saying, please do not get your news from social media. still listen to trusted news, reputable sources. and then we need our new institutions to be reputable, so that they trust them. what do you make? joan of the law marks role in the trump campaign. he seems to be the top. sorry.

good now. yeah, wow, i'm a, i'm a huge fan of you on mosque. i watched space x, i watch the the rocket. it was really quite incredible. not i live in. no, i why didn't somebody to take a test of life? i love the experience. i think i'm making that political strategist as well. it doesn't, but what, what it does make him is somebody who has credibility in fixing problems. and i think what he has somebody that trouble is going to rely on if he wins to really kind of get government efficiency going. and i, i think that if you're a republican, you're going to watch someone who knows how to make it more per productivity out of the federal government. and i think that's gonna be, i think has to be very useful. well, hang on joy, let me let me you. but i'll see you last time when i was in washington dc, and i was in the white house covering the white house for the 1st 9 months of the last trump presidency. and so many of the jobs at the beginning of the trump presidency last time, one fills that was difficulty getting things done. and i remember from diplomat

saying we call the phone business. there's no one in the door. well now you know, most is going to come in apparently and do this job where he's gonna sweep away. even move your jobs in, in the, in what they call the bureaucracy. but in the, in the system, he's destroyed twitter and he would destroy the government. if he had it struthers donald trump had a terrible time in the beginning, but actually threw out his administration. and it would do well hopefully for americans to remember about the chaos that was involved. and if he gets the 2nd part of the apple, he won't even have the credible people working for him that he had before and who, which he will have, you know, loose cannons, people who are project 2025 supporters. different different um you know, different folks who are not credible and who do not share the value of the american people. so, you know, i think it's something to keep in mind. can i just put something on pennsylvania? john is absolutely right. if donald trump were doing well in pennsylvania, if his internal polling was being as successful as he'd like it to be,

he would not be undermining the vote there. a john, i mean, jumped out of the wall and i was listening to when he was speaking to the forces of treat, voted in florida. he said the system doesn't work. we should have all of the votes done, but by the end of the evening it should be a much, much quicker. it should be done like from so you said where the window will lose up by 10 pm. do you agree with that? i mean, absolutely. hang on, i haven't finished the question quite because this is a complex system you have in the us number one, you'll not just doing a vote for the president. you have the house, you have to send it. yeah. there is different ballot measures and states. and so i could have stopped my question because we got no answer and it was going to be good . all right, james. thank you very much. 2 let's look at what we're getting now i'm hearing that here it is. donald trump is the projected winner of the state of arkansas. that

means he gets those 6 electoral votes, so you can add to his number of electoral votes. he was already of a 100 plus electoral votes. that's add 6 to that. what do we have now? we have new jersey coming in. the vice president is the projected winner of the state of new jersey, 14 electoral vote. so that's the, you know, good. what's your, what's your counting more than 10 electrical votes that does add to your total, doesn't it? so that's a pretty significant one. democrats really can't get anywhere without new york, new jersey and a bunch of big states. so that's a significant one. now let's look at where the battle ground states are right now with this has jumped by the way, with 52 percent of the vote, reporting and georgia. last time i spoke to you maybe 1520 minutes ago we had what was it? 345 percent of the vote reported. so this now becomes a lot more significant. donald trump is in the lead. currently has 55 percent of the vote. that means 55 percent of the vote that is reported. doesn't mean that you know, he's going to win the state. no, it does not at this stage, that just means it is where we are with half the vote reported now north carolina, another battle ground state were polls of close 16 electoral votes, georgia,

north carolina. the 2 in the south, 16 each, that's $32.00 electoral states. the electoral votes with 14 percent of the vote reported. wow, i'm not sure i've ever seen these numbers 5050, so we are exactly, you know, give or take what is that like a 1020 vote difference. that shows you maybe how close it could end up being, but that's where we are in north carolina right now. what else do we have? pennsylvania, the biggest electoral prize, we keep saying it and we will keep seeing it throughout the evening because it carries 19 electro votes. when i say the biggest electro prize, i mean the biggest of the 7 swing states, right? so with 8 percent of the vote reported donald trump is way behind complet harris who has 71 percent, but again qualified that only 8 percent of the vote reported. so we want to keep you updating updated on these for the moment. no conclusions. of course in virginia, fit, 13 electro votes has not yet been called 4949 again,

super close. but again, this is only with just a 3rd of the vote reported. so we want to keep you updated virginia. this is where so virginia, the last 4 election cycles has been blue, which is kind of an interesting switch because it used to be deep red. so if you go 2012 obama carried it. he was about to 3 percentage points ahead of mitt romney. then clinton carried it and you see actually the gap of getting bigger in favor of the democrats. so clinton, what is that 7 points that head of trump and then bite and carried this with 10 percentage points. so virginia is supposed to go super blue. interesting fact about virginia. remember when joe biden dropped out of the race, washington post and reported that this was at the point when his team showed him internal polling that said he could not win in virginia. right. that he was going to get crushed by donald trump. in virginia, the democrats figured joe biden figured that if he couldn't carry virginia, he definitely couldn't get back to the white house. he figured he could not win the race without virginia. so that is where we are. delaware has now been called for

complet harris. the vice president is carrying the state of delaware that comes from a reliable source of blue in the us electrical map, right? that northeastern corner where i've told you, and we'll keep telling you the best, where democrats tend to get about a 3rd of their electoral votes. let's look at the map. see where we are. first of all, the big number donald trump, has about twice as many electro both right now is couple of harris. what does it mean? does it mean that he's crushing the vice president? no, it doesn't. it doesn't. it just means that for the moment, more read states have been called, then blue states. you're expecting pretty much this entire part of math to go read 2 notable exceptions, georgia in north carolina in the south. there was a battleground, but pretty much all of this is it will be read, trust me, it's going to be read before the end of the night. pretty much all of this little corner. it is going to be blue before the end of the night. so that's where we are right now. no major surprises. let me take it back to fully. yeah, this is we're looking at the time it's 20 minutes to to gmc,

it's roughly where team heart in fact is exactly where team harris and team trump thought they were. the price point, no surprises either good or bad for either side. so far. pennsylvania is the one we're waiting for. right. and so far, it's too early again for pennsylvania, but they have seem not looking that so far. they look, it's called the blue wall for reason, right? blue wall, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. all 3 of these states. by the way, always vote in the same direction. i'm not making a prediction that they will do that right in this evening. but that's what they've done in the last 8 elections and of those 8 election cycle, 7 times they've gone blue, right? let's see what happens is just saying, sarah, thank you very much, sarah. and let's find out what's happening in georgia and speak to john henry and who's near atlanta, georgia, a little over 50 percent. now sarah was telling us of the votes. how does that bring us up to speed with the latest? it's looking good for trump, the x ray,

they're expecting a record number of votes cast here in the state of georgia over 5000000. but it was never clear whether that would favor cumberland harris or donald trump. what we're seeing now is in the early in the mail and votes that were 1st counted, it is starting to look like it was leaning toward trump when it comes to day of votes. about a 1000000 or so, we expect that the last votes it will be counted, will come from the largely democratic area around atlanta. so that may lift those numbers up a little for harris at the end. but whether we enough with that big of a day, a gap, we don't know that for sure. behind me we just saw a fruitful bag being brought. those were the 1st votes here in gwinnett county where they did hit a record. i talked to zach manifold. he's a supervisor of elections and this is what he had to say. it has definitely to record at about 630 between advance and bruce and asked that you by mail and

election day both. we were at about $419000.00 total, and the old record was 4 years ago, $416000.00. so we'll see what comes in in that last half hour. and everybody seemed in line and several blocks. so fruit feeling pretty good and it didn't all go smoothly though. across the georgia, there were more than 30 bomb threats called in the secretary of state. jarvis says that those were from russian interference sources, apparently based on russian email addresses. and they decided that those were not credible threats, they were election interference. you heard rob reynolds a little earlier talking about that is where it's so what that, what that did was it closed down certain pulling sites. so there are a few that are going to be open a little later here in georgia, but the vote is coming in fast and they expect to us the records are as resent where they're coming, that harris can make up. that difference is not at all clear. thank you very much,

john, for the moment. john henry, near atlanta, georgia, that with the latest from the voting in that crucial battle ground stays out of state of nevada, is also one of the 7 battleground states and voting is still underway there. let's check in with john home and who is a live in las vegas. nevada is the smallest of the swing state john logistics electoral vote. but it's also the most diverse battleground states. what can we expect from that? the bigger, right it is. we go, for example, of 30 percent of the population that so that the, you know, we've got a sizable asian american part of the population in nevada. so it's diverse too. so i thought i'd pass between the rural areas of the state, but tens reads, the republicans finds las vegas in cobb county here, which tends blue usually. but you're asking, what can we expect? no one knows this time around. it's a wider from rice. we're actually in the republicans, the g r p,

a election party and they just getting ready to what they hope, what they hope will be a celebration, the secretary of state of nevada. we were speaking to him a little bit earlier and he said that i do expect to get the results out tonight so we should know the po, remove, the polling stations will probably is in about an hour and a off. and then it will just be so time to wait. if you anything we know in terms of folks, sorry for in early voting. republican, registering republicans actually, our stripped democrats. and that was worrying democrats because usually they do better. and everybody thinks that split rounds this, this time around. the other thing about nevada, though it's, it's don't move registered on affiliated votes, is that it has republicans or democrats. so there is a sizable chunk to the boat hibbits. i'll click grabs, which even policy could screw pop up. and if they do that and start to type rice and it might bring dividends for them. okay, john,

thank you very much townhome and live there in las vegas, nevada, a battleground states with 6 electoral votes up for grab. let's bring in our panel of guess here with me, arshad and james, the republican and democratic strategist, respectively. you've been with us all evening and are going to be with us for a couple of hours. as these results continue to come in. any surprises so far from, from the results as 0. just announce a moment ago. nothing surprising. everything is where it should be. so i don't think it's, and you can actually see this reflected the campaigns themselves did not make any significant investments in any of the, in any of the states. we're up on our, on our big board because they knew where things are going. right, right. now interestingly, all the, the, the republican states that the ones that i saw 5 free got some results. and you know, when you look at the numbers you, you might, you know, as you, especially if you don't know the lay of the land and not familiar with us politics . you might think that donald trump is in the lead. and that, you know,

his question coming to have is, which is not the case, right? that is not the case. all right, thing is, as predicted, the swing states or where the action is for the president, right? what a way to make james of, of what president trump is alleging is happening in philadelphia. he claims their voting irregularities, as we've heard from, from james space in, in washington, his and his spinal. it's quite irresponsible coming from the present. it can't help himself. he's sitting hardly waiting for results and i think it's just one of those things where you literally can help him. so is that a nice winter? and then i get a more. all right, buddy. so he's still getting out, you know, some of these messages and i'm sure my name is aids are really quite frustrated at this point and it's like, just hold on, wait till the votes come in. yes, it's irresponsible. i love what i've seen from a couple of the counties who have in the correspondence, you've talked about what they're doing when they have the same irregularities when one of them, how to tamper proof issue on the the loading machine. and it wasn't filled, right? they took the ballots, they focused on hand counting them. it's going to take

a little bit longer, but they're going to get it right. so that, that's the kind of, um, i think the, the need that the american people have is they need that over communication. when something goes wrong, as a communication strategist, this is where we often fail. and i think donald trump is, he's like, why is this happening faster? i really, truly believe this needs to happen faster and do i think there are some things we can do to make this process faster? yes, but we also just need to get it right. it is a complicated process, right? this voting system in the united states and, and, and i guess, you know what, when you think about early voting and so on. but it's also a process where people have access to vote where, you know, it works right. both of you seem to agree on that, that it's working, is it? there is a process and a system and we've been doing this for years and years. is it going to be perfect? no, but we do have processes and systems to make sure that close as we can make it every vote counts over well. namely,

the united states selection process has been successful in counting and making sure that there are no irregularities of the millions and millions and millions of votes cast every year. there are so few irregularities, they're not eventually processed and corrected, but it's, it's almost a marvel, especially considering a decentralized, the whole system is. now one thing to use that i really want to get to is that's for people who have access to the ballot, right. we can still do more to make sure that more people have easy access to the ballot in a way that is right and good or fair one more people not, i think what's, what's the percentage i guess of people not having access to those values. so i mean, is that a real issue today? it's hard to pin down because there isn't like old bright line that says you have access. you don't have access. sometimes lawmakers will put out obstacles to make it more difficult for people to gain access to having an id. for example, in texas, you can bring your, uh, your, uh,

a gun registration. you're going to use that counts as an id. you want it done and you've got a little piece of paper that says you've got a good grade, but your student id doesn't count. it's not just about, oh, do you have an id or not a government issued id. so if there's any other city of texas school id look, right, that is a government issued, i use you, i buried that says you should, you should. there's plenty of access what we see increasing voter participation. we have. so earlier we have earlier adoption for early voting there, more male in ballots for donald trump doesn't like hardly voting since he did it. but i think he's looking at it now like, hey, this is working out pretty well for me because the early voting is actually pretty slow. it's really, he was, as we heard john say, early voting is actually, republicans are doing quite well with early voting. he, he didn't like all good that last time and i think it's, i actually heard him quite a bit because it was a, uh, a weird time with cobra and everything else. but they jumped on and they said, hell, nope, we're going to get out the early boating. we're going to push for early voting. because one reason that there is like once arshad boats,

i don't have to go and knock on his door again. so there's a great data operation behind it, right? okay, so what is your concern in our shout about access? it's not just about id, what, what else is going on here when it comes to access to both? let's take a look what we did during the pandemic. right off of the pen demik, we need to keep this sense and do all of these things. so we started expanding access to the early vote being able to mail in our balance c like pennsylvania state that we're all focusing on right now. was one of the most difficult states to vote in and devote early and in the country dependent mitchum along. and he made an adaptation. these are other patients that republican legislatures have generally opposed. but once dependent became milan, most people did not want to give up access to early voting. pennsylvania, you had to have an excuse and prove to the state government, but you were the kind of government that you were going to be gone in order to do an absence here of a male. and by vote. now you can just say i would like to vote by mail that's

expanded access for everybody, particularly for people who aren't mobile, particularly for people who have maybe multiple jobs. it's even though you're supposed to be able to get, leave a job to vote. that's a law that is on the books. many employers don't make it easy for people who you think early voting is going to benefit facing well, okay, so there's a lot of math behind this and they don't wanna worry too much. and however, democrats had done an enormous, enormous effort during the early vote in 2020, and republicans because donald trump and opposed it. we had a huge disparity between the 2. so this year we expect the disparity be much less. and then the less the democrats continue to push the early voting. when i see lions and philadelphia there's the pictures, the lines we saw a little bit earlier. part of me feels happy that all these people are routing, but party feel is likely to have done even better job of getting in the early vote . people shouldn't have to stay in lines to vote. right. i think the democrats are going to do a good job again today, but we'll be having more people who are they chose the stay in line to vote. they

had an opportunity to go into this early. they had an opportunity to get them know invalid. i mean, i talked to my wife, my wife went and bought it in person today, and i'm like why, why are you doing that? like, it doesn't make sense to me because i've got a busy schedule today and i wanna make sure that i can get my boat in and that something just doesn't come up last minute that distracts me from it. i always been doing the right time to do it again in pennsylvania. this is new voters. they had one election where they could easily vote by mail. i talked to people who said, oh, we can, i can vote right now as literally sending us. i didn't really both center city hall, right, and they didn't know that they could vote right at that moment. let's see what happens in pennsylvania. thank you both for the moment james and our shot. now the poles have also just now close in a swing state of north carolina. phil laval is there for us. just joining us from kerry, north carolina. what's the atmosphere like where you are? feel well, where we are right now. it's pretty electric and find you got a lot of people that is watching policy. this is like silas swift,

cute pop pc. what's funny? because i set it up thinking about the 1st thing that everybody had needs has a little bit of relief and just sitting nice eyes. they wait for the results to come in because everybody is really looking at this. and it is on my side, as people watch some small results coming to television or some projections, they're a huge round of applause. some people have the heads of their hands and it's, it's a really, very interesting place to be. it's north carolina itself is a fascinating place to be at the moment because this is a site that really is on my side to look at how the race was earlier this year when it was donald trump press these joe biden. donald trump of pay to have this site pretty much locked up for the democrats repeating study. hopeful about it because they knew that donald trump's lead comply to the previous selection. have a much smaller couple of hours, thinking the ticket in july and everything change. and my brace has waited type the receipt, donald trump in north carolina, full times this week alone. i, i'm not just goes to show how the trump campaign was concerned. i come to harris

earlier this week and heard about the said that she felt that they could really witness. so there is definitely this fear that they could be a shift. question is whether or not we'll touch base to the oppose and also whether or not both to turn out will will reflect that. you know, a lot of the big cities tend to have a lot of those who relate to the left to the plate of the spectrum. but macro, the account to a show that is the main city has typically answer the phones when it comes to vote to try it out. so it's all about making sure that both sides, they get those numbers out there. bring christy back. did you make? remember, we were talking to christie in an hour or so ago we got interrupted, so apologies for that. but let's get back onto it. obviously, it's clear where you stand. yes. as we were establishing this is your 2nd election of the age of 22. less time window body was up against donald trump. we were told it was going to be consequential, obviously because of the fund demik. yeah. what's all about a game? how is your experience? is this different so last time? yeah, so i think i mean bodily autonomy, especially for women and people of color is really on the line like i am personally

very fortunate to be assessed white women. i have some privilege in that position, but even feel like i know a lot of women in my circle are really feeling it on this one. i think anxiety is really high. i'm just feeling like we have some autonomy over our parent and our body and just feeling safe with our medical procedures. all of that i think is a really high point for a lot of us, especially those my age and where we all know. i mean, we are in the blue area, right? so it's easy to look around. the thing kind of the house is wellness, but then you get outside of these areas, then you'll pay, you goes the other way. absolutely. some type do you, where do you think she can turn those? have it on the blue calling. i hope she goes. what do you think she found? i mean, i really hope she does. i was mildly hopeful in the 2020 election and it's like it did not go that way. so i'm remaining hopeful, but i'm trying to temper expectations because you just never know what these things especially like you said like this is a super urban blue area versus like you get 30 minutes outside and it's super rural,

so it can really go either way and you know, we've seen some fluctuations, but the polls coming in tonight stuff so hopeful the i'm hopeful but not sure. i guess it was the way to solve it out. all right, christine, thank you very much. welcome back to us. just to elaborate on the, you know, christy was talking about the issue, a brief, reductive rights. a 3rd of this population identifies as evangelical christy, it's such a big issue for that 1st and last a 3rd of this population lives and a role setting. so there are a big issues that this is a state that was rabbits to the west while retaining leads. so the result of the response to that people's perceptions about the response, how that plays into it at a time. so when we got results that, you know, north carolina normally tends to give you an indication quite early on, although it seems to be a little bit slow. right? so right now with total, that's probably down to the fact that it's taking extra time because that's always a hurricane area, is what happens is the mainland ballots can be populated before election day that can be fed into the machines. but they called start to reveal results and 10

elections i. then they start looking got out of the voltage and those who voted on the side of the finances. but we're fixing have more than half of displace 57 percent voted early before the pose even opens out yesterday. thank you very much. from the val in north carolina still waiting for the picture to be a bit more care that felt. thank you for the moment. let's go to serial because we might have some results coming in. well, it's $153.00 gmc and really what i want to put on our viewers radar right now, is it 15 states are closing or coming online is i'd like to think of it a to gmc, so in a couple of minutes we'll be getting a lot more information on we'll be starting to get a lot more information and those 15 states include 3 battleground, states, wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. so all of that is coming online to gmc, there worth a $163.00 electro about. so once we have that, basically we have this entire part of the country, right? so we have what's that like 4 fifths of the united states, where poles have closed poles are being counted. we're really in the thick of it,

and it will also mean that 6 of our 7 battle grounds will have seen their polls close. and so we're going to start getting a lot more significant information right now. what we've seen and what we've said is that the, the democrats and the republicans are pretty much where they expect it to be at this point. and i'm going to take you over here because i want to tell you about michigan, which is one of the states that's about to close, where the polling stations are about to close in just a few minutes. as i said, one of the battleground states, one of those that we are looking at very closely michigan is right here. it is in the so called blue wall for the democrats, along with wisconsin and pennsylvania are all right. what can we tell you about michigan? it is worth 15 electoral votes, so not, not where we are at pennsylvania 19, but it's still not in significant at all. it is one of the bigger battleground states, in terms of electro votes. michigan has been going blue along with wisconsin and pencil in pennsylvania when blue 7 of the last 8 times. but donald trump took it in

2016 and this is how he took it by the way, with a tiny, tiny, tiny. i can't stress this enough razor within margin. he took it from hillary clinton by 11612 votes. what does that look at? this is 0.3 percent of the vote. it can barely get any closer. so look at the map of michigan because this is something you have to keep in mind. this is where the democrats want to do. well, we have detroit and we have, they're born. both of these are in wayne county, multiple story is really going on right now. detroit is the most popular city in michigan, it is home to the big 3 auto manufacturers. so that's how you would know it. it is also the uh, one of the largest black boating populations in the country. the other story. the other story in michigan is the arab american vote dearborn and wait and county is the country's 1st our american majority in majority city. they are angry at biden and harris for their handling of the gods a war. we've been saying that for

a while. and if the race is super tight and the punish democrats, harris could be in real trouble. but let's look at how michigan voted in the past, not michigan, but wayne county. all right, this was 2020 joe biden carried wayne county by 38 percentage points. 38 percentage points. that's how strong the democrats have to be in michigan in wayne county, specifically to then hope to carry the entire country uh the entire state of michigan . okay, lets see what else we can tell you about michigan as well. that's the story michigan 15 electoral votes, we're going to leave it at that for now. and we are going to be taking it back to fully 16 electoral votes and michigan holes close there in 3 minutes a long way, number of polls closing a to g at 15 states, including 3 battle ground state. okay. and hopefully we'll find out soon enough. thank you very much, cheryl for that. now let's head to wisconsin and speak to heidi. is ro, castro,

who's in milwaukee for 10 electoral college votes up for grabs in wisconsin. heidi and i understand that there's already been a recount of some of the early vote about as in wisconsin, what more can you tell us about that? i just that's right, and that recount is actually happening right now as we speak. even as polling centers all around the state are shutting down like the one i am at right now in the last 3 minutes of voting on this election day. but the little snack food that i'm talking about are 30000 or so early voting. validus that are be recounted in the city of milwaukee, as explained by the milwaukee election commission. what happened was the tablets, your machines that were counting those valid? starting at the beginning of the day, well, they were properly sealed. there's a way that there's a compartment for a thumb drive, goes to connect to collect that very sensitive data, of the actual numbers being counted. and there's a seal that's supposed to go on the store, it was it and sealed,

and so out of an abundance abundance of caution. the election committee with the consultation of republicans and democrats, decided to recount all of that. they say should have no impact on the final numbers . and again, they're doing this for sure, a confidence in election integrity. what already the republican national committee has seized on this issue in a saving statement, say, quote, this is an unacceptable example of incompetent election administration in a king in a key swing states that's coming from laura trump, who is a co share of the r n c. also the daughter in law of donald trump, so all ready for the public and seizing on this. and in fact, this will cause a delay in the final tablets yours. we don't know exactly how long, but it could be one or many hours. and further complicating this is that the city of milwaukee and the county of milwaukee back in 2020, it was the last county to upload voting results. and that invite

in one of the state of wisconsin for a long time. it seemed like from was about to when filled walk you reported last and of course, as we know, the state actually went to biden's. right. and that delay was one reason why trump has said that should result should question. looks like we're on a way to a delay once again here in wisconsin, even now as just few heard, maybe a few seconds. so i fully supposed have a specially closed in the state of wisconsin. okay, thank you very much for calling south coast there in wisconsin. but it could be a little while before we find out who's taking that states. it's to g m t here on august here. and you're watching our special coverage on the 2020 for us presidential election with me for the back to bo life. my global headquarters here in della and our guess of course, were joining us. the results are voting in and they've been no surprises so far.

donald trump is projected to when his home state of florida and south carolina coming to harris is expected to pick up mass to.