this is the w. news a live shot from berlin and joe biden is elected president of the united states. right. after a tense count that lasting days of fighting secures i'm not unlike coral votes in the crucial state of pennsylvania to win the white house we'll go live to washington d.c. for the latest. and donald trump returns to the white house after getting news of his election defeat there are no signs of a concession from the u.s. president he's vowing to challenge election results in several states.

i'm claire richards and welcome to the show democratic candidate joe biden has won the u.s. presidential election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania with 99 percent of the vote counted in pennsylvania biden it garnered a 49.7 percent and trump received 49.2 percent while the 20 electoral votes biden won in this state allows him to surpass the 270 that magic number needed to win the election according to projections by the associated press was also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290 electoral votes to republican president donald trump's 214. and democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of

president elect biden success from philadelphia to black lives matters plaza in washington to new york's times square people showed signs of relief and excitement here some of those reactions to me me everything my mother is a disabled woman who knows the caribbean medicaid and medicare and to know. how to and you can no longer mess with those programs is the main thing we was was having . you believe that i was writing was best for the united states and i am a history come are they are rather surprised her certainly here are very thankful i don't think. i have to wonder everyone. joining me in the studio now is a filmmaker who worked on barack obama's campaign in 2008 and for bernie sanders in 2016 welcome to the studio so president biden president elect as i do by letter

is expected to speak in just a few hours what you expect to hear from him well i think you're going to hear a lot about unity a lot about coming together and in that way a lot of the kind of return to decency rhetoric that frankly was the cornerstone of the biden campaign that they want to hear that laid out very clearly and very smooth right so he is making this appeal for unity and yet this election and the results of show how divided the country really is and we can't forget that 70000000 people did vote for donald trump for 4 more years of the same they like what they saw so how will biden really build this bridge to unify the country resolutely right and i think when it comes to when it comes to coming together it's not about bringing republicans over into some sort of democratic worldview i think it's about rising above those the things that people have in common one of things we saw in exit polling throughout the country was that people are aligned around progressive values. they want sustainable economic growth in an environmentally safe way but

they don't trust either party to get it done and i think it's a deficit of trust that biden has to overcome in both parties and one of the really interesting state results was from florida which leaned toward the republicans and yet voters also voted to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 which is traditionally seen as a democratic platform point right so it does go to show that maybe that messaging isn't reaching the voters that the democrats want it to or that these new folks that trying to bring in aren't exactly who we think they are because they align culturally rhetorical in some ways the republicans the things that they want are actually the things that are offered in basic social democracies except for the united states' rights is important to remember as well ok now we can also talk about the historic campaign of the new vice president elect the california from senator she's becoming the 1st female the 1st black and the 1st south asian vice president elect all at the same time how big of an impact will that have a for the democratic party and its messaging in particular look for so long the

democrats have said we need to bring in new leadership but they never do it's never a good times not the right person so calmly harris crashing the party is extremely important i think just for people to see themselves even generationally represented in this party although i think from far away it's hard to see some of the factional fighting in the united states campbell harris is actually very unpopular among the progressive wing of the democratic party including amongst people of color amongst asian americans because of some of her policing views and so i think seeing how she contends with that and how she reaches out to the left wing of the party will be very interesting in the weeks ahead but it's interesting you say that her record as attorney general in california was something that progressive democrats really didn't like and yet republicans and trump try to paint her with the brush of being a leftist and they have brought her in for this representation of politics as well as we've seen all right let's go now to washington d.c. and bring in our correspondent there susan was gone who's been following this election for us sumi it's been a wild

a few days since the voting started the united states now appears to have a new president tell us how we got to this particular result. it has been very long tense days since the election on tuesday now it feels like it's been several days but it's just tuesday and you know clear what we've gotten here is that we have seen over the course of the last few days the result in key battleground states turning more and more in favor of the president like joe biden and the way that that happened on election day we saw a huge crowds of people go out to vote in person in this election and the majority of those voters were republican now since then what we've seen is that particularly in these battleground states a lot of the mail in ballots remember a record number of people voted by nail in this election due to the covert 1000 pandemic well those mail in ballots are being counted and that has now turned or did turn the election in favor of the president elect joe biden and that has led to

a very very tense time here in the u.s. and it's been a lot of anxiety especially as we've heard dueling messages on the one hand from the president elect joe biden urging patience and and indicating that he thinks that he thought that his campaign and a good chance to win and on the other hand president trump who has refused to concede the selection claire and i should say that we have heard now that there is a lid being called at the white house what that means is that we will not hear from the president today that means that presser trump will not comment on the fact that joe biden has been called as the next president of this country and that is remarkable because we will see joe biden the president like deliver a speech tonight in delaware at 8 pm local time here and we will not hear anything from the president yet so we don't really know what his strategy is going to be going forward i should say that we got a statement that we've been talking about from president trump a little bit earlier in the day saying that they will pursue legal challenges but with the you know with the odds against him at this point because it appears ever more clear and that those legal challenges are not going to be successful we don't

know what president trump strategy is going to be only that we will not be hearing from him today and sumi that is remarkable because as you say we are expecting to hear it joe biden speaks tonight at 8 pm local time and you have been tracking donald trump's movements throughout today maybe throughout the week i can give us an update on where the president is now. well he's back at the white house we did see that recently you know we saw some pictures of him coming back to the white house where he was this morning was at a golf course in virginia where he was goal thing there were some images just as the news broke here that the major networks in the u.s. had called the selection for joe biden president trump was golfing there in virginia we then saw him leave the golf course he was probably with his team there in virginia on the grounds trying to figure out what to do and that's when we received that statement that he will not concede in this pursuing further legal challenges now just at the last few days we have seen the president's tweeting from the white house we saw him speak to reporters speak to the country there is

a night from the white house but since then things have been relatively quiet except for twitter and now this announcement that we're not going to hear from him today so it's really been it's really been interesting to watch what the president's movements have been that he has not been speaking directly to the public and now will not do so today and i should say clear we should point out that that is important to keep in mind as well because there are his supporters as we see these these supporters of joe biden around the country taking to the street to show their support for the president elect there are also president trump supporters who are on the street some here in d.c. some in other states across the country like pennsylvania and arizona and it's going to be interesting to see what they take away from the fact that president trump will not be speaking today and soon as i was going to in washington d.c. thank you very much and it's interesting what you say about those trump supporters because our correspondents have been talking to supporters today after the elections come in some of them refusing to believe the result essentially they say that they don't believe until there is

a certified bill vote that this thing is all done and dusted i want to bring this back to you in the studio on election night the situation at 1st appeared to favor president trouble as the votes were coming in it looks like states were tilting red then all of a sudden you see this blue wave coming in why did that happen why did we see the balance to toward joe biden in the later days. i mean we had the sort of baked into the cake when they have this mail in vote surge because a lot of the election rules say you can't even start counting until all of the mail in ballots come in and so it this was sort of being pushed as the red mirage in that put seem to be winning and then very quickly that would turn around however we did not really see a red mirage we did see a minor red wades we saw more people coming out we saw the democrats losing house races they expected to win we saw no state legislatures change and so i think not only if you were supporter did you sort of see the narrative that the media had say

what happened happened but you saw a kernel of something else in there that then i think really had them feeling emboldened this is just like 2016 we're going to win this again and we're going to prove them wrong again and that is a fascinating point that you made because you know democrats many are out in the streets celebrating the victory of joe biden but given what you said about the congressional races the fact that this did come down to the wire can this really be seen as a victory for democrats or at least the one that they expected it is a victory for democrats it is not the one they expected and it is not as complete as i think folks on that side would hope we are in for another election like this in 4 years lots of late nights of you know extra attention we will always carry that yes our own thank you very much for that analysis we're going to now bring in our d.w. washington bureau chief who is outside of the white house and out washington and as we know that trump i arrived there a short time ago after returning from a golfing what is the latest from where you stand now. right i mean people

were kind of waiting if you would react or not or me just heard from sue me that we probably won't hear anything from him tonight which actually could also be a good sign because there are fears that he kind of would have been willing to stir the pot in that regard that he would again have said the things that the elections are rigged and you know i just want to read to you a little to read from his son the donald trump jr that's what he wrote. last night ago he called for his father saying to go to total war over this election and then quote it's time to clean up this mess and stop looking like a banana republic so what does that mean it means that there is really a realistic threat that the white house donald trump or his supporters really will

call for action and fight this outcome so as happy as you can see that behind me and around people are dancing here in washington in this liberal bubble but it's far too early to say that this move be a peaceful celebration of this election outcome they have certainly looks like people are celebrating the victory behind you but also in a way packing up to go home if they're not expecting the president to actually speak from the white house and you mentioned the prospect of violence and this has really been the big question of this election is what is going to happen when protests inevitably break out after the results come out so are you suggesting that by trump not speaking tonight we're less likely to see some kind of disturbances on the streets. we shall see can there i mean i'm sure that this celebration here will go on we just saw some huge boxes put up behind me people are already dancing and we see these images from all. all around not only washington but from all around

the country so this will be a nice celebration because there is also a big relief for many americans and actually not only democrats we also talked to republicans who said they don't support trump sorry they don't support joe biden and come a long hair is in all their political stance but they just one to the trump era to end what does it mean for a possible while and so we shall see i already heard and i think sumi pointed that out earlier that some to reporters are all the also gathering here in d.c. the larger group. groups in arizona so i think there is just like this one little spark which we have experienced throughout the last months which could really lead to a larger amount of violence to seize so hard to say at this point at this moment

what will happen and again it's not only donald trump who is tweeting he has his family and other supporters who are totally on his side when it comes to call this election outcome unfair and rick all right our washington bureau chief in as paul reporting on this historic election for us from the d.c. thank you so much. well short while ago joe biden's running mate ecomil harris telephoned the president elect to congratulate him. only only. here given that is president of the united states. all right she looks very happy there we're going to bring in now our correspondent all over solid who's standing by in a wilmington delaware awaiting that speech from joe biden's night all over when can we expect to see the president elect biden. well everyone here is waiting for

the very moment people have been gathering for all day we're at the very venue where joe biden is going to speak later today and you can see there's a big crowd here in the back people brought their guitars are singing along with a very festive atmosphere we are expecting in about 4 hours 1 from now and he will certainly deliver a very much anticipated victory speech tonight as he's trying to present himself once again as that unifier that wants to heal the nation and bring the 2 sides together in a very polarized a divided nation when editions of this kind of uniting the country and returning to business as usual as the world has come to expect american presidents attacked what exactly did joe biden it campaigned on and what can we really expect to see in terms of big policy changes when he takes office in january. well one of the points he will certainly try to tackle is migration policy will certainly certainly try to undo some policies off the trumpet. also in addition to that he would you

want to improve the transatlantic relationship go back to multilateralism re enter the paris climate a cream a dream and just to name a few that were certainly also be fields where it's going to be difficult for him the relationship with iran of course the nuclear deal that is very much questionable if he can go back to normal there also when it comes to china he will certainly keep the pressure existing on china because even president before donald trump had a very critical stance on china so we'll have to see there but then there are also several policies he has a mind improving the situation of lower income families when it comes to health care for instance is one of the very big topics year in the united states also when it comes to minimum salary but all of this is very difficult for him if he doesn't win back the senate so we'll have to see how successful he can be as a president and at all he will win the senate back and it's actually been talking

about that here in the studio as well is what really is the fate of the democrats if they're unable to take back the senate and have full congressional backing in both the house of representatives house of representatives which they already control and the senate which they're hoping to flat i mean what does joe biden a stand for in this moment of american history in terms of his message and in terms of what we're likely to see coming out of the presidency. well just think back when he started his campaign and what a turnaround he actually made he was not very successful in the beginning just half a year ago or in early 2020 before the pandemic kids he was actually really doing some poor. impressions giving some poor impressions on the debate stage he had his hour. mixed up the numbers and he also didn't have a big political vision like for instance bernie sanders would have had or elizabeth warren but there is this one thing that he stands for and that is he is

a centrist and that is perhaps many observers believe that this is just the right figure right now at this point in time when the country is deeply divided and polarized and where you have a far right president like donald trump that you could not follow up with a far left president that has policies put off large parts of the population here so he has really the chance to unify the good reputation among the working class as well as among intellectuals and that's basically what you stands for right now is certainly not the one who's coming up with lots of new ideas but he rather stands for going back to where the united states once we're back to that post 2nd world war system that the united states helped create i live i thank you very much i want to bring it back into the studio here with you everyone because you worked on a bernie sanders campaign so you might have a very interesting insight into into biden's candidacy and whether he really was

the right person and to unite the country because we must remember it was a fiercely fought battle between many qualified candidates hoping it would be the democratic candidate to go up against donald trump what would you say what would you say about this race just told us that's right and i think it's easy to forget actually how poorly he was doing and how much the contest of ideas in the democratic party did not include joe biden and sort of people made fun of you i think i'd say which is part of the obama team and i think you saw the party come around him just perfectly frank as the alternative to bernie sanders they tried several different people even floating people who were friends with president barack obama like deval patrick and some very unlikely candidates and it seemed like the democratic establishment tried everything else before joe biden and then tried joe biden and it stuck. and it works and post south carolina people did come together but this does show that in the primaries he was not tested on policy he was not tested to have a vision for the american people and he better be working hard at night now putting

one together well now that we have seen it that he has a slid across to victory many from the left wing of the democratic party were worried that he was a candidate that couldn't win precisely because he was a centrist they thought it was going to be a repeat of 2016 where hillary clinton ran on what they saw as kind of a it's just her turn kind of candidacy and i think many from the left wing of the democratic party may have seen similar things with the biden campaign that he wasn't necessarily the most compelling candidate is this victory now. the indication for the centrists and for the d.n.c. and for the democratic party that wanted to put forth the candidate i don't think so i think the vindication election would have been where you saw them expand a majority in the house where you saw explicit some state houses you know make inroads in places like texas i think this was actually proof of the opposite which is what a dangerous strategy was to repeat the 2016 emphasis on sort of character and identity and not pushing

a broad economic program that i think the american people are hungry for obviously you know as ascenders a border that is the position that i come from but i think you saw this very much in the exit polls again you know you were mentioning florida medicare for all you know in the exit polls there you think it would be that popular amongst republicans and yet yeah interesting numbers coming out of those exit polls as well thank you very much for that take we're going to bring this now back to the european perspective and a german chancellor angela merkel has congratulated joe biden and his running mate a couple of harris after major networks declare them the winners of the u.s. presidential election she posted a statement on twitter and she's written quote i look forward to working with the president biden our transatlantic friendship is indispensable if we are to deal with the major challenges of our time. we're joined now by peter back he has the court nadir of transatlantic cooperation at the german a federal foreign office how relieved is germany and how relieved is europe right

now yeah i was always saying around the globe you will hear a big sigh of relief once this result is clear and this moment is now years so yes i am relieved i don't know about the rest of europe as you know in my country here in germany don't trump was and still is extremely unpopular and that has a negative factor also on our in the united states as a whole perceived still so i hope for better now or and will this now all be back to business as usual for transatlantic relations or have we seen a fundamental shift in what you expect with the u.s. german relationship. yeah i think it would be the wrong approach to dream of a business as usual or you know having some kind of idea of a transatlantic most cells are we don't have any time to we're going to have the

luxury of time to you know the ways in more time for the still though i mean the realities are on the table we have to change transatlantic realities we have changed global realities i mean you know the responsibilities the full range of transatlantic topics are on the table ranging from defense and security trade and economy and energy so a lot of things to do and how do you think europe will go forward with the question of defense in particular that's been a big one throughout the trump presidency as he has threatened america's commitment to nato. yeah the latest addition was the union that really announced that it really allows the troop withdrawal many u.s. nato troops but you know all nato members. themselves in the year 2014 of the so-called defense investment pledge at a nato summit to contribute to the defense spending by the year 2020 or 2

percent of g.d.p. we are in germany not there yet and the sound is what was to say that you know what we're here for you writing we're not doing anything i think everybody should understand we have understood we do we we have we have increased by 45 percent already our defense spending on defense budget compared to 2014 and we are year we have learned our lesson we understand it's in our all security interest good to do more but i want to do that together with all the nato members and i think that's and that that's something that we need to learn that we have to accept st louis in the south china sea and nato needs to see if it wants to operate out there. all right and as we've been discussing with our correspondents of course the specter of violence in the united states as protests come in the days following this election is a top of the agenda what do you think germany and europe's reactions will be if we

do indeed see violence a spill out into the streets of the united states. if 1st of all i'm very happy that the german chancellor and prime minister of great britain johnson and the president of france and others. sent because the congress you lay chanst exult by whom so i think that is a good start your up stance united in you know lou reaching out a hand to cross the atlantic cross a big part of the united states of america to joe biden we want to be a strong partner so if there is violence in the street really something that there that will stay there for some time it reaches some some some kind of wily mo me its 1st response ability for the incumbent administration actually but of course also if there's a need for help europe is here to help and you know that that is something obviously we we not you just we do not just observe but we are conservative something of that comes a long way that people react in

a calm way but i also see the pictures already where people are you know closing behind you know they're securing their shops and everything that is really something of concern here and we state and to help if it comes along yes those images are alarming from a european perspective barack ordinator of transatlantic cooperation at the federal foreign office thank you so much for coming on to. thank you very much. well here in europe many leaders are hoping joe biden will help repair transatlantic ties that have been strained under the trump presidency so what would a biden presidency look like for europe here's my. he says he views you up as a partner 1st resort and has pledged to work more with allies joe biden and leader with longstanding ties to europe here in brussels e.u. officials are hoping joe biden the will rebuild trance atlantic relations and

restore trust under donald trump they're expecting a friendlier tone towards europe but will there be real change in terms of substance fabrice put a former nato official is skeptical he believes it's keno to focus on issues important to both i think it's more about finding those global issues that where really the e.u. and the u.s. media each other and one is of use it's climate president biden committed to rejoin the piracy climate agreement and here the u.s. needs each other but generally biden is likely to focus on domestic issues taking on the pandemic helping the economy recover and protecting u.s. workers a power struggle with china is also expected to dominate his presidency biden will call on the europe for support ceci i called kiko gart senior fellow with the german marshall fund clearly europe is going to be

a much more valued ally because of the u.s. rivalry with china but it also put europe in a position to ask for something else something in return if you like. and trade is clearly an area where i think there is a lot of opportunities that everything will change and by and president many here believe that american demands for greater european defense spending and burden sharing will continue the u.s. is pivoting to asia and other parts of the world and less and less willing to patrol europe's neighborhood. in the last 4 years here at p.s. learn the hard way what you asked does and gates meant really means it was done on strong to force them to think about more autonomy analysts islam says the you cannot go back to the old today's. what's important for us here in europe is to stay on course and to continue on this path of progress towards a certain degree of autonomy i'm a great believer in europe's independent autonomy as wrote in the would send the

years to come the question maybe not tao to restore transatlantic relations to their pretrial condition but rather how to create a new vision put if you choose in partnership with joe biden. let's cross over to brussels i am joined by david o'sullivan a former e.u. ambassador to the united states mr assad and president elect joe biden is that good news for your up. normally speaking yes i think it is i think we have had a very difficult transatlantic relationship for the last 4 years. future president biden is clearly very committed to europe he's very proud of his irish origins if i may say so but he also has a long history of commitment to nato to the european union and to good relations between the united states and the european union but of course we need to understand as several of your commentators have already said that he faces

a very challenging situation in the united states so we are not going to see a return to what some people might have sought of as the golden era of transatlantic relations perhaps at the end of the 20th century or in the early part of the 21st century we're going to have to reinvent this transatlantic relationship we to the new realities of american politics i say we need to reinvent the transatlantic relationship how exactly do you see europe going ahead with that. well i look i think we need to recognize 2 fundamental things the 1st is that this relationship is essential for europe it is a most important relationship we're not neutral between the united states and china or russia america is still our partner of its most important partner of 1st resort on the other hand we need to do more ourselves and we need to take more responsibility for our own defense our own security we need to find accommodations with the united states on some of those difficult trade issues the digital issue

digital taxation data transfer errors and we need to find a new accommodation on how to deal with china which is probably the single most important question for both of us in the 21st century we don't want to follow the trump ian approach of confrontation and decoupling with china but we do share many of the u.s. has concerns about china's practices particularly the economic area but we also need engagement with china so i think these are the issues where we need to sit down with this new administration and redefine a transatlantic partnership where america is still a hugely important partner for europe but where we in europe are much more willing to do more on our own and take more responsibilities for our own issues frankly to china in particular as an area where you're out of can chart its own course what do you expect to see from president elect joe biden when it comes to relations with china. well i hope that he will be more new laws than president trump has been

i think president trump has sought to chart a course of exclusively by the 2 relations between the u.s. and china doing deals which are frankly not weedy been terribly effective and at the same time pushing almost for a decoupling of china from the international trading system this is not going to work with so we need a really a an approach which is much more sophisticated and much more nuanced where we join forces with the united states with like minded countries like china and south korea to push china on the issues where we are not happy with their behavior but where we also engage with china on issues like climate change or the iran nuclear deal where china has actually played a very constructive role so we need a much more sophisticated and nuanced approach in trying to address the issue of china's important rise in this century and you touched on this briefly already but how important is it really then to have

a good relation between the united states and europe if that europe its own path and also look to engage china on these issues that it is a big partner when dealing with foreign policy you know in a byte in a presidency how close do you think that relationship will continue to be. i i i hope it will continue to be extremely important i mean i still think that the transatlantic relationship notwithstanding all the tensions and all the difficulties which have been identified by some of the people you're had on earlier it is still the single most important relationship in the world for us that we are not neutral visibly china or visibly russia visibly ignited states we share the values we share the commitment to democracy to human rights to the rule of law and we have our differences but this is still a hugely important relationship but we need to understand that america is probably not going to play the same leading role in the next few years that it has in the past and that requires us as europe to take more responsibility for our own future

and for our own behavior and we need to be more willing to take responsibility for our own defense for our own economic and social behavior and our leadership role in multilateralism and in taking for the climate change agenda with many partners across the world so it's a question of striking that balance but i still think the transatlantic relationship will be a very important point of reference for europe for many years to come david have salad and brussels and so much thank you. so let's cross over now to the u.k. where correspondent charlotte tell some pal is standing by in a london charlie good to see you there what are the reactions in the united kingdom to president elect joe biden. will of course we all know that people here in the u.k. consider the u.s. a very close ally people here in the u.k. talking often about this special relationship that the 2 sides have in this

election in particular is being watched very closely because it couldn't be happening at a more important time here in the u.k. it's 7 is a relation it's funny relations with the with the e.u. and reshapes its place in the world so of course politicians the public looking very closely at those election results as they came in now we have started to get reactions from a number of politicians they include prime minister boris johnson there was some speculation on social media in particular about when he would respond to these results particularly with of course president trump contesting the results but he has issued a statement he says the u.s. is our most important ally and he's congratulated the president elect and the vice president elect on that important achievement historic achievement then of course there is the foreign minister dominic rob he said something quite interesting he said 'd with some of the process is still playing out it's now clear that joe biden

has won that certainly raised a few eyebrows here in the u.k. the fact that he made a point of saying with some of the process is still playing out in general though you have had a lot of congratulations a warm reception for him the 1st minister of scotland to 1st minister of wales as well and then of course the public the public reaction here is very interesting trump isn't a particularly popular figure here in the u.k. according to one recent poll just 8 percent of people here say that they found his presidency either good or great so a lot of the people that we've spoken to here to here warmly. welcoming the reception of president elect joe biden and of course president trump who who once described boris johnson as britain's trump i doubt that he is going to be looking at some of these responses reactions from u.k. politicians particularly warmly you mention the special relationship what does biden's victory than a mean exactly for u.k. u.s.

relations well a lot of people are focusing on the personalities in play here president trump was said to have had a warm relationship with boris johnson is less clear though what exactly the chemistry will be between president elect biden and boris johnson and we know for example that joe biden has spoken out against the bricks its results were of course was championed by prime minister boris johnson joe biden saying that he would have liked it to go another way say how the relations are going to play out particularly in line in respect of brecht's that are going to be particularly interesting over the coming months and what has to be pointed out though course is there are a lot of going to be a lot of people in the foreign service here who are going to be do warmly welcome what they'll see perhaps as a return to more of an old wooden with president elect joe biden they do the prime

minister here and joe biden do shadow a number of interests when it comes to for example climate change that if they're far more closely aligned than with president trump and also respect for international institutions thinking nato for example the iran nuclear deal there are some close ties here on those were gone to perhaps close with joe biden and i think a lot of people will welcome a return to a more predictable perhaps relationship with the u.s. president all right charlot chosen pill in london thank you so much for your reporting. we're watching news if you're just joining us now a crit a quick recap on the election and where we stand joe biden has won the white house after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania with 99 percent of the vote counted in pennsylvania biden garnered 49.7 percent and trump received 49.2 percent the 20 electoral votes by in one in this state have allowed him to

surpass the 270 needed to win the election according to projections of by the associated press now he's also picked up 6 in nevada giving him a total of 290 alecto votes to republican president donald trump's 214. well as the news broke of joe biden's victory president donald trump was out getting some practice in on the golf course biden supporters a jarrett from the side of the road as trump's motorcade returned to the white house from the national golf course in sterling of virginia the president had spent the earlier part of the day on the golf course and trump has so far refused to concede defeat in the election. well in reaction to the news of joe biden's win president on the trump has attempted to use false claims of voter fraud to try to claim victory his personal atar attorney rudy giuliani says more lawsuits challenging election results will be brought on monday those mail in ballots could

have been for. anybody they wrote in those mail in ballots could have been written the day before by the democratic party hacks that were all over the convention center what i'm saying to you is not a single one was inspected as the law required even one of court order was obtained to allow the republican inspectors to get 6 feet because there they move the people counting the ballots 6 further away judy just about the 700000 votes that president trump was ahead by 2 days ago that disappeared. and we have no way of knowing because we were deprived of the right to inspect it if a single one of those ballots was legitimate that is unheard of it's illegal it's unconstitutional . well joining me in the studio now is irish out 3 a filmmaker who's worked on barack obama's campaign in 2008 and for bernie sanders

in 2016 so does the trump campaign is seriously expect to see results from all of this legal action and i think this is sort of a shock and all legal strategy just you know with as many lawsuits as they can rather than them having any merit i think we see a lot of them going nowhere they're just trying to muddy the water to by time i mean they saw within recent memory an election that was effectively stolen through lawsuits which the 2000 election and so i think they are inspired to keep trying this but i don't see it catching much when you say 2000 or 4 and of course to bush versus gore which is a coordinate all the way up to the supreme court i want to remind our viewers what happened you know well in florida we had a lot of votes that were seemingly in question you know rather then kind of go through the intention of votes republican successfully stopped a recount process in some very crucial counties including miami dade and allowed a bush victory in florida through simply stopping a recount so i think you see that as being part of the inspiration here trump needs

to stop recount start retail have new votes overturn he needs to do a lot of things to win and i'm just not sure he has the legal strategy to get there right it's multiple different legal cases open in multiple different states that are sometimes contradictory that's right and he did say even ahead of the election that he wanted to take this to the supreme court where he has just where congress has just confirmed any. republican nominee to take the seat and fundamentally flip the balance of power between conservative and liberal justices there what did you make of this legal strategy i mean legally i can't say it seems that effective but in terms of what trump has always been good at it's picking a battle field he thinks he can win on and so he's like the court someplace or move maybe a supreme court is maybe a place where i can win let's change the venue from the ballot box to the court seems like a smart strategy i don't think it's going to get. i'm there all right let's change gears i want to talk about biden now that news is that he appears to be the

president elect so you think he's already thinking about the people he's going to surround himself with who his might and he's having it might be absolutely and you know no one wants to say anything outright because people are superstitious but he's probably been thinking about this for a long time and really his old allies like chris dodd and folks in his transition team have been going through binders full of names or remember from mitt romney's gaffe and in 2012 but we are seeing a kind of pattern already emerge at least in what's being leaked to the press which are a lot of very familiar phrases faces already from the obama administration and a lot of establishment democrats who have good relationships with joe biden so he's not really reaching out across to the more left wing part of the party we are in seeing this sanders warren wing of the party represented yet and i think you'll see a lot of pressure publicly digitally online coming from the progressives in the next weeks and have we you know as you worked on a bernie sanders campaign in 2016 have we seen any reaction from those challengers who ran against joe biden in the primaries this time around you know bernie sanders

worked incredibly hard for joe biden and they do have a good personal relationship and i hope that that's the beginning of kind of a progressive alliance coming into into the white house but generally i think you did see a coming together of all of these 20 you know we had a big free for all primary of people coming together and it's the same thing that brought so much of this coalition together for joe biden which is just a visceral dislike of trump's program trump style and now that trump is gone keeping all of those different people together wow it's going to be a real task and of course now the question of the hour is that president trump has said he will not concede we've also heard it's not going to be speaking tonight live has been called you know how could the next weeks and months really play out with all this in mind it could be torturous it could be bit by bit doing this. over and over again but one thing we really have to remember is that there is no legally required concession call and having been in many rooms where i will just admit to

you now fake concession calls happen candidates did not call their candidates to wish them congratulations we just pretended they did. i don't think we need to worry about this part of it america has the mechanisms it needs to literally physically removed from office and i don't think is going to be able to stick his folks in there all right well that would bring comfort for anybody who is worried about that eventuality thank you so much for joining me here in the studio. campaigning the election day and the days since have revealed a starkly divided nation on wide ranging issues one of the issues republican and democratic voters were split most on was the coronavirus pandemic and how to handle it. coronavirus for some a deadly pandemic for others a political and economic nuisance president trump has mocked mask wearing and his supporters have followed suit gathering at large campaign rallies and ignoring basic coronavirus precautions he's even mocked the fire ases name. when he said the

other night there's never been anything with have so many names i could give you 120 names for the right to get all different names. hans was catching on. coronavirus right by confluence of 5 joe biden has called for a nationwide mask mandate to combat the pandemic. it's not going away automatically we have to do our part to be responsible means following the science listening to the experts washing our hands social distancing it means we're in a mask and probably good means encouraging others to do so as well trump is focused on reopening the economy at any cost and many people are behind it shuttered businesses have caused a historic wave of unemployment. a chance to kind of get things going because the

economy would go really well. before covert. but i think we need him the kind of state charge. the biden campaign has argued that an economic recovery can only come once the pandemic is under control biden has also promised to be a president of all americans after a year in which racial unrest often breaking into open conflict has surged across the country. to put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us to lower the temperature to see each other again to listen to one another. to hear each other again respecting care for one another to you don to heal. after the election america's divisions will not simply go away as hatred and mistrust make governing

the whole country increasingly difficult. so how is news of biden's victory being received here in germany our reporters have been getting reaction from people here in berlin and talked up and i think what you want to but he has divided the united states let's see what biden will bring in the end it can only get better for america from the president. when i'm sad yet i hope that a change but i'm not on biden side. he definitely is the better choice in the end trump and his methods are impossible maybe the world will be a more peaceful place not. better than triumph for sure. i'm on it's always a matter of opinion but after the way trump has acted in public i think for the us it's better that biden has one. or we're going to now bring a foreign policy analyst tyson barker on to the line thank you for joining us a lot of people have described this as the most important election in their

lifetimes what would you say was really at stake. i think that the cohesion of the united states was at stake and that's really kind of the mandate that joe biden ran on you know he said he had 2 big messages one was build back better that has been a lot that has been. destroyed in the past years croston allies the kind of sense of common purpose in the united states and then the 2nd message was you know fighting for the soul of the nation that we that the united states wants to represent all the people and not be governed by a slight majority tarion movement that kind of exclude certain populations. all right and so that in some ways sums up what joe biden is stands for at the moment in american history but when he takes over in a january joe biden is going to be taking over such a divided country as you see it do you think he will be able to unite it. i mean

it's really one of the most difficult things to do is to deescalate a population that is so polarized you see it in countries like lebanon you've seen it in countries like south africa to really neat backward country together and to be escalate that kind of energy requires a lot of political skill i think that what he's going to do is spend a lot of his time speaking to the communities that didn't vote for him trying to address their concerns try to build a relationship an idea to teach that actually bridges different communities and that means really talking to the other side a lot more than obviously trump was willing to but even the democrats were willing to in the past. and the trump presidency has been marked up above all by lies 22000 of them in 4 years according to the washington post which has been keeping track and it does a truth have any meaning in the united states anymore. of course truth has meaning in the united states the problem is it's not just the lies the president was

telling it's the accountability for those lies you know what has happened in the u.s. like all over the world is technology has facilitated a kind of south korean forcing. information bubbles through to exist where realities become kind of for medically sealed so in certain communities in the united states a lot of from supporters they see a different reality and in that reality what trump says has a lot of truth but that's going to be part of the bridging process which is confronting people with groups with realities they're not always comfortable with and that means addressing technology that means addressing communities that means people speaking a lot more face to face right tyson barker thank you so much for joining us. thank you. well as we've heard donald trump is refusing to concede defeat in this election and said pledging to press ahead with legal challenges in several states

and in the past presidential candidates have publicly admitted defeat and usually congratulated their victorious opponents let's have a listen to some of those historic concession speech as i just governor clinton over in little rock and offered my congratulations he did run a strong campaign i wish him well in the white house and i want the country to know that our entire administration will work closely with his team to ensure this smooth transition of power there is important work to be done and america must always come 1st so we will get behind this new president and wish him thank you. in a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been. his success alone commands my respect for is ability and perseverance but that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of americans who believe that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an american president is

something i deeply admire and commend him for achieving this is an historic election and i recognize the special significance it has for african-americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight good evening just moments ago i spoke with george w. bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the united states and i promised them that i wouldn't call him back this time. i offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed. he joins me here again in the studio wow those videos seem like from another time and place they don't say how important our concession speech is in the american political system really i mean those were beautiful we just watch them but they're definitely not things that are required by law you know so i really think donald trump who has blown up so many things that

were just customs and not actually the law is probably not going to engage in it i don't think that joe biden should expect a phone call soon and i don't think it's going to matter that much as it has been the last major norm that we can expect him to shatter perhaps but you just al gore saying that i'm going to invite you know you over george bush to talk about it that is another tradition you know where the president's talk a few days after the election and you know i can say that george w. bush and barack obama when they had that 1st meeting talked about things as important as whether or not the auto industry should be bailed out right after his election in 2008 so i do hope that even if he doesn't offer some beautiful concession speech or a phone call that we can now put in a montage of that at the very least he will work with joe biden to make sure that things can happen for the american people during this transition if not some kind of handover about information for the next administration thank you so much for joining us here. all right well you are watching a d.w.i. news a live hour from berlin we're going to bring you now our reminder of our top story

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