♪ >> shannon: hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," extended coverage of the ongoing vote counting for the presidential election. standing by for new numbers from arizona, i'm shannon bream in washington. they will determine the outcomes and a handful of battleground states. those electoral college votes will decide who occupies the highest office in the land. now, joe biden says he expects to be the winner when accounting is finished but says he's not declaring victory just yet. if president trump has yet to speak this early wednesday. he did declare victory. both sides have armies of

attorneys ready to go to court over any perceived irregularity in the counting process, so let's kick things off now, this special hour with leland vittert looking at both candidates' possible paths to victory. good evening. or good morning here on the east coast. >> good morning on the east coast, good evening in arizona where they are still counting. we are going to get there in a minute. barring either successful lawsuits or a change in the current map, the president has effectively one path to reelection with a slight modification and variable. at the vice president has a number of paths. let's go through it right now, look at where the race board is right now. joe biden, 264 electoral votes, president trump 214. that means any of the undecided states except alaska put the former vice president over the top. the president needs to basically run the table from here. as it stands, the race in georgia is tightened considerably. the "los angeles times" report there is at least 100,000 votes left to count there in georgia,

primarily from democratic areas. the president enjoys a lead in north carolina, but that still is too close to call this evening. for a chance at reelection, the president must close out the southeast. then we moved north up to pennsylvania where things have tightened considerably over the past 24 hours or so. there are hundreds of thousands if not millions or a million ballots left. the president enjoys a lead but it has been shrinking over the past 24 hours. around 9:00 p.m., arizona released new numbers that closed the gap, but it remains called by the fox news decision desk for biden. team trump thinks there's enough votes still out for him to pull ahead by friday. more votes expected within the next hour or so. if you were to win arizona, combined with pennsylvania, georgia, and north carolina, that would give the president a second term. also out west, nevada has not been called. we are not going to get any more

details until at least noon tomorrow. it's closed, there are still a lot of votes out around the state, also more absentee ballots are allowed to come in if they were postmarked by election day. nevada, pennsylvania, north corona, georgia gets the president the second term. both campaigns are saying that they are confident that once all the ballots are counted they will prevail and be the first one to 270 but as we've been talking about over the past hour, there is this debate between each campaign about what constitutes a legal ballots and what all the ballots counted actually mean. >> shannon: all right, and people might see that very different way. >> no kidding. >> shannon: we will stand by for that as we get those numbers and we think from arizona like you said in the next hour. leland, thank you. so a critical focus of the trump campaign legal team is, fittingly enough, what we expected to be one of the biggest battleground states heading into election day, pennsylvania. in philadelphia earlier today, eric and lara trump, some of the

president 's most trusted advisors raised what they are calling red flags about alleged improprieties in vote counting there. >> this is beyond anything i've ever seen before. this comes when you think you have so much power and you own the media that you can do anything you want. do you think we are stupid? do think we are false? you know something cannot the democrats do think you're stupid and they do think you're full's. and that's why you get called deplorable and chumps. >> shannon: correspondent aishah hasnie has the latest tonight. she is live in philadelphia, we check in with her now. good evening. >> shannon, good evening. it does look empty right behind me but i promise there are people in his convention center that are still counting those ballots. we are getting very close to that final count here in the commonwealth. about 70% now of the mail-in ballots are in, statewide. about 100,000 mail-in ballots still need to be counted here in the city of philadelphia.

president trump's lead over joe biden is getting tighter as more and more votes are counted in those democrats strongholds like philly, like pittsburgh. if the president is legal team demanding a review of every vote, saying poll watchers were kept up to 50 feet away for sometimes 20 hours, arguing more than 100,000 ballots could be fraudulent or riddled with mistakes, listen. >> not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots. they could be from mars as far as we are concerned. or they could be from the democratic national committee. joe biden could have voted 50 times as far as we know or 5,000 times. >> some other legal issues we are watching closely, montgomery county is being challenged right now over claims that it may have started precanvassing early and according to the bucks county courier times, the federal justice just told election officials they must stop contacting voters and helping them fix their ballots and also a late addition tonight, the trump campaign filing a lawsuit

against pennsylvania secretary of commonwealth and also every single county board election in the state. this is over a letter she allegedly wrote or issued which extended the amount of time that absentee voters have to provide missing identification cards, so a lot is up in the air right n now. a lot of these mail-in ballots are up in the air. the status counting every single one that comes in in the next two days now, but they are keeping them, shannon, separately, sort of in a different pile, in case perhaps they have to be thrown out. shannon. >> shannon: yeah, that's going to be critical if this case winds up back at the supreme court where it currently sits. thank you. so two of the pillars of the traditional democratic blue wall in the upper midwest, wisconsin and michigan, has been called by the fox news decision desk for joe biden. but lawsuits have been filed by the trump campaign over meaningful access poll watchers there and issues related to mail-in ballots.

kevin corke reporting live for us in detroit. okay, kevin, do we have anywhere to idea where the count in detroit has ended up tonight? is it done for tonight? >> it is not done for tonight. we actually anticipated they may have wrapped things up here by about 11:00 or maybe midnight. it has not happened. a source just told me moments ago they will probably be going at least until 4:00 in the morning before they wrap it up for the night. let me just say this too, when you look at the secretary of state's page, it still has john james in the lead in his particular race and actually has the president in the lead, but there are still lots of ballots that are counted here, lots still out in democratic-leaning detroit, and that's why the decision desk, as you pointed out, is already calling the state of michigan, but let's get down to what's happening here, a lot of people wondering what's going on with the ballots? at the tables behind me they are supposed to have g.o.p. and democrat observers and challengers at each and every table while they process those absentee mail-in ballots, but that's not what happened here,

shannon. what we saw was an overwhelming number of democrats here taking a look at the ballots and that led to protests outside. you saw a lot of g.o.p. backers, supporters of the president, saying listen, it is an unfair and a flawed process, they are demanding more access and more transparency and as you can imagine, the trump campaign is looking to sue for those problems right here in michigan. speaking to the president, let me take you to twitter. he says this about the state of michigan. yes, with already called for the vp, but the president said not so fast. he said on twitter, "we have claimed for electoral vote purposes the commonwealth of pennsylvania, which won't allow legal observers. the state of georgia and the state of north carolina, each one of which has a big trump lead. additionally, we hereby claim the state of michigan if, in fact there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots, as has been widely reported," so while it might seem like a done deal, obviously that is not the case as far as the trump campaign is

concerned. also, we saw a big shift in ballots overnight in that big senate race here in the state of michigan, john james looks like he was well on his way, the g.o.p. candidate, but in fact after the big shift in ballots overnight, it does appear and in fact it has been called that he has lost his battle against gary peters 49 plus 248 plus, absentee ballots being a major factor in that race. a number of absentee ballots obviously tipping the balance there and that led one g.o.p. valid observer here tonight to allege voter fraud. he kept our conversation with simply this. we will see them in court. and i can also tell you this, wisconsin is getting a lot of attention. people are wondering about a big shift in balloting overnight as well. that has led the trump campaign to demand a recount. shannon. >> shannon: okay, we will watch it as it happens. kevin, thank you. what's unpredicted as a blue

wave that would overwhelm republicans and carry democrats took control of u.s. senate has so far not materialized, so let's find out where things stand right now from chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> i feel that this is an affirmation of the work that i'm doing in washington. >> a huge hold in maine with republican susan collins defeated democrat sarah gideon in a critical race for the balance of power in the senate buried in south carolina, senator lindsey graham had the fight of his political life but held on against democrat jamie harrison. >> i've never wanted my job more than i do now. i never appreciated my job more than i do now. >> republicans also picked up a seat in alabama with tommy tuberville defeating democrat doug jones. senator mitch mcconnell expressed hope today he will continue leading the senate. >> i don't know whether i'm going to be the majority leader or the minority leader, as i told you, i've been both. majority is better. >> two pickups for democrats in colorado with john hickenlooper defeating republican

cory gardner. >> it's time to put the poisonous politics of this era behind us and come together to move forward. >> and in arizona with mark kelly defeating republican martha mcsally. >> are state doesn't need a democrat senator, a republican senator. we need an arizona senator. a senator like john mccain. >> in-house, democrats lost numerous seats, many that they won two years ago. in iowa, new mexico and florida. donna shalala and debbie mucarsel-powell. in oklahoma, kendra horn and in south carolina, joe cunningham. and it wasn't just freshman. if house agriculture committee chairman collin peterson of minnesota lost his 15 term seat. democrats could still lose seats in new york, michigan, and california. house republicans later kevin mccarthy celebrated beating expectations so far. >> as our numbers continue to grow, i think at the end of the day, no matter where we end up, we will be able to have a very

big say or even run the floor when it comes to policy. >> last night >> nancy pelosi downplayed her losses. >> it's not just about the quantity. it's about the quality of leadership. >> there could be quite a bloodbath i had among democrats. in the house, the expectation was they would gain seats, including in places like texas and in the senate, the cycle was supposed to be the opportunity to regain the majority with republicans defending tough seats. so far, democrats in congress have not lived up to the hype. shannon. >> shannon: okay, mike emanuel, our thanks to you. expecting a blue wave to expand the party majority in the house, speaker nancy pelosi certainly didn't expect this so soon after election day. a couple of moderate democrats telling the hill they are looking at a change in leadership after republicans as far as we know now have flipped at least six seats. alden, "it's time for democrats to elevate a new generation of leadership in both the house and the senate. americans are clearly afraid of

socialism, want safe streets and neighborhoods and vote for people who they believe will help put more money in the pocket." joe biden predicted a long, hard winter in the final presidential debate a couple weeks ago. we presume he was talking about the possible coronavirus pandemic extension and not what's looking like a tough legal fight shaping up over the results of the presidential election. let's debase these cases and what's going on. jessica tarlov, recount lawyer from the bush-cheney 2000 legal team, alex vogel and senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation, thank you all for being with us tonight or this morning, wherever you may be. because thank you. [laughs] thank you. >> shannon: okay, so more and strive tweets this. "it's now clear that no monkey business will rescue donald trump from a decisive electoral defeat. guys like me can stop worrying about another bush versus gore. the trump -- they will sue and make stuff up, but i can finally get a good night's sleep."

alex. >> i think it's a little early for any of that. first of all, at this point in the process, the votes are going to be counted, then the campaigns will decide whether or not they are within recount margins or they can go to court if they see problems with the administration of the election, but to get from there to the supreme court is a long way -- a long way away so i'm not quite convinced we are heading to bush versus gore territory. it is certainly reasonable for the campaigns to look at how things are going and certainly they are within their rights to request recounts if they are within the margins allowed by the state. >> shannon: hans, you and i talked about this earlier today on my podcast, if people want a more extended 20 in a conversation with us we were really able to get into some of the minutia, but here is something that a trump 2020 campaign manager had to say today. >> we are discerning a victory in pennsylvania. this is not based on gut or

feel, this is based on math. we feel very, very positive that the president and vice president will again deliver a victory in pennsylvania. in fact, we have a high degree of certainty that the margin won't be close. >> shannon: hans, he's getting a lot of criticism over that and you and i have talked about how pennsylvania may be the thing that really ends up back at the supreme court. what you make of where we are? >> right. the problem in pennsylvania was that you had the state supreme court change the laws set by the legislature with regard to absentee ballots. they extended the deadline, they made other changes such as telling election officials they couldn't reject absentee ballots based on a signature comparison. look, if the state legislator wanted to make a change like that, they could do that. they've got the constitutional authority to set those rules. but the state courts do not, and

that's why this may end up before the supreme court. the supreme court, if they actually filed the constitution is going to say that the courts -- the state courts cannot make those kinds of changes. basically overwriting the state legislature and certainly not doing it so close to or in the middle of the election process. >> shannon: and from one of the opinions or statements that we had that came from justice alito joined by justice gorsuch and thomas, say as much as much about state legislators and the constitution gives them the power to make the decision so if this does indeed end up before the supreme court, there will be three to watch very closely, see who else may join them or not. politico says this. if biden looks screwed even if he wins. biden lost ground with black voters and latinos, though he gained some ground with white voters, he needed a crushing rejection of trump to strengthen his case. he also needed the senate. jessica, he didn't get any of those things.

>> well, we don't know how big the crushing of donald trump will be if joe biden does go on to win. and certainly if wins arizona and georgia -- >> shannon: it's not going to be something like a wipeout though. >> no, it's not going to be 400 electoral votes, but in the highly partisan times where we know that people are really going to their corners and with so few undecideds, you would certainly have to say that if he wins georgia for the first time in i think 28 years and picks of arizona, which has been a holy grail state for democrats that have been working on chipping away on that for another 20 plus years, that's a huge achievement for joe biden. as well as putting back together the blue wall. in terms of the down ballot races, i am personally disappointed. i thought we would have a few more senate pickups and the house, that we would get those extra 10-15 seats, not losing people like collin peterson and kendra horn in oklahoma. i think nancy pelosi and her team are going to have a lot of soul-searching and work to do there. but i don't think we should be

diminishing at this point -- first of all, we don't know the outcome, but the level of achievement that joe biden has pulled off at this particular moment in time with a force like donald trump on the other side. >> shannon: well, a lot of people would argue with the mainstream media and the posters giving a heavy assist to the biden campaign, both campaigns tonight maintaining that they have a path to victory and we are waiting. again, we expect in the next 45 minutes or so we will get another vote tromped from arizona. we will see how that impacts things, but people very angry about the polls again this time around. the atlantic says this. at the polling is a catastrophe for american democracy. it's the failure of the polls that leaves americans with no reliable way to understand what we as a people think outside of elections, which in turn threatens our ability to make choices or to cohere as a nation. alex, there were a number of -- i mean, whether you're talking about the national overall popular vote, whether you're talking but individual state races which will be nail-biters and their blowouts, the senate

races and a number of the states that were absolutely off by 8-10 points, what you make of where we are with polling? a lot of people are saying it's basically dead here in the united states. >> it is dead in this election has proved it. it's awful what happened. it's shocking given how much inc. and airtime was devoted to posters explaining how they solved it and why their results were accurate and even more disturbing, mocking some of those posters will ultimately look like they called these races correctly. it is a problem not just in terms of people's expectations. it's because it absolutely changes voting behavior. if voters hear over and over again for weeks and weeks that their candidate is either going to win by 15 or lose by 15, it changes whether some of those folks will go to the polls are not and that's a problem. it's a problem for the media organizations who rely on some of these polls and it is certainly a problem for the people producing them. it definitely needs to be addressed before we go through

this process again, because it is clear they have not figured it out. >> shannon: hans, very quick final comment from you about this idea that it's only republicans who are dragging this thing into the courts. it you want i know, we talked about a number of cases that have been brought by parties on both sides of the island recent weeks. >> right. particularly prior to the election, almost all the cases have been brought by democrats and their allies. what those lawsuits all involve was trying to change the rules regarding absentee ballots, trying to avoid out signature comparisons, trying to void out witness signature requirements, trying to extend the deadlines for absentee ballots, and those were -- those suits were found in almost every state all around the country. >> shannon: all right, hans, alex, jessica, thank you all for your time tonight. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: coming up, without breaking news out of portland,

we are told it is getting ugly, it is getting violent there, the national guard has been called in. we will bring you the images and tell you what's going on next. ♪

>> shannon: all kinds of breaking news continuing into the overnight hours, we are seeing protesters taking to the streets in the aftermath of this contested election. violent rioting we are told unfortunately has returned to the streets of portland, oregon, tonight, the sheriff's office according to them say widespread -- widespread violence is occurring in the downtown area, we are told governor kate brown has activated the oregon national guard to assist local law enforcement that is moving to the streets in portland, apparently a spike of some kind across the city tonight. that's according to local authority's, the governor having called in the national guard, we will continue to monitor that and bring you updates.

in the southeast, the term campaign filings -- require two separate and -- steve harrigan has the latest on that, live from atlanta tonight. good evening, steve. >> shannon, there's about 17,000 ballots here in fulton county where atlanta is located that still have to be processed. i got to say, the people behind us have been working hard steadily throughout the evening. they're taking the ballots out of the envelopes, flattening them, then putting them through scanners. they are going at a clip of about 2-$3,000 in our -- ballots an hour. still about 90,000 to be tabulated across the state of georgia. for the past 24 hours we've really seen president trump's leading georgia shrink and shrink steadily from six digits yesterday down to 50,000, 40,000, now roughly about a 30,000 vote lead for president trump. we've seen delays here and when the votes will finally be tallied up. we heard a deadline of 7:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m., midnight, now officials are saying they're going to stay here no matter how long it takes to get that count

in. they expect to be ready here in fulton county sometime between midnight and 3:00 a.m., georgia was never a battleground state for decades, 1992 it's been a republican stronghold for president trump -- won by five points in 2016 in part due to a million new voters since 2016. it really has become a battleground where they are sweating out every county now to see who finally comes out on top with the electoral votes from georgia. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: okay, steve. we are also getting -- there's a local member of the media tweeting this out, says well fulton county will continue to count on it, state staff have stopped aggregating until the morning. there are also some issues they need to resolve with a few counties about whether some batches of votes have or have not been counted. so it sounds like, for now, for tonight, the state is going to stop and there are questions about batches of votes. know you're there in fulton but have you heard anything about this broader issue with the

state? >> there have been some disputes about when ballots arrive. did they arrive on time for election day, some mail-in ballots. there is at least one lawsuit going on. there have been some problems here with voting, a water pipe burst that delayed things, the workers went home, 10:30 p.m. on election night, and a lot of delays with when they would finally get that vote tallied up, but it really seems to be determination here to do the count accurately, to get it done and to stay as late as it takes here, at least in fulton county, they are going to press ahead, shannon. >> shannon: all right, steve, thank you very much. so fulton county will continue. some of the state staff will not continue questions about batches of votes in other counties. we will track it. as we told you earlier, joe biden at in wisconsin and michigan to his win column today. that means he needs to win only one more battleground states to become the next president of the united states. correspondent jacqui heinrich is still on the biden campaign trail. she is live tonight from

wilmington, delaware. hello, jacqui. >> hey there, shannon. the biden campaign is waiting on their incoming totals. they do feel confident about. if they are not waiting to mobilize their lawyers. they saw this move coming from the trump campaign from a mile away back in september, they expanded on a team of lawyers that they already had in response to what they saw as the president of us to miss continued to suppress the vote to so disinformation, discord, distressed about the voting process, including vote by mail. in total, they've got thousands of lawyers across the country who have been working on voter protection cases for months now and today, the campaign primed anxious supporters for what kind of lawsuit they expect now and why they believe and are confident the president can't win. spell it out on a powerpoint presentation describing cases from ranging efforts to stop ballot counting to efforts to disqualify ballots in states like michigan, nevada, and pennsylvania. they also showed by the courts there struck them down.

>> we are fully prepared for it because it's almost as if they handed their strategic playbook to us and read it to us out loud. so we are well prepared for it and wherever they go and however they go about it, we have lawyers ready to go, papers ready to go within an hour of hearing of any step that they take. >> meantime, the senate behind me will stay in place for tomorrow. once all those vote totals come in, the vice president is expected of a victory speech that will be geared towards uniting a divided country, but the campaign is so confident in those projections that they've actually set up the website to the biden-harris transition team tonight. >> to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. we are not enemies. what brings us together as americans is so much stronger than anything that can tear us apart. >> the campaign said they will continue the election security

briefings, try to give people a picture of what they're seeing on their end as they fight off these claims from the trump campaign, shannon. >> shannon: all right, jacqui heinrich on the trail, thank you very much. so president trump gaining last night with nonwhite voters, both african-american and latino voters and it showed in texas. the lieutenant governor of that state, dan patrick, joins us live to weigh in next. ♪

♪ >> shannon: in the run-up to election day, posters, progressives, and the media all forecast big gains for democrats in two big electoral college prizes, florida and texas, because of, they said, growing population diversity. things did not quite turn out as predicted on election day so let's talk of the reasons behind those surprises. to some, not to everyone, texas lieutenant governor, dan patrick, who i suspect will tell us he was not surprised by what happened in texas. good to have you back.

>> i wasn't surprised at all, shannon. back in 2014 when governor abbott and i ran and we ran on separate tickets, we each got about 50% of the hispanic vote, which i think is the highest in the history of any republican in any state anywhere and we examine why that happened and -- and i've been giving this speech for years since then. everyone says, well, texas will naturally turn blue because of the hispanic population. just the opposite. the hispanic voter is pro-life, they are pro-smaller government, pro-job opportunity, pro-charter school and school opportunity. they want a secure border, but that life is very strong for them. the democrat policies just did not match up with them this time and shannon, shockingly, they didn't understand that a lot of hispanic work in the oil and gas industry so in the rio grande valley, the president flipped seven democrat counties last night and in the three biggest counties, hillary clinton won them by about 120,000 votes in

2016, joe biden only carried them by 65,000 votes. we are making great strides in the hispanic community and the democrats have a real problem on their hands nationally because they are so, as your previous guest in your last hour said they are hard-core secularists. they will not buy this ideology from the left and the democrats have a real problem. we in our party will not. >> shannon: we've been told for weeks, months, that texas was in real danger of flipping blue. we are told this during the beto o'rourke, ted cruz senate race a couple of years ago. josh kraushaar tweeting this today, well, yesterday we are talking about wednesday. he said this, totally missed this last night, democrats did not pick up a single house seat in texas despite all the hype, stunning. there was a lot of money spent there in texas, just like there was for that senate race. it doesn't seem like it paid off for democrats. >> no, they sent over 100 million i think trying to take the house because it's a

redistricting year and going into the election i talked to the president on saturday and previously last week and i said you're going to win 4-6 points, he nailed it at six points and i said we keep the house and it's because, shannon, real voter suppression, and by the way, we turned out to and a half million more roughly then in 2016 and 2018, so you can't have voter suppression when you're adding millions of people in their voting, it was a terrific night last night but real voter suppression are these polls, because when the networks put out these polls like wisconsin, the president was down by 17 or every other state, with the mainstream networks, not fox but the other networks are trying to suppress the trump vote, suppress the republican vote to give it a sense, well, no sense voting, you can't win and you know and i know and maybe the average viewer doesn't understand how easily it is to manipulate polls. you just sample more democrats than republicans, you get the result you want, so real voter suppression was mainstream media

and the main newspapers all over this country telling trump voters he couldn't win and telling everyone the democrats were going to have a blue wave and take texas and take florida, et cetera, north carolina. that is voter suppression. >> shannon: yeah, people were very skeptical after 2016 and after some of the huge margins and errors that we saw last night, it's going to be hard to win back that trust, it's going to take some effort by the posters in the media. lieutenant governor dan patrick, thanks for popping in. >> sure enough, thanks. >> shannon: breaking news from arizona, that's next. ♪

>> shannon: no matter how the presidential race eventually turns out, things are trending very much and republican favor in tuesday's congressional elections. the strong probability of retaining a senate majority in at least six seats flip the house of representatives. let's discuss what it means in the big picture with republican congressman from ohio, jim jordan. good to have you back with us. >> good to be with you, shannon. >> shannon: politico puts it

this way, dumpster fire, house democrats trade blame after thursday's damage. they say house democrats are asking themselves one question after tuesday 's election stunner, what the hell happened? grandmother, that is a quote, i'm reading this. shell-shocked democratic leaders and aides privately began trying to pin the blame and it lists the number of excuses and potential targets there. congress and, what you make of it? because there was supposed to be a blue wave that would have made your situation even worse. you are still in the minority there in the house but you weren't supposed to pick up seats. >> well, the conventional wisdom was the president trump was supposed to get beat in a landslide, but they were supposed to -- the u.s. senate was supposed to go to democrats and we were going to lose a bunch of seats and as you pointed out, we kept the senate, where picking up seats because we were in a number of great candidates, a number of good conservative women candidates and a lot of districts so we are picking up seats in the house and frankly, the president is ahead in north carolina, georgia, pennsylvania, and making up ground in arizona --

and he can still win this thing, so it is a good night i think overall when you look at that picture based on what the conventional wisdom was prior to the election. as far as the infighting goes with the democrats, frankly, i hope they keep it up because the more they are infighting, the less they are going to be going after your rights, your liberties, and your freedoms. that's not a bad thing for america if they fight a little bit more and don't come after your gun rights and all the other things they've been attacking. >> shannon: well, here is the analysis from axios. it says navigate the vote count, realize republicans had a big night. it wasn't a red wave, but it sure was a better result than virtually any g.o.p. official imagined, especially for the house and senate. the media and twitter don't understand america writ large. republicans resonate in waves and with depth and breadth that neither understand. your response to that? >> yeah, i think in the end, remember what this election was largely about. the left doesn't like the

country. i mean, conservatives, we think america is this great nation, the greatest nation ever. not perfect, but the greatest nation ever. the left doesn't like america, they don't like the values, the institutions, the principles that i think make us the special place that we are. that was on display, i think that was a key issue in the selection and you saw a lot of voters say i'm going to vote for the republican candidate because they value the things that i value. they allow you the principles that make us the greatest nation in history. i think it was the key element. >> shannon: i want to play something from a former vice president, now talking about moving forward from this point, where we are tonight. >> but i also know this as well. to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. we are not enemies. what brings us together as americans is so much stronger then anything that can tear us apart. so let me be clear. i've come a we are campaigning as democrats, but i will govern

as an american president. >> shannon: should he win, congressman, do you have confidence there will be some middle ground, that there can be some healing? >> i still think the president, president trump is going to win. if it is though president biden, book, he's embraced every crazy left-wing althea out there. of all the left wing ideas that come from "the squad" and iran else, he's embraced every single one of those and frankly, you talk about being an american present. this is the same guy who enriched his family by hanging out with the chinese, with the russians and with the ukrainians, his family got all kinds of money from them, so we will see if he is in fact the president. let's hope we can come together some, but as i said earlier, you know, i think the president is going to win. is ahead in georgia, north carolina and pennsylvania and making up ground in arizona. this thing is not over yet. >> shannon: well, mr. biden denies the claims about financial enrichment, so it will be interesting to see regardless of who wins, whether any investigations among those paths

continue. congressman, good to have you with us. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: okay, there are crowds gathering in arizona. correspondent alecia going is on the phone now with some new developers. she's been escorted away from the area. she's in her car now. we are getting a lot of conflicting reports, what can you tell us? >> hi. can tell you that [indiscernible] and there were other members of the media inside the county elections office as the crowd was gathering outside over the course of hours. [indiscernible] computing protests. we had biden supporters there. and trump supporter's as well. that turns into a much larger group. the time we were escorted out, there were hundreds. and what happened was we were sitting there waiting to do a hit for your show, to give you an update on account in the

county. we were approached by an elections official singular start -- shutting the building down for safety purposes, they needed everybody out now so all of the crews had to break down and they were all escorted out by sheriffs deputies to our cars. i can tell you the frustration in the crowd was incredibly evident. you could hear them yelling chance for fox news. they are very frustrated, the fox news channel decision desk would stand by this decision, called arizona yesterday. so, yesterday evening, the trump campaign and republicans felt it was too soon. so there is frustration, they are coming back tomorrow as the count continues. so we will bring you the latest as we get it, shannon, but our crew is safe and so are the members -- >> shannon: really quick, before we get cut off, just to be clear, we were expecting

another tranche of votes around 1:00 a.m. eastern, another 10 minutes or so, does that work continue? do you think we will get anything more than a? >> according to the elections officials, the count will continue. they will shut down for the evening once that is complete. at 1:00 a.m. eastern another dump of data is supposed to be released so look for that. >> shannon: okay, we will check back with you, thank you. more news on that, those numbers come in next.

♪ >> shannon: the president shocked the world in 2016 with his upset win over hillary clinton in part because the polls got that race so wrong in so many state-level predictions. so what lessons did those prognosticators learn in predicting this year 'selection? alex hogan taking a look for us tonight. good evening, alex. >> good evening, shannon. in looking how people voted versus how they were projected to vote, the data did not materialize, skewing the election day forecast once again. >> 15 minute wait once you get up there. >> expectations of a blue wave falling flat. record-breaking numbers of voters in this historic election challenging paul predictions with one national poll showing former vice president joe biden winning by 17 points. >> that is pulling malpractice. you have to go to tremendous

lengths to be able to get something that wrong so close to the election. >> the reason i think people are hurt is because we got a little bit inflated with these polls. >> just days before the electi election, polestar joe biden had in key demographics like women and hispanics. as of earlier today 35% voted for president trump compared to 28% in 2016. the support from cuban-americans in florida helping him win the sunshine state, 29 electoral college votes. when it comes to bowling, experts say a lot of variables come into play. who takes the polls? to the answer genuinely? critics questioning how projected voter opinion so long. meghan mccain tweeting apart modicon american polling is dead. embarrassingly wrong, adding "the experts mocked anyone who questioned ridiculous claims like texas going blue or biden landslide." in 2016, trump inched past lori clinton in michigan, pennsylvania and flipped

wisconsin, despite the state returning blue this time around, trump did sidestep polls once more, winning ohio by seven points, and iowa by six points above what polls predicted. >> shannon: that's it for us for now. from washington, i'm shannon bream. (calm inspirational music)

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