we'll have to be patient. >> i'm not nervous. because it's still projections and it's still not 100% of the vote. i'm keeping the faith all the way to the end. >> a long night ahead. lots of ballots still to be counted. we are told kamala harris is expected to speak tomorrow. with california voters, unsee 51% voting for biden. 49% trump. >> we know they sent out hundreds of invitations for people to attend. you can see it.

it seems we'll see president trump address the nation. one thing we've seen all year long is the president using the white house in an unprecedented way. >> it is just mind blowing. i'm used to when you don't do political work on government property, let alone the white house. he gave his acceptance speech. he's done repeated events on white house grounds. >> i'm going to put out the spot in a slightly different way. what should we hear from the president? in these next two minutes? >> he should say pretty much the same thing joe biden said.

i see a path to victory here. i think i'm going to win this race. it will take a little while for to us get all the votes counted but that's what i think we should do. >> there's no conversation about policy. he didn't say why he was running. i think the president should talk about what he wants to see. a couple of sentences. >> this is about shaping a narrative over the next couple days or perhaps longer. and you've got to keep your people motivated. in a pandemic. counting votes. that's where we're headed. >> and what this is about. why he wants to run. >> yes. >> he hasn't done it for an entire year going into the campaign. i don't expect it on the eve of the campaign to do it. when you speak tonight and it's not clear, it is about shaping

the next three days. >> it turned out, yvette, whatever efforts were made to intimidate voters, suppress the vote, it didn't work on either side. we're seeing record turnout. what is your expectation about how this will play out in the coming days? >> you can't undercount, there is litigation still happening as we speak. in texas, for instance, the very important monumental decision to limit the number of ballot boxes in the state of texas could have had an outcome. we know the very long lines people waited in. voter suppression had a role in very key states.

we need to see all the ballots that will be counted. a lot of push and pull about when we will count ballots and the ballots being held back. i want to make clear that the efforts that were made to undermine this election probably did have an impact. >> given conversation john was having, i checked on it. i thought i recalled president ford conceded from the white house. betty ford the did it because he lost his voice but they did it from the white house. it is not as if it is completely unprecedented in the last 50 years. unusual, i agree. i'm talking about tonight, on the night of the election. as the sitting president. >> right. imagine this will look a little different than gerald ford's concession speech. >> you won't hear that tonight.

>> i would vote for donald trump losing his voice. >> don't forget from the balcony, too. he was thrown in the helicopter. he did the big evita wave from the balcony. >> as we wait for him to come out. i assume he'll do what biden did but a little bit more. there were about 2.5 million mail-in absentee votes. they've only counted about 200,000 of those. they've gone by about a 78, 22 margin for biden. so about 2 million absentee ballots in pennsylvania that have to be counted and it will take a lot of time.

>> why don't i start with you. it seems coming into tonight, the rejection rate which could be subject to challenges going forward has been relatively low. somewhat lower than people expected. >> we have a higher rejection as compared to votes cast in person. it is another sort of example, i think, of something we all feared. some kind of election meltdown. we haven't seen huge swaths. it is all napping real-time. i think it is right. there have been efforts to disqualify certain categories of votes. on if the margins are close enough, we may see litigation. the that doesn't necessarily signal how the supreme court is going to deal with these

questions going forward. >> correct. they're looking at can we push this off a bit. by pushing it off, you increase the chances that the court will let it stand. once you've had the vote, once the three days have passed and they've counted all the votes, it makes it more unlikely. we talked about absentee ballots. one of the issues in pennsylvania relates to what happens if your absentee ballot is rejected. someone gets in contact with him and says here's a provisional ballot. your absentee ballot was rejected. we'll see if this ends up counting. but that's another area where it won't just be absentee ballots. it will be provisional ballots. these are the sorts of detail

that's we'll have to get into if this gets that close in pennsylvania. >> and we're not there yet. the chief justice has been so protective of the reputation of the court. i can't imagine he wants to be anywhere near this. you're right. he doesn't want the supreme court to be in the middle of this. if and as this moves into the courts, these are not like anti-trust suits. ? o'this will be a political fight. in florida, one of the major officials deciding how that recount would go. the supreme court itself has a larger political dimension. does it really want to be the court? it would award the presidency to the loser of the popular vote. that's something chief roberts

and none of them should want. these are coming not just as pure legal cases but as political cat fights. i think you were saying perhaps amy coney barrett would recuse herself. she then showed up for that ceremony after she was confirmed by the senate. what is your guess now on whether she'll recuse herself or decide to rule on these election cases if we see them? >> she just started hearing cases yesterday. i think it remains hard to call. she is at the very beginning of what will likely be a long career on the supreme court. and i think she's someone who will care about her reputation for integrity, her legacy as a justice. i think she would want to avoid that. whether that means recusing heavy or finding some way to avoid actually casting the

decisive vote. i think it is something she would like to avoid doing as her first big action on the supreme court. >> of course, we're not there yet. do you want to weigh he in? >> one of the things that will be interesting. we know that the attorney general has irritated president trump by not launching an investigation, at least announcing it. will he weigh never. we an answer to that but it is something to watch. >> we've seen the justice department becoming involved in cases regarding the defamation suit. a woman accusing him of sexual assau assault. >> absolutely. you've seen that. this would be using the power and influence of the justice department to help determine an election.

have you gotten any lead on how they're seeing that? he's wanted to stay out of headlines, not be in the news. just have the department dots work. they've been very quiet concerning anything regarding this election. >> okay. thank you. it's been a long night. we're coming up on 2:15 on the east coast and we're nowhere close to knowing how this election will turn out. we heard from joe biden. he laid out where he thinks he's comfortable about arizona. he said wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania.

we'll hear from the president on how he plans to approach the next several days as well. kind of, we're keeping an eye on this. a remarkable run for the president. it is hard to imagine that he was in the hospital with covid less than a month ago. >> it is mind blowing. he was in the hospital. he was on supplemental oxygen and it was less than a month ago. he's gone out and he has been to nine different states over the last week. some 27 stops. the last two days, he was doing five rallies a day in multiple states. i've said it myself. this president hasn't done much to reach out to anyone who didn't support him in 2016. he's found voters who did not vote for him last time around.

>> a trend in the last generation. when we worked in the clinton administration in 1992, it was all about reaching out to people in the middle. increasingly after bush v gore, you've seen each presidential election after that focus far more on turning out their own bases. they are not only communicating with other people, they don't live around people who aren't like them. so these totally political tribes that we used off the, and then there would be this large group of people in the middle. and everybody would pursue the middle. now i think tonight is really proof to the donald trump sort of play book that there is a tribe that he could appeal to that is much bigger than anybody

imagined. i mean, he'll end up tonight with more votes than he got in 2016, and he turned out, he will have bigger margins than in 2016 when he barely won the electoral college victory. i think i think a big problem. a huge problem. and they each tried are totally different kinds of information. >> one of the things we're seeing, chris christie, as this division takes hold in the country. your former governor now in the northeast, a republican. but charlie baker in massachusetts, larry hogan, republican governors of blue states, have to figure out a way to govern their state without supporting the president of the party. >> yeah. and it is really relatively straightforward. i said so let me tell you something. that's the practical nature of this. and i will tell you, george,

when i as a sitting governor in new jersey endorsed president trump in late february of 2016, in the next poll, my poll numbers went down 15 points. that's the reality of being a republican governor in a blue state, getting involved in federal politics. so you know, i think what we need to understand as a party, if we want to be in these blue states and have republican governors, we have to give them a pass on federal issues. >> martha? >> i'll tell you, george, one of the things that is a concern. this may go through rest of the week. people saying i didn't vote for trump before. i'm voting for him now. they cite his record. we also say, what happens if

your candidate doesn't win? we talked about the signs in neighborhoods. people ripping down those signs. i've had people say they're afraid to put up biden signs. others have said they've had their trump signs defaced. so the real concern is what happens after. we have not seen donald trump try to write the country together. so if he ends up being the winner and full of confidence, what happens to the other half of that country? ? it is joe biden, people are dug in on their sides and that's evident tonight. >> thank you. put this election in context. when you look at how this was done over the last year, saying

it seems like it is the most contend shus, most divisive election since probably 1968. >> no question about it. this is an incredibly divisive election. if donald trump eeks out a victory here, it is the sheer stamina we've seen from donald trump in this campaign despite getting covid. in 1948, it was assumed that thomas dewey would win the election. and we know that famous picture of truman with the newspaper over his head. dewey defeats trouman. the erroneous headline. did he a whistle stop tour across the country. he earned back the presidency. the division is what is

different here. even in 1968, you didn't see quite the contentiousness between the two candidates. >> okay. thank you. >> i think what is interesting, if we look at what could have been. so much of this has been talking about the racial reckoning. i've always called it the so-called reckoning. in the end, what has it gotten us? in this country, 244-year history, we've only had ten black senators. two were during reconstruction so that was so many years ago. today you had people of color running in congress. seven, black candidates running for the senate. five in the south. prior to tonight, and still at this moment, agency we stab. in georgia, we have to put a pin in that. that will go to the runoff. goose eggs.

so there has been so much that's been said for those candidates who are running in the south, they were really leaning into race which is unusual in the south. quite often when you're trying to convince the white voters to vote for you, it was something to stay away from. the message was, it's time to meet the moment. i think there's still one potentially competitive race in michigan. john james running for senate. in the bigger picture, it looks like at this point, as things stand, what does it mean for a covid reloaf bill? we came into this election divided by race, by region, by party. at leaf 219 on wednesday, november 4th. we're still divided by race, by region best of my recollection

party. >> and we will be no mat here wins this election. you make great point about this country. and we're asking a lot of americans right now. this great experiment of ours, a democracy. and we saw a record turnout even in the midst of a once in a century pandemic. now we're asking america to be patient and sit with us for not just the rest of this morning and throughout the next day. now the president is coming out. possibly through end of the week. and you can't forget. president trump. 27 rallies this past week. had coronavirus. >> there is president's family. we're seeing his son eric, his daughter tiffany. >> ladies and gentlemen, the

president of the united states, donald j. trump. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. this is without question the latest news conference i have ever had. thank you. i appreciate it. i want to thank the american people for their tremendous support. millions and millions of people voted for us today. and a very sad group of people

is trying to disenfranchise that group of people. and we won't stand for it. we will not stand for it. i want to thank the first lady, my entire family, and vice president pence, mrs. pence, for being with us all through this. and we were getting ready for a big celebration. we were winning everything. and all of a sudden, it was just called off. the results tonight have been phenomenal. and we are getting ready, i mean, literally, we were all set to get outside and just celebrate something that was so beautiful, so good. such a vote. such a success. the citizens of this country have come out in record numbers. this is a record. there's never been anything like it. to support our incredible movement.

we won states we weren't expected to win. we didn't win it. we won it by a lot. we won the great state of ohio. we won texas. we won texas. we won texas by 700,000 votes. and they don't even include it in the tabulations. it is also clear that we have won georgia. we're up by 2.5%. or 117,000 votes with only 7% left. they're never going to catch us. likewise, we've clearly won north carolina. we were up 1.for you%. we're 77,000 votes with only

approximately 5% left. they can't catch us. if you see arizona, we have a lot of life in that. somebody declared that it was a victory. and maybe it will be. that's possible. but certainly, there were a lot of votes that we could get. they're coming into trump territory, these were friendly trump voters. and that could be overturned. he said that's fairly unlikely. fairly unlikely? and we don't need that. that was just a state that we would have gotten. it would have been nice. arizona. but there's a possibility, maybe even a good possibility. in fact, since i saw that originally, it has been changed. the numbers have substantially come down just in a small amount of votes.

so we want that to stay in play. most importantly, we're winning pennsylvania by a tremendous amount of votes. we're up 690,000 votes in pennsylvania. 690,000. these aren't even close. this is not like, oh, it's close. with 64% of the vote in, it is going to be almost impossible to catch. and we're coming into good pennsylvania areas where they happen to like your president.p.

we're had winning michigan. i looked. wow! that's a lot. by almost 300,000 votes. and 65% of the vote is in. and we're winning wisconsin. we don't need all of them. we need, because when you add texas in, which wasn't added. i spoke with the really wonderful governor of texas just a little while ago. greg abbott said congratulations on winning texas. we won texas. i don't think they finished quite the tabulation but there is no way. and it was almost complete. he congratulated me. and he said by the way, what's going on? i've never seen anything like this. can i tell you what? nobody has. so we won by 107,000 votes with

81% of the vote. that's michigan. so when you take those three states, in particular. and you take all the others. we have so many. we had such a big night. you just take a look at all these states that we've won. and then you look at the kind of margin that's we've won them by. and all of a sudden, it's not like we're up 12 votes and we have 60% left. we won states. and all of a sudden, what happened to the election? it's off. and we have all these announcers saying, what happened, and then they said, oh. because do you know what happened? they knew they couldn't win. so they said, let's go to court. and did i predict this? did i say this? i've been saying this from the day i heard, they were going to send out tens of millions of ballots. i said because either they would

win, if they didn't win, they'll take us to court. so florida was a tremendous victory. 377,000. texas, as we said. ohio. think of this. ohio, a tremendous state, a big state. i love ohio. we won by 8.1%.8.1%.8.1%. almost 500,000 votes. north carolina. a big victory with north carolina. and so we won there. we lead by 76,000 votes with almost nothing left and all of a sudden, everything just stopped. this is a fraud on the american public. this is an embarrassment to our country. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election.

so our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of the nation. this is a major fraud in our nation. we want the law to be used in a proper manner. so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop west don't want them on find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. okay? a very sad, a very sad moment. to me, this is a very sad moment. and we will win this. and as far as i'm concerned. we already have won it. so i want to thank you. and i want to thank all of our support. i want to thank all the people that worked with us. and mr. vice president, say a

few words, please. >> let's try to unpack that. >> mike pence, getting toward say a few words after donald trump came out from the white house. he didn't exactly declare victory but he sort of did. and obviously, too early to do that. there is still a number of states. these battleground states that must come in to see who has the path to 270 electoral votes. much closer night than some people predicted. >> he did say the results are phenomenal and they were toward celebrate and then everything just stopped. very interesting. we are going to have to wait and see once all the ballots get counted. >> some of the ballots in the key states may not be finished

until tomorrow at the early. he. it was quite a scene at the chase center in san francisco. the sheriff's deputies showed up, not because there was trouble but to pick up the ballots that were dropped off at the home of the warriors. it is their job to make sure they were delivered safely. >> they're making sure every vote gets counted. election officials said they had a steady group all day. 30,000 voted in person today. >> this is the largest in american history. we anticipate that we'll have with an 85% voter turnout. >> that percentage could still go up until the days to come. > voting has gone fairly smoothly around the bay area from everything we've heard. sky 7 found this long line of

people waiting to cast their votes. about 45 minutes before polls close. this was at the mexican heritage. remember anyone in line at 8:00 p.m. when the polls actually closed is allowed to still cast their votes. no one is turned away if you were in line at 8:00. we have crews covering the po s polls. >> cornell? >> yeah. a lot of republicans say they are feeling really good tonight. a they believe trump will win. >> several gathered here to watch election returns roll in on a big screen tv.

>> i want to be here with like-minded people and i want to celebrate at the end of the night. >> few masks and very little social distancing, sponsored by moving marin right. a group of republicans who want to see the president stay in the white house four more years. many believed they never believed polls. >> not a single person is surprised. we've been confident all along that the polls were wrong from the very beginning. i think donald trump will win tonight. >> of course, this race is still too close to call. republicans hope it will be decided sometime very soon. of course, in favor of their candidate. donald trump. abc7 news. >> thank you. in the east bay, supporters of president trump came together to show support for their candidate. in lafayette, they held signs on

highway 24. sky 7 also captured a group in danville. >> a person brought out a sculpture. larry mcspadden put the head out there. he said he made the sculpture to roll, symbolizing for the president to be rolled out of office. prom 22 became the most expensive in history. would it classify ride share and delivery drivers as contract workers. i'll sure you heard a lot about it. there are a lot of commercials running. >> there have been some big numbers for prop 22. as you'll hear in a minute, there is a surprise from some of the folks on the yes campaign since they were anticipating this race to be much closer. prop 22 has a large roll in derrelling the future of ride sharing and delivery apps.

not just here in california but around the world. it is the most expensive ballot proposition in california history. uber and others spent $200 million on it. a yes vote is what uber and the likes fighting for. it classifies drivers as independent contractors. a california law passed last year that grants drivers full employment. a no vote means drivers would likely be classified as employees and receive a wide array of benefits like minimum wage, overtime, paid sick leave and unemployment insurance. ride share companies say if prom 22 fails, prices and wait times will increase for users. i spoke to two northern california lyft drivers tonight, fighting on opposite sides of the proposition. >> i'm very, very surprised. i thought it would be way, way closer. so yeah. i never expected to feel this