with abc's rachel scott who is patience as his lead grows over president trump and three key battleground states. >> your vote will be counted. i don't care how hard people try to stop it. i will not let it happen. the people will be heard. >> reporter: just hours before large crowds gathered outside

the philadelphia center calling for every vote to be counted. the former vice president is just 17 electoral votes shy of locking up the election. he's now leading by about 20,000 votes in the critical state of pennsylvania, which could decide it all, and he has an edge in nevada, arizona, and notably georgia, a democrat hasn't won there since 1992. biden supporters are already preparing for one last drive-in style rally expecting a victory speech is imminent. his campaign also eager to celebrate. this as president trump remains defiant falsely accusing democrats of trying to steal the election. >> they're trying to rig an election and we can't let that happen. >> reporter: now his party is divided. some include house's kevin mccarthy echoing the president's unfounded claims of voter fraud but other top allies are urging the president to provide evidence to back up his accusations. >> he's got to eventually make the case specifically that

something bad happened and let the american people determine how credible that is. >> reporter: the senate's top republican mitchell mcconnell tweeted every legal vote should be counted. any illegally-submitted ballots must not. later mcconnell refusing to discuss it further. >> i've already covered the subject and i told you i sent out a tweet this morning which covers my view of where we are. >> reporter: president trump remaining out of public view friday releasing a campaign statement with no mention of stolen votes or rigged elections. instead vowing to pursue this process through every aspect of the law to guarantee that the american people have confidence in our government. biden insists he will fight against any legal challenges but it may not come to that. one of the president's closest advisers telling abc news the president's paper statement yesterday was, quote, a step towards concession or at least reconciliation. and if joe biden does win the white house, he will make history as the oldest president of the united states and senator

kamala harris will be cementing her name in the history books as well. she would become the first woman and the first woman of color to serve as vice president, dan. >> rachel, a two-part question. one, are you expecting that we'll see joe biden come out again any time soon and, two, behind the scenes are you hearing that they're making moves toward forming a new administration? >> reporter: yeah, joe biden said he hopes that he does come out again today to address his supporters. as you can see behind me the stage is set for a possible victory speech. but he's also made clear he is not waiting for this race to be called to get to work. he says he's already preparing to tackle one of the biggest challenges that he would be inheriting which is the pandemic, and he's also trying to send this message of unity to all americans during this extremely divisive time saying he won't just be the president of red states or blue states, he would be the president of the united states. dan. >> all right, rachel scott for us. we'll stand by to see if the

former vice president speaks later today. now to politics and the pandemic, colliding once again and that breaking news from overnight, the white house chief of staff is among six people in the president's orbit who have tested positive for coronavirus. abc's cecilia vega is in d.c. with the latest on that. cecilia, good morning. >> reporter: hi, whit. good morning. the timing of this could not be any worse for the west wing, the chief of staff now testing positive. he's the president's right-hand, someone who should be helping him navigate his way through this fight of his political life, but the white house dealing with another outbreak as president trump is on the verge of defeat. this morning, as president trump is on the verge of losing his re-election, the white house once again fighting to contain another coronavirus outbreak. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: abc news has confirmed that six people in president trump's orbit including the highest ranking aide in the west wing, chief of staff mark meadows, have tested positive. sources tell abc news meadows has been near them all week seen here at the president's campaign headquarters in the final hours before the election and at the

white house on election night not wearing a mask and shaking hands. it's unclear if meadows is experiencing any symptoms or when he tested positive. just last month on capitol hill, meadows refused to wear a mask while speaking to reporters. >> well, i'm more than ten feet away. well, i'm not going to talk to the press. >> reporter: and he made headlines with this concession that the administration is no longer trying to control the rapidly spreading virus. >> we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics -- and other mitigation -- >> why aren't we going to get the control of the pandemic? >> because it is a contagious virus. >> reporter: now, in addition to meadows who as chief of staff has direct and frequent contact with the president and top aides, four other white house staffers and one campaign operative have also tested positive. including nick trainor, a campaign director working in one of the president's war rooms inside the white house this week. it's just the latest outbreak in

the administration after that rose garden superspreader event and cases in the vice president's office. after contracting it himself president trump claimed he's immune to covid, despite doctors knowing very little about the possibility of reinfection. >> i went through it. now they say i'm immune. >> reporter: now, a record 140,000 cases just yesterday alone and voters overwhelming frustration with the president's handling of this virus could be one of the very reasons he loses this election. today inside the trump team is focused on a legal strategy ahead but right now the real question is when, if at all, we will see some kind of formal concession speech if the president ends up losing this battle for a re-election, eva. >> cecilia, we are all watching. now, in all the key states there are still votes that need to be counted. overnight here in pennsylvania, vice president joe biden's lead, actually widening more, biden is now leading by more than 28,000 votes.

here's what's to left to count in p.a. 81,000 mail-in ballots from those democratic strongholds, like pittsburgh and philadelphia. these will likely favor biden. now, another 100,000 provisional ballots are also being counted. these are ballots that were cast on election day in person for several reasons like a change in address, reporting to the wrong precinct, an issue with voter registration or, say, someone got a mail-in ballot and decided to vote in person but they didn't turn in their mail-in so these take time to go through. they have to be looked at more closely and examined to resolve whatever issue existed so we don't know how many of these ballots will actually be resolved and counted. also, with these provisional ballots, we just don't know which way they would lean. that is why we can't make any projections in this race here in pennsylvania. joining us now is pennsylvania's lieutenant governor john

fetterman. thanks so much for being with us this morning. >> great to be here. thank you. >> well, i have to ask you the question that everyone wants the answer to, why is this taking so long and when will pennsylvania finish this count? >> well, it's taking -- it's taking so long for a couple of reasons, one, the president refuses to argue -- he's trying to argue with math. that's the biggest reason. secondly, the gop-controlled legislature would not grant an extra 24 hours or 48 hours to allow the poll workers to precanvas and that's just opening up the envelopes and getting them ready so you have those two factors. you look at the lead for the vice president at this point, it's already approaching 30,000 votes. all of those mail-in ballots that remain are going to break strongly for the vice president and those provisional ballots are coming from areas like allegheny and philadelphia and most of those, i suspect, are

going to find where people that didn't trust their mail-in ballot and they wanted to vote in person so they showed up at the election polling place and they spoiled their ballot and voted by provisional so there is no path. there is no cluster of trump votes that we haven't discovered in pennsylvania. this is all going to continue to break in the vice president's favor and the president seems intent on dragging this out. >> there are a lot of concerns and rumors flying around of illegal votes being counted. election fraud. are you seeing anything of that nature that would give you concern? >> no, absolutely not. and if the president tweeted out one plus one equals three, we wouldn't be having a conversation. maybe he's right. is there something to that rumor. it's like when you tweet out absolute falsehoods, it is not anyone's obligation to begin a conversation on discussing the validity of those. it's false.

he knows it's false and it's the last, you know, sad attempt to try to manipulate what's the inevitable conclusion in pennsylvania. it's coming. >> lieutenant governor, we appreciate your time. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> dan. >> thanks, eva. we're going to turn to georgia where a recount seems to be in the cards because biden's lead there is so thin. abc's elwyn lopez on the ground in atlanta with much more. elwyn, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. joe biden's lead growing here in georgia, the former vice president ahead by 7,248 votes, a very slim margin that will likely lead to a recount here in the state once all is said and done. now there are still about 15,600 outstanding absentee, provisional, overseas and military ballots here and what keeps pushing biden over the edge here are blue-leaning counties like fulton, gwinnett and clayton counties, the last

of which was long represented by late civil rights icon john lewis until his death. a vocal critic of president trump. now the secretary of state who is a republican says that we will be headed into a recount here but that recount will not be automatic. it is a recount that will be requested by any candidate within that 0.5 margin and also a statewide audit here, so it could be weeks until georgia decides a winner. >> there are a number of reasons why georgia will continue to be busy because there are also two races there for the united he's still leading by 33,000 votes but president trump is gaining ground there's now an estimated 171,000 outstanding ballots remaining statewide. so all eyes are on maricopa county the largest county in the state which has 92,000 ballots

left to report, results from those are expected to come in later this morning. but if joe biden can hold on and secure a win here in arizona, he'll be the first democrat to do so in a presidential election in 24 years. but tensions are rising high. for several nights protesters have demonstrated outside an election center here in phoenix. most are supporters of president trump. some of them armed and holding signs claiming without evidence that voter fraud is taking place. so far no violence has occurred as a result of those demonstrations. meanwhile, the pandemic has also impacted the election process here. a new report overnight says multiple poll workers tested positive for coronavirus last weekend at an early voting center in peoria, arizona. health officials tell our local abc station that they did not notify voters because they didn't meet the definition or the threshold of what's considered close contacts. eva. >> thanks, whit. nevada still has tens of

thousands of ballots to count and they plan to update their numbers throughout the day. abc's matt gutman is in las vegas with more. good morning to you, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, eva. last night we got a trickle of new results giving joe biden a lead of about 22,000 votes, just shy of 2%. and he's tantalizingly close to the finish line here, but the finish line seems like it keeps getting farther away. yesterday, the registrar of las vegas, clark county, announced that they had mistakenly overestimated the number of outstanding ballots by 20,000. he said it shouldn't affect the results but it has made the going slower. in addition to that, the nevada gop filed a lawsuit also against clark county, a democratic bastion, demanding it halt immediately the use of its signature verification machines. it wanted every ballot counted by hand. it also wanted republican observers to be able to hear every word that a poll worker says. that's how close they wanted to get.

at one point, the judge asked at what point does this get ridiculous and tossed the lawsuit out. okay, so without folks at home to get out an a clalculator or abacus. let's get to the numbers. 124,000 outstanding vote, over 60,000 are provisional and will be counted thursday. put that aside. 60,000 of those votes are right here in clark county, which has been voting in favor of biden by a margin of 2-1, so unless president trump can perform some feat of political alchemy and turn this blue county red, the biden camp feels very confident. we have new numbers coming out at 9:00 a.m. this morning. they think that that will finally give them a lock on the state and its six electoral votes. dan. >> matt gutman in las vegas. i love how you think people have appreciate your reporting this morning. let's switch gears now and talk about the weather. rob marciano is with us in the studio. rob, great to see you. i know you're tracking the storm eta. >> we are, dan.

great to be with you inside. i wish i had better pictures to show. the humanitarian crisis in honduras and guatemala continue to unfold. these are rescues being made by u.s. helicopters. they're taking them out of there. in guatemala, a number of landslides. over 50 people have died potentially over a hundred more stuck in another landslide. all right, this thing is now off the coast, west of the cayman islands. by about 190 miles. it's getting better organized and do anticipate it to cross cuba and make at run at south florida, and potentially as a strong tropical storm, the keys, miami, up towards west palm beach all going to get a piece. the eastern side strong so tropical storm watches are in this area so we'll have to watch god saturday morning, waking up to clear and chilly conditions across the bay area,

and we're partly cloudy for the most part but full sunshine on the way, a few cumulus clouds over the highest elevations. the winds kick up and we could see a sprinkle in the south bay later on tonight into tomorrow as the second system is just going to miss us. highs today only in the upper 50s in the city with blustery conditions, 60 over in oakland as well as san jose and the >> so close yet so far, dan. you're so close to me right now, just downstairs, but still so far away. we're being safe. >> we are, although we did bump elbows in the hallway. we have that. thanks, rob. appreciate it. so back to the election now, of the remaining battleground states, president trump leads only at this moment in the state of north carolina and janai norman is here in the studio with more on the count going on in north carolina. janai, good morning to you. >> hey, dan, north carolina still up in the air this morning with 98% of the vote in. president trump's lead appears to be holding up. he is ahead about 76,000 votes with about 99,000 outstanding

absentee ballots to be counted and now of course that could change if anyone who received an absentee ballot decided to vote in person on election day. now for some history in 2016, trump carried the tar heel state by 4 percentage points. of this morning, still ahead, but that's shrinking to just about 1.4%. the last time a democratic presidential nominee won north carolina was back in 2008 when barack obama eked out a narrow victory. still the republican party is banking on not only a victory for president trump in the state but a win for the state's high-profile senate race between gop incumbent thom tillis and democrat cal cunningham, a race that was upended in the final weeks when cunningham was caught in a sexting scandal. tillis has been leading for days and that would help republicans maintain control of the chamber. cunningham is within 2 percentage points of the 97% of the vote counted, won't have final numbers there until november 12th or 13th.

eva. well, coming up on "good morning america," a unique year, a unique presidential election. we'll check in with two historians on how the race has been like no other, whit. and, eva, we look at the legal challenges the trump campaign is pursuing as the vote counting continues. our chief legal analyst chief dan abrams joins us. plus, covid update. the startling numbers that are surging higher and shattering records. we'll be right back with that. much more "gma" coming up. "good morning america" is sponsored by walmart. let's end the year with what matters. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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welcome back to "gma" this saturday morning. this is a live look here in philadelphia where the votes are still being counted at this hour. in a race that sees joe biden taking the lead, but it is still close to call here in pennsylvania. whit. all those election workers working around the clock. we are grateful for them, eva. and here are the other big stories that we're following this morning. of course, it's this consequential election happening right now. joe biden pleading for patience as his lead grows over president trump in three key battleground states. the former vice president is just 17 electoral votes shy of locking up the election. he's now leading by about 28,000 votes in the critical state of pennsylvania. which could decide it all and he has an edge in nevada and

arizona, and notably georgia, where a democrat hasn't won since 1992. this as president trump remains defiant, falsely accusing democrats of trying to steal the election. also right now, the breaking news overnight. the white house chief of staff mark meadows is the latest in a string of people in the president's orbit who have tested positive for coronavirus. more than three dozen people associated with the white house have now been infected including the vice president's chief of staff. and covid-19 cases surging across the country, a staggering 650,000 reported coronavirus cases this week alone. the air force now sending medical teams to el paso, texas. that city now in lockdown. and now, let's turn to where we start this half hour with a covid-19 pandemic raging, cases smashing records. abc's stephanie ramos joins us with more. good morning to you, stephanie. >> reporter: eva, good morning. as people headed to the polls or

watched the cliffhanger of an election at home covid cases went up to staggering levels. this morning, as the election drags on, covid cases are surging across the country. a staggering 650,000 reported coronavirus cases this week alone. the air force now sending medical teams to el paso, texas, to help overwhelmed hospitals and icus. the city now in lockdown after reaching a 24% rolling positivity rate. the virus spreading into every part of the country. in colorado, hospitalizations are up 40%. in new mexico, officials warn the state could run out of hospital beds within days. many health care workers pushed to the limits. some dying. in utah, nurse patrice grossman's condition deteriorating in hours. >> it took from start to finish probably six hours for us to find out our mother was dead and we weren't allowed to see her the entire time. >> we couldn't even go in. she was alone.

>> reporter: in oklahoma, emergency rooms reaching capacity leaving health care workers exhausted. >> go into this environment where you're treating so many sick patients and watching patients die and then when you go home, or maybe you go to the grocery store, you gas up your car, and it's like, you know, it doesn't exist. it's really frustrating for health care workers. >> reporter: covid tests in demand. this line of people waited to be tested in south dakota wrapping around an urgent care. officials in missouri alerting the public after learning a poll work with covid reportedly showed up for work and passed away after election day. the exact cause of death so far is unknown. five poll workers at an early voting center in peoria, illinois, tested positive. the county shut down the polling location. >> the last thing i remember saying i don't feel good and my vision went completely black and i collapsed to the ground. >> reporter: there are desperate attempts to slow the surge all

across the country, in massachusetts, the state enacting a 9:30 p.m. curfew on restaurants, movie theaters and gyms as doctors brace themselves for a surge. outside the u.s. covid cases are going up. in 21 european countries. france posting a record 60,000 daily cases for its second day in a row. that is half the daily cases we're seeing here in the u.s. dan. >> so many troubling signs in so many parts of the world. thank you for your reporting this morning. we're going to switch it up and check the weather again. rob marciano back in studio. rob, good morning yet again. >> while much of the eastern third, or two-thirds are enjoying quiet weather, above average temperatures, we have storm alerts across the west, a lot of troughiness that's digging down, that means storminess for pretty much the entire intermountain west and driving down into san francisco. los angeles, you're about to get your first rain in 165 days. you will take it but it could come and create a little bit of a problem. one to three feet of snow in the intermountain west as well.

we'll take that. a lot of these states are within drought and we could see a couple inches of rain that might see flooding across southern california. much needed rain -- look at telluride, could see over a foot of snow there. a lot of these resorts are beginning to prepare at least for a covid ski season. saturday morning, partly cloudy here in the city. little breezy north wind allowing for temperatures to really be below average today, struggling to make it to 60 with those brisk winds throughout the day. this weather report sponsored by state farm. great thing about skiing something most times when it's cold you're already wearing a mask so it makes it that much easier. back over to you. >> and outdoors which makes it safer, as well. rob, thank you. coming up on "gma," our political roundtable. we'll look at how history may judge the election of 2020.

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we're zooming out this morning and getting a bigger picture of the historic and anxiety-provoking election. we're currently witnessing it. we have two guests to talk about this. presidential historian leah wright rigueur from the harvard kennedy school of government and historian allan lichtman who has famously predicted the popular vote winners in the last nine u.s. elections. allan, let me start with you. back in august you picked biden as the winner. are you feeling comfortable at this point, comfortable enough to do a little gloating? >> yes. look, i also predicted donald trump as the winner in 2016. so my system is purely nonpartisan and it works because it ignores the polls and the pundits, pays no attention to the day-to-day events of the campaign and instead looks at the big picture of incumbent strength and performance and the way it works of 6 of my 13 keys go against the white house party, they are predicted losers. trump was only down four keys at

the end of 2019. then his failed response to the pandemic and to the cries for social and racial justice cost him three more keys. the short and long-term economic keys and the social unrest key for seven. never in the history of our country has an incumbent president suffered such a sudden and dramatic reversal of fortune in just a matter of a few months and he has no one to blame but himself. he's the president and unfortunately he gave us in his reaction the worst moment in presidential history when he needlessly and dangerously attacked our democracy for no purpose other than ego gratification and selfish political gain. historians will remember that. >> in that reference there you're talking about his comments the other night where he falsely claimed that the election was being stolen.

let me bring in leah here because i want to ask you, you're a presidential historian. there's so much talk about this election being so close and so hard fought and so much venom being spewed on both sides. how unusual is all of this when we take this the historical perspective? >> so, certainly there have been lots of contentious, venomous, you know, lots of vitriol presidential elections, i'm thinking of 1964, cow palace, 50,000 people show up to protest the nomination of barry goldwater. i'm thinking 1960, where the election could have gone in multiple directions and the nixon campaign thought about contesting it with john f. kennedy, but also i'm thinking about the 2000 election, bush v. gore, and this goes all the way to the supreme court. there are contentions over which

hanging chads and things like that, who would have won, you know, we might have been -- if the decision had gone in a different direction we might have been talking about president gore, but i don't think there's been anything of this, you know, of this type in the modern period in the ensuing years. what we've seen over the last couple of days has been remarkable and in a lot of ways it's shocking. in fact, we're getting into a period where we might see a president that refuses to concede the election in the event that he has lost and it looks like he has lost so we haven't seen that before. even when we see something like nixon v. kennedy, you know, nixon made the decision to call it, to say, you know what, i'm not going to contest it. even in the example of florida, this did go on for several months but ultimately gore said, you know what, this is the decision that the supreme court has made this. this is the decision of the american people. what we're seeing now is something completely different and something that you normally do not associate with a democracy and in fact, we shouldn't associate it with a democracy. >> allan, we only have a few

seconds left here. but i wonder if you could talk briefly about what the long-term ramifications might be of what we're witnessing now on the public stage. >> well, i'm hoping the long-term ramifications will be a reaction against movement towards autocracy, disrespect for our democracy. i fully anticipate that biden will win. he is not an exciting barack obama but maybe this reconciling, nonthreatening figure who can work across the aisles is what america needs to restore us to our normal democratic traditions. >> perhaps but there are, we should note, tens of millions of americans who are on record as disagreeing. we are unfortunately out of time. >> that's always the case. that's always the case. >> it's always the case, yes, but perhaps never more so with more -- with so much feeling in this case.

i wish we had more time to talk to both of you. you're so fascinating but really appreciate your time on this saturday morning. thank you very much. let me tell you what's coming up here on the show, president trump's legal strategy to challenge the election results, what options does he have? our abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams is on the case. he's right here with his analysis coming up. everyone has a story. a history. we have different needs and challenges. but one thing we share is wanting to make our lives the best they can be. if you have medicaid and medicare, a dual complete plan from unitedhealthcare can help. giving you more benefits at no extra cost to you. and one-on-one help managing your care... ...to get you the help you need, whatever your story may be. with dual complete from unitedhealthcare, there's more for you. don't settle for silver #1 for diabetic dry skin* #1 for psoriasis symptom relief* and #1 for eczema symptom relief* gold bond champion your skin

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results. what's the strategy here and are any of these challenges likely to be successful? >> well, it seems thus far there hasn't been a unified strategy. that's the challenge that they have here is that they're behind by enough in most of these states, that it makes you ask what's the endgame here, because the only way this is going to have an impact is if they're literally able to change the numbers so, for example, some of the arguments about poll watchers not being able to get close enough. those aren't going to change numbers. that's a procedural argument, the remedy there is allow the poll watchers to move forward, get closer. the arguments thus far with regard to ballot counting and actual ballots have not been successful. so they really need to figure out, can they figure out a message? one particular theme where they can say either count the votes or don't count the votes and i

think that's going to be very difficult, because what you're doing there in arizona is connected to what i'm doing here when it comes to these issues, politics meets the law, they have to figure out a way when they're this far behind and it's not easy. >> and the question is, can they even move enough ballots to change a result? i want to ask you something else, though. president trump said in the past that he wants the u.s. supreme court to get involved like in 2000, of course, he now has a new justice. what's the likelihood of that happening? >> well, because of what we were just discussing, it's not likely that the supreme court is going to determine the outcome here. you need a case. you need a legal argument. you need something that works its way up through the courts. you know, the most likely issue would have been this question in pennsylvania about whether to count these ballots that come in after election day and that three-day period. the problem is, those ballots are likely not to make the

difference and so that's not going to be the case that's going to make or break this election. so the president's going to have to figure something out but he's not going to be able to just hope the supreme court steps in and changes the election results. >> we'll be watching all of this very closely. dan abrams, always appreciate it. have a good rest of your weekend. we'll talk soon. and we'll be right back here with more on this historic election. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems.

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your voice, your vote, this is abc 7 news. you don't have a final declaration of victory yet, but the numbers tell us it's clear. perhaps on the verge of victory, joe biden with senator kamala harris by his side, saying he expects to be declaring soon that he's won the presidency. president trump not speaking, but continuing to tweet promises of legal proceedings. good morning, everybody, it's saturday, november 7th. i'm liz kreutz. it is what everyone is waking up to, and wondering this morning. new ballot counts coming in from arizona any minute now. we are watching out for those. plus, counts in those other critical battleground states, georgia, nevada and pennsylvania. let's get you a live look right now from philadelphia where abc news expects