swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. take a stand and start a new day with trelegy. ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy. and save at trelegy.com. we start off your friday and end the workweek with the counting and the waiting that continues. glad you're with us. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. owly biden is getting an edge to the white house a that hour joe biden is at 253, president trump at 214 the democratic nominee has shattered voting records and now leads mr. trump by over 4 million in the popular vote, but five very critical battleground states are still too close to

call at this hour. those margins on a razor's edge. >> it could change in a manner of hours a win in pennsylvania would put biden over the top in the electoral count, and since the majority were in blue counties, each brings him closer a similar situation is playing out in georgia where biden and trump are separated neck and neck, separated by hundreds of notes. >> the president has narrowed the lead in nevada by one count. arizona, the same thing there. judges have tossed out lawsuits in georgia and in michigan yesterday he once again declared falsely a victory at the white house why joe biden urged the nation to trust the process.

>> if you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. >> we have no doubt that when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be key declard the winners. i ask the people to stay calm. the process is working the count is being completed, and we'll know very soon. meanwhile a major development for democrats in the fight for the senate the georgia senate race between david perdue and john ossoff is too chose to call. it could be a 50/50 splits with the vice president serving as the tiebreaker. >> like the rest of us, the candidate results are pouring in let's get to nbc's tracie potts

who's in wilmington, delaware. any news >> a lots of confidence is coming from the bideern team the leads on the west coast are narrowing in the president's favor, but on the east coast they're narrowing in favor of joe biden. they continue to insist when everything shakes out, they will win this race. we heard from biden again himself. he talked about the process that the president has criticized saying that it's fraudulent, that votes are suddenly appearing. biden insisted that this process is working exactly as it should. >> democracy is sometimes messy. it requires patience as well it's worked for 240 years as the system of governance and has

been the envy of the world, and we continue to feel, the senator and i, we continue to feel very good about where things stand. we have no doubt that when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winners. >> reporter: and if that happens and it gets to 270, the biden campaign is hoping to re-create that big drive-in victory rally here in wilmington that they had planned and hoped to do on tuesday, election night. phillip? >> just waiting to pull that trigger though thank you so much. let's turn now to the trump campaign side of this fight. joining us is rehema ellis the results are getting tighter by the hour. what more are you hearing? >> reporter: they are getting tighter by the hour. one thing we can tell you is the secretary of state here in pennsylvania has said that the counting is going on furiously in fact, one of the

commissioners of the election commission said they're counting like crazy in this build behind me it's a little dark in the lobby area, but don't let that be a sign of what's going on. on the other side where the actual count is under way, they've been working on three eight-hour shift, non-stop essentially, trying to get these ballots out, these mail ballots counted. they suspect something will happen today, that according to the secretary of state who on thursday said the counting is coming in exactly the way they hoped it would, and they hope to hear something later today one thing i should mention, frances, there are other blots they say they will expect as late as tuesday of next week that's the tuesday ballots they're also going to be counting all of those ballots as well so no matter what happens, no matter who's called, that's a

projection and the final declaration of the outcome that's here, and the numbers will be determined maybe even on tuesday. but secretary of state, we're going to hear who may be declared a winner. so the keystone state may turn out to be really key in this election for president frances? the next 24 hours, wow i can't imagine what doors will open up for the entire nation. thank you, rehema ellis in philadelphia. we're entering day three of election day/week here joining us to help break it all down for us, nbc digital political analyst jonathan allen. thanks for joining us this hour. you were in pennsylvania last week you got a feel for the ins and outs of how this process works what's your sense on how things stand as we speak? >> not making a call here, but the shortest answer is that joe biden's been making up ground

very fast as the ballots come in and the skplecation pretty much from everyone, and this is why you're seeing the president. when the ballots are counted fully for the first time, joe biden is likely to have a significant lead, a small margin given what we're talking about. >> let's talk about the scenario the president has repeatedly tried to undermine the results, pointing out conspiracy theories without any evidence saying there's fraud there. howhere do you see this going and how far do you see the president taking this? >> this is a question he's been asked his whole life when he was born 70 years ago. how far will he take it? farther than you thought he said we expect to win in the wee hours of the morning, and

awe of a sudden, a flood of lawsuits for anyone not familiar with how it works, it's never the winner filing lawsuits. it's never the person who feels like they're going to win. the president is seemingly spiraled downward without a whole lot of friends he's being rejected right now almost entirely by the republican establishment. >> how do you see this election? how do you think this turned out for him? as we speak, they've held the senate, gained some seats in the house. this is certainly the furthest thing from a blue wave you could imagine. >> president trump had extremely strong coattails especially for someone who lost, and what it says is that, number one, he's still got that huge committed bachls we see him winning more votes in this election than he did when he won in 2016, and we

see republican candidates taking advantage of that and in some cases doing better than he did presumably because there are people that turned out to vote on the republican side who chose not to vote for him while they were voting for the senate house members, and those who showed up for him, showed up to vote for the senate he's still extremely powerful within the republican party and will continue to be as long as he chooses to be. >> john, here we are on day three and waiting again for the crucial results from pennsylvania, let's talk about the future of polling given 2016, given now 2020, and then we are here at this moment where do you see it going? >> i'm not here to defend professional pollsters, but i would say that i think it's important to remember that polls are as valuable as the models that go into them, snapshots,

and they have margins of error it always looks like some polling was off because the polls don't all exactly say the same thing, and i think one thing that we should look at going forward is how do pollsters in a modern era where everybody's sort of connected and some decide not to connect, how do they capture that vote for trump that's either shy about it or simply wants to mess with pollsters, and that's something they're going to have to worry about and work on for a while. >> with polling as in life, it's all about managing expectations, i guess, right jonathan allen, thanks for talking with us this morning >> a massive and crazy tropical depression is twisting and turning in the gulf. of course, it is 2020 let's turn to nbc meteorologist

janessa webb what are we watching, janessa. >> good morning. the hurricane season will not stop this is our 20th named system. it was a cat 4 earlier this week now it's a tropical depression remember, i said it first. this is the storm that just won't die. it's going back to the caribbean this weekend, turn back into a tropical storm as it goes into cuba, it will gain more strength, potentially taking a hit toward the south of florida. that's not it. it's going back to theinmperatus they're above average. they're going to be in the 70s today. upper 60s in the northeast with

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joe biden is closing in on 270 as the last of the presidential vote counts trickle in our ali vitali is in wilmington, delaware, with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: hey, guys the waiting game is still on here all eyes are on wilmington that would easily put joe biden above the 270 he needs to be the president of the united states it's always been true the biden team has always seen more paths

to victory than the trump team yesterday during a briefing call with the bind campaign, they warned that we could see some bounce, which is basically a fun way of saying that they know the margins are going to tighten as ballots remain still being tabulated, but they also acknowledge that maybe you could see some shifting. maybe trump takes a lead, maybe biden goes back. they do believe when all the votes are counted, those states will fall in their favor as well pennsylvania is really the one we're all watching we know the ballots are continuing trickle in there, and the reality is a lot of that state voted by mail. it accounts for why it's partially taking so long, but it also accounts for why the biden team is feeling so good there. if you look at how vote-by-mail ballots are actually going, over 70% of them have been trending in joe biden's favor, so we're playing the waiting game on those, and there's a reason why

the biden team feels so good there, and they've been using words like victory is immonen, all of that. and the other state that i think that's also on our radar is georgia. it's a state that hasn't gone blew blue in a presidential election since 1992. it's so razor thin there, but we can say joe biden took a lead in georgia. that's really stunning it's a state democrats have been looking at for years now, trying to turn out dem kralts it appears as the votes are trickling in the biden team has long said it's close, it's as toup theto -- a tossup there but we're seeing it's a possibility, guys. >> it certainly is give us a sense of where you are, ali we know you've been perched there for three days you've seen some signs of life. >> reporter: yes, frances. this parking lot has basically become our second home, but what we've seen in the last few ten

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