good morning to you and welcome to cbs "this morning." it's wednesday november 4, 2020. i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. this election is too close to call. multiple battleground states still undecided with millions of votes yet to be counted. we'll tell you which states are still in play and why. duelling messages from the candidates. joe biden calls for patience while president trump falsely claims that he's already won. the very different statements what they tell us about the legal and political battles ahead. and at the white house and all around the country following the results as they continue to come in. but first, here's today's "eye opener" it's your world in 90 seconds. this is an embarrassment to the our country. we were getting ready to win this election, frankly, we did win this election.

[ cheers ] >> he is calling the game at the end of the first quarter. >> why people are boarding up the stores. he's already plantened the seed that this election has been stolen from him. >> it's not my place or donald trump's place to declare who's one the selection. that's the decision of the american people, but i'm optimistic about this outcome. >> a close race for control of the u.s. senate? >> the democratic path to majority, seemed so promising earlier in the night has narrowed. has not vanished but narrowed. >> in arizona, montana, new jersey and south dakota, voters legalized recreatitional marijuana. -- all that -- >> sarah mcgrid won her race, the first transgender elected to that position. >> -- and all that matters. >> gayle, up for ctm. >> i know. this is me on -- drugs. [ laughter ] >> that seems like a good time to bow out.

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about now. >> so good, stephen colbert. thank you for that. welcome to cbs "this morning" from the cbs news election headquarters in times square, new york city. are you still wearing the same clothes you had on yesterday? i am. i am! one of are those days. when we did that with stephen colbert, at 11:30 last night. >> i was wondering. >> who knew? >> do a show overnight every night to have ourselves in the highlights to start our actual show. >> oh, no. that's not do that. begin with the beginning. we told you this could take a while. we did tell you that yesterday. can't say you weren't warned and that is exactly what is happening. there is still no winner in this presidential race. we are waiting foror all the vos to be counted in multiple battleground states including wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, georgia, and north carolina. former vice president biden took the weight in stride speaking to supporters in a drive-in rally at wilmington, delaware urging

patience with confidence he will win. >> president trump took a different approach in remarks at the white house overnight with millions of votes still to be counted. he falsely declared victory. something you proposed not to do in an interview yesterday an now is vowing a legal challenge potentially all the way to the supreme court. ed o'keefe was up all night following the developments also, like gayle. >> yep. >> and, what the heck's going on? >> reporter: i don't know about you guys. a bed and belly rub sound pretty good right now. good morning. the biden campaign is hopeful with a path to victory. votes still counted in. recite them again, pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina, michigan and wisconsin and a few other states, tremendous and early mail-in voting. the president suggesting it's over and suggesting there was widespread voter fraud, we were getting ready to win this election, frankly, we did win this election. >> it ain't over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted! >> reporter: election night saw

two very different messages from two very different candidates. speaking to a drive-in crowd in delaware former vice president joe biden called for patience. >> it's not my place or donald trump's place to declare who's won the selection. that's the decision of the american people. but i'm optimistic about this outcome. >> reporter: while president trump prematurely declared victory at the white house despite millions of votes still being counted in several key battleground states. >> 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 that we weren't expected to win. >> reporter: the president touted wins in states not yet decided and made false and misleading claims of voter fraud. >> this is a very big moment. 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. >> reporter: at the same time called on voting to stop even though the polls were long

closed and ballots still being counted were all legally cast. >> we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. okay? it's -- it's a very sad -- it's a very sad moment. to me this is a very sad moment. >> reporter: the biden campaign release add statement overnight calling mr. trump's effort to stop the counting of ballots outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect. also saying if the president make goods to go to court they have legal teams standing by. earlier biden himself told supporters not to give up. >> keep the faith, guys. we're going to win this! >> reporter: both candidates are expressing optimism about winning the state of pennsylvania. which is worth 20 electoral votes. more than a million mail-in ballots are still being counted across the commonwealth, guys. >> translation, it's going to be a while. >> it is going to be a while. everyone be patient. >> different in every state? >> that's right. to some extent waiting for

ballots in certain places or waiting to count the mail-in ballots. >> three-day window in pennsylvania for ballots to be counted if postmarked by election day. i believe it's nine days in north carolina. >> yep. >> so we could be -- in for a wait. kudos to you late in the evening last night pointing out that nebraska partially had gone to biden. split electoral votes that could be a very big deal. >> could be. very well could be. >> ed, thank you very much. on the subject of that very big deal i toss it over to our elections and surveys director and major garrett, who's been following exit polls for us and will break it all down. where do we stand, gentlemen? >> tony, this much we know. one hour of sleep is no way to go through life every day but it is if it's a close presidential election and that's where we are. anthony, start with the basic question for those just waking up, didn't stay with us until 4:30 in the morning. how many votes are still to be counted in these five toss-up states? start there and dig deeper going in. >> millions. possibly millions.

let's start -- >> a number four to five? something in that range? >> could be 4 million. could be over that. that's the key. that is the key. we have a great deal of ballots that have been cast, that's really important, have been cast. >> been cast not yet counted. >> elections officials have not yet reported the results. >> got it. start with wisconsin. has anything changed overnight in wisconsin? >> joe biden is now narrowly ahead in what has been counted, but you see it's a very, very tight race. >> very tight. >> 49.2% to 49%. i'm going to show you what's outstanding state-wide and right now it's over 300,000 ballots. >> still to be counted? >> still to be counted, much greater than the margin between the two candidates. >> and geography within wisconsin. >> a couple things to point out. look at democrat areas, say milwaukee, and see what's still left. 11,000. okay. that's something for democrats. and if we go into a couple of other places.

around, let's say -- oh, kenosha. see how that is. okay. 25,000. >> the president was leading in kenosha. >> the point is, there could be republican ballots out. could be democrat ballots out, we don't know for sure. >> and wisconsin could vacillate, go back and forth as the vote comes in? >> absolutely. >> michigan. anything change overnight in michigan? >> michigan stayed pretty much the same. similar story here again. very tight. very tight in the count, and i'll show you what's outstanding here. this is closer to 1 million. 940,000. now, in this case, we could see a number still coming in, go to wane county. that's detroit. that is a democratic area. let's see what's out there. 344,000. again, much wider than the margin between the candidates. >> how about georgia? georgia on our map all night last night and we still don't have a resolution there. anything that we can talk about or glean from what's going on in georgia? >> yeah. again, similar story. a lot outstanding.

i'm going to point you to a democratic area. point you to dekalb kwountcount. 82,000 ballots. similar story. we don't know that these are democratic or republican ballots, but we can see that there's still say the to a lot >> walk us through one or two scenarios before putting it back on the desk, i can just show you right here. if joe biden were to win georgia it would offset possibly a loss in -- say, a pennsylvania and a michigan. if you were to hang on to a couple of these states he can still get there. the president needs a couple of these states to get there. a lot of different combinations still to come in the race. >> has anything changed in arizona or nevada? do we still think trending towards biden joo. >> leaning biden, not yet projected. i don't think a lot more will be counted out of nevada today but we'll have to wait and see. >> anthony, great. gayle, anthony, i see john

dickerson, tony, take it away. i'm begging you! >> anthony, thank you both. so as anthony pointed out, lots of votes to be count ecoun. may more than 4 million. and john dickerson, cbs news political analyst and "60 minutes" correspondent is back with us. back to the table, john. barely left. what do you make of what the president said in the early hours of this morning that this election was a fraud and an embarrassment and he basically declared himself the win beer? is there a strategy, do you think here? >> a strategy, to try to convince everybody that you can quarter when you're ahead. before the eteother team gets t ball. basically making up new rules. what he's trying to do. make the natural counting process seem sinister. we've not seen that before. >> why would he do that?

votes already cast. right? so he's not trying to win anyone new. the judges will act as judges do independent of what he says, we think. so why would he take this position? >> well, because you want -- if they're going to act independently and not go in his favor he wants to make the result to seem like foul play rather than them just doing their job. >> and orders do what? follows through the logic. >> that's the challenge. basically, heads i win, tails you lose. i mean, when you listen to the president's remarks basically saying, keep counting all the votes for me and anyplace where the margin is shrinking where i'm ahead, stop having votes there. just the internal logic with what he said at 2:00 in the morning made no sense. basically just trying to shape the public field of -- of debate in case the vote counting doesn't go his way. >> we should point out this extended period of counting after election day is entirely

normal. >> normal. >> not only normal, what people spend a lot of time working to get right. people working diligently making sure elections go forward. talking to a national security expert in the administration saying this is what's dangerous. everybody just be patient. professionals are doing counting as they've always done. takes a little time. what the president has done, create add sense of doubt where foreign actors rush in and play on people's emotions, because the president said, be emotional. and then trying to create mischief, ah, now that you're emotional ob let me make you even more so. >> even the language, john, he said no more voting, make the voting stop. we should be clear. the voting stopped. it's now just a matter of counting. i want to ask about the polling. so much polling done ahead of time. when you look at it, why are we seeing what we're seeing now, considering all the data we had ahead of time? >> why were polls wrong? >> yeah. >> well, we're going to have to see just how wrong they were once all the counting gets done.

we'll see how wrong they were. some states like florida always close. we're going to see in the midwest where joe biden was ahead, where the miss was. the miss appears basically to be that people underestimated the power and strength of the vote for the president. both sides turned out. they just turned out more for the president than people guessed. >> if you're a biden supporters what are you thinking this morning? what should you be thinking? >> a biden supporting you hope the process in place to count the votes gets done and the vote counting goes for your guy, and that it is durable. in other words, follows the traditional pass. there's no funny business, that it's durable, and then you hope as everybody hopes that whoever wins can try to close up the gap that is big and demonstrated in the vote how split we are as a country and hope whoever wins tries to close up the gap rather than breaking it further apart. >> is there still a possibility of victory for the president? >> yes, sure. i think so. i mean, i didn't catch all of anthony's briefing, but -- there

is a pathway. yeah. for democrats, john, not just the white house. they had hopes of taking the senate, those seem to be fading away. it's within reach but barely. and the house they hoped to make gains, and that's evaporated as well, looks like. >> exactly. end of the night, or end of the day, or wherever we are at this hour, they -- they did not do as well as they thought they were going to do. across the board. really. i mean, unless he win the presidency. if they win the presidency it's in the narrowest of the narratives they had. we talked to the biden campaign, what an exciting version of events where they win north carolina, georgia, midwest and then were even flirting with texas. that's not happening. so the democrats, we'll see where it all finally comes out. it may be that they -- certainly not as good as night as they had hoped. >> could be days before we get results. i got to a point i could not read another newspaper article

about it. there was no answer there. and whistle of campaign history, this moment we're in, waiting, overtime period, remind you anything from the past? >> well, the waiting period in 2000. i remember being in austin, texas, all thought election night as over and suddenly it wasn't and 34 days waiting for, remember the hanging chads and obsession with tiny pinprick-size pieces of paper. talk about a news cycle nothing new happened? did that for days and days and days and days. >> could be doing that again. >> times were crazy. upside-down. >> john, thank you. ahead, the fight for control of the senate. see how races that are still undecided will decide whether republicans or democrats will be in charge. first, it's time to check your local weather.

we have much more news ahead for you. get the latest in pennsylvania where more than 1 million uncounted ballots could decide this presidential election. plus the key factor in florida that allowed president trump to

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are still too close for cbs news to project a winner right now. the one with the most electoral votes is pennsylvania, and our national correspondent jericka duncan is in philadelphia where they are still counting votes and will be for some time. jericka, good morning. where do things stand? >> reporter: good morning. it's the countdown for all of those counting those all-important ballots happening inside behind me at the pennsylvania convention center. if you've been following our coverage you have grown familiar with these images of those 150 election workers and city workers on special assignment processing those mail-in ballots. they started yesterday morning and continue to work around the clock here in philadelphia. although at around 1:00 this morning we learned the recording system won't let election workers add anymore mail-in results until after all the in-person ballots have been processed. inhe state's second largest county, allegheny county, they suspended mail-in ballot county until the morning due to the

overwhelming number of early mail-in voting. 2 million votaled early, mailing in their vote, a law passed in 2019 allowing members in the keystone state to vote by mail. we'll wait to see what happened. governor wolf said just like in 1776 our nation is calling on us to help set the course for the future. pennsylvania he said met that time and time again and will now. important to note that if your vote was postmarked on november 3rd, but election officials receive it by the 6th, it's still valid here in pennsylvania. >> all right. jericka duncan, thank you very much. amazing to see that footage of the count happening. >> it really is. >> there are good reasons for a paper trail, a record of the vote. good security reasons, and yet it does take time. you can see people handling them one by one. >> a new kind of frontline worker. >> that's true. >> exactly. >> jericka, thank you. ahead, coverage of the 2020

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