for the next four years in. >> we will see what happens. good morning, and welcome to cbs this morning. tstz wednesday, november 4th. i'm gayle king. this selection too close to call. multiple battleground states are too close to call. we'll tell you which states are still at play. messages from the candidates. joe biden calls for patience while president trump falsely claims he's already won. but the very different statements tell us about the legal and political battles ahead. and we're 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 in 90 seconds. >> this is an embarrassment to our country. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. >> he's calling the game at the

end of the first quarter. this is why people are boarding up stores. he's b planted the seed that the election has been stolen from him. >> it's in the place to declare who won this election. that's the decision of the american people. but i'm optimistic about this outcome. >> a close race for the control of senate. it seemed so promising. tz senator rowed. it's not vanished, but it has narrowed. >> in arizona, montana, new jersey and south dakota. all that and becoming the first openly transgender person to be elected to that position. >> this is me on drugs. that seems like a good time. >> by drugs i mean water.

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tummy rubbed. >> a great dad point of view. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." we're at the cbs news election headquarters. this is what it looks like when you have been up all night and slept on the couch in the green room. you wear the same clothes you had on yesterday and haven't bathed and you just feel great. you feel good about yourself. because we have a really, really big news to share with you today. you know the story by now. this is where we're going to beg begin. we still do not have a winner in this presidential race. we're waiting for the votes to be count, including wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, georgia and north carolina. former vice president biden took the wait in stride in remarks to supporters at a drive-in rally last night. he urged parks and he expressed confidence he will win. >> president trump took a different approach in comments

at the white house overnight. with millions of votes still to be counted, he falsely declared victory it's something he promised not to do yesterday morning. he's vowing to launch a legal challenge, potentially all the way to the supreme court. ed o'keefe was up all night following developments. what's going on? >> good morning, the biden campaign is hopeful they have a path to victory as votes are still being counted. and a handful out west. there's still tremendous early votining to be counted. the president is arguing it's over that 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 count ed. every ballot is counted. >> election night saw two very different messages from two very different candidates. speaking to a drive-in crowd in

delaware, joe biden called for patience. >> it's not my place or donald trump's place to declare who won this election. 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. >> the citizens of this country has come out in record numbers. there's never been anythig like it, to support our incredible movement. we won states we weren't expected to win. >> had touted in states not yet decide d and made misleading claims of voter fraud. >> this is a big moment. this is a major fraud in our nation. we want the law to be used this a proper manner. so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court. >> reporter: at same time, he also called on voting to stop, even as 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. it's a very sad moment. to me, this is a very sad moment. >> reporter: the biden campaign released a statement calling trump's efforts to stop the counting outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect. the campaign also said if the president makes good on his threat to go to court, they have legal teams standing by. biden himself told supporters not to give up. >> keep the faith, guys. we're going to win this. >> both candidates are expressing optimism about winning the state of pennsylvania, which is worth 20 electoral votes. this morning a senior biden campaign official says this is moving to a conclusion and moving to a conclusion in our favor, they believe. once the votes are counted in places like michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. >> the numbers seem to bear that out when we're looking at the map. >> they believe some states might get called later today.

we'll take our own ewes and work them through. they believe they are going to get to 270. >> it's going to be v r very interesting to see if we get a result today. >> i believe someone mentioned the map. we just happen to have it here. pennsylvania maybe something the trump campaign wants and really needs. we have five states there a that are still considereds to-ups. if i have it correctly, michigan just a few moments ago went over to biden in an advantage. but not -- for the first time, he's showing a slight lead. >> this may jockey back and forth. what you're talking about is exactly right in the count that we have. see, this is moving as we speak. as ballots are being counted. >> it was 5,000. it's now 10,000. this was the margin in 2016 between hillary clinton and donald trump. almost exactly. >> now watch this. here's the number of ballots left to count. >> that's a big number. >> half a million ballots left to count. they have been cast.

but election officials have to tally them. >> let's go back to the big map showing all the states. if you are in the trump camp right now, if you aren opt the trump campaign, you're going to be a little bit concerned. if nevada and arizona stay with joe biden, and he takes wisconsin and michigan, where he is currently in the lead, what kind of path does the president have? >> the president needs to hold this 2016 map. hold georgia, hold north carolina and then pick off pennsylvania, maybe take michigan and wisconsin instead. so the president may have a more difficult path given just state by state. but the difference being that all of these states right now are far too close to project. i'll show you georgia. here's a place where the president is currently leading in the vote count. but here again, looking at the number of outstanding ballots, that's a big number.

that's 400,000 well larger than the margin is right there. so we'll have to see. >> 400,000 yet to come in. let's go back to the big map. because nebraska is a split decision, it's a unique state in that way. if joe biden takes wisconsin and georgia, which we were just talking about, he can can lose michigan and lose pennsylvania and be right at 270. >> and joe biden has a couple different paths through this. he has a couple different paths. he can get georgia and get wisconsin. and let me show you north carolina. very close between the two of them. fpz that's the thing i want to stress. it's not unusual whoever wins for us to be sitting here on a

decision desk waiting for days sometimes while elections officials count cast billion lots. everybody in the wormd is watching. >> this is a normal process of counting that we are seeing right now. but what is exceptional is that we have so many states so close, which means we're spilling over into the day after is and maybe days after to get that initial count. thank you very much. as i stroll over to you guys, i want to talk about the count. we're talking about the first count over here. but i regret to inform you that reince priebus, former chief of staff for president trump, is already talking object our air about a recount. a second count. his advice, gear up, america. >> it may be inevitable. let's bring in correspondent john dickerson. i'm getting this incredible sense of deja vu from four years ago. you have a popular vote with virtually the exact same spread between president trump and his

democratic opponent. you have a string of states where the races are too close to call. it could literally go either way. >> although in some ways, you're contactually right. no some ways joe biden is in the trump position. which is to say he's the one that's grabbing states away from donald trump. one thing that strikes me is that in michigan, pennsylvania and in wisconsin, we talk about federalism with respect to covid. let the states do their thing. we're having the counting situation in those three date states because the states said don't start counting until the day of the election. so part of what's happening here is the result of decisions that were made by the individual legislatures and the specific states. >> so the voting is all done. now the count iing is underway.

what message does it send when the president calls it a fraud and an embarrassment before all the votes are even counted? >> it undermines the process. the democratic process gives the president authority. we hand him power through our votes. that's the buteauty of the american system. and he is undermining that beauty by saying that the simple counting is sinister. so that's where we are. at the moment, the people in charge of doing the counting of the votes of the people trained and knowing how to do this, and we should step back and think about holy smokes, we're voting in a pandemic. it's been relatively smooth until this moment which is not really so much about the challenges of counting, but the exterior emotional fuel that's being added to this political moment. >> the democrats went into this with extremely high hopes. and there's no question they have underperformed here. if joe biden manages to eke out a win and have the presidency, but likely not the senate, what

kind of presidency is that going to be? >> it will be a fascinating one because he will have to work with mitch mcconnell, who they both believe in a senate of a different time. now the question is whether mitch mcconnell still believes in that old senate, but people who clash could get things done. we'll see if that still exists in this age of partisanship, where you're not allowed to work with the president of the opposite party. because your voters will give you a primary challenge if you do. what we're going to see in addition to the challenge you mentioned between the two branches of government, we're going to see democrats have a battle a about what their party bloefs and also there might be a little bit of that battle on the republican side. although whatever happens to president trump, this is an affirmation of his politics. last night was an affirmation of that. >> affirmation was the word i was thinking. what does this say about the direction of the republican party? that people clearly seem to like what they say under the leadership of president trump.

>> is it the rhetoric and the posturing or the tone or the policies? >> i think it's both. the tone, let's say look at covid. we talked about this last night. the president's posture on masks is about health, but it's really about don't infringe on my individual liberty. so he is in touch with something absolutely fundament a about the party. and about this country. and he got a lot of votes for people who signed up for that. they nevertheless really feel what he is talking about in a visceral way and that is where the republican party is are right now. >> was there anything ab the results or what we know so far that surprise d you or stood ou? >> florida is fascinating to me. we're going to go back and look.

the fact that hillary clinton won miami-dade by 29 points and joe biden maybe only by 8, donald trump did something to grab votes in florida. that will be interesting to look at. >> forgive me for bringing up recounts, peoplen don't want to hear about it. but the campaign manager for donald trump just said in reference to wisconsin, we're in recount territory. this is going from analysis to official approach of the trump campaign. >> what election officials have been telling me, there will be time for recounts. let's count. see where we are. then get to that. this constant preempting of it, let's just count. see where we are then. >> it's a conundrum for journalists because they are getting out in front. are we going to ignore it or report it? >> if you're joe biden, what do you do? >> you stay in your lane. his lane has been let the system work, let the process work because you hope some day to be president and you hope some day to build a foundation on a

calmer approach to things. so you got to behave the way you hope to preside as president. but what if that makes you a dupe. what if you should be coming out and we saw him preempt a little bit by coming out first before the president to take the posture and say let's let the system work. so that might be a way to be both being smart tactically and also staying on brand for him, which is let the system work. >> if he sit hits 270 in the nx 48 hours, does he come out immediately and start forming a government? >> that's a really interesting question. i don't know. that's a really interesting question. >> i don't think i ever heard you say i don't know. >> what's the date today? >> i think these local officials who will be stepping into the spotlight, the secretary of state, i hope they have done their media training. they have to do -- they are

going to speak to the american people and say this is for real. however the secretaries of state handle this is how the country is going to feel about the integrity of the system that gives the power to the next president or the sitting one. >> we said all along we need your patience, but no one saw this particular scenario playing out. but here we are. >> thank you. ahead, voters tell us what's on their minds

we have much more news ahead. president trump gets a boost from hispanic voters. we'll look at the issues that led more of them to support the republican ticket. plus we have the latest from arizona, where joe biden could launch his final drive to 270 electoral votes today. you're watching "cbs this morning." wee thank ywe'll be right back. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." our continuing coverage of the 2020 election. president trump and vice president joe biden are just about neck and neck in the electoral college. winning arizona would be a huge boost for either of them. but this morning, that race is still too close to call. we are in phoenix. what do we know right now? >> reporter: we're actually just getting brand new numbers here. the race has tightened. there are now 99% of precincts reporting. but there's only about a 3% difference between the two candidates. joe biden is still ahead by 51% to 47.6%. but again, that's only about 3.4% difference. many have been waiting to see

who would grab the mail-in ballots from maricopa county specifically. we don't know how many ballots are left to be counted here. unknown total of mail ballots received still need to be looked at and provisional ballots are outstanding here. the percent. now the reason i'm talking about maricopa county, it's the largest county by far in arizona, which includes phoenix and its suburbs. it carries about 60% of the state vote. so the presidential candidate would have to win maricopa county in order to win the state. and demographics have been changing there including a fast growing latino population, which was up. to 19% this time around. also we took a look at new residents including independents and younger voters, who have been moving in from neighboring california, which is obviously a democratic leaning state. they are also contribute iing t the change in voting patterns here. voters when we looked at the

ages of 18 to 29 compared to 2016 have increased from 14% to 19%. so the numbers different there lean iing more towards the democratic candidates. the senate race would be historic if democrat mark kelly does beat republican martha mcsally. joe biden actually was riding the coat tails of mark kelly at one point. the state has not had two democratic senators since 1948. but new results not in for that race just yet, we're looking at 82% of precincts reporting. republicans saying that race is still too close to call. and arizona has leaned republican for quite some time. if joe biden does go ahead and pull off a win here in the state, it would only be the second democratic presidential candidate to win arizona since 1952. >> thank you for the update. we'll stay with arizona for a second. mr. trump made end rows with latino voters yet compared to

the 2016 election. in florida he got within just 5 points of biden in the key demographic, but not in arizona. joining us now to talk about this is cbs news contributor maria salana. he underperformed with latinos with the exception of arizona. what was the appeal in arizona? >> it wasn't just arizona. i think there's other parts of the country where vice president biden did really well. in arizona, as i was mentioned before, you do have a growing electorate of latinos. there's a lot of young la ttino that have come out to vote. there are huge campaigns but all these local organizations, these activists that have been getting people to register to vote. so that definitely helps. and i think it's antiimmigrant rhetoric that has driven a lot of that vote. >> how crucial was the latino vote for him there?

>> for biden, it was very important. they have been trying, they have been working on this for ten years. it's very important. a the lot of latinos live in mair kricopa pa county. i want to focus on young latino voters. just with the early voting, there was over 300% hike in increase in young latino voters between 18 and 29. so young latino voters are really colorado coming out strong to vote. in the 32 million latino eligible voters in the country, 40% of them are between 18 and 35. >> people just dipping in and out of the coverage may have heard that latinos helped deliver the state of florida to donald trump. if we pull become and lock at the bigger picture, how is he doing with the latino electorate more broadly. >> a as of now, trump has gotten 32% of the latino vote. that's better than 2016. but it's the same as john mccain received and he lost.

it's not numbers like the ones that george w. bush received which is 40%. we have to remember that. right now, joe biden is still getting a landslide of latino voters in the country. >> but there's still a sense for some people in the party that he's underperform iing with latinos. alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted out she said we have been sounding the alarm about dem vulnerabilities for a long time. what do you make of that? >> because latinos feel that the democratic party has taken their vote for granted. they assume they are going to be voting for them. so one thing this proves is you can't do that. you have to pay attention to latino voters. you have to start courting them and not just two months before an election. you have to court them the whole time. you have to give them a reason why they should be voting for you. because their vote is up for grabs and just continues to grow. >> i heard some people say they are surprised he has any latino support considering his immigration policy, which many

people feel we have been at the border and seen families that are coming to this country. considering how people feel that his immigration policy is not really kind to hispanic voters. can you sort that out? can you explain why that is? >> i think there's some misconception that immigration is the number one issue for latinos and it hasn't been for a long time. it does afelkt them, possess leshl the rhetoric. there's been an increase in hate crimes. but the main issues for latinos have always been education, health care and the economy. not necessarily in that order. it varies. this time around, it is coronavirus and health care as a number one issue. jobs and the economy as a second issue. so if you don't understand the issues they care about, it's hard. it's different in each state. >> i'm glad we touched on the policy results here. elections do have consequences and there will be a different reality for the latino community

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while we're waiting for final vote counts in a number of key battleground states, there are some states that had been considered toss ups that were definitively won by one candidate or another. cbs news exit polling tells us why. let's get to that.

we'll start in the state of ohio. a state that trump won by 8 points back in 2016. and he won it again by nearly the same margin here in 2020. what put him over the edge this time? take a look. the president overwhelmingly won voters without a college degree, in particular, men without a college degree. the exit polls also show that the economy was the important issue on the minds of ohioans overall. in that category, trump had a 14-point margin over joe biden. you can see it there. it was a similar story down south in the state of florida. 42% of voters said that their family's financial situation is better today than four years ago. that's a about perception. they also said the economy played the bigest role in deciding their family's vote. latino vote played a key role. get this. 56% of cuban voters in florida voted for trump. a majority. he also earned 47% of the latino

vote statewide. that compares to about 32% of latinos nationally. he overperformed his national numbers that help deliver the state of florida to him. lt let's go to texas. that was a state not necessarily expected to flip in 2020. however, it's been a source of excitement and optimism for democrats. trump won it by 6%. not exactly close. the white christian bloc handed him that victory. with 86% of white evangelical or whiborn again christians votingr the president. and as i toss it back to you guys, i would point out a conversation i had on the road recently. tlvs a born again christian woman i spoke to. i got to ask her that key question. the president does not meet all the criteria that comes to mind for the ideal christian. yet he wins that vote.

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>> by the end of the evening it was teeltly different. take a look. democrats have secured 46 seats so far. republicans have secured 47. so this is very, very close. and basically, the same places where we're waiting for presidential results, we're waiting for senate results as well. that includes michigan, the race between gary peters and john james, the republican. obviously, a very tight race with about 90% or so of the ballots counted. let's head over to the republican side.

north carolina, still very close. still counting ballot there is. they are at about 94% now. but that number hasn't changed in several hours. so we'll see if tom tillis can hold on to that seat. susan collins still in the lead, but take a look the at the number that matters most right now. she's at 49.6%. if the democratic challenger can keep her at 49.6%, this goes to rank choice voting where you take a look at some of the smaller candidates. we're getting maybe 4 or 5% of the vote. you look at those voters who chose them, who was their second choice. that could take awhile. then in georgia, where they are still count iing the presidenti race. still counting in the senate race. purdue, a slim lead right now. we'll see where it goes. i want to talk to you at the house. the democrats had really hoped this would be a big night for them. we're going to go over to the board. >> did you get permission?

>> i did. it's okay right? he's giving me a thumbs up. democrats had thought that this was going to be a great night for them. they would pick up 5 to 18 seats. after picking up 41 seats back in 2018, at this hour it doesn't look like it's going to be the case. they targeted ten seats back in 2018 that they hoped to pick up this time around. at this point, they are not winning any of them. so they are not going to be turning texas blue any time soon. i want to show you a couple other races. virginia's 7 district, one of the big rock star recruits. look at this. she's locked in an incredibly tight race. 50/50 and that's with a about 86 prgs % of the vote counted. i want to check on minnesota 7. because colin peterson, he was an institution. republicans have been trying to pick him off ever since. because this is such a heavily

republican district. it looks like this might be the year that they do it. he is trailing. and then just one other race. new jersey 2, this is jeff van drew, who switched parties during impeachment. it looks like that was a smart move. he's winning. >> he's holding on. thank you. coming up, new reaction from the biden headquarters and from the white house in the battle over who will win this election. that's ahead. you're watching continuing coverage of election 2020 on "cbs this morning." ♪ birds flyi, 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

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it's when, hump day and the morning after november 4th, 2020, welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. state of the race, we'll check on both the biden and trump campaigns with millions of votes still to be counted. keystone state pennsylvania is earning that name today, as it remains too close to call. the latest twist in the closely fought battle. >> world view. how other countries are acting to this divisive electin and uncertainty. >> first here is today's eye opener at 8:00. we are all waiting for all the votes to be counted and wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, georgia and north carolina. >> the biden campaign is hopeful it hasn't cashed in a victory. the president is arguing it's

over, suggesting without evidence there was widespread voter fraud. >> what kind of path does the president have? >> the president may have a more difficult path, given just state by state but all of the states are far too close to project. >> if you're joe biden right now, what do you do? >> you stay in your line, which his lane has been let the system work and the process work. because you hope someday to be president. >> he's underperforming with latinos. >> latinos feel the democratic party has taken them for granted. they assume they'll be voting for them. >> it's a good thing we don't know who won yet. stop that. you don't exist. stop it. >> the truth is millions of you braved the pandemic, an army of poll watchers even the post office to make sure you got to vote. each and every ballot deserves to be counted. i know we've all got what it

takes to wait just a little bit longer >> that is such an important point stephen kohl bert made. huge numbers regardless of how you feel about what happened today. people spoke, energized and engaged. >> the system worked. >> i hope he's right about a little bit longer. >> concentrating on a little bit. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is no winner yet in the presidential election, despite president trump's claim to the contrary in a speech overnight. bhen tracy has more on the president's claims. >> reporter: the trump campaign is not backing off of the claim that's already won the election. two of his top campaign advisers went on tv this morning and declared the president has been reelected. that is of course not true. the president said in a tweet last night he was leading in many key states and now one by one they started to magically

disappear. he blamed this on what he calls surprise ballot dumps. there is no evidence of surprise ballot dumps. states continue to count legally cast votes which is changing the vote total since president trump falsely declared victory earlier this morning. >> had 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. [ cheers ] >> reporter: candidates don't get to declare themselves the winner. ohm states can do that by counting all of your votes and certifying their elections. none of this is unusual. it routinely takes days if not weeks for states to finish their counts and there are a lot more mail-in ballots because of the pandemic. the president is threatening to take this to the supreme court but that's not how this works. any disputes over the elections would likely take place in state courts first. >> ben tracy, thank you very

much. we just heard the president say he believes he won. cbs news can now report that the biden campaign believes that they will secure the 270 electoral votes needed to win this election. quite a contest. nicole killian is in wilmington, delaware for us. good morning to you. what are you hearing? >> reporter: the biden campaign wrapped up a call with reporter, saying they are on track to win this election and believe they are on a clear path to victory. campaign officials say they feel confident about wisconsin and pennsylvania, and they believe they are leading in nevada and can also win in michigan. they're also watching georgia to see what happens in fulton county. overnight the former vice president told supporters he feels good about where he is, and declared it's not over until every ballot is counted. his campaign also put out a statement calling president trump's effort to stop the counting of ballots outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect, and they add if the president

makes good on his threat to go to court to prevent tabulation of balance lots the campaign has legal teams on standby to resist that effort. the former vice president is expected to make another statement later today. gayle? >> yep, the lawyers on speed dial, they have lots of work to do. thank you, nicole. one possible key to victory for joe biden is the state of pennsylvania. the governor now says we might not know all the election results there today. oh, no. ed o'keefe is following this story. a lot of people are screaming at the tv going make it stop! make it stop! make it stop, ed. >> reporter: i wish i could. >> how are the two campaigns handling this today? >> as you've seen they've gone to their corners believing the numbers will work out in their favor. the biden campaign, the former vice president expected to address the nation later today. his team believes when all is said and done he will pull it off winning in places like

michigan and wisconsin, feeling good about georgia, they expect things to wrap up in arizona, feeling less so about north carolina at this point, that appears to be skewing to the republicans. and they also believe that the president's vow to go to the supreme court is laughable and there will be no legal basis for them to ever make it that far. you talk to the trump team they're confident, believe mathematically it will work out as well. they see the race in wisconsin a 1% contest, a difference of 1% that would fall within the state recount laws if the trump campaign would like to ask for it. that could prolong things a little while. it may or may not matter depending how the other things have gone. both teams seem to suggest they've got a way to do it. >> biden at the moment very narrowly in front in wisconsin and michigan. >> reporter: yep. >> a lot of votes out there. he's comfortable in front in arizona.

hasn't been called. >> reporter: republicans believe there are outstanding mail-in ballots yet to be counted, ironically keep counting the votes. >> i'm interested that the biden camp is confident in pennsylvania, they're down about ten points. >> they are but they're expecting a big surge to come in from philadelphia and some of the other counties from allegheny county in the western part of the state and there are a few other counties where they believe they can bring up the margins. that's what we're waiting on in pennsylvania. >> secretary of state in pennsylvania said the mail-in ballots so far have been 78% for joe biden. if that holds, he will make up the big gap that currently exists. >> that's what the president was alluding to overnight, that we've been talking about this for several weeks, the president saying whoever is the winner on the night of november 3rd should be the winner. this happens, and we saw this most especially happened two years ago in california in a bunch of congressional races. the mail-in ballot comes in, somebody else takes the lead. every vote gets counted, as long as it comes within the time

period. >> some races it was days before they got the result >> bring the white board back and start another countdown. >> you have to know when the end of the countdown is. the u.s. presidential race is watched all over the world. ahead the first reaction to the results from russ

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russia, china and iran are reacting to the results, we begin with holly williams in moscow. >> reporter: good morning. russia's president vladimir putin appeared today on red square just behind me. it's a national holiday here. he said nothing about the u.s.

election. and russia, which u.s. intelligence concluded interfered in the 2016 election with a clear preference for president trump has publicly at least been quite even-handed this time around. president putin has said he'll work with whoever wins. now you might dismiss that as a smoke screen but remember experts in disinformation say that the overarching strategic goal for russia isn't about one candidate or one election but rather about sowing public distrust, including in the political process. to that point we've seen the russian media portraying the u.s. election as chaotic, embarrassing even and symbolic of a dysfunctional system. what about ordinary russians and their level of interest in this u.s. election? well you may be surprised to learn that one recent poll found that 55% of people here had not heard of joe biden. gayle? >> whoa, okay.

that puts things in a little bit of perspective. thank you, holly williams. throughout this campaign president trump boasted about challenging china's commercial dominance and claimed that joe biden, who we've certainly heard of here would be a big pushover. ramie inocensio is in beijing. >> reporter: gayle, good morning. china's top leadership has so far been silent along with those officials in russia, as holly was saying, but state media and social media have been reporting and they've also been making fun of the u.s. election. trump and biden scuffling outside the white house a long with a run on firearms in stores, citing a report by cbs news in fact online the term "u.s. election" was number 11 in a list of top trending phrases on weibo, china's version of

twitter, came after neck news and the vienna terror attack. chinese state media made this video of president trump dancing at a rally go viral, reshared more than 1.8 million times and on a serious note in paper, state media says china will forge ahead by itself whether or not trump or biden wins. people are boasting china beat the coronavirus, and the economy has roared back to life and that life here is pretty much back to normal, and that of course is in stark comparison with the united states and some chinese citizens directly messaged me saying if american democracy looks like this in all of its messiness, they don't want to have any bit of it. tony? >> they're talking about us, not all of it flattering. >> that's tough to hear. >> it's tough. >> i don't think our process is that messy. >> we got off to a messy start in not iowa, what is the first one that votes? >> new hampshire.

>> it will come to me, the primary season. >> iowa? >> yes, everything went sideways. much improved from there. >> it's been a long day. >> i was going to say ohio. much improved. around the world journey, to iran. one of the trump administration's prime targets for tougher action. elizabeth, what is the story there? >> good morning. president trump's policy of maximum pressure on iran through sanctions has been effective for sure and caused real hardship. yesterday we went to the institute where they're trying to make enough tests to cope with what's a very serious covid outbreak here. the scientists said we just cannot make enough, because we have no access to the foreign chemicals and equipment we need. i spoke to iran's foreign

minister jawad zarif and the statements from the biden camp more promising, translate that to mean perhaps the u.s. and iran could find themselves back together at the nuclear table and in return, there could would be some sanctions relieved, but very quickly the supreme leader torpedoed that idea. he said to national television the american administration was rotting and not to be trusted. at the end of the day, the poor iranian people beleaguered, impoverished know they're not going to see any improvement in their lives any time soon, no matter who is in the white house. anthony? >> that's true. elizabeth palmer in tehran, thank you, liz. ahead, the potential twists and turns when the final votes are counted across the united states, that's coming up on "cbs morning news." "cbs this morning."

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president trump is getting pushback from the biden campaign and members of his own party after accusing democrats overnight of "trying to steal the election." david becker joins us now an election law expert and founder of the center for election inno. david, good morning. the president also said overnight essentially claimed victory even though all the votes have not been counted. when do you think we'll have a conclusive result? >> that's right, millions of ballots left to count in the states yet to be called. we'll likely have a good idea who has won wisconsin and michigan and probably arizona and nevada as well today, possibly north carolina i'd add to that. pennsylvania is going to take longer. georgia could be today, could be tomorrow. they're all very, very close.

>> the president also appeared to essentially advocate that states stop counting votes. is that actually possible? >> no, shouldn't be possible. all of the balance lots counted were validly cast by legitimate voters on election day or before, that's exactly the way we've always done it and doing it now. i should also add largely counted under rules set well in advance and often set by the trump campaign via litigation where they won litigation in wisconsin, in michigan and elsewhere and interesting if you look at the margins of victory or leading margins for vice president biden and states like michigan and wisconsin, they're about the same and maybe even a little greater than the margins that president trump won those states in 2016. >> given the results from certain states today do you think it's possible we may have a winner today? >> i think it is possible to

have a winner today. there are some paths available right now and if wisconsin and michigan go the way they seem to be going right now and nevada and arizona are going in that direction as well and nebraska congressional district also, that probably gets to 270 electoral votes for vice president biden. >> the trump campaign is already talking about recounts. how about that play into things, very quickly, would f yif you w? >> the recount is if the margin is narrow. there weren't done many in 2016. if biden exceeds those we'll be pretty certain who the victor was. ahead the latest from pennsylvania and wisconsin, two states where ballots still to be counted could decide this presidential election. your local news coming up next.

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welcome back to "cbs morning news" a"cbs this morning" and or continuing coverage of the 2020 election. we focus on two key states where we cannot project a winner. the one with the most electoral votes was pennsylvania, where president trump has a lead of nearly ten percentage points. gentlem jarica, good morning to you. where do we stand? >> reporter: good morning to you, gayle. right now we stand, we still don't have an answer as to who won this very important state, but the governor and his secretary of state here just issued a statement saying they don't have a time line. they gave no time line and said they're not going to allow any outside influences to get in the

way of them doing a job that will be safe and ensure that every vote that is valid will be counted. i want to go inside the pennsylvania convention center where we're standing outside of, this is a live look at the election, city workers on special assignment hard at work counting the ballots. they have breaking up in shifts. there's always people in here counting those ballots and they have since 7:00 yesterday, when the polls opened. this is the first time election officials throughout the state have had to count a record number of mail-in ballots, in 2016 they only had 260,000 mail-in ballots. this year, over 2.5 million, because of a new law passed in 2019 allowing people to mail in their vote without an excuse. trump remains ahead right now of joe biden by ten points, but the state still has about a quarter of ballots left to count. pennsylvania secretary of state just told reporters she's

encouraged by how the counting has played out so far. >> it's one of the smoothest, least issues presidential elections than i've seen in any time that i could possibly remember, and i've been in and around elections for a long time, as a voting rights lawyer, and a poll worker. this was incredibly smooth. >> reporter: she and the governor did acknowledge there could be some legal challenges after they total and bring out the official count of the votes here in pennsylvania. the governor urging people yesterday, he said to take a deep breath and to stay calm, knowing that this wasn't going to be a situation in previous elections where we knew how pennsylvania would go, that particular night, the night of the election. remember, too, here, in pennsylvania, which has been a contentious spot for republicans who challenged this but if your ballot is postmarked by november

3rd and officials receive it by 5:00 p.m. on november 6th, and you filled out all your information in that mail-in ballot correctly, it can still be counted and that is something that the supreme court did not really weigh in on. it was a 4-4 decision but essentially the officials here in pennsylvania know that they could experience challenges later because of that. >> but in the interim, jaricka, a lot of workers working to make this happen. wisconsin is in the spotlight just as it was in 2016. the president is a little behind biden there with many ballots still to be counted. adriana diaz is in milwaukee. what's happening where you are right now? >> reporter: well, wisconsin's election commission said this morning that the counting and ror reporting of results has happened in accordance to the law. we're waiting for 3% of the sloe votes to be reported in wisconsin. they couldn't start counting

absentee votes, a record 1.9 million, until 7:00 a.m. on election day. in the city of milwaukee, they didn't finish that count until 3:00 a.m., when they submitted the city's absentee results to the county by hand. just before then, president trump had been leading in the state by about 100,000 votes. then when the city of milwaukee's 169,000 absentee votes were added to the pot, they pushed biden over trump because milwaukee is really reliably blue. another important factor contributing to milwaukee's vote is the black vote. turnout here in 2016 was down 19% in 2016, according to one estimate. there was an enormous get out the vote this time around. i spoke to an activist this morning and he said our work has paid off referring to the strong numbers in milwaukee. as we wait for the last votes to be counted, both sides are talking about the possibility of a recount. that doesn't happen

automatically, but it can be requested if the race is less than one percentage point, and as of now, it is. tony? >> all right, buckle up, adriana, thank you very much. for more on how the electoral map continues to shift and also to settle, let's bring in cbs news elections and surveys director anthony salvanto. good morning once again to you. we were just in wisconsin with adriana. are we still within that one percentage point potential recount zone? >> yes, take a look at this, tony. you've got 49.5-48.8, as you mentioned, joe biden with the narrowest of leads, just a few thousand votes really, and if i show you whether or not we think is outstanding is this larger number, 103,000 in our estimates. that's what's left to count out of mi of wisconsin and imis lar story in the toss-up states, michigan, pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia. i'll show you pennsylvania,

their numbers think 1.5 million to count, the ballots are being cast, might have been passed early, but we're waiting for elections officials to tally those up. i can take you down to georgia and this is part of the reason that gives biden hope, even though he's trailing in the overall numbers. i'll zoom in over a couple of counties around atlanta 82,000 still left to count perhaps in de kalb, as well as some other democratic potentially democratic leaning counties but it doesn't mean just democratic ballots. there will be democratic and republican ballots statewide across georgia as the remaining come in. that's what we're waiting for. i will say to everybody for context, this is hardly the first time we've been at the decision desk for many hours into days waiting for elections officials in many states to count ballots. it's just this is the time that the whole world is watching that count. >> indeed they are. let me linger for a second not

on wisconsin but on michigan. can you help me understand why michigan is yet to be characterized one way or other? we're still calling it a toss-up. 92% in, joe biden has an advantage, how could trump still pull this out? what are we waiting for here? >> reporter: first you see how close it is. 49.5 and you can see the numbers from our system directly feeding in as i'm speaking to you, to 48.8, so that's a really tight, really marginal race, and then almost a half a million, 447,000 outstanding ballots, out of a 5.6 million that we expected to be cast, so it's sort of basic. when there's a whole lot more ballots out than the margin between the candidates, you have a hard time projecting the race and you just kind of have to let the elections officials do their jobs, tony. >> we are waiting for that little bell, email notification,

new count is in. we'll be waiting for it. >> bravo for you being in the upright condition because you've done the 24-hour loop and still actually pleasant. very good, and coherent. >> we live for this, gayle. >> we actually do. you're absolutely right. you're absolutely right about that. thank you. throughout this campaign we've been talking to terry sullivan and robby mook, a republican and democrat that get along. >> they're adults. >> long 24 hours, i don't know. >> we'll have their thoughts how this election continues to sha

cbs news political contributors robby mook and terry sullivan. robby mook hillary clinton's 2016 campaign manager and terry sullivan managed marco rubio's 2016 campaign. i think this is funny. normally there's a story ahead of you and we say here is terry and robby, let's go. >> ding, ding. >> let's start with the president last night who basically said it's a fraud, that the process he's claiming victory. someone said it's late, he's tired, he hasn't really gotten ahead of everything yet but he

doubled down this morning, he's tweeting, people on his staff are going on his shows and doubling down. doesn't this imagine the integrity? what is the strategy here? >> a couple of things at play. first of all it would be ideal if the president wasn't saying these things. >> as opposed to joe biden. >> general said we expect to hit 270 today, both sides are doing a lot, they fight until the very, very bitter end. >> there's a difference -- >> she's not calling it a fraud. >> we expect to win and we did win and it's fraud, there's a difference. >> she's saying we will get to 270 today. both sides are fighting to the bitter end and also, you can't blame the president for not trusting the establishment, the media, the pollsters, the conventional wisdom because the conventional wisdom had him losing in a landslide. heck, i even said it. >> the process delivered him to the white house, he's currently

president of the united states because the process worked. every vote counted. >> i understand. if you're questioning why does he seem doubtful, i don't think the way he's saying it is the proper way, i completely agree with that but he's got a good basis for being doubtful that the establishment, political pundits and media is wrong. >> why did everybody get it so wrong? >> i don't know. it seems like the problems we knew we had with polling from 2016 kind of got solved and i would argue the polls were worse this time. terry and i were confident for biden he had a lead, steady, going on for many months. i think there has to be a huge autopsy coming out of this. >> pollsters say they're counting votes. >> they keep skewing, nevada is tight, michigan is tight, wisconsin is tight. these weren't supposed to be

tight. already we see a problem and the farther down you go on the ballot, the bigger that delta between what we were expecting and what happened. we're talking about double digit differences. >> it was in senate races and house races across the board, republicans outperformed dramatically their polling numbers across the country and every race. >> it was not a good night for the democrats, robby, no matter how you try to frame it. is it a wake-up call for the democrats, and what happened? >> well, i would say defeating trump was so important. if we get that far, i don't want to downplay how important that is. >> good point. >> this was disappointing, and if we win the white house, the idea was we've been waiting ten years to be able to legislate. the republicans had that opportunity just after trump won in 2016. i mean, this delays us even further and the majority in the house means a tougher midterm

next time, the senate map is mixed. it's tough. >> terry, even if president trump does not win this election, he has by virtue of the turnout defied expectations, reaffirmed this is his party. >> america's divided and passionately so, and this is not some sort of landslide where he was denounced for his handling of coronavirus or what a lot of people thought. this was a nail biter of a race. like a lot of other conventional candidates would have formed. >> the tweet talking about how the president was leading in many states and "one by one they magicically started to disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted." that tweet was by the president of the united states. what happens next given how divided we are and the biggest platform in the country is being used to cast doubt on the counting we're doing right now? >> i think that's a question for

republican leaders, if donald trump has lost and he does not get to 270 electoral votes, what the election officials are telling us, my question is do other republican leaders say it's time? it's over. we got to move on. we can never expect donald trump to concede. we can never expect him to say the right thing. >> we got to leave it there. robby mook, terry sul viclivans thank you for being with us again. >> yes. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones, - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. call or visit

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