>> this is pbs newshour weekend, sunday. captioning sponsored by wnetsr >> nivasan: on this edition for sunday, november 8: president-elect joe biden and vice-president elect kamala harris address the nation after their historic win. every state but maine where susan collins won. >> jeff greenfield with election analysis and a return to philelphia where a fatal shooting helped galvanize voters next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the anderson family fund. dbernard nise schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family.

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and vice president-elect kala harris had no public events today, one day after they were declared the winners in the 2020 presidential race. last night, the two celebred with supporters at an outdoor even driven light show after victory speeches. the biden-harrisaransition tems are forming and planning ann aouncements as sos tomorrow. president dald trump has not conceded and continues toow to challenge the vote with legal fights in key states. the president tweeted unproven claims of ection fraud this morning from the white house before going tois golf club in virginia. president-elect biden attended church near his home in wilmington, as he does most sundays. four former u.s. presidents congratulated biden and harris, including republican george w. bush. in his statement, bush wrote: "though we have political differences, i know aoe biden to good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country." hais, who will become the first woman, first black and first asian to be vice president, thanked voters who turned out in record numbers.

>> womghen who fand sacrificed so much for equality and liberty and justice for all, including the black women who are often, too often, overlooked but so often prove they are the backbone of our democracy. (cheering) >> sreenivasan: in his speech, biden called on americans to come together despite political differences. >> i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify. who doesn't see red and blue states, only sees the united states. (cheering) >> sreenivasan: president trumpv says the figh the election will go on, b by most vote tally-- joe biden is now president-elect. but the shape of his victory and the political climate he'll face turned out to be different from what the lls and pundits edicted. here to put this into perspective is ecial correspondent jeff greenfield,

who joins us from santa barbara. jeff, let's hold ourselves accountable here, last week when we spoke, you said there's a decent chance that joe biden ns the popular vote, but struggles in the electoral count. >> what happened? that was pretty close. i mean g, biden ng to get about a seven million vote plurality when all is said and done. that's about five or six points. but the projections pre-election where he could get a ten or 12 point lead at the rate he came in, it put the electoral college right the margins. he's going to wind up, if every state holds, with 306 teectoral but it's amazing how close these states ar you know, one percent or less in arizona, nevada, wisconsin, pennsylvania, they'll even be recounts. so he avoided the fate of hillary clinton,ut it was a close call. sreenivasan: he also said that he's going to have to do well in inner cities. was that the key? >> it was a mixed bag. the interesting thing was in a state like pennsylvania, the philadelphutia turasn't particularly greater than it was

foclinton. but he did better not only in the suburbs, but he did slightly retter than clinton in the small town and rural. that was true in wisconsin, just well enoug th to push him ov edge in both of those states. >> sreenivasan: you know, the democrats right now seem to be celebrating biden and rightfully they should. this is a victory lap for them. but the senateen a whole diffscenario. >> we talked last week about the optimism the democrats had that in all of these red states, six democratic contenders vastly outspending their republican incumbents, they all lost and some of them by enorms margins. and it turns out that except for arizona and colorado, those are the only states the democrats picked up and they lost alabama. so it's 50 to 48 right assuming alaska and north carolina hold and there were two georgia senaoite seats to a runoff that will decide which party controls the senate. and so if you have some spe money, buy a tv station in

georgia, there's going to be a lot of money spent. one addition, happen?d this partisanship. it turns out ticket splitting is sothing that's all disappeared in america. in every state but maine, where san collins won, the winning senate candidate was from the same party as the presidential candidate who won that state. >> sreenivasan: even ifhe democrats get the senate or get control of the senate, which again is up in the air, that doesn't mean it's a slam dunk for joe biden and let's say a re progrsive agenda. >> not hardly. i mean, ifutou're talking a a 50-50 senate with kamala morris breaking the tie, we know that there are ats who oppose a of the more bold moves that some progresves want. they'r against court expansion. they don't like abolishing the legislative fibuster. they're a little skeptical about massive spending and has said if the republicans keep the sete, mitch mcconnell effectively has veto power over judges and even and one more point-- when obama won 12 years ago, he had 6

senators, democrats, and he had a really tough problem getting da through >> sreenivasan: now we're still waiting for any semblance of a concession from the president, but other republicans are already looking forward to 2024 maybe 2022. >> well, you're talking about the house of representatives, we talkedlebout a possen-seat gain for democrats, they lost eight seats. they may lose more. their margins sme going to be l in the house, may be ten votes and the sta legislatures, the democrats had a total failure there. so republicans will be in charge of redistricting in texas, ohio, and that's going to be a problem for the democrats to hold the house. havi said all that, hari, not just democratsbut i think for a lot oiof people, there's to be quite a moment in january when the new president biden goes before congress and his first words will be, madam vice president, madam speaker. so even with the disappointment on the on the congressional side, there's some cause for

democr bats celebrating. >> sreenivasan: jeff greenfield joining us from santa barbara, thanks so much.ka la harris is not the first woman to be on the vice- presidential ticket, but with yestday's victory she is the first to become vice-president elect breaking not just one i spoke with barbara perry, director of presidential studies and cochair of the presidentia oral history program at the university of virginia's miller center, about the hi first for the country. >> well, as a woman, i have tosa it's so inspiring, particularly given that four years ago, many of us thought we would see the first womante elto sit in the oval office at the resolute desk. but failing that, this is the next best thi. and not only a woman in kamala harris, but a woman of color. it's just spectacular. and i mentioned that i w wearing my late mother's earrings today. she woulned have t100 next week. and it makes me think that almost gives me chills to think that she would have been born

just after e amendment passed the9th amendment, giving women the franchise and that her own mother, it made me do some math, r own mother would have been 27 before she would have been allowed to cast her first vote in a presidential election. so within the span of three generations, i now see the first woman vice president and maybe she will go on at some point to be inpresident ruin her own right. >> sreenivasan: well, kamala harris is the first to be vlee preside. she's not the first to be on a major party ticket. >> yes, it takes ushe way up to 1984 before we get a woman on a major party national ticke in the person of geraldine ferraro. and yet i think back to that campaign as she ran on the ticket with walter monda, that was doomed to a landslide defeat to ronald reagan, not because of raldine ferraro, but she was a bit condescended to by then vice president george h.w. bush in the debate and she called him out on it.

her husband's business dealings, his real estate dealings in new and i thought, well, that's the problem for women. they rise to at or near the top, and then they're still brought down by theirusband's business dealings. and then in the case of sarah p talin, i actualnk that set the cause of women back on national tickets because she was so blatantly unqualified to serve in that role or to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. but the good news is it didn't take long for women to overcome that with kamala harris' nomination and now victory. >> sreenivasan: and it's ironic that the male establishment that triomed to keep from voting for so long, ever since that vote, have beenell, these have en the massive margins and how important women have been in elections, decidingresidents. yes, and particularly of color, 90-plus percent and men of color awell, certainly rican american men and women,

the backbone of the democratic party, and yet particularly in the case of ack women, have been so unrewarded. it's sad to think on the oppos site side thatmala harris leads herself into the vice presidency, and i thought it was so symbolic that in his victory speech, joe biden included her not only on the stage, and introduce him, that that's unpr eecedented in presidect victory speeches. but in going on to the vice esidency, that will mean there is not a black woman in the senate and that kamala harris was only the second black woman in all of our history to serve in that body. >> sreenivasan: barbara perry from uva's miller center, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, hari. >> sreenivasan: for more election analysis and the latest national and international news, visit pbs.org newshour. >> sreenivasan: tomorrow, president-elect biden plans to

s me a 12-person group of scientific advisd experts to lead the response to the coronavirus pandemic during the traition. today the u.s. recorded more thalln ten n confirmed cases of conavirus infections according to the "new york times." avthe seven-daage of new cases has surpassed 100,000 per day. opmore than 237,000 have died of covid-19 in the u.s. during the pandemic. the virus is also spreading rapidly in many european countries,here new stay-at- rihome orders and reions are now in place. in the united kingdom, this is the first weekend of a lockdown set to last through at least december 2. this is the second time the country has closed stores, ld imited gatherings dered people to stay home. for more on the lockdown in the u.e k. and reaction thto the u.s. election results, i spoke with npr correspondent frank langfitt, who joined us from london. frank, we'll get to the election in a seco, but first, the her and only major story in the world is covid. e number of cases across

europe have been increasing, ajust like th in the united states. tand we're seei u.k. now taking much more drastic measures. >> what basically happened is over the summer, people traveled a lot in europe and it's clear that people brought it back from spain, for instance. and also there's been kind of, it was much more relaxed in the united kinom than it was in the states. and so there hasn't been as much we've got a resurgence as the weather's gotten much colder here this fall. >> sreenivasan: how does that translate into how people feel about this, their frustration level, whether they think that there's a clear policy, whether they think they're going to orround ther because all the epidemiologists say, "hey, come thanksgivg, come christmas, come the winter, this is going to be worse before it gets better"? >> i think that there is pandemic fatigue here, lockdown fatie. and i think you're seeing people violating it right now. i he a neighbor who's told that she's having people into the house. she's just not going to pay attention to it.

shek,'s, i thate 60s, early 70s. so i think you're definitely seeing that people are tired of it. they're worried about not being able to celebrate christmas. and that's kind of where we are right now. and nlcertif the government weren't doing this, it could be a very, very bad december. >> sreenivasan: so let's talk a little bit about the reaction in the united kingdom now after the ap, the bbc even called the election in favor of joe biden. >> the day after the election i was out in london.th was right before we went into lockdown and i talked to young londoners. and what i got from them was very interesting. they were hoping for a blow out by joe biden and the fact that it wasn't was disappointing to them. i think what you're going to see in europe and here in the united kingdom is a feeling that it was e big, big blue wave that e would had hoped fo and that there's less trust and confidence in the american political system. it use id to be foreign poli

europe, for america was very consistent on either side of the aisle. that's no longer true. and so the concern here would be get to 2024 and a different, s movvy version of trump takes over and the policy then runs againseuropean interests. so ea lot of people ope talking about beginning to sort of think about going their own way. >> sreenivasan: does that cause people to second guess what joe biden can do if perhaps his rollback of what president trump did is rolled back again in '24 if trumpism exists in the longer arc? >> i think that that's a big, big concern. and i think there's a recognition here that donald trp was a symptom of much bigger changes and dissatisfaction in the american political syst. we've seen the polarization. i think, honestly, had joe biden gotten a 400-plus electoral vote win td had 55 seats senate, i think people would be much more confident here in

london and paris, berlin and places like that. but it wasn't what they had hoped for. d so i think they are very cautious about the future. and i think that donald trump really didhange the way many people in europe view the american political system. and that's not jusawgoing to go with joe biden's win. boris johnson, who has been very chummy and an ally in some ways of pridt trump now that joe biden might be the next president? >> well, it's not good news for boris johnson in the short term. as far as we can tell, joe biden is no fan of boris johnson. he was against brexit and obviously johnson championed it. and someone like joe biden, the classic trans-atlanticist, sees xit as undermining europ which is accurate. that really is dividing europe. batut i think over time, johnson is hoping for is there are a lot of shared policy goals th you would have with the biden administration that he didn't have with the trump administration. climate change, a perfect example here in the united kingd.

the united kingdom will be hosting the next big climate conference in glasgow in november. that's a greatpportunity for boris johnson to find common administration and kind of get a lot closer, ybe repair se of the damage of the trump years. >> sreenivasan: frank langfis joiningom london from npr, thanks so much. >> happy to do it, hari. >> sreenivasan: their speeches last night, both president elect joe biden and vice president elect kamala harris mentioned how the support of black voters helped propel m to victory the state of pennsylvania was decisive for that win. last weekend, we reportedrom philalphia, where black lives matter advocates were hoping that the fal shooting of a black man by police would motivate, not deter voter turnout. newshour weekend's christopher returned to philadelphia just days after police publicly releasedde veo from the innt nd right before the election

was called for jbiden. >> reporter: on wednesday theph city of philadia released the body camera footage of the death of walter llace, jr., the 27-year-old black man fatally shot killed by the philadelphipolice in the week before the election. >> the release got somewhat election.into the news of >> reporter: philadelphia city council member jaime gauthier says even though the release was overshadowed by the election, lle's death remains a top the minds of voters from philadelphia's black communy. in addition to voting for etesident, philadelphia voters were also asked r the city should fm a police oversight commission and whether the police department should end the use f stop and frisk. >> there was strong support for these ballot initiatives. peopgle even before the shoot of walter wallace, jr., people in philly knew that we needed more accountability and transparency as it relates to how the police function and

operate. and people are beyond tired of the ways that police interactwi h them in their neighborhood. clear from the tipping point states, wisconsin, georgia, michigan and pennsylvania that the black community came out substantially. >> i think that people truly election.d the stakes of this they knew that we were voting for our health in the face of this pandemic. they knew that we weing on ndsues like police refor they knew that we were voting to get a president who truly wants philadelphia.eas like so i think folks got that. r: do you think this will at all change the way that the democrats ssage or politic as it relates to the black community? >> iure hope it does. since 2016, i've seen a lot of focus on white working class voters, particularly in the

middlef e country. black people have saved this party ain and again and again. inand i that needs to be truly recognized and not just edrecognize with acknoent, but recognize with policy that's really going to help our people to thrive. you know, they came out fce and so i think it's actually a muscle that's that has been built that we're going to use again and again and again. >> reporter: with over a million people in philadelphiavo registered to te in this election-- the most since 1984-- it is a muscle that has been activated thanks in no small part to brittany smalls, the pennsylvania state coordinator for black voters matter. >> the work is really mobilizinl k folks. and so our work will continue. when the cameras before the cameras, i was up and he street, before the cameras, after the cameras leave in the taattention, i was up in s.

so my job stays the same. >> ratorter: she recognizes th efforts like hers in cities acro the country helped deliver states to like michigan, georgia, and pennsylvania for the democrats. >> i say jobell done. so all of these organizations around the country that are doing the work, this is not one person's job. that's the mission of black voters to really mobilize our folks because at the end of the day, we just want change for our mmunity. it's not really it never really was about the candidat. it's about o can deliver the support and resources that we need for our community members. >> reporter: and this is what is most important for pastor carl da >> i think that the biden harris ticket, they have a great deal pressure on them, as th should. the poor, the marginalized, the oppressed-- we have been waiting for change and answers for a long time. you know, although we may not really be fans of politics, politics comes with pocitics comes po. policies impact people. we are those people.

>> reporter: philadelphia voters overwhelming approved bo police reform ballot a day before it was announced joe biden clinched pennsylvania and walter wallace's funeral. >> sreenivasan: in a televised address today, azerbaijan's president claimed his country's forces have taken control of sh lha, the secogest city in the contested region of nagorno-karabakh. there were celebrations in the streets of azerbaijan's capital city bu ter the announcement. shusha is a strategically caportant city near the region's tal and along an important road between armenia and nagorno-karabakh. menia, which calls the city shushi, denies its forces have been defeated. he past month, hundreds have died in ongoing fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over control of the nagorno- karabakh region-- located within azerbaijan, but controlled by

ethnic armenian forces since 1994. in east africa today, ethiopia's prime minister abiy ahmed, announced key changes to the country's security sector. giving no reason, he fired the army chief, head of intelligence and foreign minister. this came as the national army entered its fifth day of air strikes on military sites in the area that once ledulingay, an coalition in the country before ahmed was elected in 2018.e the prnister has called the escalation a response to attack federal military bases. but with communication down in ge region, there is no way to verify theernment accounts and there are concerns the conflict could escalate to a civil war. yesterday, doctors without borders said six people were kill location along the tigray border. prithme minister ahmed wo nobel peace prize last year--in part for making peace with neighboring eritrea. tropical storm eta is

cuba today and may become ag hurricane again as it heads for the florida keys.the storm is pr west and may bring storm surges, high winds and flooding to south florida over the next f days. florida's governor has declared a state of emergency in eight rescue workers continue to search for survivors and victims in seral central american countries after eta struck as a category four hurricane last week. alex trebek, host of the hit television game show "jeopardy" has died. in 2019, trebek announced that hh e had been diagnosed wage four pancreatic cancer. trebek hosted the beloved quiz ow for me than 30 years-- bantering with contestants and keeping the show moving when they strgled for answers that had to be phrased as questions. the correct response is what are the channel islands. >> alex trebek died at his home in los angeles earlier this he was 80 years old.

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