we believe we're on track to win the selection frankly we did with. this. the american. and joe biden both suggest that they will win the us election with the republican threatening legal action and what he didn't says electoral fraud. in the results had hardly begun coming in when violent scenes erupted there have been clashes between protesters and the police in several cities across the u.s. including washington d.c. meanwhile washington is coming in from europe with germany's defense minister doubting much while that can change if biden when its policy chief says they look forward to rebuilding a strong transatlantic partnership. and

i welcome you watching r.t. international where there is one story dominating today the u.s. presidential election much tighter than everybody was expecting and still no results but let's have a look at the numbers to bring you up to speed on how the candidates are doing so far the race is pretty tight as you can see with biden securing were already 238 electors and trump having the backing of 213270 needed to win the white house that is the magic number it's all based on the electoral college system and not the popular votes well here's what it looks like so far on a state by state basis the red the blue for biden. many votes were mailed in and key states like wisconsin michigan pennsylvania and georgia will resume counting in the morning. find her turn to night we believe we're on

track to win a selection we're going to wear in this factory thank you thank you. we were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win this election. we will win this and we as far as i'm concerned we already have one. so both candidates they're both trump and biden already hinting at victory despite the count being ongoing and trump even suggesting fraud favoring the democrat side threatening legal action over it so let's talk more about this without you could be done if he joins us again in studio just let's start by saying this race is much much tighter than everybody predicted indeed and 1st and foremost it's much tighter than both candidates hoped or at least much tighter than their supporters had hoped because the both sides expected a landslide a democratic or the g.o.p. won the depends on which side of the barricades they're on but this obviously is

not happening it's a nail biter of a race and this is hardly a surprise if we look back closely at what's been going on in the past 4 years as both groups of people both trump fans and trump haters they have been drifting so far apart from each other they have been they have been there have been contrasts things starkly contrasting views on a number of political issues with each side believing that they are in the right and very often refusing to hear the other side so for many right now it is truly heartbreaking to see you know red wave or no blue wave this is if you look through commons through what people are posting on twitter it's very obvious that many many people are livid that they aren't getting what they wanted to get and it seems that both candidates now with the worst case scenario that some have been predicting that both candidates will just claim victory this is happening and trump is going

even further he is threatening to take matters to court if things in this election don't go his way. we want the law to be used in a proper manner so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court we want all voting just. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4 o'clock in the morning and the list ok. so he's hinting of fraud there but what exactly does in maine and his early any evidence been presented so far well 1st and foremost no there hasn't been any hard evidence he hasn't shown any hard evidence of election fraud he just claimed it but basically what he's getting at donald trump doesn't like the mail in votes bracingly this year a lot of people voted via mail good old you know old fashioned mail because of the concerns were over the coronavirus and you know health safety so people chose to

just you know scribble a letter you know say that i'm for trump or for biden and mail it in but the thing is donald trump trump has this could be a gateway a loophole that could be exploited to tamper with the ballots to tamper with with the numbers but at the same time doldrum has political reasons to say that because it has been widely thought about joe biden is the main benefactor from this mail in vote because many people were expected those people who voted by mail they're expected to vote blue shorts so what some joe biden said and how he responded to these potential occasions of fraud well he's obviously fired back and while donald trump was saying that they were ready to take it to the supreme court joe biden has said that they were ready to use their team of legal experts their team of lawyers to world to fight on their side so this could be a very protracted thing have a listen. the president's statement trying to shut down counting of julie cost

ballots was outrageous unprecedented and incorrect a naked effort to take away democratic rights never before has a president's will to strip americans of their voice it will not happen counting will continue until every duty cost vote is counted. and we should say never before is the united states seem to be so divided what are the key issues you think that have polarized to take candidates and also their supporters well and there are so many divisions along so many lines from the obvious issues like the coronavirus and the economy foreign policy and a lot of smaller issues like fracking and so on and so forth but basically the big problem here is that both camps both the pro biden and the pro trump camp they feel very passionately they feel very passionate about their point of view they believe that they are in the right and while all of their candidates are ready to duke it out in court they are ready to support them in the streets after all even the

election night has already seen some protesting and even some scuffles between between the programmer and the pro biden supporters this has happened in washington d.c. and seattle for instance so far it hasn't been large scale that there hasn't been too much fighting but business owners they had already prepared for something bigger for something more violent as they have boarded up the windows in washington d.c. of the businesses to prevent looting to prevent people smashing their windows so it is it does look like the longer it would take to move or upset people will become so and they will be driven from you know true twitter wars they will be driven onto the streets and that's where they will be venting their anger. so when could it potentially could we get a result there because trump's also said he could take this all the way to the supreme court and the last time that happened 20 years ago i think we were waiting over a month before we got

a final result were potentially when could we know who is the winner of this election right well your guess is as good as mine but as you've absolutely correctly pointed out it could be up to a month it could be it could be more it could it could go on for for much more time because trump has already said he's ready. so you could 2 cords to the supreme court of course will have to take its time to look over if trump indeed follows if you put money where his words are and follows this thing with a lawsuit if obviously if he's not if he's not declared a winner in this election but there are no guarantees joe biden so far hasn't said anything about election fraud he hasn't said anything about being ready to take things to court but since he's already declared himself victorious there's nothing stopping him from pursuing legal action too so this could really go on for a very very long time and the longer it goes the more passionate the more emotional people would get and this could lead to very severe consequences to large scale

violence and again the worst predictions could i mean the predictions could go as as far as you want them to go really because there are we have already seen even in the run up to this election we've seen plenty of protests armed people in the streets and so there is nothing that would stop them that from repeating and even escalating and certainly at this stage no sign of them biden or trump will concede defeat no of course not they're not conceding they've both they both claim victory you don't concede defeat after you say that you were victorious especially not trump and i mean how how would how would a candid look if one of them had declared victory and then would go ok we were wrong zora everyone but thanks for your support maybe next time and we are waiting for counting to resume in states that will happen again tomorrow morning united states and as you say it could then be a very long protracted legal battle all that while there's

a lot of tension in the united states to ugle thank you that was a r.t.g. goshi done. well there have already been as we said pro and anti trump demonstrations that side the white house ahead of the final election results at least on quarter looks at the growing divisions within american society. it was all high hopes and big promises back in 2016 when donald trump took his place in the white house the nation was already divided by race gender class you name it and the country needed a hero now it's time for america to find a once of division have to get together. go all republicans and democrats and independents across this nation. i say it is time for us to come together as one united people turned out trump never came to be that knight in shining armor. and on.

the 20 twentieth's presidential election seasons looked more like an all out war on the streets more than anything mishandling of the pandemic response and the economic crisis but most significant was the brutal killing of george floyd that sparked outrage across the nation and even calls to de-fund the police all together . and instead of trying to unite people america is dividing lines became part of both parties political strategies on the one hand biden and the democrats sold themselves as allies of the so-called peaceful protests which let's be honest were not so peaceful friendlessness for instance peacefully protest.

not a bad way to dip your toes into the more radical left and black voter pools but on the other hand you have trump who decided to play the tough guy calling anti racism protesters vandals and anarchists trump sent federal troops to put down uprisings in cities a move that won support from a number of police unions and people who didn't want to see their white picket fence neighborhoods ruined now the law and order doctrine also embolden some of trump's more radical supporters so that seeing armed right wing militias and anti forth really was. king around the streets of american cities became a new reality and one of both candidates done to fix all this point the finger is also what it is is the raese what's going on and he doesn't want to say law and order because he can't because he'll lose his radical left supporters proud of i always stand back and stand by but i'll tell you what i'll tell you what somebody

has got to do something about anti fair and the left because this is not a right. is a direct this is a lesson we've got about what it's about this is the radical left would you sure i don't miss it on both sides of the political spectrum we've got armed groups white nationalists proud boys right wing militias and the whole bunch so what exactly will happen when the election is over well everyone just sit down and decide to accept the results. ok let's get the thoughts now of russian government advisor and former spice who on that i will call the very welcome thanks for your time this afternoon what are your thoughts on this to think that u.s. society will become more divided whoever wins this election it is already divided it's $5050.00 right know what we see in pennsylvania right now in wisconsin it's exactly the proof they are forces which are equally strong. obviously as you said

just a few minutes ago it will end up in court and actually we don't know how. looking at the crowds which obviously we see already but we'll see more crowds to moral and as we go as tensions rise we will see more and more crowds and who knows maybe by let's. remember barack in intelligence has warned of russia meddling again in this u.s. election race what do you have thoughts on that and are you concerned that these allegations will come into play again as we wait to find out who will become the president. well these allegations are really ridiculous if americans themselves cannot fix the problem if they don't know until now who is winning if at every state virtually there is a cliffhanger and then you barter then what kind of russian influence can change

that. you're not afraid though that the end the loser who had the right is will say well you know i just look at russian interference well where the where is the proof if i post something on my piece book is that an interference who created the facebook exactly for that for my expression so where do you think this will lead to u.s. russia relations a year it means being very bad hasn't let's be honest i've been lost for years do you think it could actually get worse or would you say this is an opportunity after this election to improve ties well who knows i've made 4 years ago we didn't didn't see about we'll end up in the relation of such that level i think we have way to go specially if biting administration comes because that administration will have to

prove its toughness. that is behind by is looking for a fight. they declared that they will have to regain what they say strategic initiatives and they have to put russia in place at china israel by the way so i do not anticipate any thaw what you think is driving this animosity this negativity towards russia or in china. or russia or it's up perfect enemy. not nothing really important in terms of economic relationships few people to people contacts what traditional anime from soviet union commie newsman things like that and american you know american citizen thinks that it's it's it's been there all the time forever since since time immemorial so russians again doing something against america so it's

a perfect enemy again. and without much evidence as he related to being provided he still surprised that the public seems to swallow what's being said about moscow i don't think public cares that much it's it's the thought that sits in the back of their minds for for very very long time and there's nothing changing it's it's not a question of how much propaganda you can add it's how much progress and is already accumulated is there anything russia can do to change the situation unfortunately not much just wait i guess just wait and wait till new generation comes then it will come because look at the ages of the people running the country one is $73.00 another 77 at the teams are on the same age they will have to go anywhere and there is no generation behind the next generation undemocratic site are in their

forty's and thirty's obviously those people will have a very different mentality their view of the world maybe with them we can build some sort of relationships a minute that's quite. it is not that pleasant to hear that you believe that it could be no improvement in relations between russia and the u.s. on what you talking maybe a decade. unfortunately i mean it's not the russian problem at all 10 years is exactly what the united states a great country with a great new story to fix itself. not the 1st time it's about once in a century we have things like that and it takes exactly about. 10 years to change the elite to change the world view. them america are pretty sure we all will come back ok andre nice little she will leave it there we've run out of time

that was on that i had little rock of russian government advisor and also a former spy thanks for your time. all right let's go back to the race that's going on the presidential election race let's have a look at the candidates more they're doing so far it's pretty tight as you can see with biden already securing 238 electors and having the backing of 2131 of them needs to get to 270 if that happens they get the white house it is all based on the electoral college system and not the popular vote so let's have a look at the map so far on a state by state basis it does look pretty good. a lot of red there but as we said it's all based on those electoral votes and how many votes each state individually gets and of course the magic number is $270.00 all that said this could be decided by a few key swing states like wisconsin michigan pennsylvania and georgia and we understand

that they will resume counting in the morning so a lot more in intention to carpe. diem are more international reaction to the election is coming in from german ministers to the e.u. foreign policy chief relations with europe have soured under donald trump more on this his. well the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs yossi birrell has said that the united states citizens have voted and whoever fills that seat in the white house after this election the e.u. will continue to work with them very diplomatic there of course from the e.u.'s top diplomat here in germany well the newspapers overnight they went for a couple of headlines on that you would imagine the united states has voted the americans have voted on the berlin it's items nice and simple from them boxing clever from the tabloid newspaper bill they say good look mr president whoever it is saying that whoever takes that job will have the most important political job in

the world now when it comes down to germans who german politicians want to see in the white house we've heard from senior figures in angela merkel's cabinet both the defense minister. and the foreign minister heiko must have pointed out that whoever fills that seat after this election there are some serious problems between berlin and washington and those problems aren't going to go away. like the german government and defense ministry would have to deal with any reality on the ground in the us regardless of who gets to the point the administration points about the need for more german and european defense spending north stream to relations with russia have also been brought up by the democrats the time is different but in principle the demands are just as tough from that party the relationship between the united states and germany had been one of the closest on the world stage

however in the last 4 years since donald trump has come into the white house it's seen lynn and washington often it polar opposite ends of different issues one of the reasons for this is particularly that donald trump doesn't see germany as the political strategic and economic ally as previous presidents have done. he sees germany as the united states as main competitor when it comes to trade on many different levels now what we've seen is donald trump say to germany you must pay more money for nato we've seen the united states try and stop the north stream to gas pipeline project that pipeline taking russian gas directly into into germany germany needs that gas for the german economy german industry needs that energy what the united states wants to do is of course as they want to sell germany liquefied natural gas from the u.s. which wants to come in at more expensive price the north stream debacle is also

seeing the u.s. play sanctions on german entities involved with that project something that would have been on thinkable in the past trump said that they want to get rid of him in china they want to get rid of him in iran they want to get rid of him in germany while he was on the campaign trail in pennsylvania one of the things that may be expected of of germany should donald trump win is that burly in step up and fill some of that leadership void in the liberal status quo on the world stage of politics peter all of the reporting now even all the worries around the pandemic have failed to stop this election seeing the biggest turnout in more than a century r.t. host and former minnesota governor jesse ventura explains. i just find it's interesting that obviously there's not much fear of the pair. of to me if if if the president wins i have no idea i guess we're going into herd immunity

then because he has no plan for anything and i guess it's just those that catch it fight it and life goes on apparently what i see here is a battle for money or health if you're voting for trump you're voting for money if you're voting for biden you're voting for health or you if anybody has a sense of what that rust belt and what the midwest is all about it is you give us . it really is i mean you you are the all-american guy who. found 5 you walk you talk like a midwesterner in many ways so you understand the heart of the midwest of the united states if it's true that the midwest this time around is going to flip from red to blue what do you think then that this president did to essentially lose that vote i think in the upper midwest if it does go that way i believe it will be the pandemic that did it and his lack of response on it the fact that he knew in january how dangerous it was he did it that's what troubles me

rick is i'll tell you this if donald trump would have been my commanding officer of underwater demolition team 12 when i was in the navy he would have been relieved of his command he would probably have never commanded again and he would have been court martial for what he did with the knowledge he had of a pandemic the fact that he hid that knowledge he proposed a false front to his men and then subsequently put them in danger for his own personal gain while if you did that in the military you'd be frightened you would be that simple is it not a pocketbook issue though as well. well i'm sure it's a pocketbook be issue absolutely you know our that's what i said at the outset this vote seems like it's divided 5051 here also the other side if you're for

money your vote if you're for health your vote where ever it seems like it's a tie so i guess most americans figure that dollars equal to their health. care that's a quick reminder then of how things are going in this election race it is pretty tight as you can see with biden already securing 238 electors and trump having the backing of 23270 needed to win the white house it all comes down to the so-called electoral college system each state has a fixed number of electors based on the number of people living there and whichever candidate secures a simple majority of votes in each day does win the only exceptions of maine and nebraska which are allocated electors based on local district votes but it doesn't look like it's going to come down to swing states impacting the counting is continuing they're now on a state by state basis this is what the picture looks like looks good all red there for donald trump in the center of the country but as we have mentioned there it's

all about electoral college votes so that doesn't necessarily translate into victory just yet in the rules so we should say many male votes in some key states wisconsin i'm a chicken i still can't see counting is stopped in pennsylvania and georgia. in the morning. so that's the latest on the u.s. presidential election plenty to talk about plenty look at to do that again in 30 minutes.

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