all the time i. come to. and from. the from. the. going down to the wire the u.s. election that still want to live in it's victor all eyes are fixed on 4 battleground states. don't trump browse legal challenges in all states by just has recently claimed quoting to the president says plenty of proof of voter forwards. how the 2020 u.s. presidential election is shaping up so far north suit schools to stop by all accounts and allegations of fraud to draw angry crowds to the streets. you're watching on teams national this thursday evening it's just gone midnight here and

moscow while in america county has resumed in key states to decide who's the next president. now 2 days on from the election america still doesn't know who will be handed the keys to the white house and everything hangs on the key swing states that are yet to declare so at the moment how are things looking well good for democrat jerry bites and he has the backing can see right here 264 electors that is if you include arizona which many say is too early to call if it is his though it means he needs just 6 more to reach that magic to 70 for victory by comparison got donald trump you can see he's trailing here with 214 well let's look now at the pulse ways to power for the counterfeits for joe biden security majority and right here the state nevada which hunt him 6 and lectors which is enough to put him in the white house

for 4 more years of donald trump though the incumbent president would have to win 5 states these are the gray ones here the results unclear yet and trump is currently ahead 4 of them excluding nevada however. the current margin is just a moot point 3 percent so although nothing is such no exhaust stacked in biden's faith well let's take a closer look at the situation in the remaining key states pennsylvania says it's not expecting to deliver results until friday. there are approximately $35000.00 mail ballots that are to be looked at. in that 35000 ballots to be looked at 29000 ballots have been ordered by federal courts to not be here in boulder processed until 5 o'clock on friday went out to to watch out with 16 electoral votes both counted on neck and neck you've got to keep

it seem no point 3 percent as i was saying the president holding a minor over the democratic challenger but everything indicates the showdown that could last a not longer. we have to certify this election by november 20th because under the law we have to get the federal runoff ballots for the senate runoff so by saturday do you recover on saturday the 21st so we can have anything get in the way of our time lines on this is going to be difficult for us to make it as it is and our poll workers our elections directors our election staff the center for elections they're going to put a lot of long hours to bring democracy to the people of georgia and i want just finishing up in nevada as you can see when the numbers come up right behind me it is incredibly tight with 24 percent of the vote still to be counted that is being done right now as we speak and it appears that again that might also still take a while. the bulk of our ballots we're hoping will be read by saturday or sunday this weekend. and again we won't complete until november 12th with all of those

other ballots that service exceptions while the tense atmosphere surrounding the counting of all these votes has been playing out on the streets to see these protests thousands have been venting their anger around the country violence even erupted at some protests with demonstrators facing off with police.

well we're getting live pictures now from philadelphia you can see those people who are gathering now i purchase from both sides testing out this continued confusion next election and why still no final results have been getting yet to remind you philadelphia is in pennsylvania it's one of those areas that still not currently trial is leading into all of the absentee ballots are still to be counted but there's no starting time as to when exactly that's going to happen but with legal action being taken and more threatened even if the winner is declared today it seems many people are going to accept the result any time soon with all his artie's. all these people that we've just looked at who are asking a very legitimate question as to why the raw no results they come from both sides

they come both from joe biden's camp and from the trump scout. world they could be in for a bit of a way because this even with all the states and all ballots when all of them are accounted for in the states of cooled this might be just the beginning over and then so to speak because really this whole election is migrating and go into legal turf donald trump has already said that rule of the states that have been recently claimed by joe biden will be legally challenging he hasn't specified which states exactly but this could you response in michigan philadelphia arizona nevada and the list would. expand. there are already coming from trump's team for instance in michigan some supreme judges and some judges they don't bring any rush to take them seriously because for instance in michigan just recently judge has literally scoffed at this rule should see you senshi fool you just see. the way the

way he put it it was like. somebody said something bring you the real facts that some are quoting it but this is very very close to what's been said so and this is just one of the examples and there surely will be more be. strom seems to be very adamant about taking this to court for instance trump has been demanding that his team and his team members would be allowed in philadelphia by the way to witness the counting of the votes now there were reports that even after the court allowed them to be present to watch the counting they still are being let in lots of there's a flurry of information flying around and a flurry of reports which have to be verified so there's that but members of trump's team they have explained as to why they are doing this is that why they are potentially protracting and already lengthy election season have a listen they continue to count illegal votes that is

unacceptable and it's given legal people. a sense that the system is corrupt we have to have a system where legal votes are cast but the harry reid machine has done is the row out recklessly ballots. and now they don't want us to check those ballots and we are seen discrepancies are all over so there's that joe biden has already responded saying that he has a team of lawyers on standby to potentially if i don't know trump in court over the recounting of the votes. both biden and trump juking it out legally juking out juking it out in front of the judge their supporters again we've already seen them taking to the streets the election night has already seeing scuffles and violence has protesters clashing between each other not anything significant but again this

could be just a very very smooth ignition which could grow into a full on wildfire all across the united states this is certainly the concern that is being world reiterated and echoing all across the social media and so on and so forth for instance. just to show you a little bit more of these protests and these demonstrations coming from both sides here they are right. now it's easy to understand where the all this discontent is coming from because people on both sides expected waves they expected tsunamis just of different colors people in joe biden's camp expected a blue wave and in trump's camp they expend they expected a red tsunami. neither of that happened and the elections are really really close

they're heavily contested so people are ready growing tired they are already tired of not knowing who is going to be in the oval office for the next 4 years and the thing that this whole election could be protracted for even longer because mind back in 2000 when it was bush v gore election when they had only one contested state that was florida here trump is threatening to legally challenge a number of states so and back in 2000 when it was just florida the whole election they protracted for the whole of the month here again we're looking at potentially number of states the number of states. could have go all the way through the winter so what's going to happen wow joe biden will respond to that how the super bowl respond to that there are a lot of questions and i don't think there is anybody right now in this whole world who know a solid and reliable answer to that so we'll just have to see this unfold. despite

the legal action being taken several election commissions in america insist that every ballot on it was counted not cure any reported international. the vote did according to the north have slammed president trump's allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions when we put the issues surrounding those allegations of debate. it's remember that the media does not call elections the process involves electoral college vote where the different states have to certify that their results were accurate if they can't do that we go through a process so we can this is a very unusual in modern times situation but with the way i look at it when you look state by state what you see in the evidence is that is states that donald trump in theory lost which he may have won in 2006 seem happen to be states in which down ticket republican ballots have done very well if this is

a democracy the votes need to be counted they need to be in certain states postmarked by a certain date and were and then received by a certain day i so you know we don't know anything right now we know where states have called the winner forget the media we know states have called the winner and have counted 100 percent of the vote for they've counted enough that the absentee ballots are not going to make a difference even if one candidate gets 100 percent of those votes so those states have called and they've certified that and there are states that have it now it's interesting that you know there's fraud you know that trump comes out in the census legal team there to go there are specific and credible allegations of an internal person in the post-office department event of triggered an inspector general investigation of a back dated ballots being mailed after november 3rd. with with the wrong date on them so instances like that have to be investigated fully

we're not talking about 2 ballots here we're talking about thousands tens of thousands of ballots in different states there are 3 kinds of vote in american elections both the expression on election day in person. that he's expressed interest and be sure election day and they raised in haiti and found most which is the sent by main before election day and it went. the deadline for receiving that and how you count them depends on state to state but these are all very safe ballots because that is old so if you know patched and the truth of who sent them and they compare sr sure and so on it right so there is no space for out. now in some states these ballots needs to be needs to arrive by election day in some states then they can arrive later which is why they're being counted later there's nothing constitutional that this is actually respect and below claiming as

a 1st guess said that that the votes should be though it's only the votes at the riot by election day should be counted is is wrong and by the way if we were to school oh count being biden would have won by a large margin and in fact trans people in one state are saying stop the counting the other one are seen keep counting politicians around the world have also expressed their frustration over the un sas and his running us election while iran's supreme leader to lock to the process european politicians also shot back and sons. it is also clear to us that we in the european union have every reason to insist that europe should develop its own strengths particularly in view of the development of the united states in international politics what a spectacle one says this is the most fraudulent election in u.s. history who says that the president who is currently in office is

a rival says trump intends to rig the election this is how u.s. elections and u.s. democracy are but the polarization of america should be a warning for europe we are successful because we bridge differences between countries and peoples so we benefit together if we lose the ability to compromise our democracies are in danger callings that all sister child ought to spanish had the chance to speak with over moralez the bolivian president who was ousted by his military last year amid claims off a rake to vote we're all as gave his take on the election in the us double standards of play when compared to events in his own country. you know they. go in the right wing is lose they make accusations of electoral fraud now i hear in the media that trump is talking about fraudulent elections in the united states so why then does he not turn to luis l my group the head of the organization of american states after all the oas know like no one else how to organize coups

the oas is always watching everything that happens in latin america but what are luis l. magro and the oas doing if they're not watching the us elections americans go to elections and vote but unfortunately the country is ruled by neither the people nor the president selected by them no matter what party in fact everything is ruled by transnational companies capitalism entrepreneurs this is a huge difference from the change that is taking place in bolivia in the us perhaps more radical fascist racist or right forces will win over more moderate right forces that's the whole difference. i just remind us securing a majority in a state even by the narrowest of margins means a candidate is handed every one of the electors under the torah kind of system let's see how that works.

how one of the most valuable states was 20 electoral college votes is pennsylvania you can see some protest i guess that counting is still underway that it could prove crucial as of now trump is ahead and also on the same 2016 were fast. rawdon a long run in fact of democrat wins he is trying to chavez has more on why the state swings between these 2 parties. pennsylvania with nearly 13000000 residents is arguably the single most important stage of the 2020 election but in many ways the keystone state mirrors the country while it's rust belt is dotted

with a shuttered factories and rundown chimneys it's also a place of affluent liberal suburbs and conservative countryside reflecting a divided america i mean the devices in this sense going on in this country right now it's ridiculous and i don't care what anybody says that it is a race. and very lucky that somebody like donald trump is. my president and i can vote for him again while the northeast and the southwest corners of pennsylvania residents come from a long line of blue collar workers like old coal mines and steel industries the state's eastern and western borders hold the biggest population centers and a lot of industry and heartland in between and although pennsylvania is considered a blue wall state as it has a history of voting democratic that changed in 2016 when donald trump won the state over democratic contender hillary clinton by a point 7 percent congratulations mr president but now 4 years later controversial pipeline projects have helped make fracking

a political flashpoint in the debate over energy the climate crisis and the influence of big business these 2 parties are radically different and that what i think is that each party is controlled much more by its what would be the strong i guess that's extreme wing you're right. both candidates focusing on pennsylvania president trunk holding several rallies they're trying to woo the region with promises of coal and steel jobs while insisting that joe biden what a limb in a frock it hard for a bargain is a virtue or for your jobs bill for our kids and deliver economic ruin to pennsylvania do you. but you got to be from here vida who grew up in pennsylvania says he isn't calling for the immediate end to the oil industry but is pushing for ending federal subsidies for fossil fuel companies and ending new permits on public land for fracking president bush far different happen to purchase very. approachable you can get further shame if you are sure it doesn't stand

a chance as pennsylvania is the 2nd largest producer of natural gas in the united states and the 3rd largest supplier of energy the american petroleum institute estimates its natural gas industry contributes nearly $35000000000.00 to the state and combined with its oil industry it supports about $340000.00 local jobs were afraid that if we buy a ticket with that the gas and oil thing is going to be shut down it's spite of what they say. the wrangling over the presidential election is almost obscure do not the race going on in the country both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of the vote democrats hope they pray they spend large sums of money and attempt to paint both the house and the senate blue well that did not happen though because the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats although results still trickling in 218 seats you can see

a need to 20 majority so far we can see democrats in 199 republicans on 188 some experts calculate the blue majority will be thin of this year so far they're actually already down at least 6 incumbents well that could to add to the democrats' disappointment as it looks like they will be wrestling control of the senate. it's a tie you can see a dead heat 4747 but many republicans ended up keeping best seats and the party is predicted to hold on to the majority it's enjoyed for the last 6 years and that would be bad news for biden who could find himself a so-called lame duck president unable to get any of his left leaning policies through right leaning house in fact let's listen to joe biden right now who is in a press conference let's go. to this terrible disease. in america the vote is sacred. it's how people of this nation express their will. and it is the will of the voters no one not anything else that chooses the president of

united states of america so each ballot must be counted and that's what we're going to see going through now and that's how it should be democracy sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years in the system of government governance that's been the envy of the world. and we continue to feel center and i will continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is finished senator harris and i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working the count is being completed and we'll know very soon so thank you all for your patience but forgot to count the votes god bless you all

and may god protect our troops thank you so much. must so much honesty from joe biden let's go now live to money how last a lawyer and former accountant for new york city council fossil well welcome to the program money but i also want to ask what does he just make of what to buy. so. you know i think that biden actually will eat it out of the skin of his teeth. i don't even people do want to return to a bit of normalcy. you know i don't have a country will not be happy but this is a democracy so the right to vote is more or in one. if the 19th amendment where americans regardless of their sex and race have the right to vote to participate in a democracy so their ideas can be put forward. and even though people may not like when you do have to accept this has the right to vote is a sacred one. and you know i think if people are not happy and they have to take

it upon themselves to become workable politically active. so that they can have a say in what goes on. but i do think biden is an economic i'm recording you said that if people aren't happy when they should maybe be more enthusiastic go to the polls more people on trump's the top side though is saying we want to went to the polls polls but this election has been stolen from us what do you say to the claims about voter fraud. i listened i mean it's interesting i did some research so the claims of voter fraud that's very interesting is that. the trend sideways say that that the ballots are projects but actually what we've seen is that the republicans really suppress the vote and they've done it in a variety of ways. you know they've made it more difficult to vote they closed polling sites they've made more regulations like something that really hurts her

like your signature and your on your driver's license has to match or voter card and if signature is not exactly correct at the invalidate your ballot. you know it's things like that that have really liked her favor. and also there's another her on interstate prospect interstate cross-checked that actually used to cheat off minority voters because they had stimulus sounding names because minority voters tend to be democratic so i don't really see that i see that the republicans are really been the ones who are so you know engaged in voter suppression and that's big game of what if what if we go to the supreme court do you think that trump has the upper hand do you think that confounding amy could help here. i mean actually i don't really see that i know trying to slot as launching a lot of these lawsuits he's alleging that the ballots can only be counted till

election day but the law is if the votes are cast on election day or before election day then those are legitimate ones to count that is our democracy and the right to vote is very very sacred. i think if their race was really really close and it was it will end it will come down to one state like pennsylvania and maybe that would have some merit i don't really see that here i know the race is close in a couple of states but i think biden still will be able to eke it out by the skin of his teeth and really i think charges just firing frivolous lawsuits don't really have an america. i want to offer you how do you think the republican party feels about this do you think that they are annoyed that perhaps trump is ruining the reputation of the democratic process of the party itself or do you think they are. i mean it's very interesting because you see republicans like chris christie and

other republicans that are saying that listen if trump legitimately loses and biden wins there has to be a peaceful transfer of power i you know you know your chum stack i think at the military to hear completely like shut it down. i mean there's a process and a procedure and a biden winslade and there's no there's no reason why. that trump is basically has to see that like you must the election i mean i think it's going to be very hard for trauma because he's a narcissist and because he is you know it's hard to to loose but i think that's what he's going to have to do is say yes to except that he says i am i don't know i think the trouble is really filing lawsuits but i don't think it will go to more so if we if we assume that ok the u.s. . isn't cost of a constitutional crisis but you could say that it's on

a crisis in terms of how split the country is do you think that this is done is that provable damage to the kind of the people who are backing him and the people who want this will never be forgotten giffen yeah i actually think kind of what's going on is i think you know americans you know i think americans are really really hurting and i think they are very upset with the democratic party so even though i think joe i am away and i think what really needs to happen is democrats and a centrist like nancy pelosi they need to offer a mirror and something really that really will help because i think people are financially in such dire straits so you know i think people are looking for universal health care i think people are looking for a universal basic income what about another stimulus check what about extended unemployment benefits for the millions of americans that are not back to work or underemployed. i think that's what america really needs and i think that the

centrist democrats don't give and so i think there really is. you know a real anger toward the democratic party but i'm hoping that the wrestling at the democratic party were really push joe biden to give americans to give all americans you know the ability to live in dignity while relative away says where you are and democratic stronghold in new york but for georgians in pennsylvania it's going to be a tough 2448 hours that was my noir and former new york city council banks for speaking to us today and you know. what a quick reminder of who's got what so far joe biden carnahan's 264 lacked as with our as are you now which hasn't been called by everyone quite yet donald trump has to 14 foster to 17 players. price now winning just one little state like new phone

would hand victory to bind while trump in order to time not tide would have to take the remaining battleground states like north carolina and pennsylvania. for quite some time. and. join me every week on the all excited i'm sure i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there.