they. 6 are. 6 going down to the wire the u.s. election has still not delivered its victor all eyes are fixed on 4 battleground states. donald trump val's legal challenges in all states biden has recently claimed according to the president there is quote plenty of proof of voter fraud. and what you're seeing is how the 2020 us presidential election is shaping up so far lawsuits calls to stop ballot counts and elections of fraud draw angry crowds into the streets. you're watching r t international's u.s.

presidential election coverage my name is donald quarter and i'll be joining you for the program it's certainly a nail biter as vote counting is resumed in key states to decide the u.s. presidential election. now 2 days on from election day and america still doesn't know who will be handed the keys to the white house everything depends on the key swing states that have yet to declare. at the moment things are looking good for democrat joe biden he has the backing of 2264 electors that's if you include arizona which many say is too early to call but if it goes blue that means he just needs 6 more electoral votes to reach the magic 2270 for victory donald trump on the other hand currently has 2214. now let's look at the pathways to power for the candidates joe biden securing a majority in nevada. it would mean he would be getting 6 more electors which is

enough to put him in the white house for 4 more years of donald trump the incumbent president would have to win all 5 states where the results isn't yet clear and with the exception of nevada he's currently ahead in all of them although only by 0.2 percent in georgia so although things are still up in the air the odds are stacked in biden's favor. the democrat made a statement not too long ago for the latest on this chaotic election let's cross live to caleb mop and pail of biden's made a 2nd statement in just 24 hours anything new this time. well biden urged everyone to wait for the votes to be counted and he spoke very glowingly of the u.s. electoral system despite the fact that that system seems to be in a bit of a crisis right now take a listen to joe biden democracy is sometimes missing. sometimes requires

a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years because just some of government governors in the envy of the world. now georgia the state that is currently having its votes counted along with others georgia has 16 electoral votes and there is a minor lead in the vote counting at this point for u.s. president donald trump but that lead has been getting narrower and narrower earlier we heard from local officials in georgia who said that it could be quite some time before they ultimately certify the results it's going to take time we anticipate having the count quote unquote done when the legal deadline for certification is which is going to be 10 days after the election. now things are quite intense in pennsylvania the national guard is on the streets of the city of philadelphia as protests are taking place in response to the election and the delay in results now

donald trump has filed a lawsuit calling for the vote counting in philadelphia to stop saying that the republicans are denied adequate observers and that the vote count in philadelphia must stop now at this point we have heard from officials in the state of pennsylvania and they say it will be about 24 hours before we get results. the overwhelming majority of ballots will be counted by friday the final results are not certified until 20 days after the election right so i want to be clear there's no final results happening now anyway what's happening now is having enough ballots counted to actually see who the winner is now in nevada at this point only 11 percent of the ballots need to still be counted however they will be somewhat of a delay in nevada we understand because in addition to counting all of the ballots

in nevada they will also be investigating some of the fraud allegations that have been made take a listen we also have to make sure that our data is being updated because we need to prevent people from voting twice in the system and so we have to scan those in his mail receive so that it updates the database or in person voters can't have voted twice our goal here in clark county is not to count fast we want to make sure that we're being accurate the results in the state of nevada obviously are going to be very important to the entire country and that is our number one goal. now in all the states where at this point ballots are still being counted there seem to be significant delays however donald trump is expected to address the country very shortly so all eyes will be on the president and what he has to say as the vote counting continues and the united states seems deep in an electoral crisis

. our new york correspondent caleb mop and thank you very much for those election updates now lawyer and former candidate for new york city council marni to lhasa believes the trump team is on shaky legal ground. you know trying to slot is launching a lot of these lawsuits god he's alleging that the ballots can only be county till election day the law is that if the votes are cast on election day or before election day and those are legitimate. 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 would end it would 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 mean there's a process and procedure and if biden winslade. there's no there's no reason why. that child is basically has to see that i lost the election i mean i think it's going to be very hard for trump because he's a narcissist and because he is you know it's hard to lose but i think that's what he's going to have to do it and he has to accept that you can says i have i don't know i think the trouble is really filing these frivolous lawsuits but i don't think it will go to the heart. or tense atmosphere surrounding the counting of the votes has been playing out on the streets as well thousands have been venting their anger around the country violence even erupted at some protests with demonstrators facing off with police.

now behind me you can see some live pictures we're getting from washington d.c. where protesters have gathered outside the white house at black lives matter plaza meanwhile no final results have been announced and voters have been growing frustrated with the continued confusion over the election the trump campaign has just filed a lawsuit to halt the vote counting in philadelphia pennsylvania claiming republican

observers weren't being allowed to watch the process all of the absentee votes are still to be counted and there's no set time as to when that will happen now with legal action being taken and more threatened even if a winner is declared today it seems many people aren't going to accept the result for some time with and with more about that here's our teasers don of. all these people that we've just looked at who are asking a very legitimate question as to why there are no results they come from both sides they can both from joe biden's camp and from the trump's account and well they could be in for a bit of a way because this even with all states in all ballots when all of them are accounted for when all states of called this might be just the beginning of an end so to speak because already this whole election is migrating and going into legal turf donald trump has already said that all 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 mean wisconsin michigan philadelphia arizona nevada and the

list. could expand. there are already legal lawsuits coming from trump's team for instance in michigan and some supreme judges and some judges they don't really rush to take them seriously because for instance in michigan just recently judge has literally scoffed at the solution sensual calling it just hearsay. the way the way he put it it was like. somebody said something bring me the real facts that i'm not 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 because trump 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 the report that even after the court allowed them to be present to watch the counting they still aren't being let in lots of there's

a flurry of information flying around and 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 can. to new to count illegal votes that is unacceptable and it's giving 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 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 trump in court over the

recounting of the votes but while both biden and trump duking it out legally juking out duking 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 as protesters clash between each other not anything significant but again this could be just a very very small ignition which could grow into a full on wildfire all across the united states this is certainly the concern that is being reiterated and echoing all across the social media and so on and so forth for instance just to show you a little bit move these protests and these demonstrations coming from both sides here they are right.

now it's easy to understand where the discontent is coming from because people on both sides expected to waves they expected tsunamis just a different color as people in joe biden's camp expected a blue wave and in trump's count. explained they expected a red tsunami. neither of that happened and the elections are really really close they're heavily contested so people are already growing tired they are already tired of not knowing who's 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 states 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 a number of states. who didn't go all the way through the winter so what's going to happen wow joe biden will respond to that how the supreme will respond to that 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 lection commissions in america insist that every valid ballot was counted and accurately accurately reported international observers have also said the vote did go according to the law and of slammed president president trumps allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions put the issues surrounding allegations of voter fraud up for debate. need to 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 2016 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 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

the legal team there to go this 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 they go into the express on election day in person is a vote that he's expressed in person be sure election day and they raised a meeting in found out which is to sent by i mean 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 also in the past

and the truth i hope to send to them and they can ferret senior sure and so on it right so there is no space for travel 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 are 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 there though it's on to the ballots at that riot by election day should be counted is is wrong and by the way if we win it. count being biden would have won by a large margin and in fact trans people in one state are saying stop the counting now to one or sane keep counting. america system of electing its president is not the simplest here's a brief recap of how it all works. the

. wrangling over the presidential election has almost obscured another race going on in the country both support both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of the vote democrats hoped prayed and spent large sums of money in an attempt to paint both the house and senate blue. that though did not happen the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats although the results are also still trickling in 201000 seats are needed to win a majority so far we can see the democrats on $208.00 and the republicans with

$190.00 some experts calculate the blue majority will be thinner this year so far they're down to at least 6 incumbents that could add to the democrats' disappointment as it looks like they won't be resting resting the control of the senate at the moment the republicans are in the lead and the party is predicted to hold on to the majority it's enjoyed for the last 6 years that will be bad news for biden who's if tory askew would find himself unable to get any of his left leaning policies through a right leaning house election taggerty activist and independent journalist nico house told us why the so-called 'd blue wave promised by democrats didn't happen this year that stayed with it unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candy that i thought could be trumped which would include gabbert bernie sanders and i would even argue and you yelling those aren't the ones who are allowed to go up against trump in the moment that they selected the one of the mill

democrat in joe biden who's basically been by our standards a republican who is pro fact tracking just like trump who can be a little bit more hawkish on foreign policy than trump then you are setting the stage for a fund will go will have to pull in support base awful party lines because that's seemingly where at least the democrats are demanding we vote on and by that it's by extension you want to have republicans of course staying loyal in most cases to donald trump. politicians around the world have also expressed their frustration over the uncertainty surrounding the u.s. election while iran's supreme leader mocks the process european politicians have also expressed concern. 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 he's 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 preach differences between countries and peoples so we benefit together if we lose the ability to compromise our democracies are in danger now in latin america colleagues at our sister channel r.t. spanish had the chance to talk with abel morales the bolivian president who was ousted by the military last year amid claims of a rigged vote where alice gave his take on the u.s. election in the u.s. and the apparent double standards at play when compared to events in his own country. when 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 el magro 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 al 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 racists are right forces will win over more moderate right forces that's the whole difference. and whether or not trump secures 4 more years in the white house it's certainly fair to say he's left his mark. however it ends the election trump will go down in history his vows to drain the swamp build the

wall and make america great again they'll remember him what they'll write about him will depend on the book the author the perspective if they loved him or hated him eat the greatest failure in the street of the united states and the worst with resumes america has ever had. the worst and most dangerous president where are you in 2070 when we had the worst president i would even argue that he is the worst worst president in american history he's the worst president the country's ever had 4 years of trump was 4 years of bitter conflict at every level he and his opponents fought it was a time when grown ups behaved like children in the white house and congress in the streets todd when democrats and republicans seem to put aside everything that they agreed on and focused entirely on everything that they despised about one another.

the $252.00 congressional votes under trump's presidency $104.00 resulted in disputes and clashes some of the initiatives that congress voted on would to block trumps initiatives they voted to prevent votes on things that trump wanted and we're not talking here about things like the wall or deporting illegal migrants we're talking about politicians who supported trump's ideas like pulling out of the iran nuclear deal when he was a businessman suddenly reversing their positions when he became president seemingly out of spite i believe iran will not change and under this agreement it will be able to achieve its dual goals of eliminating sanctions well ultimately retaining its nuclear and non-nuclear power at this time and this place for so many reasons pulling out precipitously without our allies involved does not achieve any of the

goals we need to achieve and hurts americans in different ways but politics is politics right they fought under obama too if a little less nothing new about the media then specifically them losing their minds and throwing away any semblance of balance out the window. digging up tax records or leaking calls or even investigating trunk's foreign ties it's journalism that's what journalists do it's normal no what they did themselves on is outright and somewhat petty smear campaigns about how awful trump is for drinking too much diet coke about how much of a cheat trump is that golf about how bad he is at it about how his own wife doesn't want to hold his hand all cheap all dirty and for trump easy to dismiss you are shake do we are fighting to fake tears there are people in your profession that

rate fake news. and the resonator you're shaking the net result has been a collapse of trust in the media a news it isn't news when the publication has an evident interest in maligning someone. never in living memory has the establishment tried to sink a president elected by the american people from before he took office with sabotage with leaks with set ups they did everything to make people believe in the trump russia collusion sham the kumi investigation the steel dossier about prostitutes and you're a nation the mule report all to make impeachment possible the impeachment of the president of the united states impeachable conduct impeachment nonetheless we should begin proceedings to impeach the president move forward with impeachment and this president has partners on impeachment this impeachment process cost

a reported $11000000.00 trying to impeach trub $32000000.00 for the mueller report countless man hours wasted and they couldn't pull it off at the end of the day trump will be remembered if differently he was a tyrannical megalomaniac and a man who drank too much cook who sucked at golf and whose hand even his own wife didn't want to hold he was also a man of the people the underdog who ruse to drain the swamp that is washington and cost down the corrupt elites whatever version they read in the future they'll agree on only one thing it was a long and savage fight and strums campaign has brought lawsuits in several states many believe the final decision might not come for a while human rights lawyer eric serota game believes the president will fight tooth and nail to stay in the oval office. i think it's there are advantages and

disadvantages to a extended legal. battle if you will i think that yes if the matter is not resolved by inauguration day that seems to be to create a constitutional crisis in the united states however if the supreme court is quite aware of when in operation today they said their briefing schedules they will eventually you're a case that will. issue the appropriate orders but donald trump is fighting for his life he's knows he's going to be prosecuted criminally when he's released from the presidency and if not he wants to stay on this is very personal to him however the supreme court can hear the matter and hear in a quick way but i wouldn't be surprised if they want to throw that kind of

curveball into it and make everyone have to hold their breath and be plugged into the drama into january i suspect that the matter will move much quicker and i believe that it will have the president elect. let's make take a quick look now at who's got what so far in the presidential elections joe biden currently has 264 electors with arizona which hasn't yet been called 'd by everyone quite yet donald trump has 214 the 1st to 270 claims the prize winning just one more state like nevada would hand a victory to biden while for trump in order to turn the tide he would have to take all the remaining battleground states like north carolina and pennsylvania aren't due to declare for some time and now we're going to have special coverage from our team america.

allo there you are watching and question coming to you live from our to america's national news headquarters here in washington d.c. i am an election and i'm being joined today by our special co-host for continued 2020 alexion coverage bence one is here it is continued coverage we are breaking in to bring you president trump himself he'll be speaking momentarily from the white house tonight that we're not exactly sure what the president will say but we are anticipating that he's going to speak out about what is happening in pennsylvania

right now the trump campaign about probably.