join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business and show business i'll see you then. battleground america the democrats put one foot in the door of the white house up to 3 tense days joe biden looks set to become the 42nd us president as key states in the vote close to twin outs and the results meanwhile if you count the legal votes easily would be counted surely surely version i would be declared the winner . it could still be a bumpy road ahead though as both candidates clash over follow results with some in the republican camp claiming that the count has been unfortunate. and the delay to announcing the president raises big questions about the food itself especially

metabolic amid a record turnout we hear from commentators on the key issues. over so if they want to stop the killing over 6 they want to pin you tell me it's a joke every night after night after that except when i watch the big board our system is the worst we also see that in the united states constitution voting is never mentioned at all welcome doughty international this friday and all coverage of the u.s. election but counting in key states continues. in the contest for the white house could be over here in the coming hours with democrat joe biden looking more and more likely to be declared the winner increasing his vote margins in key states however a recount has been announced in the state of georgia leaving america on tenterhooks

attention is focused on a handful of states we all still waiting for crucial results in nevada and pennsylvania to where the democrats hold a slant a neat while as it stands this is. is how it looks joe biden has $264.00 electors if you include our and so you know which some do say is too early to cool but if you assume he's got it he is 6 electoral votes short of the 270 required for victory donald trump on the other hand currently stands at 214 but every maine's a very tight race gaps have closed in different battleground states on saturday the full of vice president is leading in nevada and is less than one percent ahead in pennsylvania in georgia biden has taken the lead by just over $1000.00 votes with 99 percent of the bonnets counted as mentioned the margins of so tight that a recount is already set to happen incidentally

a democrat hasn't won that state and decades meanwhile the race in north carolina is too close to call what's going live now to our correspondent kate of open who is in new york for us kate if we keep airing it fine margins any moment now why are these pivotal states when it comes to latest announcements. well at this point we've got biden with a narrow lead in arizona in georgia in pennsylvania and in nevada and at this point any of those states could soon announce results now georgia is delaying result announcements and to do a recount that they are having pennsylvania is expected to nevada is expected to give results on sunday so at this point we've got some very optimistic sounds coming from the democratic party different leaders of the democratic party and figures associated with the biden campaign are saying that it looks pretty good

for them they expect to be winning and declaring victory shortly this is nancy pelosi. i wish we weren't wearing masks so we could see how exciting it is to come before you today with joe biden having the tremendous mandate that he has and that. pretty soon the hyphen will be gone from vice president to president elect joe biden now we heard donald trump address the nation thursday evening and expressed concerns about fraud raise many concerns about the possibility of mail and votes and and other concerns we now have a statement on behalf of donald trump donald trump said we will pursue this process through every aspect of law to guarantee that the american people have confidence in our government never give up fighting for you and our nation and it appears that legal challenges will be filed by the trump campaign donald trump has already

tweeted concerns about military ballots in georgia it's not clear what exactly that's referring to but perhaps the votes of soldiers or something to that effect but trump has expressed a lot of a lot of concerns that there is some kind of foul play going on and we have actually heard this from the republican national committee take a listen we intend to ensure that every little fool votes and has their vote counted in accordance with the law that observers are granted the access they a jew on the state law and that any irregularities that have occurred with the by malicious intent or incompetence fully investigates its to the fullest extent allowed under the law. now the mayor of philadelphia the city in pennsylvania says that trump's allegations about the way the vote count is being conducted are simply groundless you know to centrally denounced and disassociated and made clear that what the president is saying is not correct in his view we also have the secretary of state of arizona saying that in arizona they are not counting any fraudulent

votes or votes that would not be legitimate saying that donald trump's claims about arizona are not accurate now at this point even though the biden camp has not yet declared victory we are hearing some rather spicy language from the biden camp a regarding trump and his concerns and his claims of voter fraud and the possibility of him not leaving office quietly this is what we heard from the biden campaign the american people will decide this election and the united states government is specifically capable of school just passes out of the white house now at this point we are expecting to hear from joe biden in the next few hours he will be giving some kind of remarks at any point we could have some results from the 4 states that are counting all of which have joe biden currently in the lead but the trump camp has made clear that if a result comes out they will be sure to contest it and it will end up in court so

at this point we still do not have an official results from tuesday's election the voting took place on tuesday tuesday was the election day but it is now friday and we don't have a clear answer about who will be the next president of the united states who will lead the united states for the following 4 years bring us the very latest on this now by to that was capable pen reporting from new york. we thank you republican election away terry compost he explained what could happen if the folk count contested. there always is some fraud and a usually happens in the major cities and it's usually where there's one political party control of your political machine and people have quotas to meet about how many votes they're supposed to produce to keep their jobs in the local government or their contracts and so that's kind of what happens it becomes very difficult

once those ballots are in the box to to invalidate them and so what's what poll watchers are for and why we try to have call watchers everywhere to prevent those improper ballots from being counted the problem this year is so many ballots being cast by mail were done in private without any witnesses there is always when these recounts that happen there will be challenges about what legal standard was apply to how to count those votes and those issues probably will be taken up by the supreme court 2000 presidential election 20 years ago bush versus gore that took 37 days from the date of the election for the supreme court to reach the decision and that's very well may be happening again. well this is the scene right now in d.c. went to trump demonstrators that taking a stand next to the white house they are calling for the vote counting to be done legally and other peaceful demonstrations in support of both candidates are also

taking place in a number of cities their hour of the results being potentially rate started even before election day with both parties stressing the photo had to be lethal. if you count the legal votes i easily win if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. the election from osip in america voters sacred. it's how people of this nation express their will. and it is the real will of the voters no one not anything else but chooses the president of united states of america this tremendous litigation going on and this is a case where they're trying to steal an election they're trying to rig an election each ballot must be counted. and that's what we're going to see going through now and that's how it should be our goal is to defend the integrity of the election will not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election

for that matter it's a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt even if they aren't. ati's senior correspondent discuss the tensions around the country with nick here and. the u.s. really does pride itself on its democratic system there for now appear to have glitches with everything that's going on i would say at this point more of a spectacle i mean the elections in the united states the there are always something of a shoe for the entire nation but this year in particular they seem to have outdone themselves democracy sometimes messy sometimes requires a little patience as world but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years with a system of government governance are the envy of the world while the envy of the world perhaps in days long gone if you're in the united states you just a citizen wanting to exercise your constitutional right to vote what you show up at

the polling station and they'll turn you right around and tell you to go and register 1st except you have to register 2 to 4 weeks in advance depending on the state you know different procedures everywhere and to register you have a say you have to have a special id card which not everyone has so far ok you will well prepared you did it you you went and registered next you've you've got a good time off work either that because in the united states whereas in europe it is always inside everyone's free everyone who vote in the united states and is a jewish holiday and they would make it a national holiday voting day so you have to go to wednesday for example now there's a pandemic it is dangerous it is literally dangerous to do and stand in huge lines of people with a very little social distancing assume you will you vote as democrats have been urging their supporters to do you mail your vote and it's lost

150000 votes have been confirmed soo far lost in this election and they're still counting there this potentially tens and tens of thousands more in an election as clues as this. every vote matters they've lost so many already democrat officials never believe they could win this election honestly i really believe that that's why they did the mail in ballots with this tremendous corruption and fraud going on that's why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots they refused to include any requirement to verify signatures it is or even determine whether they're eligible or it was a vote of it is a nation divided more now than it has been in living memory the level of polarize ation and division political division in the united states is is tearing the country apart and it isn't doing anyone any favors everybody understands what is happening in america but there is very little you know that nobody's willing to

take the extra step to understand the other side everybody wants things down their way and and this is being with repeated across the country protest violence political violence to level to get beaten stabbed because of the color of the had that you're wearing the slogan a new t. shirt and this is this is being seen worldwide this new bodies envious of these in europe they're saying look we simply can't afford in content out europe to become as divided and as polarized as the united states the poor ization 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. well sublingual america does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the united states it's important the result is the accepted by everyone it's easy to be a winner but sometimes it is hope to be a loser at the end of the day the clues the selection is how close the vote is well

that both candidates a lot of leeway both claiming that they're on the path to victory that their winning bird will be contested lawsuits of fire being fired off like fire crackers by trump especially the this election will be interim self so that you know this alone and in the supreme court despite the warning of legal action several election commissions in america have insisted that every valid photo was counted and accurately reported international observers have also said the ballot proceeded lawfully they have sound donald trump's allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in time a critic institution human rights lawyer ken 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 an operation a day they set their briefing schedules they will eventually irrigates that will. and will issue the appropriate orders but donald trump is fighting for his life he 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 here in a quick way i wouldn't be surprised if they want to throw that kind of curveball into it and make everyone has to hold their breath and be plugged into the drama into january but i suspect that the matter will move much quicker and i

believe that it will have the president elect. the count has been particularly complicated and this contest and it's throwing up many contentious issues chimerica discuss just a few off them. look at what the prison is doing legally the places they're trying to intercede and serve and so if they want to stop the county other states want to continue tell me to get a concrete standard for that and as well as after show be read holder in 2014 we've had a diluted voting rights we need to minister its records of who the president is authorized to make things that the 5 border guards at the have national standards on lurch and we've got republicans are fighting against that since the late eighty's and the what i was saying that metastasized into this year through what can i do what about that why don't we have one uniform federal law that says when you're voting for

president maybe put it on a separate take it i'm not sure how this will work but why don't we have one federal law for that the question is what you're asking is a great question there's a better question to which i think transcends that why is it in the year 2020 when we can map of the genome we still have this archaic system which i think speaks to something which is which makes it right and right if for any kind of shenanigans we know so much about how the votes can be stolen we had terrible days of cold actors and literacy tests and our system of voting is the worst but we also say that in the united states constitution voting is never mentioned at all there's hardly anything new selectors and that sort of thing they never got around to it so the question we have to ask is how is that right now that we see that we have something as archaic and as stupid as it.

seems i think is really it's gotten him if this is not the donald trump that we're used to this is not the same fire and brimstone have bob how do you take it down to one degree. it will say it was embarrassing it will the fed final chapter 2 will set chapter in american history that something you want here. on an internet war ready we're looking it's a choice you want broken to beat him cards and almost everything you said in that speech was a lot it's all those little moments you find yourself getting angry a bit of the end. down a man who realizes. for every. understanding that there is no pair. would you want joe biden to drive you home from the airport let me just talk about something right now when you put all this is side. this says either something about is good or bad when we have a man but i'm not even sure he knows where he is and he is most probably what we

see is correct going to be sworn in as the president and i further predict since since we're predicting he will serve my term shorter than william henry harrison of $31.00 days when kamel harris will be removed immediately something will happen in joel will maybe perhaps that aneurism god forbid something will pop up maybe coded maybe 8 maybe senescence but he will be moved because if you think of anybody thinks that joe biden is going to be if he is the he is the intended get it and you think that well my friends happy birthday cause you were born yesterday robert can you respond to that do you think that there is a likely i've heard from a lot of people on both sides who they all seem to believe that biden will not serve his entire 1st term and i hear from democrats who say that the time with me i heard from republicans who say it would be a scandal but i've heard very few people disagree with that idea do you disagree with the. course or disagree with that idea or still buy tickets or rather the term

i think it's important that he does because he is a throwback to the politics when we were not governing in a 51 to 49 country where we were we have bipartisan agreement would be a big thing to big big projects of the main we put people on the moon we won cold war 2 we liberated. western civilization that's what america used to do when we worked or you are. this is a sham the fix is in the fix he's been in from the beginning all these states so you know just going around the voter and changing the voting rules claiming that it's because of covert setting up this scenario where you think they can't finish counting the votes in georgia or north carolina or whatever they're just they're just waiting they're coordinating with the biden people and they're just waiting to see how they're going to do this we all know it's a joke every night after night after that except when i watch the big boards you know whether it's on c.n.n.

or ever it is and guess why the numbers more votes of come in in this state more votes have come in in that state and guess what biden picked up close trumps lead is evaporating what a surprise this is really a travesty what you guys say is the actual role of the press in these elections i mean are we supposed to be be observers of the process because these days it does seem like the media wields so much power that it could actually steer perception and steer the public's and ultimately steer the election itself then. yeah absolutely you know we're supposed to be in the media the observer the impartial observer we're not supposed to be influenced or in this case we've moved even past that to become the decider in fact i were in the arena is full combatants this is something almost unique to the presidency i mean the uncomfortable position of being a member trump or somebody who thinks the president should be defeated hope see is defeated and yet finds themselves very sympathetic to the president when he

complains about the media because steve is right my friend steve is right the president has got an unfair shake from this media and i think it's all people out there like me who don't think don't trust been a particular good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media. still i don't know of kids national coverage of the u.s. . election of course america could have a new president and a much of rouse could be in a matter of weeks news team has you covered when that historic moment finally comes around we're back after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics this list i'm sure i'll see you then.

welcome back now wrangling over the election has overshadowed another heated race in the country both parties are still grappling for seats in congress in the days ahead of the vote democrat spent large sums of money campaigning in a bid to win more influence in the house and the senate that those who did not happen the house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats with results still coming and however some experts calculate the blue majority will actually be film of the cea and so far they are down by at least 6 incumbents 218 seats on needed to get a majority so far democrats on 208 republicans on 193 well there's also a tussle for the senate democrats need to gain full seats to flip control of the opera house although both unlikely as the republicans already have you can see 48 seats and have been meeting and 3 of the remaining few races to get to 50 so that's

the race for seats in congress meanwhile in the presidential race the blue wave that many were predicting failed to materialise even though joe biden is on course for victory at this stage the contest has been much closer than polls for cost election integrity activist independent john this house told me why. that stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because well the candidates that i thought could be trumped which would include bernie sanders and i would even argue andrew yang those aren't the ones who are allowed to go up against wrong 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 fracking just like trump who can be a little bit more hawkish on foreign policy than trump then you are setting the stage for walk a fine we'll go wall half the vote in support base awful party lines because that 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. a reminder that all of the numbers in the presidential race democratic nominee 164. just 6 short of the presidency donald trump has 214 biden currently has a narrow. red state of georgia and he's also slightly ahead and has just gone out in front in pennsylvania we'll keep bringing you the latest keep checking back and.

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