it's not the case so you know it is to be pull in the will to richest country. in. battleground america the democrats put one foot in the door of the white house after 3 tense days joe biden looks set to become the 46th u.s. president as key states in the vote edge closer to announcing their results meanwhile. if you count the legal votes easily when we count as tradition hirsch and i will be declared the winner. could still be a bumpy road ahead as both candidates clash over ballot results with some in the republican camp claiming the count has been fraudulent. and the delay in announcing the president raises big questions about the vote itself especially mail in ballots

amid a record turnout we hear from calmer commentators on the key issues. sort of so if they want to stop the counting over $61.00 if you can you tell me it's a joke every night after night after that a secure and i watch the big board our system moves what is the worst but we also say that in the united states constitution voting is never mentioned at all. watching our to internationals u.s. presidential election coverage my name is donald quarter and i'll be joining you for the program certainly a nail biter as the vote counting has resumed in key states to decide the u.s. presidential election. now the contest for the white house could be over just 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 americans hanging on the edge of their seats attention is focused on

a handful of states we're still waiting for crucial results in nevada pennsylvania to where the democrats hold a tight lead. as it stands this is how it looks joe biden has 264 electors if you include arizona which some say is too early to still call but if you assume he won biden needs only 6 more electoral votes to achieve the 207 required for victory don trump on the other hand currently stands with 214 with that said it remains a very tight race gaps closed in different battleground states on saturday the former vice president is leading in the volga and is less than one percent ahead in pennsylvania in georgia biden has taken the lead by 0 point one percent with 99 percent of the ballots counted as i mentioned the margins are so tight there that a recount is already set to happen a democrat hasn't won that state in decades while in north carolina the race is also too close to call we go now live to our new york correspondent caleb we've

been hearing fine margins in these pivotal states left to declare what's the latest well at this point biden has a narrow lead in arizona and in georgia and in pennsylvania as well as in nevada and essentially we've got many people in the biden camp very very optimistic they have not declared victory yet but they believe they are on the road to a win now nancy pelosi the leader of the democrats in congress had this to say 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 at this point georgia is already planning

a recount of the votes in their state to make sure that the results they deliver are accurate and we have donald trump speaking up on social media about 9000 military ballots he's concerned that perhaps these ballots from u.s. military members absentee ballots that these ballots from soldiers and military personnel may not have been counted so questions are certainly being raised about those ballots now this is not the only concern that the trump campaign has raised they have also raised concerns about the manner in which votes are being counted in pennsylvania and the manner in which they were counted in michigan donald trump addressed the country thursday evening and had many concerns about irregularities he has been blatantly clear about the fact that he had tends to challenge the results in court he intends to take the election results to court and to challenge them we've heard these concerns ak owed by other republicans this is what the

republican national committee had to say. we intend to ensure that every little fool votes and has their vote counted in a cool dence with the law that observe his or grounds at the access they a jew on the state level and then any irregularities that have occurred with the by malicious intent or incompetence fully investigated to the fullest extent allowed under the law. now the mayor of philadelphia a city in pennsylvania has spoken up and said that he disregards and does not consider trump's concerns regarding the pat counting of the votes in philadelphia to be in any way legitimate furthermore we've heard from the secretary of state of arizona he has argued that essentially donald trump when he says that votes that are not legal are being counted in arizona this is not accurate he says that only legal votes are being counted in the state of arizona now at this point the country is expecting to hear from joe biden at some point he will be addressing the country

within the next few hours and we've already heard some rather spicy words from the biden campaign regarding the concern that donald trump is not willing to accept the results and is challenging them and may not leave office 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 bus passes out of the white house now at this point the country is still waiting to hear from joe biden we do not have an official winner yet and the biden campaign has not declared victory however things do look like they are pretty strongly in their favor at this point the country is still waiting we don't have a clear winner yet declared in the u.s. presidential election even though it's friday and the election took place on tuesday meanwhile it's pretty clear that when a winner is declared that winner will have a contested result and that it will be in court so many people watching and waiting

and a lot of frustration in the united states with the voting system as it seems like we don't have yet an official end to the u.s. 2020 presidential election. artie's new york correspondent kayla mop and thank you very much for those election updates. now we spoke to republican election lawyer terry campo and he explained that what could happen if the votes are actually 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 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 poll 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 now this is the scene in washington d.c. where anti trump demonstrators are taking a stand next to the white house they're calling for the vote counting to be done legally and fairly other peaceful demonstrations in support of both candidates are also taking place in a number of cities the battle of over whether or not the results are being rigged started even before the election with both parties stressing the vote had to be legal. 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. senior correspondent morag as they have discussed the tension around the country with

nikki arran. the u.s. really does pride itself on its democratic system does not now appear to have glitches with everything that's going on i would say it's at this point more of a spectacle i mean the elections in the united states the there are always something of a shrew 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 in the system of government governance and the envy of the world well 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 to get time off work either that because in the united states whereas in europe vote it is always inside everyone's free everyone who vote in the united states sunday is a jewish holiday and they would make it a national holiday booting 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 the very little social distancing suit you will your vote as democrats have been urging their supporters to do you mail your vote and it's lost 150000 votes have been confirmed sue for are lost in this election and they're still counting there this potentially tens and tens of thousands more in an election as kloofs as this. where 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 i get is or even determine whether they're eligible or if it was a vote 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 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 go take the extra step to understand the other side everybody wants things done their way and and this is being repeated across the country protests violence political violence

you 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 is new but he's 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. what's happening in america does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the united states it's important that 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 how close this election is how close the vote is well the last both candidates a lot of leeway both are claiming that they are on the path to victory that their winning bird will be contested little suits of being fired off like firecrackers

but by trump especially the this election will be condensed interim themselves said that you know this saloon and in the supreme court despite the warning of legal action several election commissions in america have insisted that every valid vote was counted and accurately reported international observers have also said the ballot proceeded lawfully they have slammed donald trump's allegations of fraud saying it damages public trust in democratic institutions human rights lawyer eric surat can believe 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'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 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 account has been particularly complicated in the current contest and it's thrown up many contentious issues are

to america discussed some of 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 re holder in 2014 we've had a diluted voting rights we need to move the ministries records of who the president is authorized to make things that the 5 border guards at the have national standards only legends we cover republican we're 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 poll taxes and literacy tests and our system of voting is the worst let me 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. he 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 what a great. it will say it was embarrassing it was the sad final chapter to all set

chapter in american history that something you want here. on an internet war we're looking it's a choice you want over a broken beat him cards that 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. whole call 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 aside this is this says either something about is good or bad when we have a man but i'm not even sure 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

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 hear from republicans who say it would be a scandal but i've heard very few people disagree with that idea do you disagree with. course i disagree with that idea or still by the term i think it's important that he does because he's a throwback to the era oh that's what we were governing in a 51 to 49 country where we were we have bipartisan agreement would be a big thing to big big projects of that nature we put people on the moon one cold

war 2 we liberated oh there were western civilization that's what america used to do when we worked across party lines. 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 coded setting up the 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 i sit there and 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 have 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 the observers of the process because these days it does seem like the media wields so much power that it could actually steer perception steer the public's and ultimately steer the election itself. 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 hopes. news defeated and yet finds himself 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 but up to good president but we hate it that we have to defend the guy against an unfair media. so we had on our to international more

coverage of the u.s. presidential election america could have a new president in a matter of hours days perhaps even weeks whatever the case our news team has you covered when that historic moment takes place we'll be back after the break. it was supposed to be a landslide we were told way alonso. the polls were again while. trump may still lose this but can't explain trump is a fluke for a number ration state. next. here is the smug class to protect the class so they feel very comfortable with their affiliations and associations with the institutions that grand america the highest level the permanent institutions that are always running america the matter

of who is the president they have friends in the media and those friends feel smug then no matter what happens that they are protected it is dangerous to have an entrenched slug class in your society in your country because they can take liberties with the truth and project a situation that is false and put people down the wrong path. welcome back to the program now wrangling over the election has overshadowed another heated race in the country both parties are still grappling for seats in congress but in the days ahead of the vote democrats spent large sums of money campaigning in a bid to win more influence in the house and senate that tho has not happened the

house is expected to stay in the hands of the democrats with results still coming in however some experts calculate the blue majority actually might be thinner this year and so far they are down to at least 6 incumbents $218.00 seats are needed to win a majority and so far the democrats are at 208 with the republicans at $193.00 they're also battling for the senate democrats need to gain 4 seats to flip control of congress as upper chamber although that's unlikely as the republicans already have $48.00 seats and have been leading in 3 of the 4 remaining races to get 50 so that's the race for seats in congress meanwhile the presidential contest the blue wave that many were predicting has failed to materialize and even though joe biden is on course for victory at this stage the contest has been more closer than polls forecast election integrity activist and independent journalist nico house told us why. that stage was set unfortunately prior to the general election because

well the candies that i thought could be trumped which would include gabbert 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 male 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 a fund will go will have to pull 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 then of the numbers in the presidential race democratic nominee joe biden has 264 electoral votes leaving him just short 6 of

the presidency donald trump has 214 biden currently has a narrow lead in the traditionally red state of georgia and he's also slightly ahead in nevada and has just gotten out in front of pennsylvania as well stay with our teeth throughout the coming hours and days as we continue tracking the 2020 us elections. well why. don't you go down with the white middle class.

in the soil for how i don't think it's the fault of the clothes. that come on a full $2.00 man. i want to. be sorry. 6 for. 6 the money losing stuff because go by just won the election we our problems are over that that's simply not true the problems were there before president trump they're not going away you have problems for the economy in the long room you're going to have huge debt to pay for the things you're going to do 3rd we still have a problem in the united states which raises and we have too many young are going to . jails are growing possessions in search of some of those problems have been there

for crops and simply allowed to don't produce not does not solve them. join me every thursday on the elec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. in southern california the sun rises over san diego bay. next to a parkway in this parking lot 54 year old maria begins her day. straight

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