again, it could go up a little bit with pima county. and with the rest of the state, you could see trump reducing it further, you know. it's tight. get it inside 10,000. does he get it to zero? >> i'm not sure. okay. stand by. let's check in once again with rich fitzgerald in pennsylvania. i don't know if you got results yet, but do you have timing at least, rich? thank you so much for coming back to join us. >> sure. i think we're going to be posting about a little over 7,000 votes within the next half hour. if things have been running like they should, it should increase the lead for joe biden by about 4,000 or 4,200 votes. >> that's within the next half hour? you popped out with your mic. >> it should be in the next half hour. i think they're posting them momentarily. >> and you're looking at a biden gain just by looking at the trends you're seeing come in? >> yeah. if they're trending like normal. biden would pick up about 5,600 votes, and trump would pick up 1,400, somewhere in that range, if it runs the same way it's been througho

let's go to our guests polacheck he joins us live on skype from tuscon arizona executive director at pima county democratic party we're still looking at those live pictures from wilmington delaware many people celebrating on the stage the. president elect joe biden gave his victory speech he also had of course from there she is with members of her family looking very glamorous in that cream suit joe let's start with vice president elect's. very very interesting speech from her very inspiring. many people from immigrant background. in the indian mother who arrived in the u.s. at the age of 19 what do you think her election is going to mean to the many minorities that make up the u.s. . well it was just an incredibly inspiring speech i just want to say to my fellow americans we look forward in the democratic party to being a party and administration for all americans and i'm personally i'm i'm the son of an immigrant i'm married to an immigrant my daughter is a daughter and grand daughter immigrants and it's just so amazing to to be able to see somebody like that up on stage just last week.

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of the election works both at the stay level and local level as well as other state partners like pima and department homeland security who have made sure all those things people were worried about, whether voter intimidation or issues at the polls could not have gone more smoothly in the middle of a global pandemic with all the voting reform changes from act 77 and act 12. that is huge kudos to everybody involved. alsos also also we said it would take time to count mail ballots and we are approaching 50% counted which is great. you can go to our election night railroad returns website to get the greater details on that. but there are obstetricalstill millions to be counted. you will see a lot of updates in the next couple hours and throughout the day. we have been -- there were a thumb counties that may -- number of counties that may maim additions in wee hours of the morgan so you may want -- of the morning so there's been more ballots accounted for. this is a process. we've got somewhere -- i don't know what the total will end,at but between 2 poeu 5.5 and 3 million ballots apple --

pima and pinal county. pima, a more democratic county, went 53% for trump. pinal county, 58%.gain, that's below that 75% he needed to do. if in fact we're going to get our next batch at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight, if in fact that batch is at 53% mark yet again, essentially that sets up the math that is just extremely difficult for donald trump to overcome at this point. >> vaughn hillyard against a beautiful camelback mountain backdrop in scottsdale, arizona. thank you, vaughn. >>> joining me now, nbc's white house correspondent and co-host of "weekend today," kristen welker, and another co-host of "weekend today," peter alexander at the white house. kristen, it's taking a while. when do we expect to hear from the candidate himself? >> andrea, i am told that if we hear from former vice president joe biden, it will not be until prime time. so that is what we can anticipate. just to take you inside what is happening with the vice president and with his campaign, we are told that he is watching these returns along with everyone else patiently, clearly feeling quite confident about

pima county, the president actually exceeded the projections we had for him. >> sean: he got 52% of thebers that came out tonight, right? >> exactly. he won michael's by 5%. overall, he was losing pima county by -- >> sean: okay, so at a minimum, how close do you think the vote separation will be here at the end of this process? what do we got about 350 or 400,000 more to go? how close are we going in terms of raw numbers will the final count be do you think? >> so, we've got about 320,000 ballots left. currently we are projecting this to be within the mandatory limit. so, we are talking maybe two or 3,000 vote separation. >> sean: in either direction. so, the state of arizona. it should never have been called by anybody? >> absolutely. the call was extremely premature when it was made. >> unbelievable. all right, thank you, george. we appreciate it. we will watch closely. ask yourselves tonight, you trust what happened so far when you hear that election observers by law are allowed to be there and they are not there. you trust what you are scene unfolds right before your eyes? the demo

pima county. joe biden on top. overperforming there. we haven't talked about that a lot, but that's the home of mark kelly. he's on top, too. his range, ten points in the senate race against martha mcsally. >> former astronaut, husband of gabby giffords, the congresswoman of arizona who was shot. want to go to whit johnson. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: the biden campaign is feeling good about the early results and what they're seeing although this is what they expected early in the night. we had the huge voter turnout. 85% of the ballots cast early. democrats knew that they needed to take an early lead. but on the flipside, republicans were counting on today, the trump campaign told us that they had data that showed them they would outnumber biden supporters at the polls on election day by a ratio of 4-1. i can tell you by talking to voters, trump has strong support. david was talking about the independent support women spoke to three self-proclaimed independent voters who voted for obama previously but this time voted for a

how about pima county? how many of the outstanding are in pima?i just want to pull out so people can see the map. in terms of these more republican counties, if you are the trump campaign, you are trying to make this up. what about yuma county? >> yeah . it looks like about 17,000, 18,000 in yuma county. as we go through the blue counties where joe biden is leading. as we move up, is that about the same or is that fewer? >> it's less than a thousand. >> less than a thousand. so you see, again, this is a place where the president is running quite well. and madam secretary, i pulled out the whole statewide numbers. you move up here, how many there? >> 13,000. >> again, in a place where joe biden is running ahead where you have a bulk of the votes. but do you have any sense of where we're going to see the rest of these? >> maricopa said that they are going to do another upload later tonight at 10:30 our time, so 12:30 for you guys. and then they have said that they're going to do 7:00 every night until they are done. >> are these really -- >> and i n

joe biden still ahead by a lot in pima county. 97,866 votes.ne, it hasn't changed the map much. we still do not have decisive numbers out of nevada, arizona, georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania and alaska. we're going to be waiting for awhile. no major changes right now but updates. i'll tell you we're waiting for more updates out of pennsylvania where we have 96% of the vote in. we're probably looking for about 200,000 more votes here, about half roughly are mail in. about half are provisional. these are very rough numbers i'm making up. these are really important because joe biden leads pennsylvania by about 15,000 votes right now. so how those remaining 200,000 votes break is going to be really important. the mail in ballots tend to be breaking very heavily toward joe biden. what we do not know and there is disputing analysis about this is how the provisional ballots are breaking. are they breaking the same way? are they breaking roughly evenly for the candidates or are they breaking toward donald trump? lots of opinions out there. i don't

>> so maricopa county -- maricopa and pima county have the largest number of outstanding ballots. anticipate being completed by today, i think pima county is in the same situation. >> you guys are the ones that have to certify by november 30th, yes? >> yes, the county is certified by the 23rd of november and then the state certifies on the 30th. >> you believe that will happen. >> absolutely, 100%. >> a republican state senator in arizona, karen ben, has sent you a letter requesting, i guess, more transparency. i will read a portion of t i believe it is imperative that you make available all data and the logic and accuracy tests to independent expert evaluation. assuming the allegations of fraud are without merit, an independent analysis would help restore credibility and hopefully end the current controversy over fairness in the election process in arizona. is there a controversy, and what can you do that would be more transparent? what's your response to all of that? >> well, my response is that our office has been completely transparent and there are many, many places along the

those include the likes of pima county, cochise, navajo county. among the 80,000, donald trump is going to have to win about 63% of those ballots. what we saw today out of those counties, the percentage, in pima the number was 52%. cochise county, 64.6%. navajo county, 67.3%. again, from those counties he's got to get 63% of those remaining 80,000 ballots outside of maricopa county. that is why this race right now the margin is 29,000. but we expect with about 170,000 ballots still outstanding across the state of arizona for that number to continue to decrease and the president of the united states is still in this ball game. if this was the bottom of the ninth, you could make the case that donald trump keeps fouling off the pitch with two strikes. it's enough to stay in the game, but that's all they need as these ballots continue. >> i got it, vaughn. thank you for that and thank you for that rundown. you don't need me to tell you what we've been looking at on the left side of the screen is the biden motorcade arriving in wilmington at the venue.

and then, you add in pima as well.it more, it won't be enough. instead of hitting 56 or 57%, he is hitting 51, 52% and that falls short. but we have to wait and see what the composition is and what it's made up of. and we're talking about maricopa. there's still outstanding vote in pima as well and a couple other counties. >> so, we've had a change of play. a change in the state of play here that benefits the president. and yes, this gets a little complicated. but, one, lucky for you, you have better minds than mine that are chewing on the information. and understanding what it meansmemeans. but here is the simple version. okay. it ain't over in arizona. you have to count all the votes. sounds simple. but it takes time. and as we see in arizona, the state of the race could change there. joe biden is holding on. it may be enough. there's a lot more to learn, and we'll take you through it. quick break. and then, we'll get to it. autom. so no hiding under your pillow. or opting for the couch. because it's our first system

one of the stronghold, pima, tucson, 60-38, overperforming there. the trend so far and it's been holding for the last two to three hours, you would know better than me, democrats are in a good position in arizona but it's just with 20% out you just can't project it yet. >> whit johnson, the vote is just trickling in, that remaining vote. >> reporter: we're getting more clarity on the outstanding ballots that exist. we just talked to maricopa county officials again and we keep going back to them because as we mentioned maricopa county makes up at least 60% of the vote here in arizona. within the next ten minutes but talking to my producer, it still hasn't come up they were trying to do the final dump of results and this is the in-person votes from today. they were counting those throughout the night and thought they were going to finish that up so could get those results at any moment but there are still several hundred thousand outstanding ballots and they gave us some clarity on that. we talked about the near 250,000 absentee ballots that people dr

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same with pima.t because it looks like it's a democratic county doesn't mean there aren't republicans voetin there. donald trump has picked up tens of thousands of votes. the big question remains for the state of arizona is what's coming in? what's the composition of what's coming in? right now there's a pathway for president trump depending on the composition of what's coming in. the biden campaign says they think they'll be fine. >> what just happened here? >> we saw i believe we had a drop in pima. say it again. oh, flagstaff came in. more of a democratic county. not as big but democratic county. joe biden 61%. donald trump 35%. we talk about maricopa because it's the largest population center but there's still some vote outstanding. various parts of this state right now. >> what did the vote in flagstaff do to the overall? >> i believe it took it up for joe. no, down for joe biden by 1,000 votes. >> so remains consistent that the last few dumps in arizona have helped president trump. >> even beyo

maricopa in pima county's updating the latest numbers tonight in maricopa were told 3 south thousand 700 votes work, but the president got 422,706 additional votes. he also picked up more votes in the latest update from pima county braid between those two counties there are still 252,00 and provisional ballots were told left a process. north carolina's and the president's favor with 94 percent of the vote in very it's been a while since the numbers in north carolina chang much. tonight the president sounding the alarm is the vote count narrows substantially in biden' favorite things too late counts favoring urban strongholds as well as mail in pallets for a decent loyalist from his team and his family out to do battle. >> between 75, 100,000 and in some cases 23.5000 ballots show up, not one single trumped voter . does anyone believe this is possible? because it's not very it's a statistical impossibility. it's happening not just once, but over and over again varied this is the kind of nonsense that has to stop. >> welcome to fox news at night i am channon bream in washington . wheat

but you also have some other big counties out there in pima and pinell.have thousands of ballots left to go through there. a lot of questions. democrats feeling confident, but republicans say that they believe at the end of the day they're going to have the votes. i do want to talk about the senate race real quick because we projected mark kelly to take the senate seat of the late senator john mccain. he's the former astronaut, married to gabbie giffords, the former congresswoman who, of course, was shot and nearly killed back in 2011. he was going up against the republican, martha mcsally, who struggled towards the end of the campaign, explaining things in her ties to president donald trump, trying to distant herself on some key issues especially when it comes to health care. during a debate, three times she would not say whether she was proud of her support for donald trump, but, again, mark kelly will take that seat that was once occupied by the late john mccain. a huge win for democrats trying to flip the senate, john. >> whit johnson, thanks very muc

impact 180 ballots here so i think tonight is very telling, not only in ten minutes from now, this pimaop but also this maricopa county drop because what we've seen is joe biden set himful up to win the state of arizona. and when you look at map, the story is maricopa county where he shifted 89,000 votes so far and that would put him in the position to pull off here this state. >> vaughn, you've been saying all along, watch maricopa county and you've proven to be right. that is why it is good to have somebody from the state reporting from the state. priscilla, you have been spending a ton of time in georgia. there's going to be a hand recount. the secretary of state there is getting a lot of blow back from republican who officials who feel like, i guess, he hasn't been fair to them even though he keeps saying he's been fair to the voters and this is what the votes say. what is the expectation for one, how long this hand recount is going to last and two, what the results will be? >> yeah, well the secretary of state signalled he does not expect the recount to change the outcome of the ra

we'll look to see as more votes come down, especially in pima county, which is a biden county. again, the bulk of the vote is out from this biden stronghold down here. so this is one state. and then, of course, republicans are looking in pennsylvania, in michigan, in wisconsin, in nevada, we mentioned arizona, the recount in georgia. i mean, they're trying everywhere. none of this is sort of a consistent approach, pam, and none of it suggests that we've seen that the returns will get upended. >> based on this year's results, will do you think they can turn the map blue? >> if indeed georgia and arizona state blue as they are right now, that means democrats are making inroads into this sort of sunbelt region, which is really important for them in a decades-long project. take a look here in texas, as one place that will be on democrats' minds for cycles to come. in 2012, if i can get there -- yeah. mitt romney had a 16-percentage point lead. in 2016, donald trump had a nine-percentage point lead in the state. now in 2020, that's down to a six percentage point lead for the preside

in fact, down here in pima county, 50-58% for joe biden where the bulk of the vote will come in from.tough, although narrow margin, tough margin for donald trump to overcome. in north carolina donald trump has that 73,000 vote lead, very substantial. today is the last day for votes that were cast and postmarked by election day. they could still be accepted up until today and counted. we'll see if we get last minute vote information from north carolina. it looks like donald trump will indeed be able to claim carolina as his. then, of course, in georgia, the third state we haven't called, 13,000 sloat lead for joe biden, we know that state recount, hand recount under way. tomorrow is the deadline for all the complaints to report their certified totals to the state. so we'll see what we can learn from that, brooke. >> great. inching closer. >> david, thank you. david chalian in washington at the magic wall. want to pivot to breaking news in chicago, the mayor issued a stay-at-home order as cases are surging there. she's telling people to cancel thanksgiving. we have those details next. a

this is pima county, tucson, arizona, not as many, but still pretty populated area.s our understanding at the moment that donald trump is to perform at two points better than he is at the moment, if he does that, then kaylee's got an argument. at the moment, doesn't appear a setting that number. what the trump campaign argues, outside of phoenix and outside of tucson still have to check in, they believe they will be votes for the red team, but at the moment on the board, we still have arizona in joe biden's column. >> martha: what do you stated that? >> we believe we will prevail in arizona, here's why. at their 600,000 ballots outstanding, 400,000 are in maricopa county, which is crucial. if they release party idea of these ballots, more republican than democrat, and we believe the unaffiliated ballots will break our weight. at the end of the night last night, we are pulling in about 62% of the ballots in maricopa county for election day voting, and we only need 57.7% to prevail in arizona. we believe we win, in fact, we are predicting about 30,000 votes we win. if

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the president would need to win 70 percent of what is left, and we are still waiting for number from pimaudes a liberal part of the state of tucson. >> thank you. very interesting. in the meantime, it doesn't see to be much so far to disrupt th notion that joe biden is indeed the president-elect of the united states. this is why a lot of people are already calling joe biden about cabinet positions in other jobs in the administration's. late tucked the number of groups , more progressive in nature. elizabeth warren would make a perfect treasury secretary, so the battle is on. congressmen, good to have you back rate is there a little bit of infighting going on among democrats? you see that, but between progressives who definitely wan a seat at the table enough to b forgotten and others more traditional xing joe, don't go too far left with that cabinet. >> i think what you're going to hear is a very diverse cabinet made up of any kind of background, any philosophy and think people will be happy when they see the cabinet has been fixed. i don't know who's going to be there i've heard for so m

we look at pima and as well maricopa.ight now the president in these late vote counts that we are getting in -- i was looking at the last two that we got from arizona. he's in the mid to high 60s in terms of percentages of votes. so it's that story coming out of arizona still potentially has a couple of wrinkles in it. i wanted to bring up one last point because you brought it up in our last conversation which is what are the sorts of voters that we're seeing here. and if we were to look at just this little u here -- we'll call them like the new melting pots because there's a lot of new generations of immigrants coming in. and i was looking at the fact that you were on the streets yesterday in new york talking to so many different voters. and that sort of collection, right, of voters that came together to vote for this ticket. with kamala harris both being african-american and asian american, she's bringing together a lot of different potentially new interests. i was looking at the asian american vote, and in these states

we're still trying to look and see what's outstanding in pima county, it generally leans democrat and pinal county. if there's some balance shift there, that could make the difference. i can tell you the clock is ticking here on president donald trump in the state of arizona. regardless of what happens, if you look at big picture, this was a solidly red republican state for years. a democrat has not won here since 1996. before that all the way back to 1948. now with the increasing latino population, people moving here from other states like california, this state is becoming solidly purple. not just for this election, but the foreseeable future. if you look at the senate race, mark kelly is trending higher than joe biden. potentially we could have two senators from arizona going for the senate for the first time since 1953. >> nate, if you look at the five states still outstanding, you gave north carolina to donald trump. you thought arizona was second. what is this telling you? >> this is bad news for donald trump. he needed a 20-point margin. it's a lot of votes. i was an optimist f

it has been great for the president and still may be 18,000 or 20,000 votes out of pima county whichgly for president trump. we feel very good about the release of the numbers. i think we will win on the numbers. >> and pennsylvania the campaign wants to bounce 682,000 male and votes democrat rich philadelphia because it claims g.o.p. watchers could not properly see them being counted. state house republicans. >> our constituents are demanding concrete action and it's our conviction that we must take the steps and ensure public trust in our electoral system. >> philadelphia election officials reject those claims, saying there are no illegal votes being counted. that every malin vote is double checked. republican watchers observed alongside their democratic counterparts. "the observers have been in the room since the beginning." in michigan the trump campaign claimed unregistered people voted. election officials doubt that the legal strategy will work. >> no systematic widespread voter fraud. if folks have concerns of irregularities we need to look into them. >> tonight the u.s. posta

it because they love their daughters episode, but they didn't have one, but it's now the time for pima groups to join us. i know there are $35000.00 men and only $700.00 women in the sport. well enough to ever have a lad this year. it's much harder for women, they need the support of a father or brother, but most of only then can they make it? how to look before then the if this support is missing, it's still very difficult for women today. the men who could really get on the boat, what a month before the event begins, all the team leaders meet to set the rules for the various runs. this is not new for off, but she doesn't know anyone here. and for most of the men, female writers are still in on a custom site. at the fantasia. you know, of course, you could see if my welcome sister after his participation said no for i can imagine that it's not easy for a woman to attend. one of the it will look at sort of love everybody, but i consider it an honor for the other competitors in the fantaisie. oh and for our whole country, she had to hide that they're mad not. so i want to congratulate a

pinel is around 34,000 and maricopa and pima about 25,000. those i guess outstanding.county in the northeast corner is close to 10,000. then co-chief in the southeast corner is close to 10,000. >> you said the next batch you're expecting, kim was saying in several hours, is that going to be statewide or is that going to be from one particular county? >> the counties have been updating as they get update and posting their totals throughout the day. maricopa has been doing theirs at 7:00 p.m. arizona time daily and so that will be the biggest batch of ballots that you see being posted today. >> you filed an amicus brief. what is the latest on that? >> this is the called sharp yif gate lawsuit and our amicus brief focuses on the statutorily expectations that have to be met. they examined for expedited schedule and trying to delay it out and the state official canvass of the election reports. >> i appreciate your time, secretary of state katie hobbs. >>> up next the latest on the battle count and the key battleground states. the latest numbers are ahead. par what you need.

in pima county. let the states finish the counts. you look at the pattern joe biden leading in arizona. that would be a pickup. leading in nevada. if we get to the end of the day, joe biden holds those two states he is knocking on the door 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> we will watch arizona and nevada closely. we just projected michigan going to biden. >> it's been quite a big day, wolf, when it comes to projections from cnn and the fact that we have now projected that former vice president joe biden will win both wisconsin and michigan. the numbers are certainly going in biden's direction. we are still waiting to hear from a number of states including nevada, arizona, pennsylvania, as well as ones where we think trump is favored decisively like north carolina and alaska. georgia is still a question mark. it's very -- it's a big moment and i think one of the things that has to happen is that republicans on capitol hill need to figure out how they are going to react if the race ultimately is called for joe biden which we have not gotte

where else -- what about pima county? >> pima's got about 46,000 ballots. yuma is down to 8,500.,000. >> show us those for a moment. >> here's pipe which is overwhelming right now 60-39 in pima. and then you move up here to maricopa we just stalked about, and you come this way. did we mention we have more in pinel county? >> no. >> okay, so you have more in gila county? >> oh, gila is very minimal, less than 500 in gila county. >> you said in -- there's still a significant amount. this is why they're -- >> they are 8,500. >> 8,500. you see again the president is carrying this county. in other states we are seeing even the republican areas the democratic preference to vote by mail or vote early is significantly higher. joe biden even in pennsylvania or georgia, even in republican counties the democrats have a lopsided advantage when it comes to those ballots. do you know or are you seeing the same thing in arizona? >> i'm sorry. you cut out a little bit so i didn't hear all of your question. the democrats here definitely had an advantage in early votes. and in the early votes that

but it's now the time for pima groups to join us. i know there are 35000 men and only 700 women in the sport where they have a lad machine. it's much harder for women. they need the support of a father or brother that most of us off only then can make it how to cook the food. then the most of the, if this support is missing, it's still very difficult for women today. the men who could read the people on the boat put them on the heat. before the event begins, all the team leaders meet to set the rules for the various runs. this is not new for off, but she doesn't know anyone here. and for most of the men, female writers are still in on a custom site. at the fantasia you lot, of course you could see if my welcome sister after his participation said no. i can imagine that it's not easy for a woman to attend. one of the it will look at some of them already, but we see that, but i consider it an honor for the other competitors in the fantaisie. oh and for our whole country that they're mad not. so i want to congratulate and thank her and

and another 30,000 or so in pima county, sou of that, and that's why some outlets have not yet made that call. the a.p. says they stand by that call. and the votes are ver much being counted, but they say the facts will lead the way. >> lisa: and arizona also has a very hot senate race, which the a.p. has called in favor of mark kelley, but martha mcsally is not giving up, she isot conceding. >> about 89% of the expected votes in so far. but there is another state looking for a call, and that is the state of pennsylvania. lisa, 20 electoral votes at stake here. >> lisa: the keystone state is key -- you knew i this election season.e what is interesting about this red a blue map, there are very few changes from 2016. one is up here on the n jersey border. monroe coty, red, and north hampton, blue. this is a new pickup forth democrats right here. these are very close counties. one thing i want to say that is on most people's minds, these are two counties that have finished couing, including their mail-in vote. i know dan bush was talking about this, where are all of the votes still left to

in arizona to win a higher share of the provisional ballots that remain outstanding particularly in pimaunty which is more democratic than maricopa, that's tucson, and also to break even even win the maricopa provisionals which would provide him some cushion against the other losses in the other batches he's been seeing. >> let me ask you quickly about georgia since it is most likely going to a double runoff we know of i think in early january. when you look at the numbers is it your understanding there was a possibility people voted for joe biden for president but not necessarily for the democratic ticket on these two races to propel them beyond 50%? >> yeah, it's interesting. we're seeing this in a lot of different states. and there are two theories that i have. the first is that a number of independent voters felt liberated to out their anger at trump at the top but were still open to vote for a down ballot republican they like. whereas in 2018 in the mid-term their only option would be on the congressional ballot. the other theory that i have, and we're going to have to dive into thi

maricopa county, around phoenix, 93% of the vote in with joe biden having a 60,000 point lead there, in pimaounty, tucson joe biden has a 98,000 vote lead and 95% in and around flagstaff, joe biden has a smaller lead there, 17,000. but joe biden right now has a 40,000 point lead in arizona. arizona, nevada, georgia, north carolina, and pennsylvania all too close to call. we're not talking about alaska right now because they still have about half of their votes to count. brian. >> ali velshi at the big board while steve kornacki undergoes court mandated rest and nourishment period. thank you. and i'm told to a national sigh of relief palpable relief nicolle wallace has arrived at the studio. i've never been so happy to see you. >> thank you so much for pulling extra, extra shifts. we should pull back the curtain on what our lives are like. we don't know when this is going to end like all of america. but because of the dynamics of broadcasting in a time of a pandemic, we're all moving and staying socially distance. i was running up to take a test. anyway, such are the times in which we're cove

pima county, where tucson is, 95% in but it's a lead for joe biden. but this is where gadi is now in maricopa county. phoenix is really in it but it's a population center basically all around phoenix. remember, the whole state has 97% in. maricopa county has 95% in. and joe biden has a 4,000-point lead here. this county is breaking for joe biden more than it is for donald trump. overall for the state, 97% of the votes are in and joe biden only has a 20,000-point lead in this state. but again, i just want to -- gadi, i'm using you to -- as an excuse to -- to -- to use this board because we finally got steve out of here for a little while. let's say alaska goes for donald trump. let's say north carolina goes for donald trump where he's got a small lead. let's even say georgia goes for trump even though biden has the lead in georgia. look. doesn't matter. 250 is the most donald trump can get. so they may be complaining votes in arizona. but it will not change the outcome of this election, regardless. gadi, you said, you should have some stuff, maybe, by

election workers both at the state level and at the local level as well as our state partners like pimaffice of homeland security, department of homeland security who made sure that all those things we were -- that people were worried about whether it was voter intimidation or issues at the polls, really could not have gone more smoothly in the middle of a global pandemic with all the voting reform changes that we saw from act 77 and act 12. kudos to everybody involved. also we are exactly where we said we would be. so we said it was going to take some time to count the mail ballots, and we are approaching 50% of the mail ballots counted. it's great. as you know, you can go to our election night returns website and the supplement cal dashboard to get the greater details on that. there are millions of ballots left to be counted. the counties are working hard. you're going to see a lot of updates in the next couple hours and throughout the day. we have been -- there are a number of counties that made some major additions in the hours of the morning. so if you checked kind of early on this

because these are places, maricopa county, this county here where flagstaff is, and this county here, pima county, where tucson is. these are outstanding areas of votes. 46,000 votes outstanding here. 13,000, not that many up here where flagstaff is. but a lot, 294,000 in the maricopa, phoenix area. if donald trump continues to come in at these rates, he is going to eat into the 68,000-point lead that biden has. that is why in arizona, you're seeing protests by trump people to say continue counting the vote. as you know in other parts of the country, those very same people, different people but same party affiliation are arguing to stop the vote counting. so where they do not have a vote advantage, they don't want to continue the counting where. they think they might have an advantage in places like arizona, they are continuing the counting. the bottom line is with 86% of the vote in statewide, and about half a million votes still not counted, we don't know which way arizona is going to go. now, i just want to quickly give you the road to 270 and how we get there. we think nevada is leanin

the big picture question here statewide in arizona is once all of the counties, coconina, maricopa, pimay all count up their votes, when you put those all together, does trump get 59% of those from this last group that they're all in the process of counting now? if he does, he may very well erase all of that biden lead and win the state. the number is about 59%. even though he's only getting 47 in this update here, that might actually indicate -- that's ten points better. that's an improvement from baseline for him. it might actually mean he's still on pace for that. >> i know we're getting absurdly technical, but it is 1:38 a.m. so let's do it. vaughn hillyard, one of the fascinating things to the extent stuff is fascinating in arizona, these different kinds of times people are voting. there's different ways to vote in arizona. there's a lot of mail vote, in person, and people who mail in their vote, deposit in the last few days. they count in categories in terms of ballots. one of the things we'll find out from maricopa is, what, 75,000 votes that are people that dropped them off on el

some indications that trump again was at least hitting the numbers to maintain pace in the likes of pima county, coke nina county. yet again, there would have to be such a surge of support for donald trump among some of those other counties there to make up for this, that we'll continue to crunch these numbers, and steve will be better at it than i. i'll get on the phone with folks from both campaigns on the state to get the outlook. this was the batch that everybody was looking for. i've got to keep coming back to that. of the last 750,000, that should look pretty much exactly what we're looking at from this number here. >> mr. kornacki, can we take a look at, again, based on your trusty calculator there, steve, if this holds in arizona and joe biden picks up this state, nbc news calls it. if that does happen, what does that do to the math? what does that do to the road to 270? >> let's call that one up here. this is where things stand right now, 253 for biden, 214 to trump. we've talked about pennsylvania. you ask about arizona now. let's say pennsylvania remains kind of on hold for a

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the border in pima county to vote, which heavily liensjoe biden. ? which heavily liensjoe biden. what about nevada? 2007000 votes still to count in the fatah, there are two big urban areas, there is clark cou nty big urban areas, there is clark county which essentially is las vegas, there is about 84% of the vote counted in las vegas. that means 53—45 to joe vote counted in las vegas. that means 53—45 tojoe biden. the other is reno, washoe county. they are counting that, it leans heavily towards joe counting that, it leans heavily towardsjoe biden. counting that, it leans heavily towards joe biden. we counting that, it leans heavily towardsjoe biden. we are putting that slightly into the blue column, then. a lot to decide still in nevada, the data looking partey good. wisconsin, 99% of the vote counted, our sister station cbs have just called this in the last 15 minutes, so we can probably put this in blue. it is within the margin, joe biden‘s lead is 20,000. that is under i%, donald trump well within his rights legally to count for a recount, call

the other county we'll be watching for results is pima county, and that includes tucson, and that isne county that hillary clinton won sodly in 2016. mark kelly feels so confident toght that he has already planned an event tonight in tucson. >> woodruff: very, very interestinu all of what e saying. if that is a pickup for the democrats, for joe t bidet is significant. that is 11 electoral votes in arizona. i of course, early. the state has not been called yet. about the couny around phoenix, maricopa county, and what youe telling about pima, all of that very, very important. i nt to talk about that with amy walter in just a minute. right now i want to hear from our dan bush, who is in philadelphia, looking at what is happening in the state of pennsylvania. dan, we're hearing it is ju going to take a while for some of the votes to be counted. a record number of absentee ballots cast in pennsylvania. so we are not going to have a clear picture of results until well after midnight. yesterday the biden mpaign cautioned on a call with reporters, they didn't expect a cler picture in pennsy

maricopa county, and more votes in pima county. tucson, the suburbs around them. how you settle the race. >> hold on one second. i want to go to bill weir in phoenix. he's getting the votes right now. update our viewers, bill. >> reporter: yeah, wolf, this is the last big significant dump of the biggest county here in the state of arizona. my math privileges have been revoke, which is a good call by the decision desk so i'll give you the raw numbers. biden-harris, 1,023,516, trump/pence, 95,495,000. it doesn't look like the president made up as much ground as he needs to. >> he certainly did not make up that much ground. you can see what's going on over there. those are the total numbers that we're talking in maricopa county right now. >> right, the numbers and you see the map. we have to match this up. joe biden goes from 04 up to 23, and you see the president jumps up a little bit. so you're just trying to see, are we getting to a point where the president can narrow the lead. let me just move this out of the way so people can see what we're talking about. you'v

i want to check in tucson, pima county, 89%.en at 60, donald trump at 39 if you round that up. no guarantee the ballots yet to be counted match those percentages. if you're the biden campaign and look statewide, you know what's out, you know the size of that lead, you know most of the votes are in the blue areas you're confident. again, we have to get to the finish line. you mentioned nevada. let's check nevada quick. nevada, you look at the state, see all that red. you think the president must be winning in nevada. that's not how it works, you have to go to population centers. 72, 73, maybe 74% of the vote in clark county, that's vegas and suburbs, joe biden 53, donald trump 45. 84%, still about 16% of the vote, 15, 16% still to be counted here where the most votes are. if the trend continues joe biden keeps the lead. it's simple math. if he's winning more than half of what's left donald trump can't catch up. does that happen? that's why we count votes. check up here, this county is more competitive, 54-47, still 10% to count.

the next biggest is pima county here. this is the scheduled largest county. 15% here.t of ground earlier today. but we're waiting here. this is the ball game. the next big installment out of maricopa county will tell us a lot. and, again, this would be a flip. this was a trump state in 2016. not by a lot. arizona has been evolving. it's long been a republican state, but it was competitive, 3.5 points four years ago. you see the 1.2 million to win, right? four years ago. we're at 1.4 million for biden right now. one of the things we're seeing consistently across the states, whether they're red or blue is that turnout is up across much of america. so we'll wait. we're 88% and the big bulk of the rest of it is right there. you know, if you're in the biden campaign, you hold this. anything biden takes off the table now, the president must win pennsylvania, must win georgia and then he would still need more. so then if you're biden, you're just, you know, trying to take things off the table. any chess piece you can remove from the board makes the president's -- the bar for

election workers both at the state level and at the local level as well as our state partners like pima and office of homeland security, department of office of homeland security and making sure that all of the things that people were worried about whether it was voter intimidation or issues at the polls really could not have gone more smoothly in the middle of a global pandemic with all of the voting reform changes that we saw from act 77 and act 12. so that is huge kudos to everybody involved. also, we are exactly where we said that we would be. we said it would take some time to count the mail ballots, and we are approaching 50% of the mail ballots counted which is great. as you know, you can go to our election night returns website and the supplemental dashboard to get the greater details on that. but there are still millions of ballots to be counted. so the counties are working incredibly hard. you will see a lot of updates in the next coup koucouple of hour throughout the day. there are some counties that made additions in the wee hours of the day, and so if you checked early on t