where do carla bleicher is standing by she has been following all of these developments so i mean what do you make of what is going on in these key swing states well it is a really close race which was not necessarily what the democrats were expecting or hoping for but here we are looking at georgia for example one of the states still at play donald trump is in the lead and he won the state 4 years ago but now it looks like biden might be catching up and it's really coming down to probably a couple of 1000 votes by then can afford to lose those states if he has indeed won arizona but if he did when arizona as a.p. is saying for example then trump needs georgia and he cannot afford to lose here tell us a little bit more about arizona because as as we have mentioned a.p. has called it why are other news outlets being a little bit more cautious here. while they are saying it is still too close to call biden has had a lead here even though this was a republican state 4 years ago but biden slee is also shrinking here looking at the difference from last nights to this morning his lead has sh

state of the race where the vote the vote count stands right now we're joined by correspondent carla bleicher who is standing by for us there so as we've just seen carla biden polling ahead in georgia but by the way for thing in the margin what should we be watching as the counting continues. well definitely keep your eye on georgia because as you mentioned the margin there is incredibly small so it could go back and forth if you will. also keep watching arizona as some news organizations as you mentioned have already called it but others have nots and biden sleep there appear to be shrinking and then of course pennsylvania pennsylvania is incredibly important to watch that has 20 electoral votes should biden pull ahead here and when the states he would of he would have crossed over the magic number of 270 electoral college votes so that means he would he would win the election. trump is still ahead by a little bit but it's mail in voting ballots that are still being counted that favor joe biden and some of them are coming from the philadelphia area which is also a democratic leaning. area an

with those projections so let's get an update now from washington did have you correspondent carla bleicher is standing by there so we just saw where the race stands right now give us a little bit of perspective on what is going on right now there in those key states . it is definitely a very close race and votes are still being counted they have been counted throughout the night and into the early morning hours here and one said of course way it where it is getting closer is pennsylvania so president trump is in the lead here and he is in the lead by the widest margin of all states that are still counting but that leads has been narrowing steadily ever since election day and the reason for this is that the votes that are now being counted are mail in ballots and as we've heard it's democrats mostly who voted by mail and not republicans so this is why we're seeing these numbers that are coming in mostly for biden in pennsylvania so it's going to be interesting to see how this continues but we might still have to wait a while because pennsylvania is a state that still allows ballots coming i

we're going to have to be patient for a little bit longer to find out how pennsylvania voted carla bleicher thank you. throw now into the 2nd day without a conclusive results in the u.s. election states have until december 8th to deliver certified results that is supposed to help guarantee that all votes have indeed been counted that day is called safe harbor day because any state result after that which is delivered can be challenged at a less time this all came into play was 20 years ago an election that was ultimately decided by the supreme court. november 2000 republican presidential candidate george w. bush seems to win florida but the results are so close that the rules demand a recount the whole election hangs in the balance democratic candidate al gore request a manual recount in certain counties. recounting by hand took a long time a legal battle slowed vote counting down and the state overshot the safe harbor date december 8th this allowed the bush campaign to ask the supreme court to stop a new statewide recount which it did bush was declared the winner by a margin of just a few

state of the race where the vote the vote count stands right now we're joined by correspondent carla bleicher who is standing by for us there so as we've just seen carla biden pulling ahead in georgia but by the way for thing the margin what should we be watching as the counting continues. well definitely keep your eye on georgia because as you mentioned the margin there is is incredibly small so it could go back and forth if you will. also keep watching arizona some news organizations as you mentioned have already called it but others have nots in biden sleep there appear to be shrinking and then of course spent.