in the keystone state of pennsylvania. he ballot are being counted in nevada out west.licans have filed a lawsuit against the state that allegedly the 10,000 foes have come from people no longer living there. president trump's campaign officials have held a news conference in las vegas in nevada and the director of intelligence as it is it is illegal to vote if somebody is not in the state of nevada for 30 days. ballots are not automatically legal votes until they are checked. we are not being allowed to check. the machine recklessly through ballots into the male and now we cannot check. we cannot check whether they are non—residents, which we have evidence, publicly available evidence, publicly available evidence, that you all in the media that you should also be looking at. it is publicly available information nonresidents have voted, there is a 30 day residency requirement in the state of nevada. if you haven't been in the state for 30 days, it is illegal to vote. let us speak to brian lanza, he is the former communications director for the trump transition team. tha

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including 17,000 right here in the keystone state.ject of amazing to think when we took office, when this america first president stepped into the white house, half of our international trade deficit was with china. ad joe biden has been cheerleader for communist china all along the way. literally. president donald trump stood up to china's steel dumping, we influenced tariffs on china steel, and we said that your of economic the us is over. and joe biden never lifted a finger to reform a trade with canada and mexico the democrats used to love to complain about. remember that? i don't have to tell you here in the tro, or background from in indiana, we saw thousands of factories literally shattered and jobs shipped out of the border and overseas. i went back to indiana and started to back my tags for washington -- pack my bag for washington, and a company that had been in indiana for 75 years was closing the factory and women to mexico. for years, people it joe biden loved took him thing about nafta, but they never lifted a finger to f

bryan llenas is in the keystone state, good evening, brian. >> good evening come out about 1.8 millionallots have been counted here in pennsylvania, that's about 70% of the total, there is about 800,000 ballots that have yet to be counted. i'm in luzern county, they are counting 57,000 male in balance. are there about 6,000 left, they have been here since 8:00 this morning, they were here yesterday at 7:00 a.m., 50 county workers counting these ballots. rudy giuliani of the president's lawyer said the campaign is going to be filing a lawsuit demanding that there be more transparency claiming that republican all waters have not had a chance to watch this process in philadelphia. listen. >> observation is particular important. the possibility that you can defraud, it's not as if it is used, an end show an identification. that's what we are going to be seeking, here. >> democratic governor tom wolf responded, take a listen. >> in pennsylvania, every vote is going to count. i'm going to fight like to protect the vote of every pennsylvanian. i'm going to do everything in my power to make su

who will be the next president of the united states. >>> the road to victory goes right to the keystone state. >>> biden surprise college students at the university pittsburgh with a visit from lady gaga who was joining him as he campaigns in the steele city this evening. >>> it is time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. go home. >>> former president barack obama is pushing to get out last minute voters in atlanta, georgia, in miami, florida, to state where the black vote could be key to a biden victory. >>> for you delivered for me twice. and now i'm asking you to deliver for all of us. >>> more than ninety six million americans have already cast early ballots, in a recent cbs news poll shows biden has an edge with early voters. the vast majority of the president's supporters are expected to come out on election day. president trump and his night with a rally in grand rapids, michigan, which is also his final stop on election eve in 2016. senator, harris has an event this hour, in philadelphia, with john legend, ahead of biden's final event for the evening. at the white house, na

cast, so what pennsylvania also has that the other states don't have is this intense focus, the keystone state is probably aptly named because it looks like it is the state that both trump and biden are going to fight over the hardest in the final days, and as was mentioned earlier, the president has a strategy of sending his lawyers there and he wants to stop as many of these mail-in ballots especially what they're going to classify as late-arriving ballots from getting counted and there's an entire legal problem that could crop up if the legislature decides to step in and invalidate the results. >> yes. >> i don't want to spread conspiracy theories. pies things could happen in the future and this is the things that people in pennsylvania are talking about, democrats especially, they're also nervous, democrats are, about gop plans to send poll watchers to all of the precincts and fears and concerns about voter intimidation. so a lot of things going on in pennsylvania. i'm based in florida and i got to say i'm looking at pennsylvania like thank god it's not us. >> we should be careful about la

just outside joe biden's birthplace, president trump predicting the keystone state will live up to its new name. >> we win pennsylvania, we win the whole deal. you know that. >> touting an endorsement. the first time the paper has endorsed a republican since 1972, an endorsement that came with its fair share of critici criticism. >> we say, we don't love his personality. we don't love he's tough. but i have to be tough. look, i have been under investigation from before i even became president. i have to be tough. if i was soft, i wouldn't be here right now. >> with its 20 electoral votes, pennsylvania is a big prize, one that could insulate the president against elsewhere. the president, making an economic appeal to voters. joe biden's talk about ending the oil industry. >> final slam to ban fracking is an economic death sentence for pennsylvania. biden's energy shutdown will wipe out your jobs, decimate your towns, eliminate your factories come and send your state into a nightmare of crippling poverty. >> president trump today keeping up the drumbeat against male ann voting. >> what a

the mail in ballots received by election day the to be counted to be growing his lead in the keystone state that has 20 electoral votes. the important distinction these are the counts of mail in ballots received by election day. state of pennsylvania remember mail in ballots that are received by 8:00 p.m. on election day authors counted first. any and all ballots received from 8:00 p.m. election day and today are segregated kept separate and counted separate as of right now joe biden is growing his lead here in the keystone state that has 20 electoral votes. trump campaign has tried to block the county of any mail in ballots received after 8:00 p.m. on election day. trump campaign has sued to give more access to opening and counting of mail in ballots that have been counted that were received by election day we'll follow that story and bring the latest numbers again as soon as we get them back over to you >> this could end up being closer or a lot less close meanwhile contessa brewer is in georgia with the latest in that race >> reporter: john, the former vice president's lead over presiden

could president trump's steps in the keystone state push him in the lead.lian: joining us now, tezlan figero. does all of this come down to pennsylvania. if we look at the lead that joe biden has right now, this is -- you can see the poll, 51.3% joe biden, to the president's 43.5%, this is according to real clear politics average. you know, joe biden has spent a significant amount of time in pennsylvania, obviously living close by in delaware. but the president has been spending time on the trail in pennsylvania the last few days. do you think that's going to matter in the end? >> well, we'll see if it matters. when you look at 44,000 votes making the difference, i believe that joe biden certainly should have been in pennsylvania a lot earlier. covid is going on today like it was several weeks ago. democrats are happy to finally see joe biden on the campaign trail. no vote can be taken for granted at this point when you look at the sheer difference between biden and president trump. when you actually look at those who have actually cast their ballots. right

so really trying to make that final push here in the keystone state. the battleground that joe biden has spent more time in than any other. and this is also one of those states, too, that there are questions about what ballot counting is going to look like. you played that clip of the president saying he's going to be sending his lawyers in. lawyers around election night and the days after really isn't anything new but the thing that's also not new is the fact that votes are always counted after election night. the only thing that you see on election night is networks projecting because they have looked at data. the reality is, canvassing totals are never final on election night. so a trump campaign might be trying to muddy the waters on that, but the biden campaign has been consistent in trying to continue the faith in our institutions which i know it's different. it's in a pandemic, but, really, the way this is happening is how it's always happened in terms of the way we count our votes. >> phil, weigh in on what ali just laid out there. biden has bee

ali is in philadelphia covering the biden campaign's big focus on the keystone state. monica, let's start with you. president trump making five stops in four states today. what should we be looking out for? >> reporter: well, craig, where the president is going physically tells you a lot about what the campaign is seeing internally. officials feeling a bit more confident about florida, where the president woke up today. north carolina, his first stop, and then pennsylvania. as you mentioned, the keystone state, they believe this is where this may all come down to the wire. that's why the president spent 12 hours there on saturday, four different stops in the commonwealth. that's why he will be heading back there today before coming to the midwest for his final stops of the 2020 cycle, where i am. he will be in michigan in two places, traverse city, then closing out the entirety of the night in grand rapids, michigan, something he is superstitious and nostalgic about. that's exactly what he did four years ago in 2016. all of it, though, craig, coming against the backdrop

president trump has seen that lead of his in the keystone state dwindle by several hundred thousand votesver the past 24 hours. once again, our reporters are spread out from the big board to the battleground states getting literally minute by minute updates on the state of the race. we start with steve kornacki at the big board once again. steve, take us through where things stand at this hour. the aforementioned votes out of fulton county, have those votes dropped yet? >> no. i think we're still waiting. let's check in on georgia. 18,100. that's donald trump's lead statewide in georgia right now. that's been dropping because of counties like fulton county where atlanta is and where joe biden has been doing very well in the late reporting, absentee vote. it looks like we've got one new one in the last few minutes in georgia that competed its count. that's what brought trump's lead statewide, down about 500 votes in the last half hour or so. we got one smaller county that just reported its complete result. i think we have 13 left. i've got my checklist here. i can tell you fulton is one of

votes from heavily democratic areas like philadelphia are giving him a widening lead, and the keystone state'selectoral votes are in his sight. cbs' jericka duncan is in philadelphia tonight. and good evening, jericka. all eyes on where you are. >> reporter: that's right, norah. it is an important state, and these candidates knew that. when you just look at how many times they visited the keystone state leading up to this very important election. but what continues to happen as we continue to talk about this is the counting. the way that it works is almost like an assembly line of sorts, when you think about it. they have to sort the ballots, then they open up them up and they go through a scanning system of sorts to go through all of those ballots, and many of them still here remaining in philadelphia. but right now, former vice president joe biden is leading leading president trump by his biggest margin yet. now, outside the convention center where those votes with being counted in philadelphia, it was another day of music and chants from a crowd calling for every vote to be counted. , ose s

when you just look at how many times they visited the keystone state leading up to this very important election. but what continues to happen as we continue to talk about this is the counting. the way that it works is almost like an assembly line of sorts, when you think about it. they have to sort ballots, then they open up them up and they go through a scanning system of sorts to go through all of those ballots, and many of them still here remaining in philadelphia. but right now, former vice president joe biden is leading president trump by his biggest margin yet. now, outside the convention center where those votes with being counted in philadelphia, it was another day of music and y vo to be counted. calling for thos really, the voices of trump supporters who told me personally, there's no way, they says, trump could have lost that lead. at a news conference today, the mayor of philadelphia, jim kenny, was asked what he thinks president trump should do next. >> you know, i think what the president needs to do is, frankly, put his big boy pants on. he needs to acknowledge the fact

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when could we get a result from the keystone state? red keller joins us on the state of that race next. ♪ >> you can to take time to count the votes. we are going to win pennsylvania. >> a victory in pennsylvania. this is not based on gut or feel but en masse. >> both presidential campaign think they will claim the keystone state with hundreds of thousands of ballots still to count. the deadline for mail in ballots is friday. >> fred keller, thank you for being here. let's break this down. you saw in the graphic the president is in pennsylvania by 164,000 votes. the department of state says there are 763,000 mail in ballots still to be counted. if you break it down in the bigger areas in pennsylvania, pittsburgh specifically, they have 43,000 in allegheny county, in philadelphia they have 120,000 ballots to be counted, philadelphia very democratic, do you think pennsylvania will stay red? >> i think the, willfully in the paper for the president, there are other counties that have ballots to count, there are areas that will be more heavi

the keystone state, 10 am this morning the judge will here five appeals in philadelphia where the trump campaign is seeking to have 1000 ballots tossed for what they say are ineligible votes after the trump campaign won a minor victory when the judge ruled the secretary of state lack the authority to extend the deadline but the ruling did not affect the overall vote count. trump campaign spokesman kayleigh mcenany weighing in on this. >> we believe in the counting process, ballots without signatures, dates and addresses which are required by law were counted in some democrat counties but not some republican counties. this would amount to tens of thousands of ballots counted improperly. >> this as a hand recount begins in georgia, first time they had to recount the president a result there in history. the will be busy because they have a deadline of november 20th was out with a new lawsuit filed by the arizona gop to force the hand recount there and it comes as several other networks join fox news's decision desk and call the grand canyon state for joe biden. a coalition of federal and s

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we are in realtime keystone state of pennsylvania.tates though, nick. if one of them was to firmly go into the biden cullen, do we know what the biden cullen, do we know what the strategy is going to be there in delaware. is he going to come out in claim eight? yet, the thing about the cancer that is one going to happen in wisconsin, little campaign have requested that but they have got a lead of 20,000 in wisconsin and recounts don't generally change that many votes, we are talking hundreds rather than thousands and it is very hard to win that result asa 20,000 it is very hard to win that result as a 20,000 victory in wisconsin with every count so i don't think they are going to be waiting around for recounts, they are going to be claiming victory really early on, and it is worth pointing out that the biden campaign is for people who are the biden campaign is for people who a re vetera ns the biden campaign is for people who are veterans of the florida recount and one of the things they thought about florida in 2000 was that george w

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all eyes are on the keystone state.tes making their final push before election day. >> i chose western pennsylvania for my first stop is a candidate and now it is my last stop before election day because you represent the backbone of this country. hard-working families. >> we went pennsylvania we win the whole deal. he left at 9 years old. >> a bit of a push there by the president the last couple days, lots of rallies, polls the we have seen closing. will this make any difference this last-minute campaigning for either side? >> of the pole discrepancy is close to 2016 this state is in a dead heat. it is all about energy in pennsylvania. less presidential debate trump got biden to admit he wants to end the energy industry. 600,000 jobs, absolutely devastating to so many families but i think trump will probably do better in pennsylvania than the polls suggest. there two reasons we cannot fully trust these polls, first is that they don't do a great job measuring mobilization, trump's base loves him, they are mobilize, joe

it's part of a two-day blitz through the keystone state. joe biden and kamala harris effectively splitting the state up, joe biden taking the western half, kamala harris taking the eastern part of the state and trying to drive upturnout across all of those cities pittsburgh and philadelphia. they're also campaigning in states they might call the expand states, the state that is the biden campaign sees as opportunities they could flip from 2016. states like arizona, georgia, texas, are states democrats have been looking at for quite some time that they're wondering if now in 2020 it's ripe for democrats in a presidential election year. in arizona, north carolina and pennsylvania they exceeded their goals in door knocks and phone calls. the candidates are out but they're also still going that grassroots get out the vote turnout. >> thanks to both of you for being with us. let's take a look here at a state that many are surprised e to see in the tossup category late in the campaign, texas. it's one democrats have had their eyes on for a long ti

the keystone state, pennsylvania. obviously this was the one that really tipped the election.s to call it for joe biden. right now he is 53,000 votes ahead. that is a big gap. that's not the kind of thing that's going to get overturned even with 45,000 ballots outstanding in the keystone state. really, the counting continues. the legal wrangling is going on, but these numbers are just massive. >> what is the state of that legal wrangling by the trauump campaign? >> chaotic and desperate. they're trying to flood things with legal challenges. the disinformation eco system is trying to create an impression of a lot of problems. they are not backed up by facts. when trump's lawyers are going to court, they have to tell the judge they don't have evidence at this present time. this is a flood the zone strategy. it's desperate. they're trying to break precedence in some cases. it's a long-ball to say the least and it's not backed by facts as we've seen over and over again. >> it's a problem when you tell a judge you don't have evidence. >> that's kind of a avalon, th. >>> two georgia

the lead in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania, we are expecting more votes soon from the keystone state has never earned that title more than this year. our special coverage continues. find your rhythm. your happy place. find your breaking point. then break it. every emergen-c gives you a potent blend of nutrients so you can emerge your best with emergen-c. keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. (♪ ) you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base so you can start hiring right away. claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo intronew advil dual action. the world of pain relief: advil targets pain at the source. acetaminophen blocks pain signals. new advil dual action with acetaminophen. >>> pennsylvania, bide season now ahead by 5,587 votes, 49.4% to 49.3%. i'm here with john king. pamela brown is taking a closer look at where the outstanding votes in pennsylvania are right now. what are you learning

that exceeds donald trump's margin in 2016 in the keystone state and 49,000 votes still outstanding.n in a very strong position. >> what do we know about certification dates for these states? do those close counts change those at all? >> this is one of the key questions that everybody is fighting over, the trump campaign obviously trying to delay certification. let's look exactly at some of those dates. in georgia, certification date is november 20th. pennsylvania, november 23rd. less the same day as michigan. nevada one day later, november 24th. arizona, november 30th. wisconsin december 1. these are really key because once they're certified, then it starts moving towards the electoral college for a final, final count. but this is one of the key dates to keep in mind because that's what's going to be contested as much as anything else going forward. >> john avalon, thank you so much, as always. >>> despite the hard numbers john avalon just laid out for us, the president and his allies are still spreading disinformation about the results of the election and those false claims are goi

provisional ballots there in the keystone state, mark, what are you paying closest attention to right now? >> yeah, just kind of how they break, craig, and again, there's been a whole lot of uncertainty in this election. we've seen certain patterns play out where the mail-in ballots look good for joe biden whether you're in blue areas in pennsylvania or even red ones, and just democrats by and large wanted to vote by mail, republicans by and large wanted to vote on election tday. the people who cast provisional ballots, you want to make sure they were eligible to vote, and could they end up being a person who decided, hey, i have a mail-in ballot but i want to vote on election day. maybe you're a republican who wanted to do that. maybe you're a democrat who had a mail-in ballot, and said i want to voe on electite on elec. the different motivation on how someone ends up becoming a provisional voter, i do think there's some uncertainty there. we believe there's some 100,000 provisional ballots still remaining in pennsylvania. not sure that all of them will end up counting at the end of

because of the fracking issue that's why he's now doing four rallies tonight and today in that keystone stateesse. >> yeah huge self-inflicted wound with oil and fracking comment by joe biden he's just getting out worked in keystone state, and the republicans believe that they're in good shape with early voting right now. in pennsylvania, they have wiped out the democrat early vote lead basically in florida where i think biden is going in there with less of an advantage than andrew did with the desantis you remember what happened there and remember arizona early vote we wiped out by the republicans there and that's a red state. so i agree. north carolina is looking good for the republicans. florida and arizona he gets those core there he just picks up one of the four in the rust belt i agree, those three states you named up there also minnesota is in play there confident about that. all right joe watching everything media does and taking notes. thank you again. >> thank you, jesse. jesse: president trump to rally supporters in pennsylvania any minute. we'll bring it to you live. businesses to

the keystone state could be an early indicator.en made us stop in scranton earlier today and is now swinging through philadelphia. yesterday at our rally in pittsburgh, he once again addressed the president's claims that biden would be on fracking. >> let me be clear. i will not ban fracking in pennsylvania. i will protect those jobs, no matter what donald trump says, but i tell you what. i will -- i will no longer support those subsidies. >> harris: president trump today told "fox & friends" he thinks that biden team is nervous. >> you notice that biden went out. he's campaigning because he is worried. we've seen tremendous changes. we've seen actually in the last three days -- this reminds me. i hope it reminds me of four years ago. tremendous changes have taken place over the last week. we think we are winning texas very big. winning in florida very big. we think we are winning arizona very big. >> harris: you know, katie, people outside of areas where fracking is part of the economy may not understand the importance of it. is t

we are the keystone state.n this election, it has loomed large in both campaigns. >> some people might not understand why the process -- how come michigan and wisconsin? why were they able to get it done faster? is there anything you want to let the average person know? >> there are a couple things. maybe kathy can talk to this. in pennsylvania, you can't start counting ballots until the polls close at 8:00. in some places, you can start to counter early. in pennsylvania, you can't even start to prepare mail-in ballots by opening the envelopes, smoothing them out to prepare for them to be scanned. you can't start that process until 7:00 on election day. other states have days before the election. you can get them ready to put into the scanner at what anytime you want to do that. pennsylvania has always had a late start on the counting process. that has been accelerated with more ballots coming in by mail. reasonink that's the that this is taking more time. frankly, i am pleased with the 3 million ballots applie

. >> reporter: with a multitude of tweets about the keystone state courts have repeatedly rejected trump campaign cases claiming fraud. president trump will be making a trip to camp david today. the bidens and spoke to healthcare workers on thanks giving and released a video on twitter. >> history has shown that there is nothing we can't do if we do it together. >> reporter: two senate runoff races there in january will determine the balance of power in congress natalie brand cbs news the white house and this just in a federal appeals court has rejected an intent from president trump's reelection campaign to keep alive its effort to undo the results of pennsylvania presidential election still ahead on kpix 5 news and streaming on cbsn bay area a century-old rival he comes to the berkeley hills today the carol sanford football game and the battle for the. >>> just call it retail therapy we take a look at the spending and the best time to buy. >>> look at those clear skies over the tri-valley and the entire bay area today sunny and mid 60s that covers afternoon, but we have something to ta

you can see he has 13,371 votes more than donald trump in the keystone state in pennsylvania, a pivotalte if joe biden were to win that state. he would have 270 electoral votes and he would be the president-elect. we have not declared that, we have not rejected that. if he were, that would be the ball game. >> it would be. and the biden campaign, never mind joe biden and his family, senator harris, her family, they're kind of in suspended animation. like this for the past 12 hours because they're weightiaiting f moment when pennsylvania likely will have another wave of votes and the expectation based on the way it is going is that that will increase and make it as obvious as it is to them that he will be the president-elect. but obviously she said nobody is there yet. meantime, what they're doing, jeff zeleny reported that the former vice president is going to give a speech later tonight, they're working on that speech. i am told that the content of that will be everything we heard from the former vice president since the first day that he announced his candidacy, which is the whole not

hillary clinton lost the keystone state by 44,000 votes. that's less than 1% of the state's total. ruhle is in philadelphia this morning. she's been talking to some voters. steph, what are they telling you? >> reporter: craig, people are taking election day seriously. they lined up here early at the museum of the revolution and we're not seeing huge lines here, but i can tell you from those i spoke to, they didn't vote early, not because they didn't trust the system. they wanted to show up and feel the vote. they said this year matters more than anything, and i want to share a conversation i had with one voter, heather parker. >> you've been voting for many years. was today a different voting experience than you've had before? >> absolutely. it felt more powerful than any time i've ever voted in my whole life. it felt like i was voting for myself, for my daughter, for her children, for years to come. this vote really matters. >> reporter: craig, there's a lot of talk about voting security issues, are they going to count the votes in time. i spoke to the attorney general who said by

moments ago, the running mates say the keystone state, 20 electoral votes could decide the outcome. >> there's a lot at stake and we want to make sure that everybody we know votes, okay? because i think y'all know, that's why we are all here, keep coming back, because we care about pennsylvania and because pennsylvania is going to determine the outcome of this election. >> tomorrow we need the people of the keystone state to show america that pennsylvania is trump country. >> why might pennsylvania matter so much? let's look at the map. this is the 2016 map. democrats don't like this map. this is president trump's path to victory four years ago. we all remember pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, so-called democratic blue wall. those three industrial states haven't been red since 1992. democrats carried them since 1992 in every election. the president flipped them. joe biden leads in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. just those three states alone, if all of the other clinton states stay blue, those three states winning there makes joe biden the next president of the united states, mak

my next guest polling shows president trump two points ahead in the keystone state. he says this: >> the way i look at pennsylvania is unfortunately i think he has two win four or five to overtake voter fraud there. it is very systematic in pennsylvania. i think it is achievable to get to four or five but the kind of margin he needs in pennsylvania to survive. >> martha: here is the president speaking in scranton, pennsylvania, earlier today, watch this. >> he said how is he going to do in pennsylvania? he is going to win in pennsylvania except for the cheating's and we have to leave 5% of the cheating. can you believe it? for the cheating that takes place in pennsylvania. and the guy a great poster but he predicted to win the whole election. >> martha: joining me now is the pollster mentioned by the president robert mchaley and the group, thank you for being here and being with us. we listen to that and anticipatory to say that there will be cheating when we haven't seen it happen yet. why are you so confident of that? >> first of all, pennsylvania has a long histor

president trump was delivering his final push with four stops in the keystone state. his focus is keeping supporters fired up. the president continued to express his mistrust about election results and the wait for results. a stunning rebuke of the supreme court he helped shape, after the court in pennsylvania decided the commonwealth gets three days beyond election day to count the mail-in ballots. >> of course now that our united states supreme court has delayed everything, it's going to be a tremendous interesting evening. i wonder what happens during that period of delay with the ballots. i wonder what happens. >> pennsylvania holds 20 electoral votes. in michigan it was a reunion on the campaign trail. president obama and his former vice president together again in person for the first time this campaign season. their aim was to boost support among black voters and they criticized president trump for his handling of the pandemic. the former vice president said he's keeping a hopeful outlook in this final stretch. >> what is the general mood? >> very good, very hi

president's claims of fraud and pennsylvania certified its vote tuesday reaffirming biden's win in the keystone state. while the president continues to fight the results he signed off on biden to begin getting the daily tell intelligence brief and they are now in contact with federal agencies. >> the first things were introductions to lead up to the inauguration and the first opportunity to -- for agencies to prevent their transition plans to members of our teams. >> the president elect revealed six key members of his foreign poll and i national security team tuesday and is preparing to announce some members of his economic team next week. lester holt asked if progressive senators bernie sanderns and elizabeth warren would join his cabinet. >> i have a progressive agenda. it'll take really strong leaders in the house and senate to get it done. >> cbs news the white house. >>> biden transition officials say they expect the president elect's daily intelligence briefings to start on monday. >>> to wall street. the dow going below 30,000 after passing that milestone for the first time yesterday. right no

michael sure has more from the keystone state tonight. how you feel right now. >>in the end it came down to philadelphia. the city where the declaration of independence was drafted by the likes of jefferson and franklin push joe biden and kamala harris over the electoral threshold and philadelphians to the streets some even carrying the document. >>250 years ago some great man recognize that people have certain unalienable rights and that the power lines of the people not with things and tyrants you know the voice and that's what our democracy is all about the president's team, however is challenging the victory with some legal action of their own trump legal adviser rudy giuliani was in philadelphia today questioning the absentee ballot count. the people of this city people this country have no. >>assurance at all. that those ballots were actually cast. there would have to have been almost unanimously cast for joe biden in order to catch so on the streets of philadelphia agree and say they aren't ready to concede not now or ever unknown ever be a because there'

comes down to pennsylvania, but putting that aside, we know that the 20 electoral votes that the keystone stateo offer are critical in the campaigns path to 270. we have seen donald trump holding a series of rallies here in recent days, visiting the parts of the state most friendly to him, trying to drum up enthusia enthusiasm amongst his supporters. he wants to hold a state he flipped in 2016, with less than 1% of the elect rate. don't forget former vice president joe biden launched his campaign in pennsylvania. he also wraps it up in pennsylvania with big events yesterday in pittsburgh and philadelphia. he will be back in philadelphia and scranton today while on the trail in pennsylvania, he has tried to play up his scranton roots. working to appeal to his union households that flipped to president trump back in 2016. pennsylvania of course a critical part of that so-called blue wall that democrats are trying to rebuild. what is really interesting about pennsylvania, alisyn, is the fact that 2.4 million mail-in ballots have been cast. that sounds like a big number but it's less than 40% of th

president trump and joe biden are here in the keystone state today. at scranton. he was at the

with its 20 electoral votes at stake, both campaigns stay focused on the keystone state. and, a troubling surge-- u.s. coronavirus cases to100,000 in a single day for the first time, as hospitals nationwide brace for a huge increase in patients. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> when the world gets complicated, a lot goes throurh ind. with fidelity wealth management, a dedicated advisor can tailor advice and recommendations to your life. that's fidelity wealth management. >> the john s. and james l. knight foundation. fostering informed and engaged communities. more at kf.org. >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations inra education, demc engagement, and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institution and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastin and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the presidential ra now hangs

. >> good morning, maria we knew that keystone state could be key to this election, and we're still seeinghis morning. as you mentioned the president needed his supporters to e shough up in full force on election day to make up for those democrats spewing mail-in ballots that were received three teams more democrattings return mail-in ballots than republicans did and president did have a strong show of force among his supporters here in pennsylvania. yesterday, but there are still mail-in ballots being counted and a lot of them we have live pictures poll workers still counting ballots here in pennsylvania and philadelphia right now across the state 1.1 million mail-in ballots have been could counted 1.4 million o be counted so there's a chance that the vice president or the former vice president catches up to president trump who as of right now has a sizable lead but there are also in fern votes that still have to be counted. yesterday the president came out he claimed victory he also indicated that he would dispute the results of this election. listen. this is a very big moment this is a

with its 20 electoral votes at stake, both campaigns stay focused on the keystone state., a troubling surge-- u.s. coronavirus cases to100,000 in a single day for the first time, as hospitals nationwide brace for a huge increase in patients. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

. >> reporter: both candidates are trying to lock up the keystone state's 20 electoral votes. the latest cbs news battleground tracker poll shows president trump trails joe biden in pennsylvania by seven points. the president is holding 14 rallies in the final three days of the campaign, even as u.s. coronavirus cases surge to record highs. on friday alone, mor than 99,000 new cases were reported, and now a new analysis by a stanford university economist that is not yet peer reviewed claims that 18 trump rallies may have led to an estimated 30,000 covid cases and 700 deaths. the trump campaign responded by saying it offers rally-goers masks and hand sanitizers and they have a first-amendment right to gather. in michigan today, former president barack obama joined his vice president for the first time on the campaign trail. they both offered scathing reviews of president trump's handling of the virus. >> we have a president who has just given up. i will never raise the white flag of surrender. we're going to beat this virus, and we're going to get it under control. >> joe is no

states and pennsylvania where joe biden has spent more time anywhere else knowing if he wins the keystone state he could probably win the white house. joe biden signaling he has one more day to go. he and his team spent the day focused on one of tomorrow's biggest prizes, pennsylvania. >> we've got to make sure everyone returns their ballot and vote them. >> reporter: biden acknowledged the president's reported threat to declare victory tomorrow night regard regardless of how many standing votes there are. >> when the message is heard i believe the message will be loud and clear. it's time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. >> reporter: the latest cbs news battleground tracker polls shows biden up seven points but it might be tightening. biden must drive out turnout compared to four years around philadelphia and pittsburgh when and in northeast pennsylvania and cut into the president's advantages in rural republican parts of the state. even bringing lady ga-ga along. running mate kamala harris worked the eastern side and blasted the president continuing to raise doubts against the i

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