this is phoenix, this is maricopa county. we have more votes to come in enreally decent turnout for peoe in maricopa county. not as many votes there, but still populated, not as much is phoenix, but the trump campaign is saying they are going to pick up votesru from all over this location here with about 15% of the votes still outstanding. why does that matter? it matters because he could close the margin between these two. the problem is this, trump has to exceed two more percentage points than what he is getting at the moment. if he had set number, he could flip the state. right now, he is not doing that in arizona tonight. >> tucker: it's still? very interesting. r:they have called the state of michigan for joe biden, but we are seeing a lot of strange things happen in that state tonight, including poll watchers apparently being blocked from witnessing. that's not a good sign. been covering from an absentee ballot counting center in the city of detroit, he joins us tonight, good to see you. what do you see? >> there are so

almost half the 300,000 outstanding ballots in maricopa county. it's relatively competitive. joe biden is nar low carrying it now 51-47. and here's the question. you see joe biden with a lead here. so if if we get 140,000 more today is it relatively unilaterally matched like this, but the president did narrow the lead. when you look at this and think joe biden's going to build, we don't know that. remember if you go back in time donald trump carried maricopa county four years ago. the suburbs have revolted against this president and some places here. if they get 140,000 today, that's about half. won't get you in the finish line but give you direction. >> of the 300,000 or so uncounted ballots so far, how many are like the mail-in ballots as opposed to the day of ballots? >> we don't have anymore day of ballots except for provisionals being counted right now. all the ballots being counted right now are the ones dropped off monday or tuesday. >> 300,000 in maricopa county. where else -- what about pima county? >> pima's got about 46,000 ballots. yum

people talk about maricopa county has been decisive i knew what happens in arizona. maricopa county is 31% latino. it is the biggest county and it thea very big share of vote. thinkzona especially i and a few other states, native american vote will be crucial but getting the hard numbers is going to take some time because usesample these pollsters is so small that it is going to take a lot more digging to get the actual results. , even as you say it is very surprising that white in --voters voted for him trump in greater numbers in 2016 given trump's consistent assault guessen of all kinds, i the thing that is striking is also the fact -- i mean, trump did win over 16 million votes, 68 million votes, that given what he has done and said to and about african americans, asian americans, the latinx communities, that a increas -- first of all, that y people would vote for him. and on top of that, that there would be an increase at all, even if marginal. juan: yes, well i agr with you, nermeen. i think the issue to understand -- again, that is why i raised the nature of u

conservative voters in an effort to maybe offset some of the deficits she expects to see in the outskirts of maricopa county, the communities around phoenix and the communities around tucson where she's from. she faces mark kelly, who is a democrat. he's a retired nasa astronaut. he's married to former congressman gabrielle giffords, who survived a mass shooting in 2011. and he's done a lot of work in the gun activism role and he's really well known nationally for his work on that issue. he's been leading the race in every single well-ranked poll over the last several months. the race does appear to be tightening. but we'll find out what happens

election so we saw in michigan for instance was all protesters crowding an election center in arizona maricopa county that i just talked about we also saw a huge crowd of protesters some of them armed turning out so you know ask the race tightens and some of these states i would expect to see more of these types of protest quickly peter maybe one or 2 things we should be watching out for on the horizon yeah i think one of the big questions is if biden wins how decisively when does he win will it be enough for trying to sustain his legal challenge or will he had some point have to capitulate and also what will republicans do will they you know back him or will they back away from him i think ultimately the big question is you know this is not just about who becomes president it's also about the legitimacy. an incredibly divided country and whoever takes the lead of this divided country will need to be a legitimate president so patients and trust the process is what i would say peter thank you very much that was paid a little thank you. so you'll have some other news stories around the world rig

coming into maricopa county, it's 51% to 48%. maricopa county is 60% of the vote statewide. bill is asking the right question which is, we've seen repeatedly, again, maricopa county is blue but it's highly competitive, president trump carried it four years ago. it is increasingly leaning to the democrat suburbs because of the revolt against president trump in the suburbs. but he's getting a fair amount of votes here. is it enough? is this trajectory in arizona enough for the president to catch up? joe biden's lead there has been going down throughout the day. the question is is it going down enough. this is chipping away. and again, we're counting the votes everywhere, so the president is complaining about what's happening in other states, this is a state where as they count more votes, he has been slowly narrowing the gap, modestly. that's 7,000 votes in one dump of votes. the question is you're up to 97% of the vote in now, are there enough to chip it away further. >> biden still has a 30,000-vote lead right now. the question is how much votes are still outstanding and how

according to the maricopa county recorder's office they will be given a new batch at 4:00 p.m. local tomorrow. shannon: alicia thank you for the update. we appreciate it. president-elect joe biden addressing the country a short time ago saying this is a time to heal but president trump says it's not over yet and he's promising that legal fight will continue. i had a political panel weighs on where we still your best friend. and now your co-pilot. still a father. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying. still a night out. but everything fits in. still hard work. just a little easier. still a legend. just more legendary. chevrolet. making life's journey, just better. will shannon shannon: is bring in political analyst for lightning round didn't want to ask each of you what you think happened 15 seconds each starting with you rachel. out whatever happens in arizona is going to be huge and it looks like donald trump may be ahead with the way the vote totals are coming out so that will be very consequential. >> for me i don't know what's going to happen with

if joe biden can win maricopa county democrats feel like they have a real shot. pay attention to arizona we should get their results in a fairly timely manner because of how they count early vote. pennsylvania and the midwest, obviously we've talked a ton about the industrial midwest, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. we will start with pennsylvania. obviously this was the stunner letting everybody know that president trump was shattering the blue wall in 2016. this will take time to find final results. nine counties aren't likely to count their abs tease until wednesday. we will have to take our time here but it will be most interesting to see obviously hillary clinton had great strength in the philadelphia area and the suburbs, great strength in allegheny county and yet president trump was still able to win. why? western pennsylvania. the margins he was running up, county after county after county were margins that republicans had never seen before even in republican counties. also attention -- >> phil, i just want to -- sorry

lawrence in maricopa, arizona. the associated press and fox have already called in that state for joe biden. let's go to charles in niagara falls. he voted for biden-harris. your turn. caller: yes. i'm so glad you are giving me the opportunity to come on c-span. in 77 years old. i've been through about 15 presidents. -- i'm 77 years old. i have never felt more shamed in my life than when i heard this president go before the public in front of the white house and condemn our voting system. it's the first time in history that i've heard of such a thing happening. i have 8 children and 25 grandchildren. of ourm ashamed, ashamed president. host: what in particular about what he said tonight? caller: he lies, everything out of his mouth is a lie. i can't remember him telling the truth about anything. he never had a church to go to. he's not a christian. he doesn't have a church. everything he says is to help him. to get what he wants. and he uses all lies. how can anybody vote for somebody that lies 3500 times in four y

every national news that has not called arizona for joe biden, called it late thursday shortly after maricopa county reported results from its latest round of ballots." fox news and the associated press had already called arizona for biden last week but at that point president trump had a chance albeit slim to pull ahead of his democratic challenger. biden needs trump with a margin greater than the estimated number of ballots remaining to arizona.d in the thursday evening results from about 4000 maricopa county ballots went 53% for biden and 43% for trump. -- it hadn't changed much, the map was already called for arizona by the associated dress. that is the data -- by the associated press. that is the data we use for c-span. quoting from the "washington post" -- turning arizona blue is a huge achievement fro for biden. since 1998, only bill clinton has won the mother state. after saturday night's announcement that he went over the top electoral votes, joe biden said this about his governing mandate for the election. pres. biden: i said at the outset i wanted to represent what looks like ameri

another 70,000 votes from maricopa county have been released. 41,000 votes from biden's 31. that is another gain of over 10,000 for the president. that means biden's lead in arizona has shrunk to around 36,000 down from 68,000 down from 93,000. the only state that actually seemingly is doing at the right way. the trump team is continuing to project confidence that the president, in fact will hold the state of arizona. analytics has been crunching the numbers all day and night laying out the president's path to victory in arizona. here to explain is the president of that company, george is with us. george, you have kind of set in the beginning that if the president maintained maricop maricopa county, he would come out on top. then there were more votes that showed up on top of that. do you see the president's path to victory in arizona? we go we are still confident about the president's past in arizona. pima county, the president actually exceeded the projections we had for him. >> sean: he got 52% of the numbers that came out tonight, right? >> exactly. he won michael's by 5

in maricopa county 92,000 ballots. in the state 170,000. this is a sample of what has been going on outside of the building where we are. conspiracy threeryist got the crowd going. there is a theory being aimed at the fox news decision desk for calling this state for biden. fox news stands by the call. the other race is for senate. fox news called that for derm kelly but mcsally is waiting for the count to be complete. that count is continuing tonight. we are talking about the amount of time this is taking, the weekend before election day maricopa county the second voting largest jurisdiction in the nation next to los angeles. they updated their machines but that was met with a flood of ballots of the likes they have never seen. >> we have to signature verify 100% of all of the early ballots and process them. we have bipartisan teams working together to make sure that every valid ballot is counted. it takes time because we are making sure every valid ballot is counted. >> the next time we are get updated returns will be tomorrow morning at

how soon could we get an update from arizona, specifically maricopa county? >> reporter: gathered protests, our colleague gadi schwartz was out there for part of it. about 100 protesters chanting "where are the votes." for anybody that has covered arizona elections here, this is part of the process. the votes are coming. maricopa county, exactly where those protesters were yesterday, they released about another 150,000 ballots. they're methodically going through this process. i've been in the county recorder's office time and time again to watch the process unfold, where folks from both political parties are inside, verifying every signature on every mail-in ballot and ultimately tabulating the votes. they go in the hard drive and that's when you see the votes posted online. that's what we saw last night. the question, where does this race go from here? there's about 400,000 outstanding ballots here in the state of arizona. you see joe biden's lead now down to just 69,000 votes. steve just laid it out there, the number we have been looking at is 60%. before l

the lion's share of those votes are in maricopa county. that's the phoenix metro area, and we expect that some time this evening, probably a couple hours from now, we are going to get an update from maricopa county on what the status of those ballots is. probably a report of a lot of those ballots. i can tell you, it's a very specific type of ballot. it's the mail ballots that arrived at the very end of the process, like the day before election day or that were brought in by voters on election day. it's a couple hundred thousand of those. when those come in, we will see is it giving trump late momentum? are these trump favorable ballots that give him a chance to move up and take arizona or do they not give him that? do they cement joe biden's advantage and put joe biden in position to take arizona? because if joe biden takes arizona that would be 11 electoral votes for him. that would move him to 264 electoral votes. and that would bring us to the third state on the list here, and that is nevada, which has six electoral votes. if biden's g

the election folks here in maricopa cou nty election folks here in maricopa county said this is ok. we have tested them, they are good. the state's attorney general came out with an opinion later this evening to say it has not really been of any consequence, thank you for bringing it to our attention. we have seen the secretary of state being pressed on tv about when we might know. the secretary of state said potentially friday evening. i noticed another reporter said it could be that weekend before we know. what is your best assessment? you know, iby your best assessment? you know, i by tomorrow we will have a much clearer sense of the shape of where the race stands, with a lot fewer votes to go. the folks who look at the way that these ballots have come in expected the president to do well the last two days but it is the ones that come basically starting tomorrow, where the president needs to continue to do well, but it seems in dispute whether he actually will. so there is that concern. the real question, i think, will. so there is that concern. the real question, ithink, is whet

there are about 275,000 votes outstanding in maricopa county. about 100,000 to 200,000 more around the rest of the state and it's gotten narrow and narrow, we're talking about 68,000 is the spread. joe biden's lead is 68,000. but you can see there are hundreds of thousands of votes still outstanding. that's why president trump thinks he still has a path in georgia. if he wins arizona it's going to be a long week. >> tom llamas, thanks very much. >> okay, george. >>> we know those states still up for grabs, we'll start in arizona where the race as you know is very tight at this hour. whit johnson is in phoenix and has the latest on the count. good morning, whit. >> reporter: robin, good morning to you. we're live here in the wrest, where the race in arizona has just gotten tighter. new results from overnight showing joe biden leading donald trump just over 68,000. all united states are on maricopa county and those 275,000 outstanding ballots, most of those absentee ballots that voters dropped off at the on election day. democrats are increasingly

this is maricopa county. their elections department tweeted it will release results again tonight, but still no word from arizona. we could be waiting through the negativity for an update. here's where we stand. joe biden with a narrow lead 253 electoral votes. remember, the magic number is 270. he can win outright if he holds on to his leads in arizona and nevada. >>> now tomorrow morning, a special edition of the "today" show will happen. we'll have the latest analysis and vote totals from across the country. today as a reminder begins at 7:00 a.m. following "today in the bay." it has been a long couple of day, and we certainly appreciate your viewership and for staying with us through this really historic time. >> thanks for being with us. >> bye-bye.

county,tics in clark like maricopa have changed over time. nevada is different from arizona, seems to have advantaged joe biden. the votes coming in now, which are almost all absentee ballots, seem to have an additional margin of addition to joe biden's current lead. arizona, theke real strength of the donald trump campaign has been the rural counties. enoughse that don't have votes to make up any kind of margin. if the trend continues along the lines it has in the bad, the the mores -- nevada, votes that are counted, the bigger lead for joe biden. the opposite in arizona. david: if arizona holds and nevada goes to joe biden, joe biden wouldn't need pennsylvania. we just had ed rendell on. he predicts an 80,000 vote majority for joe biden when the accounting is all done. rick: you have to flip the script in pennsylvania, where trump currently leads. in these other two states, biden is protecting his lead. in pennsylvania, trump is trying to protect his lead. the governor is right. it looks like the counties coming in are really those around t

. >> reporter: ari what we're looking at right now is the next batch from maricopa county that is not slated to be released until 9:00 p.m. eastern, but what the new numbers out of the state here showed this morning was the fact that joe biden essentially was able to dilute the margins that donald trump was gaining in this latest batch, and we expect that the numbers out of this morning should pretty closely reflect the remaining 140,000 ballots that are outstanding in maricopa county. and if, in fact, like the numbers this morning those hold for the remaining 140,000 ballots in maricopa county, that is incredibly difficult here in arizona for donald trump to overcome because there's only 70,000 non-maricopa county ballots outstanding and donald trump would have to win 75% of them. and so far the numbers that have been coming in in recent days from those counties that trump would be relying on haven't hit the mark that it would take in order to make up for those deficits that he is now facing in maricopa county. you also got to note mark kelly now projected by nbc news to be another u

in arizona, maricopa county where you showed video of the protesters earlier, release new numbers and it closed the gap a little bit but it remains called by the fox news decision desk for bid biden. team trump thinks there's enough votes still out there for him to pull ahead by friday in arizona and that combined with pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina would give the president a second term. now to nevada where we will not get any more data until noon eastern time tomorrow. it's close and there's still votes throughout the state in trump counties and vine counties. nevada, pennsylvania, north carolina and georgia also gives the president a second term. both campaigned earlier, they believe when the ballots are counted they will get 270 electoral college votes first but both sides differ a little bit in terms of what they mean when they say all the ballots need to be counted. >> shannon: i think the emphasis is in all the legal ballots and that's with the fights will be about. thank you. critical focus of the trump campaign legal team is what we expected to be one of the biggest ba

biden leading here, about 3/4 of the vote in maricopa county. maricopa county is, like, 60% of the population for the entire state of arizona. it's the phoenix metro area. a giant suburb. joe biden leading this 54-45. now, this was -- what you're looking at here are the early votes that were cast up until this weekend. these are going to come -- in arizona we're going to come in sort of three buckets of votes over the next few hours and maybe into tomorrow. the first things you're going to be see here, they're going to be giant batches of votes like we're looking at here in maricopa county, almost 1.5 million votes. they've been doing early voting for a long time. mail voting for a long time, last couple weeks in arizona. everything that was cast up until about this weekend is what you're looking at right now. okay, in the next batch you're going to get same-day votes, votes that were casted t today, in the third batch, you're going to get the latest arriving mail-in votes. three waves of votes here. this has been expected to be the best wave fo

outstanding maricopa county ballots, total is 90 margin points. when you do math, we expect that 90,000 ballots to look a lot like the ballots that dropped here tonight. so then the question comes down to the ballots outside of maricopa county. brian, there are 80,000 non-maricopa ballots in the state of arizona. that will be our focus point from here out. so what do those 80,000 ballots look like? look at the counties that are outstanding, that have the most outstanding ballots. 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 pre

so, maricopa is blue. that's where a lot number of the votes are coming in, expected to go blue. but if you're president trump, this is a state he should have. stephanie, a democrat has not won the states -- this state, only once since harry truman. so, will it happen again? now, in order for that to happen outside of maricopa, this number here of 29,000, that's the lead for biden, that would have to clearly go down below. and at the moment, donald trump's average he is winning in these latest results, in the low 50s. he needs the low 60s, stephanie, to be able to overtake that amount and avoid a recount on top of that. >> well, he's asking for a recount in at least one state, and i want to talk a little bit more about that. richard, don't go anywhere. i'll be back in a few. president trump's attorneys, they've got more legal battles ahead, saying they are going to challenge what they claim are voting irregularities in these four key battleground states where the votes are being counted. i want to update you on here's where things stand right now. in georgia, state election offic

there donald trump in maricopa county is getting about 59% of the vote. and that puts him, as we say, that puts him right where he wants to be if he wants to overtake him. the new one that vaughn is talking about here is folks who on election day -- i'm not sure what i'm writing here. i'm writing election day. on election day -- i'll drive a picture of a car. got in the car and drove it in. yeah, what we know about these voters, we do have the stats who took these ballots and returned them. it is a more republican group just when you look at it that way. the democrats are making the argument this will be more republican than this if they are correct about that. then, yeah, trump is not going to hit his number, but the republicans are making an argument that, hey, the bottom line here is republicans vote on election day. if folks are holding this mail ballot and going into poll place election day, that's republican behavior. that's a thing republicans would do. hear the arguments from both sides. >> we will see. obviously people have fights over the foreca

the problem, it's in maricopa county right now. maricopa county is phoenix, where one of the largest cities in the entire state is and so far, joe biden has a commanding lead in that county. >> all right, tom, you and i have been studying these pathways for both campaigns. the biden campaign tonight very hope thafl if they can hold only the states where they're currently leading right now, they believe that's their path to the white house. >> that's right. for the purpose of this segment, we haven't projected alaska, but going to give that to president trump, because that's historically how it breaks. look at the path for joe biden tonight. arizona, if he wins there, and nevada, look at this number, david, 270. he gets to become president. now, it's a different story for president trump. >> that's right. broken record for me and you, tom, we talk about pennsylvania and even more crucial as we get closer to that key number of 270. >> that's right. the president's electoral votes are right there, 217. he has to win pennsylvania, nort

want to show you the live pictures of volunteers carefully opening and counting mail-in ballots in maricopa county, arizona. and we've seen and we've been also watching the vote totals grow throughout the day. tonight, there are some new votes in pennsylvania to tell you about, giving joe biden his largest lead yet in that state-- more than 27,000 votes. it's also a lot closer in georgia, where mr. biden's lead has now grown to 4,000 votes. a recount there is all but certain. let's take a look at arizona, the former vice president is ahead by just under 30,000 votes. there are a lot of votes that came in there today. and he leads by about 22,000 in nevada. if biden wins only those last two states, he could also win the presidency. now, by our projections, at this hour, biden leads in the race to 270 electoral votes 253 to 213. but president trump is vowing to fight on in the courts, and the white house said he has no plans to concede even as his chances of being reelected are dim. our powerhouse cbs news political team is with me again tonight and like you, we are asking, what is taking so

there's about 275,000 votes outstanding in maricopa county. about 100,000 to 200,000 more around the rest of the state and it's gotten narrower and narrower. 68,000 is the spread. joe biden's lead is 68,000. but you can see there are hundreds of thousands of votes still outstanding. that's why president trump thinks he still has a path in zone arizona. if he wins arizona it's going to be a long week. >>> in phoenix, arizona, a couple hundred trump supporters descended on the recorder's office. they accused the county of using sharpie pens to make some ballots invalid. >> filled out the front side of my ballot in the sharpie. when i turned it over it bled through to badly i was concerned. >> election officials say there are no issues with sharpies. they have processes in place to make sure ballots are counted regardless of what you use to fill them out. still the arizona attorney general's office is investigating this. >>> voting might be over but the fight against misinformation and disinformation goes on. a lot of that centers around the bay

whit, we have just gotten a major new drop of votes from maricopa county, major county in arizona. >> that's right, we're getting numbers and di secting them right now. marco pa county released another 73,000 ballots and donald trump has moved within one percentage point of joe biden. biden now up by 29,000 votes. he was at 36,000 votes. so now the number of outstanding ballots across the state drops bl below 200,000. we haven't been able to calculate this math yet, but coming in, donald trump needed to earn about 60% of the remaining votes in order to get the win. but right here, again, the margin continues to slim. and there are a couple of things to keep in mind here -- maricopa county tells us they're hoping to give their final round of results tomorrow morning, but there are some counties out there we're not going to hear from until next week. pinal county, which generally leans republican still has 30,000 votes out there and they're not planning to count them other the weekend. they won't start until monday or tuesday, so we could wibe be wa for results for days. donald trump is

this is maricopa county, a lot of votes here. this is pima county, tucson, arizona, not as many, but still pretty populated area. it'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 the wednesday letter from the solicitor general there, to the maricopa county elections director, the prosecutor's office requested information on the validity of the ballots filled out with markers by thursday morning, so we are expected to find more out by then. this is what the deputy attorney general's office wrote in that letter. we have received hundreds of voter completes regarding the use of a sharpie brand marker fill out ballots on election day at voting centers in maricopa county. voters are concerned that the use of sharpies may have caused their ballots to be rejected or spoiled or canceled, and asked for a response by thursday morning. so certainly a story that is being monitored out of arizona. in bristol, connecticut, a supporter of joe biden. hello. people yes, the american voted for biden, and that is the bottom line. this is america, not russia. now we are going to have a president who stands up to putin in helsinki now. host: it is not 100% yet, but go ahead. caller: joe biden had better get his people into the white house, in the state department, and the atto

maricopa county just under 300,000, the bulk of those. maricopa county gave us an additional 100,000 or so actually a little more than that yesterday. so that's the pace they're going. i think we should have a good indicator we're we're at late tomorrow, and -- go ahead. >> well, i was going to say it's very 2345narrow there in arizon and in the first batch of votes ta came out last night, president trump had the advantage, and some suggested he could really make up this difference. from what you're seeing and where these votes are coming from, what kind of votes they are, do you think the president has a viable path and could win the state of arizona? >> it's just really hard to say. the bulk of the ballots that are remaining to be tabulated are early ballots that were received by county election officials monday or tuesday. so they could be coming from anywhere. in terms of geographical area. they are, they still have -- they're in the process of being signature verified to the tabulated. i know they're very focused making sure this aga

joe biden received 2,213 votes in maricopa county while donald trump received 2,982 votes in maricopa county. but look at that -- look at the margin. the margin is still, what, 2.5% there -- my math is a little bit off, but joe biden still has a good margin in maricopa county. look at the state overall. let's take a look there. even though donald trump picked up 700 votes, joe biden has a 12,000-plus lead at this point, don. 98% of the vote is in in arizona. it would be very difficult, very difficult, i think, for donald trump to make up that ground. but we'll wait till the final votes come in, we'll get the resolution out there. >> okay. can you tell us about georgia? what do you snow? >> in georgia specifically, we have new votes coming in in georgia right now. joe biden leads georgia 49.5% while donald trump is at 49.2%. this is going to end up going to a recount. we have to wait for these votes to be certified. they're still counting some of the votes right there. but joe biden still has the lead and seems to be increasing ever so slightly in georgia, don. >> okay. so, mark, joe b

so we ought to test it -- maricopa pa county. but some of our elections officials do not want to test these at all. lou: they do not want to test it. i really don't cower whether they want or to they don't, do you? >> i don't. [laughter] lou: most americans don't really care whether they want to or they don't, because they don't know where the servers are locatedded in which a all of this voting data resides. some of it resides in spain, some of it resides in germany, some of it in canada. we don't know what's going on, and they're private companies. every single company is a private company. handling 3100 counties in this country, 150 million votes. it's stunning that we we know so little about our own election system, can we've got such -- and we've got such varieties of them but none of which seem to inspire great confidence. it inspires a lot of rhetoric about how secure they are, but no one believes it. >> right. and they all seem to be interlocking in some place here or there in the ownership or in the processes or in the s

statewide just under 450,000 votes left to count. >> maricopa county says they won't have any official vote count updates until tonight. georgia's secretary of state plans to provide an update at 7:30 this morning. nevada also intends to update its vote talley at 9:00 a.m. back to you. >> all right. we'll be watching. thank you. >>> president trump continues to falsely claim that there is voter fraud across several states. we're hearing from a former federal official who is disputing those claims. lisa gray served as deputy assistant attorney general during former vice president bill clinton's administration. >> i think that in terms of the merits, from what we've been hearing about the claimants from the president, they're baseless. this idea that the votes have to be counted on the night of the election is untrue. it's not consistent with the history of the united states over the course of decades of elections. >> the pandemic has increased the time that we're waiting to learn who won tuesday's elections that's because millions of americans cast their votes by mail and they represent

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kyung lah is in maricopa county near phoenix. voting in this election is already higher than it was in 2016. >> reporter: and so close to crossing the 2016 total vote threshold. we're getting this word, jake, from the arizona secretary of state that they are at 97% of the total 2016 vote, so very, very close to crossing that threshold. i'm in surprise, arizona. this is a gop stronghold and we've seen people trickle in and out of this voting site throughout the day. you can either vote in person here, or you can, as this gentleman is seen over here, just waiting in his car in order to vote. gop sources expect places like this to be extremely busy, and they anticipate that that is where they will make up any lag that they might be seeing, something that did concern some people here in arizona. i want you to take a look at this graphic. if you take a look at who is returning ballots, let's be clear, this does not indicate who is leading, this is just based on ballots return. republicans and democrats in a dead heat. it is matching p

when you look at maricopa county 89,000 votes shifted away from donald trump to joe biden. back in 2016 trump won this state by 91,000 votes. so when you look at maricopa county alone you saw donald trump win it in these greater phoenix suburbs in 2016. four years later, again, i'm going to repeat that 89,000 votes shifting towards joe biden. you could essentially say this is a push back of what this republican party under donald trump has become. you know, this is state where barry goldwater breathes conservatism into this party. sarah day o'connor, the place of john mccain where he was willing to push back against his own party. and yet it is now joe biden who wins the electoral votes out of arizona, but also the state is now being represented by two u.s. senators who are democrats, keirsten cinema and mark kelly. and this, brian, is so much largely a story of where the state has come in just the last ten years. you go back to 2011 in the shooting down in tucson of gabby giffords. of course she was the one thought to be that arizona independent that would run day potentia

and any update from maricopa county? that's where it's all happening. >> 9:00 local time saturday morning, that's when the new batch of ballots, about 70,000 will be released. that's the same number that was released friday evening. whenever that latest batch was released, president trump actually gained a little bit of ground on the gap that joe bide-built her, and narrowing that gap to 29,000 votes, 800, around there, and so the number that the trump campaign is hoping they could hit, if they have any hope of salvaging maricopa county and in turn arizona, will be garnering about 60% of this batch of votes that will be released here, in just a few hours. of course, hundreds of people have been gathering outside this election department now for several days, depending accountability, and transparency, despite the fact that there are observers inside, from every political party. i had a chance to go in and take look for myself. one interesting point here, if someone put an x on instead of filling in the circle, the machin

so while the gap has shrunk in arizona, maricopa is where the action is at. let's take also a look at georgia because this is where biden's hoping to shock the world, and take a look at fulton county, because right now in the statewide, biden is up almost 10,000 votes, but they have been having some problems. they had to recount votes because of a snag in software issues in fulton county. those have been resolved. biden is up 10,000 votes in georgia. there's no automatic recount. they have to certify the votes and if someone is within .5%, they can expect a recount. that is expected. pennsylvania, this is the one that brought it home for joe biden, but there's still some outstanding votes. right now, biden's lead has increased to 43,000 in the state, but there are still outstanding votes here in allegheny, and even in philadelphia in this crucial area, so there are still votes coming in. this thing has been declared by cnn. joe biden's president-elect, but these crucial states, particularly arizona and georgia, the vote count today and over the next few days

this is phoenix, this is maricopa county. we have more votes to come in, really decent turnout for people in maricopa county. not as many votes there, but still populated, not as much is phoenix, but the trump campaign is saying they are going to pick up votes from all over this location here with about 15% of the votes still outstanding. why does that matter? it matters because he could close the margin between these two. the problem is this, trump has to exceed two more percentage points than what he is getting at the moment. if he had set number, he could flip the state. right now, he is not doing that in arizona tonight. >> tucker: it's still? very interesting. they have called the state of michigan for joe biden, but we are seeing a lot of strange things happen in that state tonight, including poll watchers apparently being blocked from witnessing. that's not a good sign. been covering from an absentee ballot counting center in the city of detroit, he joins us tonight, good to see you. what do you see? >> there are some

more votes in maricopa county. biden got 3,040. essentially a 6,000-vote pick-up for the president there. guess what, mr. president? we're going to count the votes. if they favor you, we're going to show that. if they don't, we're going to show that. that's how democracy works. where kyung is here. martin savidge was in chatham. all our correspondents are. we just talked to sara murray. they're just watching people. that's the key point about this. if you're a trump supporter, go online. most of these places have cameras. all of them are posting their results. this is happening transparently. there are democrats and republicans in every one of these rooms. if they see something wrong, they have every right to challenge it, but you have to prove it, you can't just say it. what you heard from the president was reckless. again, he said earlier stop the count. if we stop the count right now, joe biden would be the next president of the united states because he's leading in arizona and nevada and the president would stop what possibly w

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

, adelante >>> gracias felicidad, eso todavía es muy incierto, hasta ahorita sabemos que el condado maricopa es el que tiene la mayoría de los votos y que todavía tiene unos 140,000 votos por ser contados, es un condado sumamente republicano y por eso se refleja un aumento en la diferencia entre joe biden y donald trump a favor del presidente donald trump. inicialmente biden le llevaba más ventaja y ahora el presidente trump ha subido precisamente por el conteo en condados como el de maricopa pero lo más importante aquí en realidades la cantidad de gente que se ha estado acercando al edificio del departamento de elecciones del condado maricopa a protestar y manifestarse. todas estas personas que son admiradoras del presidente donald trump, más temprano habían unas 2000 personas apasionadas gritando a todo pulmón cantando el himno nacional, orando, jurando su lealtad al presidente donald trump. algunos de ellos los hemos visto armados de pies a cabeza con rifles de calibre y pistolas intimidando a las personas a su alrededor pero de todas maneras todo a esta hora se ha llevado de mane

. >> we are inside the maricopa county elections office, you talk about how her channel did call arizona for biden, there have been for the past few nights we were here late into the night last night, they were a growing number of trump supporters outside of this building who were chanting out the vote, that's confusing if you could see behind me that's what's happening in the representatives from republicans and democrats working on account account, let me take you to the numbers here's where things stand, while things tighten when maricopa county released additional numbers, the president trails the vice president by 39769, as you know foxnews has called arizona for biden and same goes for the senate race as accounts continue. income net senator martha mcsally trails mark kelli. that is titans, we reach out to the mix ali campaign for a comment, nothing yet. here's what's left to be counted, and the entire state 220,000 ballots, the largest chunk coming from maricopa county, 162,982, arizona secretary of state says in conversations she is having with officials in maricopa county they a