you have been talking about wisconsin. about an hour ago, it looked to me like joe biden could lose wisconsin. then, the absentee ballots come in and it is biden ahead. it now, it is a razor thin margin. if joe biden does not win wisconsin, it will be difficult for him. tom: the mathematics is there, and we can do the calculus on it, but it really speaks to the electoral vote process. when we come out of this, marty, the inauguration of whoever it will be and even two and four years on, is the electoral vote under threat? they've beention talking about reforming the electoral vote -- electoral college, and it never happens. when you have a razor thin election like this, no one has a mandate for it, so i would suspect the electoral colleges here to stay for as long as we have a divided country. how does this get contested? does this get contested and overthrown? does it get contested with civil unrest and does it become really ugly because it is so narrow, the margin between the two candidates, at this moment. marty: i know

if you voted by absentee in the state of wisconsin, you can track your ballot on wisconsin's .wi.gov. myvote you will not see it until after the canvas and certification has been completed. and again, state laws explicitly spell out local election officials have up to 45 days to complete this process. all of the data as part of the election is required to be made available in the paper artifacts of the election and are required to be maintained as part of the document's retention laws. next, a reminder to all of us to seek out official facts about elections. please do not help to perpetuate rumors. i know everyone is very --sionate about the election passionate, as they should be, about the election. we have an obligation to engage with the facts. i understand your right to vote is sacred. there is a very robust system that protects your vote and makes sure only valid ballots can be counted. wisconsin voters and people across the country have questions about how wisconsin's unofficial election results are reported because of the closeness of the results and the time it took for some o

the action is here in wisconsin. it is for:30 central time, the pancake place in green bay will be filling up but the action is here, or live in wisconsin, not just wisconsin, on green bay, waiting for votes to come in. i imagine as the morning progresses this will turn into a watching party, the benedict hash. i have a pancake that overflows the plate as you would at the pancake place in green bay. the bar is set high. election results already called in florida, can't wait to hear what is going on down there. >> there's already a party here is florida knows how to do so well, nice and warm, windy but on the beach here in lake worth it may be a long night, long week for the country but an early one, the president got 1 million more votes than he did in 2016, won the state of florida by 3 percentage points. it was not close, in miami the traditionally have been democrat strongholds, the president had a strong showing. we will talk to voters. how are people feeling about the state of the race, ballots still to be count

name in madison wisconsin. the a. reminder that you're watching ology there is extended coverage of the u.s. elections the democratic nominee joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house is now in the state of michigan giving him 264 electoral college votes just 6 shy of the 270 if that is why it has to be most treasured and biden said he was confident of securing enough state to win the white house by the campaign has filed lawsuits to stop vote counting in places like michigan and pennsylvania while calling for a recount in wisconsin and it's also looking to intervene in a supreme court case to stop pennsylvania counting votes up to 3 days after the election and the count of absentee ballots continues in bound ground states like pennsylvania and georgia arizona as well it's a tight race in nevada where biden has a narrow lead with 86 percent of the votes tallied so far and this is how those results look right now on the map with wisconsin and michigan now turning blue to say still in play are in yellow

i am the administrator of the wisconsin elections commission and the state of wisconsin's chief election official. accounting and reporting of unofficial results has gone according to law. our municipal and county clerks have worked tirelessly throughout the night to make sure that every ballot has been counted and reported accurately. the wisconsin elections commission staff will be standing ready to assist clerks, as a start the process of triple checking the results. the statutorily required canvass process reinstated. before we can certify the results. this includes the random selection of 5% of voting -- thatt that is used was used in the selection, which must be audited to make sure the paper tally is the same as the voting equipment. although things have to happen before we have certified results. anderday's voting process election night counting was very well done in wisconsin and across the country. despite more absentee ballots, in a normald fashion. our election was executed with precision, and also, every step of the process is publicly observable. i think that is really impo

wisconsin has wisconsin state laws which outlines how we have to conduct our election. each state has come up with completely different laws in terms of how that process works. in some states, they have an extended return period. in wisconsin, our ballots have to be back by 8:00 p.m. on election day to be counted. in some states, they have as many as eight days for balanced come back as long as they were put in the mail on election day. i think the fact that it is taking longer in those states says nothing of the election official and is simply a construct of their laws. >> if i can just quickly follow-up. mentioned how our laws stop us from accepting absentee ballots after 8:00 p.m. on election day. i am wondering, will you do an audit of ballots received after election day? meagan: all the data in our statewide database comes from our 1850 election officials. clerks are working on recording participation. they also track things like ballots received after the deadline. they will enter in ballots that are rejected with the missing witness, or put in ballots that are re

there is wisconsin. wisconsin is too close to call. still a fair amount of vote out there. michigan with 94% of the expected vote in, that is too early to call but news on michigan we will share in a moment. arizona too early to call. this has been leaning biden's way throughout the night and into today but too early to call. nevada with 6 electoral votes and too close to call. 86% of the vote in there. georgia 16 electoral votes. biden think they have a good chance but too close to call too early to call. north carolina is also too close to call. we want to talk about michigan. trump campaign now is filing suit to stop the counting of votes in michigan. let me bring in white house correspondent peter alexander. take us beyond that headline. what is going on? >> we learned this within the last three to five minutes. the trump campaign putting out a statement it has filed suit in michigan court demanding access to those counting stations, those counting sites where they are opening up the battle and they are counting them. they say they have not been given access to that say

paul ryan of wisconsin. there was a republican from wisconsin on the ticket and they couldn't get within seven points, could the republicans. barack obama was reelected with ease in wisconsin. so it was such a shock what happened in 2016. take a look at the change to the political geography. here's what happened four years later in wisconsin. look at all that blue to red. here's 2012, here's 2016. you see a big shift to red along the mississippi river. other things that went wrong for democrats in wisconsin in 2016, milwaukee, turnout in milwaukee, heavily democratic city, but turnout in milwaukee was way down for democrats. then you just had a lot of these sort of blue collar rural counties flip in the state. tough to find many other states with as many countries flip from blue to red as in wisconsin. it added up to a 23,000 vote victory there for donald trump. i believe when wisconsin was called, so was the presidency in 2016. the polls now are showing a different story for democrats potentially. washingto

in wisconsin. let's go to cnn john harwood for details. jo john. john is not ready yet. this is just coming in. let's go to david chalian standing by. david, the trump campaign saying they are going to contest in wisconsin. >> here is the statement from campaign manager bill stepien. i'm going to read it, anderson. it says the president is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so. the campaign goes on to complain that it's a razor thin race. we knew it would be. there have been reports of irregularities in several wisconsin counties that raise doubts about the validity of the results. that's what the trump cam paper is claiming. we know in wisconsin if the margin between the candidates is less than 1%, certainly the losing candidate can, indeed, request a recount, anderson. it doesn't necessarily mean that much will change. in 2016 jill stein requested a recount and i don't think many votes shifted as all after recount. that was when donald trump won by a similar

let's bring back wisconsin -- let's bring back deb roberts up in wisconsin. deb, what more are we hearing about what vote we can expect in the next hour? i know they were hopeful we were close to getting votes from milwaukee. >> reporter: yeah, they are, hopeful, george. they're very, very -- it's very slow going because they've had a crush of these mail-in and absentee ballots, something they're not accustomed to doing. they usually have 6%. this time they have 60%. milwaukee county is getting them together. milwaukee, the city, still wasn't quite officially yet but we do hear that dane county, you heard about that, the very liberal town, those votes are coming in so we're talking about probably 400,000 votes between the two of them that should be coming in, maybe within the next hour. but i also want to point out, george, though, because the president has hinted at fraud or maybe something that might be a little bit unsavory here but these election officials are bending over backwards to try to do this right. to dot the is and cross the ts. the commissioner

they believe that they have one in wisconsin, in fact cnn has projected wisconsin for the democrats. forjoe biden. they also believe that they are on track to win in michigan and to keep nevada. they say that that will give them enough to win the election even if they don't win in pennsylvania, those funds will be coming in that count will be coming in later in the week. they say they are on track to win there but believe they can get it 270 by the end of the day. they also have talked about legal challenges from the trump can noting that they had for they were prepared for this because the republicans have already been watching legal cases during the voting and had signalled that they would do so afterwards and they would have to do that because the trump campaign already asked for a recount of votes in wisconsin and that has filed a case in michigan. just a few minutes ago we got the announcement that it filed a case in michigan to stop the vote counting claiming that republicans did not get access to enough access to the vote counting and want to review those votes where they clai

he won wisconsin four years ago. he's going to lose wisconsin, getting over 1,600,000 votes. the trump campaign did a very good job of turning out their voters but joe biden was able to withstand that. >> why didn't the democrats do a good job of turning out their voters? i'm just -- >> they did, andrea. they were able to get over 1,600,000 votes in wisconsin which is a crap ton of votes. we'll be able to unpack what happened, where turnout was off and where it wasn't. donald trump delivered a big turnout. we'll have the biggest turnout in presidential history in over a hundred years. we shouldn't focus on how this differs from the polls. >> that isn't what i'm asking. i'm asking is there something fundamentally wrong -- there's something fundamentally wrong in our politics in both parties, but arguably donald trump has been breaking all the norms for four years, yet he has higher fafsh favorables in the exit polls than four years ago when he got more votes. is there something wrong with the messaging, the structure, or the organization of the democratic party, that someone w

wisconsin has seen more than 278,000 cases and 2400 deaths since march. >> good evening, wisconsin. governor tony evers here. i know i don't have to tell you this year has been one of many major challenges. a global pandemic coupled with economic uncertainty and another election season has shaken our patients, empathy, and compassion for one another. our optimism has been battered, ourresilience strained and character, tested but as we put the election behind us, we are called upon to remember the things that unite us and that includes the struggles we share. we must return our attention to the pandemic. we must fight the virus together and we must start tonight. this year,, earlier we took steps to contain covid-19 by issuing a safer at home order. we estimated then our efforts would save between 300 and 1400 lives. by ther was struck down wisconsin supreme court, a decision that hamstrung our ability to respond to this virus by using the tools supported by public health experts. since then, wisconsin has become a national hotspot. led this region, but now we rival new york city la

and then wisconsin. you heard charlie psyches, a native of wisconsin talk about how it's going to be a while. we're going to bring mike murphy into our conversation, a veteran republican strategist. and it says a lot about strategists like mike murphy that he is with republican voters against trump. he joins us from los angeles. and mike, stay right there. don't move because i want to bring nicolle wallace into this as well. nicolle, people watching would be forgiven for wondering just what in hell's going on and how long this is going to go. and just the state of the zeitgeist and what both campaigns are saying. so you lead off. >>o i've heard from folks in both camps that no one expects a result tonight. and we've talked a lot about anxiety as an undercurrent. we've also talked about these three states that everyone is watching, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. and we now have reporting and people in the states explaining why that might be. that neither campaign expects a result tonight. heidi as you

where are they confident in wisconsin, michigan, georgia -- >> arizona, nevada and wisconsin -- the best way to frame it so people understand the perspective. you have one election result but two elections. meaning you have a same day vote election and the results screw all across the country toward trump and absentee and the absentee and the mail-in ballots and skew for joe biden. as you look at wisconsin when those votes started to count joe biden moved ahead so you almost have two separate elections and depending where you are in each state which votes you're counting. in pennsylvania they believe that if you look at the numbers as the absentee and mail-in ballots come in, joe biden is winning those 80%. 1.am million out there. that's enough to overcome the 600,000-vote shortage. that's how you have to count it in all the states differently. >> chris christie, in the hours around midnight the white house at least white house aides and campaign aides were relatively confident how the president could do in pennsylvania and michigan and some of the other states still out there like georg

i mentioned wisconsin. they say they're getting their hands around the different amounts they need to count. give us some context to what we're dealing with this year and where. >> so, i want to start in pennsylvania because i want to start in pennsylvania because i think that is the most important place to go. yes, donald trump is right. he is winning by a huge margin there because that is not the entire story. take a look at this. only 39% of mail-in votes have been counted. that leaves about 1.5 votes left to be cast. this is a state that had 2.5 million mail-in ballots sent in and the state was not allowed to process any of those ballots until 7:00 a.m. today. we knew that we were not going to have any results in pennsylvania because of this process. take a look at the map. as phil said, can we say that everyone who is a democrat who requested a mail in ballot is going to vote democratic? no, but we do know about 70% of this huge number of mail-in ballots went to registered democrats. and the places whe

in wisconsin's case a federal court threatened to change the law in wisconsin, and the u.s. supreme court said no. the state rules, the state laws have to go through here, and i think that's the case. we're going to go through this process. in wisconsin's case, we're going to see if the canvas shakes loose any votes that may have been not reporting, but i think in other states it's important to not wait for the projections but wait for every vote to be counted in arizona because i believe the president's going to win there, and i think it's likely -- at least he has the right path to win in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. and at that point he wants a legitimate victory if those states go the way we're predicting, and i think that's what we're going to get. neil: all right, we'll see what happens. governor, thank you very, very much. while the governor says that's a good strategy for the president to employ, we're just hearing from joe biden right now quite the opposite, tweeting out to make sure that every vote is counted, we're setting up the largest election protection e

exactly and if you take wisconsin just as one a weekend poll from the washington post and a.b.c. that was regarded as a bit of a known liar that it wasn't fairly accurate it suggested the joe biden was going to win the states by state by 17 points well that was never going to happen but it's been research then we're talking about 10000 votes there or thereabouts i think the democrats are surprised that their message has had more of an impact because we're talking about a president who in the time of covert has overseen the death of 230000 americans whose watched his economy which was doing reasonably well essentially over the last 6 months they have seen a man who they have branded as a racist a sexist is someone who tried to further his own businesses during his time in the white house and of course he was impeached for trying to get foreign actors to get involved in the u.s. election they believe that that was illegal with all of these things have still seen an increase in his vote that people have come out to vote for donald trump that they thought and looked at the case that

presidency after flipping michigan and wisconsin which donald trump now really won 4 years ago by now has a total of 264 electoral college votes while donald trump has 214 now remember the magic number to become president is 270 here in yellow you can see the state still in play nevada in the west and georgia north carolina in the south and they're up in the north pennsylvania donald trump has launched legal action in several states over the votes being counted well let's look at georgia still extremely close race donald trump's initial lead has been steadily falling now it's less than $40000.00 votes and about $90000.00 absentee ballots are still to be counted now we're expecting more data in the coming hours but what might help joe biden most of the remaining votes there are from atlanta and its suburbs which generally lean toward . wards the democratic party north carolina is another crucial state it's one of several where trump's claimed victory but the result is still too close to call here mail in ballots postmarked by election day still accepted until november the 12th and we'r

this is how it works in the state of wisconsin. candidates, if the margin is less than 1% between the two candidates: that you have the right to request a v cap. -- recount. -- wisconsin like many other states had legal challenges coming into election day with regard to absentee ballots. the supreme court ruled wisconsin could not continue to count absentee ballots through november 6 even if they were postmarked on election day and the reason the state had planned to do that was because of the pandemic, because there have been real mail delays in the state of wisconsin. in that event, as the state braces for a possible recount it is worth noting trump when he won the state in 2016 won it by less than 1%. ♪ host: a reminder that you are watching al jazeera extended coverage of the u.s. elections. the democratic nominee joe biden is pulling ahead. he has no won the state of michigan, giving him 264 electoral college votes, just six shiite required to be president. earlier biden said he was confident of securing enough states to win

wisconsin, this is serious. the crisis is urgent. across our state, families and communities continue to face challenges of the covid-19 pandemic. our health care workers are going to work every day, working three, sometimes four shifts in a row, often having to reuse or share masks and putting themselves and their families at risk to do their jobs. we owe them our thanks, but they also deserve our attention and action. i am concerned about what our current trajectory means for wisconsin's health care workers, families and our economy if we don't get this virus under control. so, i want to be clear tonight, each day this virus goes unchecked is a setback for our economic recovery. our bars, restaurants, small businesses, families and farmers will continue to suffer if we don't take action right now. our economy cannot bounce back until we contain this virus. so tonight, i have signed executive order 94 advising wisconsinites to stay home to save lives. we must get back to the basics of fighting this virus, just like we did last sprin

we could get a projection from wisconsin pretty soon projection from wisconsin pretty soon and let's show you the picture there, because this is a critical state and we've seen 97% counted there, so a small lead forjoe biden, still too early to project, but we are nearing the result being declared in wisconsin. another state we are watching very closely indeed is nevada. they have announced that counting is suspended until thursday morning. let's turn to neighbouring arizona which has been called by some us networks forjoe biden and we make it too close to call in the press co nfe re nce we make it too close to call in the press conference from donald trump he too was pushing back that arizona had gone tojoe biden, but 11 electoral college votes up for grabs there, so that also a pretty critical state. north carolina is very tight indeed with most of the results in, and as you can see there, president trump defending that state has 50.1% of the vote and joe biden a8.7% of the vote, with 96% of the vote counted so another incredibly tight battle ground state. another of those crucial

wisconsin. there are also outstanding votes in green bay, nothing at all has been counted in green bay but the initial indications are someone has a scoop on the other reporting agencies and says these vote also come in very strongly for joe biden in wisconsin probably enough to put him ahead. >> we don't have that verified yet. >> we don't. we'll all know soon, but, yeah. >> try to verify that. go ahead, rahm. >> the campaign has -- biden up by 20,000 votes is what the campaign says. >> the biden campaign believes -- >> up by 20,000 votes. >> i'll ask -- >> they don't have kenosha and green bay. >> it is coming in. there it is. there it is right there, 89% of the expected vote in. not quite as am as we thought but as you see it according to these numbers 49-49 and looks like an 11,000-vote lead now for joe biden in the state. so let's talk first about what that changes, jon karl. >> well, i mean that changes -- that changes a lot and first of all it's a reminder of the situation that we've been

wisconsin worth 10. let's look at this from biden's standpoint, because he is leading in a couple states i'm looking at now. if biden were to hold on in arizona where he's ahead in the vote returns right now, if he were to hold on in nevada, i don't want to forget, hawaii, too, democratic stronghold, that would move him to 251, if he were to get wisconsin. you know, at that point, you got michigan next door, if you're able to pull out wisconsin, maybe you feel better about michigan, that's worth 16. you've got 20 available in pennsylvania. you got 15 available in north carolina, although that one, i've got to say, the vote that's left to come, what democrats need, they need a ton of votes that have been put in the mail basically in the last day in north carolina and still be arriving. you've got 16 in georgia. georgia is a very interesting one right now, because the democrats are making up ground with votes. later with vote returns from the atlanta metro area. democrats certainly have their eye on georgi

the apparent winner wisconsin. that would award him, if it does, officially go to him, those ten electoral votes. 99% of the vote in. that is a different of 20,410 votes. there is still a little left to come in. donald trump says they will demand a resound in wisconsin. they will be within the 1% margin. that can't start for at least another week. nbc news is now calling joe bide the apparent winner wisconsin. potentially the person that will take away the ten electoral votes. this is a major win for the biden team. and one that they, as you have been saying, have been banking on since early this morning. we're supposed to hear from joe biden today. we were told any moment at the top of the 2:00 p.m. hour, what are you hearing about that? >> you have to imagine this will come up. this is a state they have been waiting on spins and needs to be called all day. this not only narrows donald trump's path, but it shows that all of the talk about democrats reestablishing the blue wall throughout the midwest that that is r

in our intent of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up biden adds wisconsin to his haul of states once held by donald trump the president's campaign says it will challenge results there and in other crucial battleground states. and a military escalation in northern ethiopia as tensions between the government and local groups threaten to spill across the border. it's $2200.00 g.m.t. 5 pm u.s. eastern time and 16 hours after the last polls close to the presidential election result is still on a knife edge but it seems it could be tilting the way of former vice president joe biden and his democratic party speaking a short time ago biden said he was confident that he would win enough seats to take him over the line after a long night of county it's clear that we're when you know states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency i'm not here to clear that we've won but i am here to report the count is finished we believe we will be the winners all the votes counted. we have won wisconsin by 20000 verse votes virtually the same margin of president trump won that

congresswoman moore, what happened in wisconsin? >> well, we knew that the so-called red mariage would occur in wisconsin. our state laws for bibid our election workers from sorting through the ballots until election day at 7:00 a.m. and so because it was a greater demand for absentee ballots based on the democratic party wanting to make sure people could vote safely and of course, wisconsin had the really traumatic experience in april, we really executed that program really, really well, followed up with absentee voters and then the city of milwaukee, we only lost 10,000 absentee ballot voters and i'm not sure even if those people showed up same day but we focused on people remaining safe and we had a tremendous turnout and of course, those ballots couldn't be counted until election day. same thing in 2018 when people i told people if the victory party to please go home and go to bed and there are 40,000 absentee ballots. >> for a lot of country, james, we saw you breakout the champagne bottle you weren't ready to pop last night. i

you look at wisconsin again, a 1 17-point poll, but the average for wisconsin was nine points. we always said that wisconsin and michigan were going to be much closer. between four points, three, four, five points and said that the florida polls were ridiculous. but they were all preposterously off. and steve kornacki, here we are in arizona, michigan, wisconsin, in georgia, north carolina, we have one close race after another. and nowhere is that any more true than in nevada, which is seeing some really slow going in a very tight race. what's going on there? >> yeah, we just got an update from nevada, too. let's call it up. remember, this is a state clinton won in 2016 that trump is trying to flip. look at that you can see biden's lead statewide, nevada has fallen under 10,000 votes, 9200 votes. that's even closer when you start looking at the difference with candidates percentagewise. the key in nevada, clark county, las vegas, this is the bulk of the state here. a lot of the voters in. there's still vote to come. you see biden leading by 8 1/2 point, 7 1/2 points in clark co

for wisconsin? >> it is very close. we always knew it was going to be close, historic investments from the campaign from the rnc, watching votes from the city of milwaukee and kenosha and rural parts of wisconsin like washington county, it is going to be close, to take the state once again in 2020. >> wisconsin is key to victory in 2016. are you seeing the same enthusiasm this time around? >> we are seeing greater enthusiasm then 2016. we had some never trumpers then they are gone from wisconsin. the enthusiasm in this state is something we have never seen before. people attending the rallies in wisconsin, the president came to wisconsin ten times this year alone. merchandise going off the shelves, no matter where you look, people enthused and energized for donald trump. that is why the race is so close now. john: the latest statistics show 84% of votes counted in the president has a 4% lead. how comfortable are you he can maintain that is the rest of these 16% of missing votes come in? >> a large p

winner in wisconsin. getting him closer to 270. president trump and joe biden eyeing their paths to 270 electoral votes and all along, the key state of pennsylvania. if president trump can win pennsylvania, what happens? what will he need then? how arizona and nevada could play key roles. we'll take you through it all tonight. tom llamas standing by. >>> and joe biden speaking late today after calling for calm and patience, calling supporters to keep the faith. what he said late today about what he sees in the next few days ahead. mary bruce tonight with the biden campaign. >>> president trump this evening taking legal action in an effort to stop the counting in michigan and some of the counting in pennsylvania. and tonight, his team calling for a recount in wisconsin. jon karl and what he's learning from inside the trump campaign tonight. and our team from wisconsin to michigan, georgia to arizona, and what would tern as early as tonight. america waits. a special edition of "world news tonight" begins no

are still outstanding and most could go either way while counting polls for the night in some states wisconsin has continued that's where we are expecting results to come from next in the last hour the trump campaign announced it will request the recount there we're also expecting to hear from trump's democratic challenger joe biden soon he's urging his supporters to be patient insisting he is on track for victory well this is how the race is stands at the moment a winner will only be confirmed when they reach $270.00 electoral college votes hundreds of thousands of ballots still need to be counted with results unclear in the key battleground states of michigan georgia and pennsylvania but that hasn't stopped donald trump from falsely declaring himself the winner despite votes still being counted he's threatening to go to the supreme court something that biden steen said they are ready to challenge. this is a fraud on the american public this is an embarrassment to our country. we were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win the solar. wind through our goal now is to ensure the i

the reason for that is because it is not all over in wisconsin yet. even though the state has been called and d.w. is calling it, according to associated press reporting, those are the numbers we follow. we also know that earlier today president trump's campaign said they would seek a recount in wisconsin. the president's campaign manager said the following. "there have been reports of irregularities right now and they're raising serious doubts about the validity of the results." now, i should say, brett, there has been no proof of irregularities and we saw wisconsin election officials speaking to media earlier saying that vote counting has gone smoothly there but we also know that president trump's team has indicated they will fight this every step of the way. it would be a long and bumpy road. you looked at some of the states up for grabss right now, some are still too close to call, pennsylvania, michigan, for example. something we are keeping an eye on at this hour, joe biden is expected to speak in delaware some time soon and we heard from his ca

>> let's go back to wisconsin again? >> we'll go to wisconsin. let's show it. right now, joe biden, 7,000 votes ahead. 49.2 to 49%. we watched over the course of this night as this went from 109,000-vote donald trump lead, shifted like that when one county came in, milwaukee county, all of a sudden joe biden had a lead. we know from talking to the county clerk that this is now all the way in. big margins for joe biden. big question -- >> but answer the -- this is what they're going to say, right? they're coming in right, fresh eyes. but you told me milwaukee is done and i'm seeing a lot more red than blue, so why do i think this will hold? >> we don't know that it's going to hold. we don't know that it's going to hold and we don't know how everything is going to end up. 89% of reporting. let's take it down and show you where there's still outstanding vote. you see one blue county and three red counties. you think that has to be good for donald trump. here's why democrats believe they can hold it. green bay. brown county is a republican county, donald trump won

to try to does for the re -- ask for in wisconsin. and what is the public relations effort. president trump gave that remarkable public statement in which he claimed victory despite not having won this election and saying that he was going to take this to the supreme court and try to stop the counting of the ballots. that was an effort to try to convince his supporters and more broadly the public that he was winning and leading in this race. there is going to be a continuation i think over the next few days by the president and his allies to continue that message and to try to leave a perception with the american people that he is ahead or winning or has already won even though the votes are still being counted. >> and democrats may be breathing a sigh of relief this morning with the way things are playing out. i know you've you been speaking to some of your sources within the biden camp. how are they feeling overall with what has emerged between the race for the presidency and what has happened on capitol hill? >> biden campaign folk

this is what happens in wisconsin. the fact of the matter is, a lot of our media covered wisconsin last night terribly because they were looking at those early results and really underestimating what was sll out and where it was still out. you have to wait for the ballots to be counted. when the ballots were counted in milwaukee, an account finished around 4:00 a.m., they brought additional votes for biden that closed the gap dramatically. in, -- when green bay came closer to 5:00 a.m., that put biden up i roughly 11,000 votes. amazingly enough, kenosha, where donald trump did his last campaign stop on the eve of the election, clearly intending to exploit the story of what had happened in kenosha in august with the shooting seven times in the back by police officer jacob blake -- of jacob blake and then the shooting of two protesters by any armed white vigilante on the streets, trump is trying to exploit that. in the end, kenosha produced another almost 10,000 votes joe biden. what we are looking at right now is the ci

joe biden just won wisconsin." i should say, that final bit is from the wisconsin, credit party chair. tom: we are trying to be scrupulous about this, but bring you all sources we can across bloomberg. is thendational source associated press, and we thank them for the conservation today. we also thank emily wilkins. it is not just about the presidential race. it is about other races. but with the dynamics of her sconce and -- of wisconsin, with michigan, we will take ms. wilkins and look at the senate race in right now. the incumbent, is behind, and there is a third-party candidate. third-party candidates to be a nasty distraction in a close election. emily: definitely. there have absolutely been cases in the last several years where and no action was made or broken by the number of folks that a third-party candidate got. this is the second time that john james is running for senate. he ran back in 2018. the democrats did wind up prevailing there. john james is giving this another go. last night he was in the lead,

biden is also ahead in wisconsin. we have fox team coverage and mike tobin is and will milwaukee. >> as you know it now the trump campaign has called for a read account here in wisconsin which takes a while. the first round of canvassing has to be complete before the official count for a request goes in. that doesn't agree to qualify for the recount. they defended against the president's late-night claim that it was fraudulent. >> there is no opportunity to count a ballot that did not go through them incredibly meticulous process to make sure it was issued correctly, to make sure it's counted correctly. >> trump went into wednesday morning more than 100,000 votes up but the absentee votes in early milwaukee were expected to follow biden and they did. green bay absentee ballots also favor joe biden, so overnight you saw that 100,000 vote lead for trump evaporate into a 21,000 vote or less than 21,000 vote in favor of joe biden and the possible prize of ten electoral votes. one township in wisconsin, willow, population

pain aggressively in wisconsin he campaigned anti-lock down message bear in mind that wisconsin among the states in the us is having a horrible resurgent of coven 1000 cases it's in the red zone considered in the red zone by the federal government recently a field hospital had to reopen in the state to accommodate the number of pandemic cases and it definitely i'm sure was an issue for voters biden on the other hand had campaigned that he was the person to get the pandemic under control there like many states wisconsin did have legal challenges coming into election day the supreme court had said that unlike what it had planned the state of wisconsin was not going to be able to continue counting absentee ballots 6 days after the election even if they had been postmarked by election day and the reason for that as i just mentioned is that we're in the midst of a pandemic and there have been delays with the u.s. postal service but the supreme court with its conservative majority struck that down they said that the state officials here did not have the right to make those kinds of decision

michigan and wisconsin. you see vice president biden on the top states have been turning bluer all morning. more votes still to be counted. arizona, nevada still in flux but biden holds the lead in those states too right now as well. georgia, surprisingly close. erin burnett is with us as well. erin? >> amazing how close it is, and here we are. we will dig into the numbers. the shift, change in count and talk to the officials in these closest states to try to see when we're going to know. >> yes, we all need to take a deep breath and wait for the votes to be counted but there's a lot to discuss in the hours ahead. we have reporters standing by with the two campaigns weighing in on their path to victory. a lot to bring you. thank you very much for joining us. it will be a long and exciting day. let's start with john king and big picture, drill down maybe on wisconsin and michigan as well. everything has been shifting just throughout this morning. if you went to sleep last night thinking you knew the way this

taking wisconsin puts him ever closer to winning the electoral college. let's take a look at how the electoral college is adding up — the magic number is 270 electoral votes, which opens the door to the white house. donald trump is currently on 214 and joe biden is on 243. and look at the popular vote. it shows us that turnout is on course to be the highest in more than a century. alsojoe biden has collected more votes than his old boss barack obama did in 2008 which means he's already received more votes than any us presidential candidate — around 71 million. let's have a look at the state of the race in two of those two key swing states — nevada and arizona. starting with arizona. there 83% of the votes have been counted and biden leads by more than 90,000. that puts mr biden on 51% and trump on 48%. arizona has voted republican all the way back to george w bush in 2000, but looks like it could be going mr biden‘s way. and let's have a look at the state of the count in nevada. there it's a lot closer — each candidate is on 49% — and mr biden

it may be wisconsin and michigan. brian: what distance do they have to be this pennsylvania to not be waiting on them to count every single ballot? right now to the layman, trump's up pretty substantially, 600,000 votes, 55-43. and we're kind of trying to avoid them counting ballots with no postmark on 'em for the next couple of days. what distance do you need, what lead do you need to make it secure? >> for the president, that's the $64,000 question. historically we look at the vote that's come in and we say, well, the next votes are going to look like that. this year we may new that the president has a lead, but it doesn't mean he's got a lead in the state. he's got a lead in the election day vote, and what's left to be counted is the early vote and the mail-in, and that's what pennsylvania has shown itself somewhat lackadaisical in counting. we saw that in the primaries, we're seeing that now. we anticipate it could take days in pennsylvania to count the early and mail-in vote. and it's not my job to decide which v

michigan and wisconsin are projected as biden wins. european monitors described the election as competitive and well—managed. the trump campaign has launched legal action to stop vote counting in michigan, pennsylvania and georgia, accusing democrats of scheming to disenfranchise republican voters. mr trump's campaign has also called for there to be a total recount of ballots in wisconsin, saying there had been reports of irregularities there. the democrats are expected to remain in control of the house of representatives, but with a reduced majority. in the senate, they have been unable to unseat republican susan collins. the democrats needed to gain three senate seats to take

he is now down to 277 and then we put wisconsin and michigan backin then we put wisconsin and michigan back in the blue—collar and they are pulling very well forjoe biden. and without florida very difficult indeed for donald trump. again if he wins florida but maybe does not win pennsylvania, again he is short and it is very difficult. that is a plausible map at this moment. you can see that pennsylvania and florida become crucial for donald trump on the night. i want to show you one other scenario. let's turn this blue look at that. 269 each. that is the fun of the electoral college. suddenly nebraska, where donald trump was last week, campaigning in omaha for one vote, that becomes important. and this is why you must union on the night. —— tune in on the night. tony fratto is a former aide to president george w bush — but in 2016 and 2020 he pledged not to vote for donald trump. hejoins me now from washington. great to have you with us. we have heard of the phenomenon of the shy donald trump photo. is there such a thing as a biden voter? there are biden voters out there, they

wisconsin natascha where the president has also asked for a recount. absolutely because the margin we're talking about is 20000 votes but for now this is a story about the democratic party's comeback in the state of wisconsin with biden flipping the state back to the democratic column the edge to head of today as absentee ballots were counted in the cities of milwaukee green bay and can no shock when trump one in 2016 took the 10 electoral college votes of wisconsin he won the state by less than 23000 votes and he earned the distinction of being the 1st republican presidential candidate to win in wisconsin for more than 30 years so this was something that the biden campaign and the democratic party did not want to happen again biden campaigned heavily in the state so too did trump but the democratic party especially poured a lot of resources into the state to ensure biden could flip it responding to the news today the chairman of the democratic party in the state said that trump leaned in personally that voters rejected the idea of voter suppression th

zac shultz with pbs wisconsin, thank you so much. so now we have had a unique view of how things he been going in the state of georgia. our miles o'brien continues to explore how the vote is being counted there. >> on the day after in atlanta, fulton county election workers were hard at work scanning and counting the last of the mail-in ballots. they began the day with 45,000 they are among 200,000 untall idea mail-in ballots -- talliedi maballots statewide. they're vowing to have the leon's share of it done by day's end. >> we're pushing hard for that. t we don't geit down but we get the number so small that ere's no question ofwho the winner is would be helpful, really remove all the questions that people might have. >> reporter: georgia's election might garner the most approved award. the primary in june was a disaster. they rolled out a comex new ting system in the midst of the pandemic. it led to a meltdown, and that was not the end of the trouble. in october, more than two dozen fulton county election stafferso contractedid. ea