the biden arizona lead. that said, the biden campaign expresses confidence tonight that they will end up winning in that state. we're watching it all unfold just as you are. we don't have any secret informatio

you've got a changing situation in arizona. so i am still bullish on arizona. i also want to add pennsylvania. i know you've talked about that, but there are so many votes still out in the suburbs, in that area. my whole midwest blue wall theory here of the case, which i made from the very beginning of my own presidential run and joe biden made from the beginning as well, is really coming true. and then we've got this amazing numbers coming out of georgia and closing. so i just want everyone to continue to be calm and patient as we go into tomorrow because joe biden has every reason to believe that he's going to win this, and i've so appreciated his calmness and the fact that he said let every vote be counted. let's get it resolved. and what a contrast to donald trump. >> senator klobuchar, it's lawrence o'donnell. you joined us on this network to discuss the report that you and your senate colleagues put out about a week before the election describing what you expected the vote-counting process to be around the country, especially in the battleground states. i

and so, this is the center of trumpville in arizona. >> dickerson: if arizona turns blue, it will be in part because of voters like yasser sanchez and his wife emily, conservatives who live in the maricopa county suburb of gilbert. in 2016, they never saw a hillary clinton sign in their neighborhood. now, the streets by their house are dotted with trump and biden signs poking from the alternating beach towel-sized front lawns. they've added a new entrant in the sign wars: arizona republicans for biden. yasser and emily are voting for a democrat for the first time. so how's that going over? >> emily sanchez: i've noticed people coming out of the woodwork, but interestingly enough, silently. they'll come and say, "hey, i see that you're supporting biden-- i am too. but i can't really tell anyone." or "i can't tell my family." >> dickerson: so people talk about shy trump voters. are there shy biden voters? >> emily sanchez: absolutely. >> trump: the pandemic, it's rounding the turn. >> dickerson: covid-19 has hurt donald trump in the state. the virus hammered arizona in june and july, m

he is the winner of 11 electoral votes in arizona. joe biden wins the state of arizona. a major projection right now. look at the votes -- a little over 11,000 margin, 49.4% to 49.1%. joe biden, again, has won the state of arizona. let's bring in cnn's senior political analyst, mark pressen. i almost called you senior election analyst. >> you can call me old election analyst. how about that? >> here we are, it's more than a week after the election, and here we have it -- joe biden winning arizona. with all of this that's going on in other state, recounts and lawsuits, joe biden has picked up another electoral win that puts him over the top even if there are some states that are contested and results flipped somehow. >> right. >> which is unlike willly. >> right. let's take a step back and talk about why this is important. he now has 290 electoral votes. only needed 270 to win. but this is important. in the state of arizona at a time when democrats started to lose a little bit of support amongst hispanic voters, they win in arizona. democrats have only won the state of ar

joe biden winning arizona. so with all of this that's going on in the other states, recounts and the lawsuits and what have you, joe biden has picked up another electoral win that puts him over the top, even if there are some states that are contested and results flip somehow. >> right. >> so let's take a step back and talk about why this is so important. joe biden up until a few minutes ago had 279 electoral votes. he now has 290 electoral votes. he only needed 270 to win, don. this is important. in the state of arizona, at a time when democrats have started to lose a little support amongst hispanic voter, they win in arizona. democrats have only won the state of arizona one time since 1952. and that was bill clinton back in 1996. let's not forget about arizona too. arizona is the home or was the home to really the father of the conservative movement that we now know, barry goldwater, who was 1964 republican presidential nominee. this is a big win for democrats, don, demographically. and certainly, it just add

>> arizona will tell us whether arizona is in play or not. if numbers don't move much then what we were told which is election day voting which is going to be heavier for republicans. i don't think it is the end. >> that's the belief that some republicans have tonight that some of the votes are coming in. >> at least something. and something more, you know, on the margins that's not a good sign. and georgia -- getting much nervous in georgia. my friends in georgia that we'll pull it out. i think most people think that perdue is going to a run-off which means united states senate will be determined by two run-offs in the state of georgia, either joe biden, either way is a 50/50 state. talk about going to georgia between now and first of the year is going to be an expensive time. >> yes, yesterday wallas this roller coaster, up and down. today is just a slow, steady grind. trump is just sitting there every hour watching his life gets smaller and smaller and numbers are going down and i got to say -- you don't have a smile on your face. >> repor

in arizona? >> that's a good question. what vaughn is saying is key on that. i have to run the numbers on that because what this signaled, first of all -- this new ballot release and why we're freaking out it was 52 or 53 instead of 59, that's a big difference. the 59% -- if trump got 59% of every outstanding ballot in the state, it would be right on the line of overtaking biden, could probably go either way. if he gets 52% of the vote with a big batch of votes like we just saw, then he's got to make up for it somewhere. he's now behind schedule for that. the other key thing vaughn is saying here is this suggests that a lot of the other votes still to come are probably going to be disappointing like this for trump, too. this has to do with when the ballots were cast. they're from a very particular bucket of votes. this is an indication that that bucket of votes isn't going to be as trump friendly as the trump folks were saying. i've got to go try to run the numbers here and see how far short that

and arizona -- the arizona call you just showed. trump is gaining in arizona. there are probablyl 500,000. if you are quick on the trigger then do it for both sides and standby it. with trump, they never want to call the state. biden they will do it right away.er it's inconsistent and unacceptable. north carolina should be called for the president for sure. arizona. fox should rescind that call. we have to do this in a right way. it was really poor how it was done. florida, we didn't seen the panhandle. the president was up so much with miami-dade early in mail-in rballots. there was no way he would lose by florida and won by 400,000 votes in the end. >> sean: you told me that before election day. i had faith, hope and trust. i watched eric trump and pam bondi today in pennsylvania. donald trump up over 400,000 votes. they introduced a poll watcher. should be able to watch the polls. is it postmarked and have the signature? not allowed near it. doesn't that almost render that vote, take away all trust that people have in it? >> especially when you have these vo

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i am in arizona. i am the daughter of a railroader in the great-granddaughter of a scotch immigrant to yuma, arizona and a mexican immigrant who was in los still partn it was of mexico. i am a retired hr director of a city and county in california, and i keep up with the need for more people to fill jobs and we need immigrants just as we always have, and i really get thet in arizona with all of umpers. how can people really support trump when we need people of all races to come into this country to fill jobs? we do not have enough people in this country. we have all these immigrants peeking the fruit and vegetables in california and working in the fields here. that is my question. why can't people be more supportive of immigration? guest: madeleine, i don't know and i entirely agree with you. is:: let's go to susan, who from tucson, arizona. from support -- who is tucson, arizona. susan support president trump. idea that support the we want to have freedom and liberty in this country. my experience in

arizona just has some leadership issues, at the governor and arizona republican party level. others, though, are refusing to concede defeat, and talking about recounts, protests and legal challenges. the expectation is they have their act together and that we see results tonight, and hopefully they are positive for the president. and it looks like right now like they are trending that way, and i think the biden campaign is getting very nervous about that because they think they have to win arizona. if they don't win arizona, they're toast. after a night of confusion, what is clear is that the once reliably republican grand canyon state is now a true battle ground, and the fact the fight is so close reflects the deep chasm that continues to divide people here and in states across the country. sophie long, bbc news, arizona. let's speak now to stuart stevens, who's a former republican strategist. he's worked with the likes of george w bush, mitt romney, bob dole and chuck grassley. but he's now a consultant for the lincoln project, an organisation that has been working to preve

and arizona -- the arizona call you just showed. trump is gaining in arizona. there are probably 500,000. if you are quick on the trigger, then do it for both sides and standby it. with trump, they never want to call the state. biden they will do it right away. it's inconsistent and unacceptable. north carolina should be called for the president for sure. arizona. fox should rescind that call. we have to do this in a right way. it was really poor how it was done. florida, we didn't seen the panhandle. the president was up so much with miami-dade early in mail-in ballots. there was no way he would lose by florida and won by 400,000 votes in the end. >> sean: you told me that before election day. i had faith, hope and trust. i watched eric trump and pam bondi today in pennsylvania. donald trump up over 400,000 votes. they introduced a poll watcher. should be able to watch the polls. is it postmarked and have the signature? not allowed near it. doesn't that almost render that vote, take away all trust that people have in it? >> especially when you have these vote

you might be hearing quite a bit about that in arizona. he voted for donald trump but also for the democrat mark kelly for the senate. two years ago in 2018, 150,000 voters in arizona voted for the republican ducey but also voted for the senate democrat kirsten cinema. we have seen that independent spirit here in arizona. this is maverick country. in the spirit of john mccain the voters here like the give the thumbs up or thumbs down on the individual candidates they like and the issues they care about. i don't want to forget about the senate race. this is huge. this is one democrats have been eyeing across the country. you have the astronaut mark kelly against the combat pilot martha mcsally. kelly maintained an edge in the polls. if he were to win, this would billion the first time a the state of the arizona could send two democrats to the senate since 1953. that's about 68 years. and i can tell you, george, again, this is that senate seat that belonged to john mccain. his wife cindy endorsed joe biden, but the voters we spoke with didn'

joining us now, vaughn hilliard in scottsdale, arizona. what are we looking at from arizona? >> reporter: we're looking at the 75,000 batch that steve was laying out, and which donald trump took about 60% of the share. if he wants to break even, that's the amount donald trump has to hit. among the 475,000 uncounted ballots across the state. it's unclear how many we'll get over the next hour. but talking with both the trump and biden camp, looking at this, democrats believe that on tuesday, just yesterday, yes, in person voters went by a nearly 2-1 margin for donald trump over joe biden in maricopa county. but when it comes to voters who hand-delivered their ballot at the polling location yesterday, they believe that is a greater share of democratic and independent voters. why? because they have the permanent early voting lists in arizona. when you sign up to get an early ballot in years past, that comes to your doorstep. and democrats were the ones urging folks not to mail their ballots out in the week before election day. instead, turn it in, in person. that's where a biden

, the -- arizona, the bottom line is president trump is going to win arizona. i believe it. the trend is going that way. i spoke to the president yesterday morning and told them i believe that arizona is going to go for president donald j. trump, and that [indiscernible] and he is going to win america. [applause] absolutely.said, go ahead. stop that. yes, ma'am? >> [inaudible] that questionk and i answered it. go ahead, ma'am. >> [inaudible] >> i legal team is clearly looking at those types of questions. it's been very well documented those are some concerns by thousands of people in the state of arizona, so they are not unbounded to the people they affected. so there's a process for those people and for our campaign to go through, and that's what the team is currently looking at, obviously. thank you all very much. happy to take any more questions after we're done here. >> thank you all for coming. we're willing to take some more questions, but the press conference is officially over and the count is still going on and arizona is going to win for president tru

it will shift certainly to arizona. arizona with 11 electoral votes. and then we're getting votes in in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. we're getting them very slowly, very scattered, but, again, what donald trump will need to do, pennsylvania must-win in that situation, likely arizona would be must-win for him in that situation. we'll keep an eye on nevada as well, but the battleground if trump is able to go 5 for 5 if these states -- that is a big if right now, but if he is able to do that, the battleground will shift. we'll be talking arizona, wisconsin, michigan, and really pennsylvania, the second congressional district in nebraska, which i'm going to try to get a readout on in a minute here. >> steve, before you go to the second congressional district in nebraska, can we go to wisconsin and see what we've got in terms of wisconsin vote so far? >> you got it. let's take a look to live election -- there's ohio -- let's make our way up to wisconsin. here we go. about 30% of the vote is in in wisconsin right now. let's see if we got more in brown

academic. written, it looks like arizona could become academiclj written, it looks like arizona could become academic. i don't know if you have been able to get out and about in the last couple of days but what have you seen? i haven't been out a whole lot, not nearly as much asi whole lot, not nearly as much as i would like what we have seen is some excitement for democrats that has been tempered because of the pandemic but there is a lot of folks on the trump side who had been out, vocal and really trying to make the case that they are concerned that somehow they are concerned that somehow the votes won't be properly counted here. there were some media outlets that called the state of arizona forjoe biden relatively quickly. what do you make of those early calls? it was by fox and the associated press ? was by fox and the associated press? that's right on both of them have relatively good reputations on these things but clearly there was still a million votes to count on it looks like... however this turns out, it may not been as clear as it seems when those calls were made. they ar

ido michigan or arizona and nevada? i do think it is arizona, nevada, and michigan and i think we take those and get to 270 exactly. pennsylvania and georgia may be become the fallback just in case. georgia may be become the fallbackjust in case. that goes to the point thatjoe biden has multiple pass to get to 270 whereas president trump has one path, only through pennsylvania and that's why you see him fighting so desperately to claim there and not allow those votes to be counted and is county results everywhere else because he doesn't have any option. this is the only way you can try to keep the mouth alive, if not the vote. ifjoe biden gets one of the pairs, he does not need the other pair to get to 270? that is exactly right. whatever happens, there will be many of people, millions and millions of people who are going to be opposed to the result, whoever wins and it seems millions and millions of people who will think that the process possibly the whole structure of democracy in the united states, is broken. how to

we believe one of the nets has suggested we've already won arizona, we are confident about arizona. that's a turnaround. in arizona, we have a lot of life in that and somebody said, somebody declared, it was a victory, and maybe it will be. after a premature call, words urging calm and caution, counting continues, and there's still no categoric confirmation that arizona will go tojoe biden. though some news networks and democrats have called it. arizona did the job, so we still have to make sure that every vote is counted, because we want everyone's voices to be heard, but arizona showed up and showed out today, and i'm so proud of my state, and i'm so proud of my county. democratic success here is the result of cultural and demographic shifts. and months of street pounding, doorknocking, and some of the most frenzied campaigning this state ever seen. republicans who gathered to celebrate saving their state from the liberal left packed up a party that never got started. i am discouraged and a little down about arizona, but i'm still hopeful for nationally, that we are going to win.

arizona. republicans have taken over one seat in the senate. that is in alabama, or senator doug jones lost his seat to tell me to prevail. -- two tommy to reveal. -- two tommy tupper ville. if thom tillis hold onto his seat in north carolina as well, they could net three seats in the senate, and the reason i bring that up is because if joe biden's president, democrats would need to net three seats to take over the senate. so the senate could still be in play if this georgia special election, the georgia regular election of david purdue goes to a runoff alongside that special election. so something about super bowl in the senate could be taking place january 5 in georgia. so we will continue to watch what happens there into peach state. it is just after 8:00, one hour of a three-hour program today. 202-748-8000 for those of you who support joe biden and kamala harris. 202-748-8001 if you support president trump and vice president mike pence. if you supported another candidate altogether, 202-7

arizona, a key state. what is going on? yes, right now it looks like donald trump has cut intojoe biden‘s lead a bit further in arizona. his margin remains still about 46,000 his margin remains still about 116,000 behind former vice presidentjoe biden and there are more votes to count here. we are reaching a point, though, where it looks like the democrats may see things kind of levelled off. there is something called the sharpie incident. can you explain what thatis incident. can you explain what that is and why the state's attorney general has seen fit to comment on it? yes, so there we re to comment on it? yes, so there were some reports of people being handed sharpies to fill out their ballots in arizona in maricopa county, the most populous county, in particular. there was some concern that the ink might lead through the ballot and disqualify some of these voters as they were casting their votes. the election folks here in maricopa cou nty election folks here in maricopa county said this is ok. we have tested them, t

so eyes are on arizona at this moment. >> arizona is a must-win. thank you all for staying up with us tonight and lending us your wisdom. stick around. we'll go through the up to date results, and look at where things stand in the battleground states, next. states, next moments that define you. and drive you. to achieve even more. so, celebrate every one. because success isn't just about where you want to get to. it's also about how you get there the all new 2021 cadillac escalade. never stop arriving. i'm a talking dog. the other issue. oh...i'm scratching like crazy. you've got some allergic itch with skin inflammation. apoquel can work on that itch in as little as 4 hours, whether it's a new or chronic problem. and apoquel's treated over 8 million dogs. nice. and...the talking dog thing? is it bothering you? no...itching like a dog is bothering me. until dogs can speak for themselves, you have to. when allergic itch is a problem, ask for apoquel. apoquel is for the control of itch associated with allergic dermatitis and the control of atopic der

arizona is one of them. the arizona example i think really demonstrates the organizing istain critical for the community to feel something is changing and they have a role in it. nermeen: can you talk about the significance -- we don't know the results yet of the election, but what is at stake on immigration issues in particular now? big. we are really clear in our organization when we engage in the endorsement process the media decided to participate in the selection in a more active way, we made it very clear we were not picking a savior, we were picking a target for immigrants and the immigrants rights movement across the country. dismantled or attempted to be dismantled. . it has been one of the things the trump administration is most focused on in this first term. we can only expect in the first term there were understanding they would have to base reelection. i don't think we want to imagine what they're going to do in the second term. a shift in the administration would give us a fighting chance, give

number one is arizona. joe biden is leading in arizona right now. you see his margin there is 93,000 votes. we think there are about 600,000 votes left to be counted in arizona. 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.

they need arizona. they may win arizona. they need the count to go as well as it can, why intimidate the people inside doing what you want them to be doing. harry, the idea of, well, it will be okay because the result will stand for itself, it's hard for a thin margin to stand in an environment of uncertainty, right? people have a lot of misgivings about the way our elections work to start with. >> sure. although i will point out four years ago you had a thinner margin, it may end up being than the one we have this year, and the country did stand. there were obviously protests that took place after donald trump was inaugurated as president of the united states but there wasn't civil unrest to a great degree that there was violence in the streets and stuff like that. i will point out that now we have the background of a global pandemic. that adds an extra variable to this, and now we have donald trump who is obviously prone to volatile statements on twitter to say the least who may be burning the flames a little bit. we'll ha

the late senator from arizona barry goldwater. this state has gone democratic twice in its history once in 1988 when harry truman beat thomas dewey the 2nd time when in 1906 when bill clinton beat. bob dole rather resoundingly the numbers we have now with 80 percent 82 percent of the vote in is biden 51 and trump 46 percent also in arizona a flip of a important senate seat the democratic challenger mike mark excuse me mark kelly has beaten martha mick sally the incumbent republican who was appointed to her seat to fill out the term of the late senator john mccain and i read mccain as well as having some impact in the outcome here in arizona because as many people are aware president from even before he became president rather a spoke rather insultingly of mccain derogatorily saying i don't like people who are. taken prisoner during war time and mccain of course was a decorated hero of the vietnam. war and spent many years in confinement in north vietnam and his widow cindy mccain came out a couple of weeks ago and said that she wo

he is leading in the state of arizona. that's a state that no democratic presidential candidate has won in 24 years. joining us now is cindy mccain, the widow of the late arizona senator and 2008 republican presidential nominee, john mccain. mrs. mccain, so good to see you. >> good to see you. >> o'donnell: we saw another 100,000 votes come in today in arizona. joe biden holding his lead there. are you convinced at this hour that he will win that state? >> i really do believe he's going to win the state. it's been steady. it's been-- you know, all the things that have been talked about-- pundits are much better at this than i am. but i believe our state is changing, and i think they're going to make him their presidential nominee. >> cindy, it's john dickerson. >> hi. >> reporter: when we were out talk ago gee, i guess it was just last week. >> yeah. >> reporter: time has slowed recently. you had said you had gotten a little blow-back from your support of joe biden. i wonder now that the results have come in and it looks l

let's go back to arizona. there's still we're told 220,000 statewide ballots outstanding and most of those are in maricopa county, where phoenix is. >> yes. we have seen again recently when we get more votes, the question is, 3,000 votes right there. i'm rounding up a little bit, doing it on the fly, but what does the president need? we knew coming into the day the president needs to get 61, 62% the question is is he meeting that threshold. the president is coming out on top every time we get more votes, by a narrow margin but the count is trending in your direction but does it pick up enough as we get to the end? does arizona matter in the end in the calculation of 270? not if joe biden holds pennsylvania, protects the lead in georgia. as we go through this day, hours ahead, the counts here and here, if the president loses both of these, no matter what happens in pennsylvania and georgia, joe biden is the president-elect. it affects your legal strategy, recount strategy. >> arizona is an important state. bide

sophie long, bbc news, arizona. in the state of michigan, which has been won byjoe biden, president trump's campaign has started legal action to try to stop the remaining votes being counted. they say they haven't been given access to watch the opening and counting of ballots. 0ur correspondent lebo diseko is at a count in detroit. what is the latest there? well, it has been a very long night and a very long day here at this centre, where those ballots were being processed, particularly those postal ballots, very important ballots being counted. around 95% of votes in this state have been counted. as you said, joe biden has won this state. there were really ugly scenes at the centre earlier, both republicans and democrats saying they were being barred from entering they were being barred from entering the building and this room. we saw people banging on the windows, demanding to be let in. now, that is the basis of donald trump's action in this state. he said republicans had been barred from meaningful access to vie

reportero: cÓmo nunca antes los hispanos votaron en arizona. miles de ellos salieron a las urnas y en voto adelantado. son principalmente los hispanos jÓvenes los que dieron el voto y la delantera que hasta el momento tiene biden. no se ganÓ nada. el dÍa de hoy la secretaría del estado anunciÓ que hay 600.000 boletas por contar. 420.000 del condado maricopa. el mamos grande en el estado. - el mÁs grande en el estado. se contabilizan en estos momentos, vemos aquÍ, estoy en el lugar de conteo. aquÍ a mis espaldas cuentan algunas boletas. maricopa tiene a la mayor cantidad sobre todo de latinos. este condado siempre se ha dicho que quiÉn gana gana el estado de arizona. acÁ podrÍa darse la gran sorpresa. pero todavÍa la moneda estÁ en el aire. estÁn contabilizando los votos en este lugar. y para esta tarde, a las 7:00 tiempo arizona, se darÁn a conocer los Últimos resultados. sabremos si biden realmente concreta la victoria o si trump lo adelanta. regreso con ustedes. jorge: muchas gracias. una mayorÍa de puertorriqueÑos votÓ a f

state of arizona. you have to go back to bill clinton in the 1990s, last time a democrat won in arizona. why? older voters. suburban revolt against donald trump we saw in 2018 when democrats took back the house and seeing it play back in phoenix and growing suburbs in phoenix. maricopa county. you look for the final counties where people live more than 6 in 10 votes in the state of arizona come here. joe biden is winning. a tight race but winning 52% there. when you pop out and look statewide 93,000 votes. if you're joe biden you just need to win a majority the rest of the way. you have 93,000-vote lead. 10% still out here. joe biden winning 60%. in pima county. let the states finish the counts. you look at the pattern joe biden leading in arizona. that would be a pickup. leading in nevada. if we get to the end of the day, joe biden holds those two states he is knocking on the door 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> we will watch arizona and nevada closely. we just projected michigan going to biden. >> it's

bill 1070 in arizona. those things activated and galvanized a whole generation of spanish-speaking voters for years. by the time it came to election time, people were active. i think the same thing applies to the african-american community in 2008, 2012 and 2016, the more hispanic americans we have in media who are intimately familiar with these communities we don't get a surprise. when i've been able to make assessments about how black voters were behaving in georgia, hey, you had lots of african-americans down there reporting, this is what i'm hearing, these are certain thing i may hear that different reporters don't. i think if we had large analysts of consultants who are members of these communities, we might get a better assessment and wouldn't get as surprised as we do on election nights. again, i think you can draw completely different stories from what happened in texas, what happened in arizona and what happened in florida. but if we had experts in these areas we could probably know how to draw a

he has to come out west and either win nevada or arizona. it's a little bit more difficult, even much more difficult for the president tonight. >> i wanted to make sure you were still awake, tom. >> i'm awake, david, and the board is juiced up, maybe a little tired. >> we'll see you, 10:00 p.m. for our prime time special. tom, thank you. >>> joe biden speaking late today, appearing with senator kamala harris, appearing cautious but confident. biden saying every vote must be counted. late last night in wilmington, calli ining on americans to keee faith. and what we heard from biden just a short time ago about what he sees in the next few days ahead. mary bruce covering every step of this campaign, she's with the biden team tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a confident joe biden with kamala harris by his side, declaring victory is within his reach. >> i'm not here to declare that we've won, but i am here to report when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. >> reporter: biden says he's ahead in wisconsin, ahead in michigan, con

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we have not called arizona. a lot of other organizations have made that decision not to call arizona. it is much too close right now. but this is the scene outside of the maricopa election center. we'll keep an eye on what's going on here, rachel. >> gadi, i know it may be a little hard for you to hear me because you're in the middle of that crowd, let me know if you're having trouble, is what you have seen or is what people are attempting there intimidation or would you just describe it as a dimension that demonstration, a peaceful demonstration where people are expressing themselves? >> reporter: this is arizona. if you take a look over here, a lot of times at these rallies you see a lot of guns, you see a lot of people with long guns, long rifles slung over their shoulders. this is an open carry state, so it's totally legal. and we don't see any of that. so there are no people with guns that are out on display. we have seen a couple of people with bulletproof vests. it's a boisterous crowd, aggressive, they h

the governor of arizona, republican governor doug ducey said in a tweet we're following arizona election law to the letter defending the election process. but also the chairman of the maricopa county board of supervisors, clint hickman, who is republican and who is a trump supporter who was at a rally last week defending this election's process, so what you see outside is very separate from the reality of how the process inf arizona is working. apologies for the length of that firstie part. on the answer to the second question, i think steve set up what we're looking at. tomorrow is a big morning in arizona. as we're watching philadelphia. as we're watching georgia, tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. eastern, 9:00 a.m. local is when we're going tom. get the first batch of votes that's the key indicator that's going to tell us whatin the next 300,000 balls are going to look like. that's because these remaining ballots are almost all ballots that were handll delivered on tuesday, election day. and the democrats, the biden campaign, tell me that they hope those numbers are not as favorable to d

and arizona, 46,257. as the vote counting goes on there, biden is losing votes and trump is ship chipping away. i have never seen anything like this. having one state this close, one thing. >> that's right. >> having four, this close. two days -- is that how many days it's been since election day? three, four, five, whatever it is. >> does it matter? >> it is unbelievable. and the stakes could not be higher. >> could not be higher. i want to say it's like having four floridas. but hopefully we will end up in a place where -- florida 2000 -- hopefully we'll end up in a place where these votes will get counted. they're doing it very slowly, very cautiously, very deliberately. nevada in particular, which is slower than the others. and we will get the answers. and we're going to get maybe some more news from arizona later. pennsylvania is working pretty fast, especially considering, as we talked about, this is really new for them. it's new for a lot of states to have this volume of mail-in votes. but the whol

i was really heartened to go to places like arizona. i spent a lot of time in arizona. i was involved in the litigation 10 years ago. because when 1070 you look at what happened in saw aa in 2020, you dramatic increase in latino voter turnout, roughly 650,000 turned out in arizona in 2020. you were looking at something like 450,000 in 2016. byember, joe biden one 11,000 or 12,000 votes in arizona. when i look at the battleground state by battleground state breakdown, you really see battleground states or latinos made a huge difference. i will give you one, wisconsin. where roughly 100,000 latinos .oted in 2016, we were regularly polling and three states, three battleground states. in 2020, we were regularly polling and doing a lot of work in 10 states. that difference reflects the fact that latinos, while the denominator varies, they can make a huge difference. georgia is on our mind because we have an election in january there. again, latinos are part of a future coalition. and he can latinos are part of huge coalition. eligible voters in georgia and again you look at

serving and fighting for arizona, the opportunity of a lifetime. i had to pinch myself as a middle class veteran became one of 1984 americans in the senate. and in both chambers of congress and the nation was formed. like most americans on my life journey i have overcome adversity. by the grace of god, where is 12-year-old my dad died of a heart attack. i learned at an early age, each day of this life begins. my brother martin passed away. this type of debrief of losing a family member. every moment, every chapter of our lives is a gift. as it has been for most chapters of my life i didn't come here in the traditional or easy way. i think governor doug doocy for the blessing to serve the great state of arizona especially during these times of unprecedented challenges. accepting the governor's appointment by the most prestigious, and governing body, like most missions in my life, high risk, high purpose and ever, becoming a us senator is the alternate expression of this, do things afraid. in my fight for the grand canyon state. i gave my maiden spee

jorge: en arizona biden mantiene la ventaja, el conteo con 65.000 votos. ilia: el presidente trump ccontinÚa con ventaja con 75.000 votos. jorge: marcha por delante de biden en georgia con 9000 votos. ilia: la campaÑa del presidente trump ha respondido al avance de joe biden con avance legal. jorge: el presidente donald trump desde twitter despliega ofensiva intensa para sembrar dudas sobre legitimidad de conteo de votos. vamos a washington con jeanette rodrÍguez. reportera: desafiante en la sala de prensa de la casa blanca, se presentÓ y sin evidencia dijo que los demÓcratas estÁn tratando de robar las elecciones, que hay fraude electoral, que es una maravilla cÓmo ahora cuando estÁn contando las boletas por correo estÁn desapareciendo los votos a su favor. una vez mÁs no presenta evidencia de lo que estÁ diciendo. dijo tambiÉn que pensilvania, especÍficamente en la ciudad de detroit no deberÍa ser importantes y cruciales en este conteo de votos, porque allÍ hay corrupciÓn electoral. nuevamente, sin dar evidencia de esto, y que mÁs que de

and that he could get arizona. from an electoral college standpoint if we look at our road to 270 here, again, if you are donald trump this morning, you are at 214. you need to get arizona, right? that would put you at 225. you'd need to get georgia where he's clinging to the lead but it's slipping every time there's an update. but he needs to get that. then there's north carolina. and what we're waiting on in north carolina is trump leads there right now in the count. in carolina, if the ballots were postmarked by election day, they can come in a few days later, still counted. we don't know how many people did that. that's actually an open question there. but it would have to be an extremely large number for biden to overtake trump in north carolina. trump would also then need north carolina. arizona, georgia, north carolina, and then he'd also trump need to take pennsylvania. again, you see in pennsylvania and in georgia, he is clinging to leads right now. it's especially under threat in pennsylvania for trump. w

victory in arizona by maybe 50,000 votes. david: let's go to nevada. if arizona holds, if nevada goes for joe biden, it will be right at 270. what is going on there, particularly with clark county? maricopa, they are the two largest counties in the u.s. by population. they have been two of the largest growth counties for decades in the u.s. 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

in arizona come already a number of media outlets have called arizona for the vice president. we continue to feel confident about arizona and we believe we have won there, though the counting has not been finished. so we are waiting on arizona to continue to count. saw some counts last night and there will be more today. we do expect similar to nevada that some of the margin will continue to close today as more data comes in. from our understanding of how the data is going to be reported , we believe that will see some more rural and other counties that might be less favorable to us coming in earlier. a county that is very favorable for the vice president we understand it might not report until tomorrow. and maricopa county, the county where phoenix is, we know is likely to report at least some of their outstanding ballots, but not until later tonight. so the story of arizona is one where joe biden is going to win, but it is going to take its time. counting,hrough the we would expect to see and we will see a tightening of that margin throughout the day. but more favorable data

trying to supporters converge on voting centers in michigan and in arizona calling for the counting of postal ballots to be suspended. 900 g.m.t. 34 am i should say in the united states state of georgia one of several battleground states where the result of choose days presidential election remains in the balance now to get these live pictures from atlanta that's a georgia's capital city vote counters hard at work counting still ongoing it's an extremely close race in the traditionally republican state donald trump's initial lead has been steadily dwindling the u.s. president has repeated unsubstantiated claims that there were major problems with voting and ballot county georgia is one of several states where republicans are fighting legal challenges over the election. county goes on let's look at the map the electoral map and see how things are balance at the moment and biden remember remember has already flipped michigan and wisconsin up in the north and that's areas that donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago the democratic candidate now has a project a total of 264 electoral college

arizona's votes come in three buckets. the first bucket of votes, call them the early votes, these were the ones that were cast weeks ago. folks mailed them in in october, folks mailed them in a week before the election. this is the bucket that contains every ballot that was cast up until the weekend before the election. this is what was counted first in maricopa county. it's the largest bucket. and we expect it's perhaps the most democratic bucket, a very democratic bucket. joe biden won it by ten points. so those are the first votes that we saw last night out of maricopa, and everywhere in arizona. now, the second bucket of votes, this is the one that was tabulated overnight last night. the second bucket of votes is the same day. it's folks who showed up, said i want to vote, in sort of normal old fashioned way of going to the polls and getting your ballot on election day. this is a very republican group. donald trump was winning this group, something on the order of 26 points. now, they have counted, we believe, all of

i still think he can win in arizona. i've been talking to doug ducey in arizona frequently. look at margins in arizona, just the right percentages the president needs. there is no doubt in my mind he will win georgia. certainly winning north carolina. i think he has a shot in nevada. it comes down to the big 10 particularly in pennsylvania. that is exactly why many of the democrat officials don't want the public and certainly not the media looking in at this election process. we need transparency to make sure that they're legitimately counting every ballot that was legally cast. >> you know, the state officials are saying that these are frivolous kinds of attacks from the trump campaign. that the votes are being properly counted, but, the republicans are saying no, they're not. what are you hearing right now about that? >> well, open it up. to me, exactly what you need to have is a transparent process not only for pennsylvania, not only for the world to see how we legitimate ily conduct an election. when you put plywood over windows. open it up. have a legitimate process. le

we should be talking about arizona. we should be talking about the latino vote in philadelphia, which came out in huge numbers, and the latino vote in georgia, which hit 185,000. that is record-breaking. we should be discussing the latino vote in georgia. i know there's lots of important media stations and personalities in miami, but it is only 3% of the national latino vote. , arizona has been working for 10 years towards this moment where they were turning blue. engaged.people more several organizations and a lot of others have really been working the streets trying to make sure they register voters and get them out to vote, and it worked this time around. but this takes me to my next question. when i used to cover elections at univision, one of the things that kept them away from the voting booth is not having a good choice. any people thought one party was hostile to them and the other one was taking them for granted. takethe democratic party latino voters for granted? because that is a perception out there, that th

that's arizona. by the way, we'll talk to arizona secretary of state in just a few minutes. lipinski, you want to listen to that one, too. listen to how many votes she says they have outstanding. let's march through the map. pennsylvania, chuck tells me you're a pennsylvania native. that philadelphia county has been sitting there at approximately 70% counted for a long time, it seems. are they not counting? what's going on? when do you expect to see something? >> yeah, they're counting. we expect to see vote today, and that 70% might be -- that's an estimate. that's dependent upon what they're telling us. right now, i actually think turnout might be a little light in philadelphia. i mean, i know we've been hearing from a lot of politicians that it might be high. i think it is going to be a little light. i think it is actually going to be really, really close in pennsylvania. it's really too hard to know right now who will win that. the votes are trending biden, but we'll see. >> all right. >> wow, that's interesting. what do we have left, georgia. can you give us a georgia u

we're also watching arizona. it's a state that offers 11 electoral college votes and has long been won by the republicans. butjoe biden is currently ahead there by over 43,000 votes, and trump supporters aren't happy. some of them are protesting in the state capital. 0ur west coast correspondent sophie long is in phoenix, arizona. 43,000 votes is like a healthy when you look at the razor thin margins of places like georgia but is it possible for them to catch up with that 43,000 with him any more outstanding votes are to be counted? it is very loud here so i think i caught your question but yes, over 43,000 votes between them. it does sound more healthy than in other states of courts but that is only the equivalent to 1.4%. in terms whether the president can still catch up people hear it certainly believe he can and they have been protesting here in downtown phoenix since early in the morning. the crowd has dissipated a lot and i would say at its peak this morning there were around 600 people and it has been a ve