MONROE COUNTY, AND IT HAS
BROUGHT DONALD TRUMPS LEAD EVEN
LOWER.
ONLY 42,000 RIGHT NOW.
IN TERMS OF GEORGIA, AN
INCREMENTAL UPDATE HERE.
WE GOT SOME VOTES HERE, ABOUT
1,000 I THINK IT IS, FROM
ROCKDALE COUNTY, AGAIN, OUTSIDE
ATLANTA HERE.
MAIL BALLOTS, THEY FAVOR BIDEN.
IT BRINGS THAT TRUMP LEAD
STATEWIDE -- NOW ITS UNDER
2,000.
NOW ITS 1,902 VOTES.
>> WOW.
>> THAT IS DONALD TRUMPS LEAD.
ITS SO CLOSE THAT WHEN YOU DO
IT TO THE TENTH OF A DECIMAL
POINT, IT IS NOW A TIE, 49.4% TO
49.4%.
YOUD HAVE TO GO TO THE
HUNDREDTHS OF A DECIMAL POINT AT
THIS POINT TO SEE THE TRUMP
LEAD.
>> SINCE WEVE BEEN ON THE AIR
TONIGHT, JUST LOOKING AT MY
NOTES -- AND MY NOTES ARE AN
ABSOLUTE DISASTER HERE.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS.
BUT READING MY OWN HANDWRITING,
GOING FROM 9,500 VOTES, THE VOTE
LEAD FOR DONALD TRUMP AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE NIGHT.
9,500 TO 9,400 TO 3,400 TO 2,400
TO NOW UNDER 2,000 VOTES FOR THE
PRESIDENT AS THE VOTE CONTINUES
TO SORT OF IRREGULARLY AND ON A
SURPRISING NON-SCHEDULE ROLL IN
FROM GEORGIA.
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE ITS
INEXORABLE AT THIS POINT, STEVE.
>> AGAIN, WERE JUST LOOKING AT
THE LIST OF WHAT WE THINK IS TO
COME.
THERE ARE VOTES, AS I SAID, TO
COME IN FORSYTHE COUNTY, A
REPUBLICAN COUNTY.
BUT, AGAIN, THE MAIL BALLOTS
WEVE GOTTEN FROM THERE SO FAR,
BIDEN WAS LEADING.
VERY CLOSE.
ITS NOT LIKE PENNSYLVANIA WHERE
BIDEN IS GETTING 70%, 80% WITH
THE MAIL.
BUT BIDEN WAS EVEN LEADING
THOSE.
SO, YEAH, THE BIG THING HERE, I
THINK THIS IS NOW THE BIGGEST
OUTSTANDING SOURCE OF VOTES IN
GEORGIA IS CLAYTON COUNTY.
WE HAD A SMALL UPDATE FROM THERE
A FEW MINUTES AGO, AND THAT WAS
WHAT BROUGHT BIDEN WITHIN 2,500.
IVE GOT MANY RELATIVE TO COME
FROM STATEWIDE.
YES, YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE A PATH
HERE FOR JOE BIDEN TO GET INTO
THE LEAD IN GEORGIA.
NOW, AGAIN, IF HE DOES GET INTO
THE LEAD, YOURE AT SUCH A POINT
HERE WITH THE VOTES THAT ARE
LEFT THAT IT SEEMS, YOU KNOW,
VERY LIKELY THAT THE LEADER AT THE END OF THE NIGHTS GOING TO
THE END OF THE NIGHTS GOING TO
BE WELL WITHIN THAT 0.5 RANGE
WHERE THERE COULD BE A RECOUNT.
YOU COULD VERY MUCH SEE BIDEN
MOVING AHEAD IN THIS.
IF WE GET ANOTHER REPORT -- IF
WE GET A BIG REPORT FROM CLAYTON
SOMETIME SOON, THAT WOULD BE A
MOMENT WHEN I THINK IT WOULD
HAPPEN.
>> STEVE, IM GOING TO ASK YOU A
BLASPHEMOUS QUESTION, AND I KNOW
YOURE NOT GOING TO ANSWER, BUT
IM GOING TO ASK YOU ANYWAY.
ARE WE -- AS VOTE CONTINUES TO
COME IN TONIGHT IN GEORGIA, ARE
WE CONCEIVABLY COMING TO A POINT
WHERE THE DECISION DESK, WHICH
IS NOT YOU AND IS NOT ME --
WHERE THE DECISION DESK COULD BE
STARTING TO TALK ABOUT AN
APPARENT WINNER?
GEORGIA?
>> WELL, SO I CAN EXPLAIN THE
TERM "APPARENT WINNER," AND YOU
CAN DECIDE IF YOU THINK IT MIGHT
APPLY.
ITS BASICALLY WHEN WE THINK, WE
AS A NETWORK, THE DECISION DESK
THINKS THAT EVERY VOTE IN THE
STATE HAS BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR AND
THERES NO OTHER SOURCE OF IT
THAT COULD EVEN THEORETICALLY
CHANGE THE OUTCOME.
IF ITS VERY, VERY CLOSE AND A
CANDIDATE -- THERES A RECOUNT
POSSIBILITY, SOMETHING LIKE
THAT, THATS WHEN YOULL GET THE
TERM "APPARENT WINNER."
LIKE THE TERM "APPARENT WINNER"
WAS THROWN ON WISCONSIN THE
OTHER DAY.
WISCONSIN, WHEN ALL THE VOTES IN
THE STATE WERE TALLIED UP AND
JOE BIDEN WAS AHEAD BY 20,000 IN
WISCONSIN, AND YOU COULDNT LOOK
AT THE MAP AND SAY, OH, WAIT,
COUNTY "X" STILL HAS 21,000
VOTES.
BUT IT WAS WITHIN THE RECOUNT
PARAMETER.
THE DECISION SAID, OKAY, THAT IS
THE APPARENT WIN THERE THAT JOE
BIDEN HAS JUST PUT ON THE BOARD.
YEAH, GEORGIA, ITS SIMILAR IN
TERMS OF WHAT THE RECOUNT
SITUATION WOULD BE IN GEORGIA TO
WISCONSIN.
SO, YOU KNOW, YEAH, IF YOU COULD
GET ALL -- AGAIN, IN ANY STATE.
YOURE RIGHT, ITS LIKE BEING IN
CHURCH.
YOU DONT WANT TO OFFEND THE
CHURCH ELDERS HERE.
BUT, YES, IN GENERAL THATS WHAT
THE DECISION DESK WILL ALWAYS
TELL YOU, THAT IF THEY GET THEM
ALL ACCOUNTED FOR AND SOMEBODYS
AHEAD AND THERE IS STILL
SOMETHING LIKE A POSSIBLE
RECOUNT LOOMING OVER IT, THATS
WHEN THEYLL USE THAT TERM