joe biden is on the verge of becoming
the next president of the united states
three days after the election the
counting continues in a handful of
remaining battleground states
but today joe biden finally pushed ahead
of donald trump in a number of key
states
including pennsylvania where 98 percent
of the votes have been counted
pennsylvania alone would be enough to
hand him the keys to the white house
but tonight president trump has said he
will continue his legal fight
and would never give up fighting for the
american people
with all but six states left to declare
joe biden has
253 electoral college votes and donald
trump has
214. 270 is the number needed to win the
presidency
counting is still going on in six states
including key ones like pennsylvania
nevada arizona and in georgia where the
margins are so tight
there's going to be a recount well let's
get the very latest from our north
america editor john soap or john
yes sophie joe biden must feel he is
kind of almost within touching distance
of the presidency and becoming america's
46th
president he's ahead in all the places
that he needs to be ahead
it is surely just a matter of time
before he crosses the line
and becomes president-elect but as you
say there is going to be a recount in
georgia
there are snags in pennsylvania this is
all dragging out and will drag through
the weekend
potentially on the other side donald
trump's side
there is growing frustration in the
white house that he's not getting the
support
that he thinks he deserves from senior
republicans that there is no legal
strategy
just a lot of ritz flying around it all
makes for a pretty un atmosphere
in the building behind me
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joe biden takes the lead in pennsylvania
donald trump is now true joe biden
has just taken share advice
might just be the moment the whole ball
game the seemingly overwhelming lead
that donald trump had in pennsylvania
the day after the election this morning
finally evaporated
and has become a biden lead if the
democratic challenger wins here
it's game over for the president pretty
soon the hyphen will be gone from vice
president
to president-elect joe biden
it's a happy day for our country and the
march of the maths has been played out
in small government buildings and
windowless offices in arizona
pennsylvania nevada and georgia a
thousand votes here
a few hundred there all the time
chipping away at donald trump's grip on
the white house there will though be a
recount in georgia where margins are so
tight
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in pennsylvania today from the pro-biden
supporters the party's already started
there's growing confidence and yes
they'll be dancing in the streets
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but from the trump supporters increasing
anxiety
and a lot of chance of usa
and in las vegas nevada the trump
supporters resorted to prayer
please let our luck change not the first
time that prayer has been offered in sin
city last night a disconsulate president
made a long unhappy statement
again alleging without evidence that he
was being robbed of a victory that was
his
if you count the legal votes i
easily win if you count the illegal
votes
they can try to steal
the election from us and we think we
will win
the election very easily we think
there's going to be a lot of litigation
because we have so much evidence so much
proof and
it's going to end up perhaps at the
highest court in the land
astonishingly all the main u.s networks
pulled away
before he'd finished okay here we are
again
in the unusual position of not only
interrupting the president of the united
states but correcting the president of
the united states
this morning the president issued this
statement we believe the american people
deserve to have full transparency
into all vote counting and election
certification and that this
is no longer about any single election
this is about the integrity
of our entire election process i will
never give up fighting for you
and our nation president donald j trump
but hold up in the white house the
president isn't enjoying that much
support
for his legal battle from his party this
is the republican senator from
pennsylvania
the president's speech last night was
very disturbing to me because he made
very very serious
allegations without any evidence to
support it
i am not aware of any significant fraud
any significant wrongdoing if it's
happened then
the evidence needs to come out we need
to go to court and the democrat mayor of
philadelphia
has also weighed in colorfully you know
i think what the president needs to do
is
frankly put his big boy pants on he
needs to acknowledge the fact that he
lost
and he needs to congratulate the winner
just as jimmy carter did just as george
h.w bush did
and frankly just as al gore did and stop
this and let us move forward as a
country
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meanwhile in wilmington delaware the
stage was set for a declaration on
election night
it didn't happen then but it might very
soon
a declaration that joe biden has won and
that he is now the president-elect
he's marching to the drum beat of
america's long-established democratic
traditions
determined to be unaffected by the noise
coming from the white house
convention has it that the loser
concedes before the winner claims
victory
but donald trump is running out of legal
avenues
and it's became beginning to seem clear
that unless
the vote votes change substantially in
pennsylvania
he really doesn't have a legal shot and
that means that joe biden
he's going to address the nation tonight
might find himself declaring victory
without waiting for a donald trump
concession john sobel thank you
so joe biden is on the brink of the
presidency he has waited more than 30
years for this moment our north america
correspondent nick bryant is at biden's
campaign headquarters in delaware as
john was saying he's expected to
address the nation tonight the momentum
is very much with him
yeah the question is whether he claims
victory he's not going to wait for a
concession from donald trump because
that simply won't come but he might wait
until pennsylvania
is declared the message all along for
the broadening campaign these past three
days really
has been to be calm to be patient to be
confident because they are sure
they are going to win they were on
election night they didn't freak out
when donald trump
took that early lead because they knew
that as the maryland ballots were
counted
they would win states like wisconsin
michigan and now pennsylvania
where his lead is unassailable and joe
biden really has done the job that he
was hard to do
to take back those rust belt states that
are ordinarily democratic
that donald trump won four years ago and
sophie we are starting to see
evidence of a transition of power the
secret service has boosted
its security around joe biden today the
skies above me
are now restricted space the sort of
things you see when a politician moves
from being a presidential candidate
to the president-elect nick brown thank
you