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i do brent and
i'm going to start off by just having us
take a look at the geographical map of
the country now just to get a good sense
of where we are as you can see that map
is starting to color up
really nicely over there for us as of
course that time zone is shifting
uh from east to west like i said earlier
on everything that you see
uh in solid red has gone to donald trump
everything in solid blue
uh has gone to joe biden at this stage
so look at that sort of like red line
going down the middle of the country
north dakota south dakota nebraska
kansas
those all go into the trump stock so to
say as you said brent earlier there has
been no upsets at this stage new york
virginia colorado new mexico these are
all states that we did expect
would go to joe biden but now let's
break it down in terms of those places
where we are watching the race on a
state-by-state
basis look at texas now 38 electoral
college votes
up for grabs there and we can see donald
trump does have the lead
over joe biden over there or be from
really a small marginal percentage
69 of the votes have been counted in
texas that's one that we will continue
to watch we can also show you another
state now
and that would be the state of florida
29
electoral college votes up for grabs in
florida it's been said that
it's going to be very difficult for
donald trump to make his way back to the
white house if he doesn't secure this
one
91 of the votes have been counted and
donald trump does have
a slight lead over biden in that state
and so that is florida with 29 electoral
college votes another state we can show
you is
ohio 18 electoral college votes there
as ohio goes so goes the nation that's
because
ohio's voted for the winner of every
election since 1964.
and we can see again trump in the lead
51
to joe biden's 47
and of course 77 of that vote uh has
been counted
in the state of ohio one more state for
you and that would be
arizona this would firmly be a
republican state um but right now it
could go either way and in fact
with 70 of the votes and we can see joe
biden
a firm lead over donald trump almost 10
lead over donald trump 54 to 44
nearly 45 donald trump now let us show
you
what that means in terms of the magic
number that we are watching tonight and
that is
270 270 the number needed to secure the
white house as it stands biden
firmly in the lead with 131 points
donald trump trailing
with 98 points in that
all-important electoral college vote so
that is the state of the race as it
stands i will
now hand you back over enos poll our
washington bureau chief she is in the
u.s capitol and oliver salat
is in joe biden's home state of delaware
let's go to enis first
good evening to you enos
talk to me a little bit about what
you've been seeing there
in front of the white house tonight
thank you you look amazing
yes i'm standing in front of the white
house and
thank you sir for talking to me be safe
so you see brenda it's getting crowded
here we just had a little incident
with the police and some protesters it
was unclear what
exactly happened but i think what we
really experienced
right now that a little something really
can
fire up a big group it was very peaceful
before we saw this one masked man
running towards
the white house followed by the police
and then within
less than two minutes many many people
came here
shouted uh some of them
were shooting some fireworks so this
pretty much describes the situation
of the united states and as we see the
results coming in and it seems to be
like a really
tight race this is something we might
have to witness over the next hours to
come and maybe over the next
days yeah oliver in delaware
we are looking at a race that is so
close to call
i mean it really is a tied race if you
will
joe biden's supporters i'm sure this is
not what they wanted to
see at this stage they must be biting
their nails right now
they certainly are brand uh there have
been no surprises until now none of the
big
battleground states have been called
either so
it's pretty much open until now
everything and it
continues to be a nail biter as you say
there's a sense of nervousness here
right now
a lot of people are putting their hopes
in this many people told us today
at the polling station that this is the
most important election of their
lifetimes and that is
also something that we've witnessed when
we travel the united states
uh together with venus poll who's just
reporting from the white house
and we've spoken to trump supporters
we've spoken to people from the
biden side of the political island they
all believe
that no matter what happens here tonight
it is very important for them and for
the future of their country
enifs you know we're still waiting for
major states to be called
tonight talk to me a little bit about
the
mood if we can in the united states
after this marathon campaign that we've
just been through
the country is divided in a way i've
never seen before
people kind of have lost the ability
uh to talk with each other other to
really you know
share their political stance and discuss
like the best way
to bring this country back on track
because
covet 19 has hit the united states of
america
very very badly as many other countries
as well and uh brenda's uh many of our
viewers
know there is hardly any uh social
net so if one loses his or her
job and loses the health care many
are losing their homes they have to move
out
they get evicted so this is a huge
crisis
which this country is facing and the big
big 1 million
question if i might say so is who would
be the better person
to help overcoming this crisis and it
was really interesting as we
traveled this country as oliver just has
mentioned from one coast
to the others we spoke to
trump supporters who said he's the only
one who fights
socialism socialism which we for example
has
have experienced in cuba which we left
to move to the united states and we
don't want
a joe biden and a camilla harris
to take our freedom away and then of
course you have
democrats who say we need a change in
the white house because the way
donald trump conducts his politics the
way he
started a trade war with china and other
countries
is not the way we can bring like
our economy back because
business people need reliability and
what president
trump did is quite the opposite so there
is a
deep deep divide which goes through this
united states of america yeah exactly
you have to ask yourself how united
are these united states of america
tonight
enos poll in washington oliver salad in
delaware to both of you
thank you we'll be checking in with you
throughout the evening let's bring it
back here into the studio
and let's talk about where we are right
now stacy let me
ask you first i mean what do you make of
the results we're still waiting for
florida
for example and every other state where
the
results are coming in the big ones yeah
it's still too close to call
yeah it is but what you can see is that
um
leading up to this the past couple of
days trump has been running like a man
who's been
looking at the polls and believing them
and
what we're seeing so far as the results
trickle in is that he's been
hemorrhaging certain groups that made
him victorious in 2016.
so white educated voters
even some working class white women
voters
independents seniors so and these people
live
mostly a lot of them live in
metropolitan areas so they're
diverse they're big um they
are turned off by the rhetoric by donald
trump and you're seeing that and that's
why there are so many states up for play
that are normally red states that should
not be on the radar
like arizona like florida like north
carolina like georgia
and so while it's close and
it's early these are something this is
something that has to trouble the trump
campaign
yeah tyson the demographics here are key
right i mean we have actually
fewer white voters voting fewer white
voters without
college degrees yes but at the same time
you know the idea that demographics
demographics's destiny has been a play
that the democrats have made in many
states for many years many actually
decades i know from my home state of
texas
they say that this is going to be a blue
state they were saying that in 2002 it's
2020 it is still a red state every uh
state white house still a red state but
it's close and it shouldn't be this
close
i honestly the the demographic profile
of texas is very similar to that of
california
so it should actually be much closer to
a blue state it it
some structural disadvantages for
communities in texas
is one of the reasons that it hasn't
made the switch the other
and honestly this is maybe one of the
flaws that we're starting to pull out in
the biden campaign
is the mobilization of certain minority
groups particularly latinos and
latinos are obviously of a heterodox
group there are cubans
cuban americans they're venezuelan
americans they're mexican-american
clinton she had no problem attracting
them in 2016
but biden has had problems well she she
drove
up uh latino turnout and that's why you
saw some tightening in places like texas
and arizona and north carolina
and actually they invested heavily in
trying to turn out those populations by
messaging to those populations
the biden campaign has not been as
targeted on those
those groups because he didn't want to
open up a flank to
other groups in in contrast the trump
administration
and trump campaign to their credit as we
heard has been
hitting this point of socialism quite
heavily which tends to resonate
obviously with the cuban and venezuelan
communities that have experiences in
cuba
and with chavez and maduro in venezuela
and have said oh my gosh
there's connective tissue between biden
and these regimes that we
left but nothing has really
created that kind of voter turnout
that we would hope for the democrats
would hope for
in states like but i think all americans
would hope for in states like
texas north carolina among latino voters
and we know that with the exit polls
people have been asked what was most
important for you when you went in to
cast your vote and people who voted for
biden
said it was racial tensions in the u.s
number one
people voting for trump said it was the
economy
yeah this just shows how huge the divide
is between these two groups
and this is why i was really puzzled by
so many people who were saying they were
undecided
these two men could not be any more
different
so i i mean let's see what happens
but yeah yeah that's right the night is
still young