clive murray has been reporting on the
battle for the white house over the past
two weeks and he reports tonight
from pennsylvania and looks at what this
election has done to america
it's morning again in america
past presidential elections here herald
a sense of hope
a peaceful dawn but this is now america
help every vote a land of
ambient ugliness
divided angry
frustrated
primed for trouble
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there are many whose opinion we've
canvassed in this disunited states of
america in recent weeks
ordinary voters i look to track my
ballot
and it wasn't there
so now it's there it says vote recorded
okay now wondering can the nation meet
this moment to heal
you can't just find hundreds of
thousands of votes
bridge the chasm between red and blue
we first came across catherine cobor and
her friend pam
stumping for president trump in phoenix
in arizona just before polling day
they enjoy the heat
and very public disapproval
if we lose the election
we're going to lose our way of life
we won't be free we came across chris
smith
at a trump rally in tucson last month
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and after touching down in philadelphia
on election eve
we chatted with debbie smith a democrat
who voted for joe biden
as the election draws to a close she
says america cannot tackle
its most pressing problems without unity
our people need to get back to work we
need to heal this country
so at the end of the day it's going to
come down to we need to recover
from the coronavirus people have lost
sight of what's happening
so the energy for some republicans the
coronavirus isn't the main election
issue
ask chris smith you think it's fraud
i mean guys we don't go to bed at 10 11
12 o'clock at night two in the morning
with leading all the key swing states
and wake up at seven o'clock in the
morning
and suddenly they found hundreds of
thousands of votes and they all
happen to be for joe biden
hello catherine greetings from
philadelphia it's good to see you again
the last word
goes to catherine do you think the two
halves of america can unite
now perhaps in the future
we can start to work on them but right
now no
the wound is too open
sobering words but if it's winter in
america
can spring be far behind clive murray
bbc news
in philadelphia well let's get a final
word from our north america editor john
sopel and joe
biden looks to be on the verge of the
presidency tonight is it just about
formalities now
i think it is about formalities i'm
going to give you a very similar answer
to the one i gave you last night we
don't know when the result
will be called i thought it would be
today it's going longer
but it does seem clear that joe biden is
the next president of the united states
of america
he is waiting for the formalities he's
got a judgment to make this evening when
he addresses the nation
do i call it and announce that i am now
the president-elect or does he wait for
the
us networks to say he's got over the
line he's got over 270.
and for donald trump there are tough
questions as well because i'm told the
mood in the white house
is somber a lot of aides didn't turn up
for work today
donald trump is angry that he's not
getting the support that he feels
he needs but he wants to go full steam
ahead with this legal strategy
even though there doesn't seem to be a
legal strategy
yes ritz are flying but what is the end
game how do they navigate
to the end of this there is uncertainty
and unhappiness in the white house while
joe biden has got the champagne on ice
john staple thank you