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KWMU 11/4/2020 9:07:39 AM: ...political report just come welcome back hi there also with us is nathan gonzales the editor and publisher of inside elections nathan high page thank you for having me and dov no t he's the trial litigation senior director and chief of staff at the Campaign legal center at a nonpartisan nonprofit that focuses on Campaign finance law and fair elections have welcome good morning the revenant so nathan this is something that's continuously changing but can you just tell us where we are right now where do things stand well it shouldn't be a surprise because we've talked about how this election would go longer than one evening but i think when we're walking through the middle of it in real time it's a little bit jarring we have extremely close presidential race is coming down to a handful of states that are still undecided votes still being counted as specifically michigan pennsylvania wisconsin nevada north carolina where georgia even arizona we shouldn't isn't isn't quite done yet and vote votes are still being votes are still being counted and you might rather be joe biden than president trump right now in terms of the path forward but this is an extremely close race with multiple past victory with with past victory for each candidate in the senate of the fight for the senate is not decided yet either this is a case where you'd probably rather be republicans than democrats right now which is at least the shift in where i think where i thought things would be moving into moving into tuesday night and house democrats are going to retain their majority in the house but republicans are likely to pick up seats which is also different then the expectations coming into tuesday both former vice president biden spoke to his supporters early this morning we know because the fresh today early voting mail-in vote was going to take why we'll have to be patient o joey the hard work of tallying votes is finished $ so every vote is counted every bell this town hearing lawrence fear to drive in rally but hours later president trump declared falls and premature victory he also told reporters that elections officials should stop counting ballots everywhere except for one state arizona we have a lot of life in that and somebody said somebody declared that it was a victory for ... * This copy is real time computer generated. Your keyword is highlighted, other text will vary in accuracy due to speaker dialect and audio quality issues.
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