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WOLF BLITZER, ANCHOR, CNN ELECTION NIGHT IN AMERICA: Percent to 44.8 percent. Once again, 57 percent of the estimated vote in Michigan is in.
In Pennsylvania, 64 percent of the estimated vote is in. Trump has a very impressive 668,000 vote lead over Biden, 56.6 percent to 42 percent; 20 electoral votes in Pennsylvania.
Let's go over to David Chalian and take a closer look.
So here's the question. You're looking very closely at these numbers. Can the former vice president catch up?
DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, the answer to that is possibly so. And I'm going to show you why.
This is the state of play in Michigan right now. You noted Donald Trump's lead in Michigan, 57 percent of the vote is currently in in Michigan. According to our estimate.
What do we know about the early vote? Twenty-two percent of that current vote is early vote, at the moment but we don't expected to stay that small of a share.
We believe in Michigan, the early vote is going to make up a majority of the overall vote. That 55 percent of the overall vote in Michigan once every vote is counted, will be early vote.
And I just have to stress, right now in Michigan, Joe Biden is winning the early vote, 65 percent to 35 percent. It's a huge Biden strength.
So as the share of early vote goes up in Michigan, Joe Biden could benefit from that and possibly overtake Donald Trump in the state.
It's a similar story in Pennsylvania, Wolf.
BLITZER: Similar.
CHALIAN: it is a similar story. Take a look at the state of play in Pennsylvania right now. Sixty-four percent of the estimated vote is in Pennsylvania, and you
noted Donald Trump has this lead, 2.5 million to 1.9 million for Joe Biden. OK.
But how much of this is early vote in Pennsylvania? Well, take a look.
Of that current votes that's in right now, only 16 percent of it is early vote. We think the share of the early vote is going to grow quite a bit.
All the way up to 45 percent of the overall vote in Pennsylvania, we expect when all the votes are counted, 45 percent is going to be early vote.
And Joe Biden, right now in the early vote that is in, is winning the early vote 80 percent to 20 percent against Donald Trump.
It's a huge Biden strength. And it is going to grow as the share of the early vote grows in Pennsylvania.
And that could potentially allow Joe Biden to overtake Donald Trump in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
BLITZER: So the answer is it's doable. We'll see what happens, we'll be patient.
CHALIAN: Yes. We're waiting.
BLITZER: We're waiting. Anderson, we're waiting for the president to speak. We heard from Biden. Now we'll heard from the president fairly soon.
ANDERSON COOPER, ANCHOR, CNN ELECTION NIGHT IN AMERICA: And let's hear from our team here. David Axelrod, where does this thing stand for you?
DAVID AXELROD, FORMER OBAMA SENIOR ADVISOR: Exciting, isn't it? Look, this is -- as John described it, it's like a chess game. And so far no one's taken a piece from the other player.
The president has held -- (inaudible) he's held some of the states he won last time but it was always going to be about these final states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The so-called blue wall states.
If you talk to the Biden Campaign and to Democrats, they'd say these were the states that he needed to win to get to 270. Arizona would be a bonus for them.
But I just have to say, the president and his folks said that they were going to bring out this big turnout, they did bring out this big turnout, they deserve credit for knowing what they were doing.
The president currently has 60 million votes, there's still more than 20 percent to be counted. He only got 63 million four years ago so he's going to add to his
total in a really significant way. And I think that's going to be surprising to a lot of people.
But he has a following, it's in these rural areas, he brought them out. And he is in this game.
I would still rather be Joe Biden at this point --
COOPER: You think his path is clearer?
GLORIA BORGER, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
AXELROD: Here's the thing. We knew that this -- we knew this scenario would unfold this way. We knew that the early vote that we saw recorded in these states was going to be the votes that were casted on the day of the election. And we knew that they would favor Donald Trump.
We also know that the ballots that are going to be cast after -- in Pennsylvania, for example, three quarters of the ballots, early ballots, that were mailed in were from Democrats.
So that's going to vastly change the picture there. It's likely to do so in Michigan and Wisconsin as well.
So there's a lot -- there are many pages to be turned on this story.
And I think one of the reasons -- I think John's quite right -- one of the reasons the White House is so vehement about fighting what's going on in Arizona, the count in Arizona, is because that is not good for their narrative.
And it's also not good for their path. If he loses Arizona then he really has to win a couple of those states, not just Pennsylvania.
COOPER: Yes.
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BORGER: Arizona was really a cushion for Joe Biden. And so the Democrats that I have been texting with are very happy about that. But if you take a step --
COOPER: By the way, we have not called Arizona, (inaudible).
BORGER: That's right. That's right. But they're very happy that it seems to be going their way.
And we take a step back and we look at the four years. David was just saying the president got 60 million, he's getting 60 million plus this time.
The country is divided. The map, so far at least, looks pretty much the same. And if you look at all the exit polls we've had time to study now it
looks like the pandemic is the top issue for the Biden people and reopening the economy is the top issue for Donald Trump's people.
You have two-thirds of the people in this country saying that we are on the wrong track. The Biden people say the economy is going badly and the Trump people say things are OK and they're going to get better.
So we still have this split in this country. That has not changed over the last four years, even given everything that we've gone through.
And now we have a president who is saying that the other party is trying to steal the election, as if counting the votes is some kind of abnormality in American politics, which of course it isn't.
We don't know the results of elections on election night all the time.
COOPER: By the way, Vice President Biden has just tweeted something saying --
"It's not my place or Donald Trump's place to declare the winner of this election, it's the voters place."
BORGER: Well, what Trump was doing was saying that it was being stolen, which was even worse.
COOPER: (Inaudible), go ahead.
VAN JONES, FORMER OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Before you go, I just want to say a couple of things.
I think a lot of Democrats are hurt tonight, I think there's a lot of hurt out there.
There's the moral victory and there's the political victory and they're not the same thing. The political victory still may come.
But I think for people who saw babies being snatched away from their mothers at the border, for people who are sending their kids into schools where the "n"-word is now being used against them, people who have seen this wave of intolerance, they wanted a moral victory tonight.
We wanted to see a repudiation of this direction for the country. And the fact it's this close I think it hurts, it just hurts. I think people got their hopes up looking at those polls.
The political victory I think is still possible because you still have Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska too. The political victory may yet come.
But I think that to be honest tonight that I think people who -- there were people who were hoping for a big repudiation and that has not yet come. And a lot of people are hurt and scared tonight in the Democratic
Party.
COOPER: Senator Santorum, would you rather be on the Biden team or would you rather be on the Trump team tonight?
RICK SANTORUM (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Looking at the map right now, I like where Donald Trump is sitting.
AXELROD: In the White House.
SANTORUM: What's that?
AXELROD: You like that he's sitting in the White House.
SANTORUM: And I think he'll be sitting there for the next four years. But again, we're not there yet.
But I feel -- looking at Pennsylvania, I feel very, very good about Pennsylvania. And even Michigan. Less certain about Michigan, frankly, than I had (inaudible).
COOPER: So when people say well, a lot of the early votes aren't in in Pennsylvania, you say what?
SANTORUM: Yes. I would say that unlike a lot of states, Pennsylvania's portion of the early vote isn't anywhere near what the other states are.
This was the first year we'd done early voting and it's big, it's a couple million votes but the early vote that is in, that David talked about, the 80 percent, is from Philadelphia, is from Montgomery County.
It's from heavily Democratic areas and that's why it's skewed so high at 80 percent.
None of the smaller counties, at least from what I'm hearing -- and by the way, Allegheny County which is Pittsburgh, all of those early votes -- well, from Pittsburgh and Montgomery County, are in. Philadelphia still has them and they're still counting tonight, I'm told they're still counting tonight.
So there will be more votes coming in, early votes from Philadelphia.
But two of the three biggest counties in the state where early votes are coming from that are going to heavily 80 percent Democrat are already in.
And so, you're going to have early votes from central Pennsylvania, north eastern -- but they're not going to be anywhere close to what the early vote is for those other states (inaudible) counting.
COOPER: So where do you think the Trump path is to victory? Pennsylvania?
SANTORUM: It's Pennsylvania and Michigan.
COOPER: And the state of Michigan.
SANTORUM: Right. And look, I've spoken to some key people in Arizona and they're telling me that -- I know other networks have called, we haven't. And I think we're very wise in doing so.
I know this network takes that responsibility very seriously --
BORGER: Yes.
COOPER: Yes.
SANTORUM: -- as they should, and I'm proud to be affiliated with that. Because I think the call of Arizona from what I'm hearing is premature.
And that, for example, the early ballot drop, the mail drop that you're seeing, it was at plus two Democrat. They believe that the actual, when all of the mail is counted, it's going to be actually plus three or four. And that there's --
COOPER: Three or four Republican?
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SANTORUM: Republican. And that the same day -- now, again, it's not a huge amount of votes in Arizona on election day but it's going to be heavily Trump. And so -- AXELROD: (Inaudible) you know.
COOPER: (Inaudible).
SANTORUM: So they think it's possible for them to get there. Obviously, it's going to be tough.
AXELROD: Can I just say -- we're going to know, OK.
SANTORUM: Right.
AXELROD: I mean, the fact is that we're here, we're here to speculate and so on. We're going to know very soon because these votes will be counted.
SANTORUM: Right.
COOPER: You think by later today being --
SANTORUM: No, I don't think --
BORGER: In Arizona.
AXELROD: Well --
SANTORUM: No, I don't think --
AXELROD: I don't really know, Anderson --
SANTORUM: Well, in Pennsylvania the answer is no.
AXELROD: -- when we'll know the final count. In Michigan --
SANTORUM: They're not going to count them all today.
BORGER: (Inaudible).
AXELROD: But certainly not tonight.
SANTORUM: (Inaudible).
AXELROD: Well, I guess today being -- we're now into --
COOPER: Yes. Today is Wednesday.
AXELROD: I don't know where we -- where are we anyway?
SANTORUM: So, yes.
AXELROD: (Inaudible).
SANTORUM; Will they be counted today? Potentially --
AXELROD: Well, here's my point.
SANTORUM: Potentially.
AXELROD: This is the process. It was necessitated by the crisis that we're living through as a country. And just to echo what Gloria had to say, we're going to know what happened.
And to say, to suggest that somehow this process is corrupt, that the election's being stolen. We knew it was going to happen, Abby (ph) mentioned it earlier, the president's been signaling it for weeks.
And so that's way out of line.
SANTORUM: I would agree with you that the president should not say that the election's going to be stolen.
But just to let your viewers know, the secretary of state in Pennsylvania, over the past couple of days, has changed the rules.
For example, they changed the rules when they went to the supreme court and talked about signatures that they had to be aligned --
BORGER: But they --
AXELROD: (Inaudible).
SANTORUM: They basically said, no, you don't have to do that.
AXELROD: They're minor --
SANTORUM: But wait a minute. You're saying they're minor issues but they --
COOPER: That is not being stolen though.
SANTORUM: I'm not saying they're being stolen. But all -- I didn't -- I said I agreed that --
COOPER: Those are valid ballots that have been sent in and they contact the people to make sure --
SANTORUM: But the law says that you're supposed to match signatures. And the secretary of state said, no, you don't --
BORGER: But, Rick. This is about counting.
SANTORUM: And the second -- let me say one other thing. Because there are two things the secretary did.
The second thing the secretary did is say that she told this United States Supreme Court that they would segregate the ballots and not count them.
She then just yesterday or last night said, no, we're going to canvass them, we're going to open them and canvass them.
COOPER: It's (inaudible).
BORGER: But wait, you can't have it both ways.
SANTORUM: But --
BORGER: The president is saying I want it all done, I want it quickly, I want it done tonight. And so if she says, OK, we're going to try and count them and segregate them to speed up the process --
SANTORUM: But they're segregated --
BORGER: -- so we know the result, why doesn't the president applaud that?
SANTORUM: Because they're segregated because they're questionable as whether they can be --
BORGER: But you know better than anyone that now in Pennsylvania, the counting can go on for a couple of more days.
SANTORUM: That's right.
BORGER: This is what the public has been told --
SANTORUM: But there is a dispute about them.
BORGER: Well -- but they went to court and they said we're going to do this and we're going to extend it because of the post office and whatever reason and the Republican legislature said let's do it this way.
SANTORUM: No, no, no.
COOPER: (Inaudible).
SANTORUM: No, no. The Republican legislature did not agree.
AXELROD: But isn't the larger point --
COOPER: The bigger point --
AXELROD: -- shouldn't we all agree that the sacred right to vote --
BORGER: Yes.
SANTORUM: I think we --
AXELROD: -- in an incredibly important election should be preserved for every person?
SANTORUM: I guess the answer is we all agree with that. But we all agree there are rules and we should follow the rules --
COOPER: OK. Van --
SANTORUM: -- and not make them up as we go.
COOPER: Van-- and then we're going to go back.
JONES: OK. On other topics, I think there are three things we can learn.
First of all, there's some myths that have been destroyed tonight.
Republicans, it turns out, when a whole bunch of people vote, it doesn't necessarily hurt you. So maybe you can let more people vote. You had a big turn out, you haven't been hurt by it.
Democrats, it turns out, letting (ph) diverse people vote, it doesn't always go our way. So it's not a census, it's an election. We're going to have to do a much better job of reaching out to Latinos and to African Americans in some parts of the country.
And, lastly these polls are not to be trusted. There's something wrong with the polling industry --
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Amen to that.
JONES: Because the reason that people right now I think are hurt is because we got a little bit inflated with these polls.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes.
COOPER: All right. Let's go back to Wolf.
BLITZER: All right, guys. Thanks very much. Let's get a key race alert right now. Arizona, a key battleground state, 11 electoral votes. 79 percent of
the estimated vote in Arizona is now in and Joe Biden maintains his lead. 163,000 vote lead over Donald Trump, 52.6 percent to 46.1 percent. Biden is still ahead in Arizona with 79 percent of the vote in, John.
We're watching Arizona very, very closely. That would be a switch.
JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That would be a switch. And so let's start from where we are on the map. And it's going to take a minute but let's build up from here. 215 to 171.
That would be a switch. So let's just say for the sake of argument -- we haven't called it yet.
But let's just say that that one is a switch and let's say that Joe Biden holds the Clinton state of Nevada and that Joe Biden holds the Clinton state of Hawaii, right?
And so then we're moving through and we look right here.
Let's say that Joe Biden wins Maine -- I'm going to give him all of the congressional districts here. There's still -- there's one up there that's in play.
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President Trump carried Maine 2, the second congressional district, last time -- Maine and Nebraska do it by congressional districts -- so there's one up there that could be in some dispute.
But let's stop there for a second. Now let's look at this map here.
We haven't called Texas yet, let's move that one over. Let's assume Alaska goes this way as well. Let's assume Montana --
BLITZER: John, hold on.
KING: Sure.
BLITZER: I've got a projection on a state right now very close to your heart.
CNN projects that Joe Biden will win the state of Rhode Island. Rhode Island goes to Biden with four electoral votes.
Took a while but Rhode Island wins now on the road to 270 needed to win.
Biden now has 219, Trump has 171 with that win in Rhode Island.
I believe you went to college someplace in Rhode Island.
KING: I did indeed. Started my career for the Associated Press in Providence, Rhode Island. It's a great state, the state of Rhode Island. I just made it there. We just finally -- this is the latest we've
ever waited on Rhode island but that's the year we're having.
So you move Rhode Island over as well and you're going through these states right now.
Again, we haven't called Texas yet but I'm going to give it there -- we're still waiting on Alaska and Montana but the light reds means we're leaning them there, it looks like that's the way they're going, right.
So let's add North Carolina to that -- we have a ways to go here and everything.
So then where are you?
Georgia, the president's ahead, right, so I'm going to do this for now.
And right now Democrats in Georgia are saying don't you dare, I get it. A lot of votes to count in Atlanta, the collar counties around.
For the sake of argument, what happens if the president holds that?
So where are we now, where are we now?
That 11 -- the Arizona flip is important because Joe Biden had hoped to run the board here. One, two, three. That would make him president.
We've got some issues, right? These races are closer than we thought.
So let's take this one away. Pennsylvania we're waiting on. Joe Biden can win if he gets this Maine second congressional district or one of them -- he could get it in Nebraska as well.
If he gets one of the congressional districts, picks up Arizona, he can win the presidency with Wisconsin and Michigan.
Or if he wins Pennsylvania, then you could take away -- if you do it this way, let's say you get Pennsylvania and you lose one of these, you could do it that way too. But you can't lose them both.
So it makes it -- you don't have to run the board in the so-called blue wall with Arizona if you get one of the congressional districts.
It's very close as you play it. And we'll see how it plays out. So that's why we're going to have to watch.
And again, there are Democrats saying that we think we can get this one back. We'll see how that goes.
BLITZER: We got a key race alert right now in those two congressional districts in Nebraska and Maine, one electoral vote in each.
Right now, the second congressional district in Nebraska with 94 percent of the estimated vote in. Biden has 52.7 percent, Trump has 45.3 percent. Biden is leading by some 23,000 votes in that congressional district.
In Maine right now, 46 percent of the vote is in. Trump is ahead, look at this. Trump is ahead by some 18,000 votes, 52 percent to 44.5 percent. 46 percent of the vote in that congressional district in Maine is in.
Those are each, John, one. One electoral vote.
KING: And so let's change the map based on the vote right now. Doesn't mean that's the way it's going to end up but let's change the map based on the vote right now.
And you just said that the president's leading in Maine 2. So we'll switch that one over to him.
And you said that Joe Biden is leading here -- sorry about that, you've got to do this one at a time. I'm sorry, let me fix it.
So you come back here and you say here and we still have to call here. He's leading in that one. So you come back there.
And so where does that get you? That gets you now -- I'm going to take these back. Right? Let me take these back for now because we're not done here.
Again, this shows you the importance of Arizona, if it stays there.
This has Florida, we already projected. Texas, I'm giving the president these.
So let's say -- again, come back to the argument and I know Democrats are going to get mad about this because we're going to count in the morning, if you give the president Georgia.
So then you're looking at 244 and 247. And again, it comes down to here.
If the president can get this, that gets him in play, he needs one more, right? Even if he gets that one, it wouldn't be enough. You need to pick up something else up here. Right?
And so -- can you do that again? That would get the president there. If you're Joe Biden, you're hoping to do this and this but you're not sure. That's why we're going to count.
BLITZER: We have another projection right now. CNN projects that President Trump will win the state of Texas.
He beats Biden in Texas, he wins 38. That's a big number, 38 electoral votes.
Here's where the electoral map stands right now. Biden now has 219, Trump has 209. You need 270 to be president of the United States. 219 to 209, John. Texas, a big win for President Trump.
KING: Texas is a big win. I'm not sure what I'm missing on this map but I'll figure it out as we get there.
As we go through Atlanta -- no, I know about Rhode Island, I'm meaning for Trump. I'm missing some votes for Trump there. We come up there, there we go. We get that, there we go.
219 to 209.
And so the question then is how do you get there from here? So let's do it another way.
We're building this way, right?
Another way to look at it is to go back to 2016 and start here.
And so Texas, that was one of the opportunities. Democrats thought they had the chance to make this a statement election.
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They thought they had -- Democrats had thought they had a chance to take this away and to take this away, the two biggest prizes right here, right?
California's the biggest of them all. These are the two big Republican prizes in electoral politics. Democrats thought they had a chance, they are now staying with the Trump. Democrats thought they had a chance, another giant electoral prize staying red for Trump.
And so you're looking at the map. We're not sure yet about North Carolina but, again, Democrats thought they could flip it.
Right now, the president has a lead, we're not at the finish line there but it's turning that way. We'll watch and we'll count the final vote.
So then you're looking at it this way. Right now, we have no flips at the moment.
We do have Joe Biden leading here. And we think that's a possibility. That gets the president down to 295, gets Joe Biden up to 243.
The president's leading there right now so we'll leave Maine 2 with the president, we'll see if it ends up that way.
Let's come in to Nebraska. The president won them all last time. Joe Biden is leading here at the moment in Nebraska's second congressional district.
Again, we're not sure how that's going to end but let's just play it out as we go.
So here's where we are, based on the 2016 map. And again, right now, the president's leading in these places but we
know a lot of early votes are still to be counted, a lot of Democratic votes are still to be counted. We don't know how they're going to end up.
So essentially, this is your state of play. 248 to 244. Democrats thought this might be a statement election, that's not going
to happen.
Doesn't mean Joe Biden can't win the presidency but a sweeping Democratic win? Not going to happen.
We'll watch to see how this impacts senate races, house races, down ballot races. Joe Biden is not getting what he had hoped for, the party's not getting what he had hoped for.
If you come over here and look. Joe Biden ahead in the popular vote by 1.3 million.
They're still doing a lot of counting out on the West Coast, a lot of counting to come. But this is not where Democrats thought we would be at this point of the night.
We don't pick presidents this way but this is part of the statement Democrats had hoped to make, Joe Biden. We'll see what it ends up in the end.
California's going to take days to count, Washington State, days. This could significantly grow. But Democrats wanted to make that statement tonight.
So now you're back over here. And again, if Trump holds that, he's leading. We haven't called it. If Biden holds that, the same thing.
And if Biden gets Arizona -- we're not done there yet but he's leading. Then you have a map with one big flip, maybe plus that, that would be a hold for the president.
And, again, Wolf, here we go. Just as we did last time, we're going to come down to these here.
And again, the math gets interesting. Joe Biden's at 244.
Well, so how do you want to get there, right? Let's clear that out. 244, you're knocking on the door. That's victory. You can do it with Michigan and Wisconsin.
If you get Pennsylvania then it's gravy and you're up to 290. That would be the thing.
So let's just play it out a little in a different way.
If the president holds Pennsylvania then you're at 270, 268. That means the president would have to take one of these away, right? And so which one is it? If you looked at the polling coming into the race, coming into the
final weeks, the former vice president's lead was bigger in Michigan than it was in Wisconsin.
So that would be the one if you're looking at the polls. If you don't believe any of the polls because here we are again in a very close race.
Again, these are the states we're going to come down to at the moment. I'm just going to do them this way because we don't know.
The president's leading right now. But there you go. 248,244. Again, some of this isn't done yet but that's about where we are.
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. Who knew?
BLITZER: We just have to be patient and wait for the authorities there to count the votes.
KING: We do.
BLITZER: It's not that complicated.
KING: It's not that complicated. It gets frustrating especially because -- especially now that this is so tight. You have partisans on both sides who are going to very, very tight about this.
You have the president tweeting people are trying to steal the election.
People are trying to count votes. There's no evidence anyone is trying to steal an election.
The Trump Campaign, the Republican Party, has people here, has people here, has people there. So do Biden and the Democratic Party. If they see anything, trust me they will raise their hands.
That's why it happens. This is the process. It's a frustrating year. It's frustrating in a different year.
And you come over here and you look at it, it's frustrating because what have we lived through the last eight months? The coronavirus.
What does that mean? Safety at the polling places today, more in- person early voting, more mail-in voting which means just complexities.
As Senator Santorum was saying earlier, Pennsylvania almost had no early voting last time. They just really didn't do it. Pennsylvania was one of the states that was very slow to move to early voting and the like.
And so you look at that and you think, OK, 66 percent in. The president's up 685,000 votes -- normally, you'd call the state, right? But we have so many votes missing. Again, Republicans are doing all this math, they think the president's
going to eke out Pennsylvania again. Maybe he will. We'll know when they count the votes.
We don't need to write the final chapter of the book until we get the votes.
Up to 45 percent now in Allegheny County. That's interesting. We have had some bit of an increase there. Joe Biden at 202,000 votes, the president 134- and change.
Again, though we're told that turnout is up just about everywhere. 367,617 it took to win this county four years ago, Joe Biden at 202-.
So somewhere there's still a couple hundred thousand votes to be counted, we assume, in Allegheny County.
Then you come to the east which is where most of the votes are in the state of Pennsylvania.
Let me -- before I get to Montgomery come into Philadelphia County. Again, 46 percent, Joe Biden with a healthy lead in Philadelphia County, Philadelphia City and the suburbs around it.
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74 percent, 276,000 votes. Four years ago, Hillary Clinton had 584,000 votes.
So we're missing votes. I don't missing as in nobody knows where they are, I mean missing as in nobody's counted them yet. And so we have to wait for this to play out.
The same in Montgomery County here again. Hillary Clinton had 256,000 four years ago, Joe Biden has 196,000. So maybe they're a little closer there at 64 percent.
We can go them all. This is Bucks County right now. The president of the United States leading in Bucks County right now. If that stays red, that would be significant if we get to the final vote count.
This is the more conservative of the collar counties around Philadelphia. 56.8 percent for the president, 42 percent -- if you go back four years ago, Hillary Clinton carried it just barely. But again, she won with 167,000, the president had 164,000 four years ago.
You come back here, we're nowhere near that. We're less than half that in both cases.
So in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, there are simply more votes to be counted.
The president leads. You pull out to the national map. The president leads in all three at the moment. He should be happy to celebrate that for now but you have to still count the votes. The former vice president leads in Arizona. That's potentially a
Democratic flip which would be significant as we get into the close math.
And Wolf, it's frustrating for everybody because everybody wants to know. But here, 76 percent, 113,000 votes. Here 60 percent, 288,000 votes.
And you come down the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last. Again, it's a much bigger lead here but it's also a bigger state. 20 electoral votes, votes to be counted.
If you're the president, it looks good but you also know there are a lot of votes to be counted.
Nobody should be saying cheating, nobody should be saying cheating. They should be saying count them, let's be patient.
BLITZER: Indeed. All right, we have another projection, two projections right now. Let's take a look.
In Nebraska, the second congressional district. One electoral vote. CNN projects Joe Biden will win that second congressional district in Nebraska.
The last time that happened was in 2008 for a Democrat. One electoral vote that Biden will win in that second congressional district in Nebraska.
The other four out of five electoral votes in Nebraska Donald Trump, the president, will win. He will win four electoral votes out of Nebraska, Joe Biden will win one.
Let's take a look at the electoral college map, where it stands right now. Look at how close it is.
Biden has 220 electoral votes, Trump has 210 electoral votes. 270, of course, the magic number needed to win the presidency.
Let's get a key race alert right now, see where things stand in these states. In Arizona right now, 79 percent of the estimated vote is in. Biden still maintains his lead, a lead of almost 162,000 votes, 52.5 percent to 46.1 percent for Trump. Eleven electoral votes in Arizona.
In Nevada right now, still very early. Only seven percent of the estimated vote has been counted. Trump maintains a lead, 35,000 over Biden; 67.8 percent to 29.5 percent.
So that one electoral vote that Biden won in Nebraska potentially could be very significant.
KING: It could be. When you have a race that shapes up to be this close, every one counts. So you'll take it if you get it.
At the moment, at the moment, it's the only flip on the map. Right? If you're looking at the 2016 map, at the moment it's the only flip. We do have anticipation -- Joe Biden has to get to the finish line,
he's leading there right now.
That would be 11, that's a one. That would be -- so then you're moving the math there. And if you assume -- again, if you assume Joe Biden holds this, it gets him closer to the finish line.
But again, let's do this from the perspective of 2016, and you come here. And so what are we going to do?
First, we're going to start here and we're going to open this up and we're going to take one away, right?
That's what just happened. The president of the United States just lost that one. So you take that away.
And so that's the only takeaway so far. It gets the president down, right?
And so then you come over and you say, all right, can you take this away, right? If that goes away then you get the president down to 294.
Right now, the president is leading in Maine, Maine and Nebraska. Do it by congressional district, the president's leading here right now, Democrats think they can get that.
But let's leave it with the president right now, he's leading the vote right here.
So where does this leave you, if nothing else changes, right?
We're still waiting for some of these states but we now have Florida, we now have Texas back in the Republican fold, we have Ohio back in the Republican fold.
So if you look at this map right now, where does it leave you? Well, the president is leading in the vote count here but we're not done.
So we take these three off the board. You look at them right now; 248, 244 when you take these out of the equation.
Wolf, this is a card game right now, two out of three.
Whoever wins two out of three is the next president of the United States. And you could pick the order really if you come through it.
Someone does this and this -- Joe Biden can do that, he's the president of the United States. Donald Trump can do this and this, he's the next president of the United States.
Pick your two, any of these three right now. So they're all off the board, we just take them off; one, two, three because we have votes to count.
But essentially, unless we're stunned by something out in the other states -- and that's just most unlikely -- Nevada, we have to watch Nevada, the president has a lead in the early vote, I believe, in Nevada.
That often happens.
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Republicans go ahead early. We have to see what happens. It's possible. But we'll keep an eye on it. But if Nevada stays, a Clinton state -- if that stays there, we come down to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, shocker, and two out of three gets you there. And we'll see how it goes.
And again, you can do the math either way, right. What if Joe Biden wins the two smaller ones in terms of the electoral votes? That's enough. That gets him to exactly 270 if nothing else changes on the map, right.
If it's for Donald Trump and the president of the United States, he could do it here and here as well. So, it takes two out of three. Obviously Pennsylvania has 20. It's bigger but in an odd way, whatever you do if you get Pennsylvania you still need one of those. If you get both of these you don't need Pennsylvania. That's the math we're in and that's math that's going to carry us into the morning most likely.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: We've been saying for weeks that blue wall is going to be critical. It turns out to be absolutely critical.
We've got a key race alert right now. All right. Let's take a look at the second congressional district of Maine. One electoral vote at stake. 46 percent of the estimated vote is now in. Trump maintains his lead over Biden by 18,000 plus votes -- 52.1 percent to 44.4 percent.
John, that second congressional district, one more electoral vote. But Trump's still maintaining his lead. Less than half of the vote is in.
KING: Right. Less than half of the vote is in. Democrats thought they were going to get this. Democrats thought they were going to carry the state of Maine. I just want to look and see what we know in the vote total over here.
Forgive me for walking over here. I just want to look at the map. Again, Maine takes a long time to fill in because of the way they do the townships. 51 to 45, 8 percent of the vote in. Democrats thought they were -- let's see. We're not done yet. Democrats thought they would have a bigger lead in Maine. They thought it would be enough to get them that congressional district. That's certainly what they thought.
But again, I'm just going to say this again. The president went to Maine. A lot of people said why is he doing that. All right. The president went to Maine in the last ten days of the campaign. People said, why are you doing that for one electoral vote? Well, we're going to find out, probably not tonight, as we go through the hours ahead, whether that mattered.
But in the places the president went and campaigned, he's closer or ahead, especially in these other states that we put his way.
So, there's no question. There's no question the Trump rallies drove up turnout. Is it enough? We don't know yet.
BLITZER: We'll soon find out. We have another key race alert right now. In the key battleground state of Michigan right now, 61 percent of the estimated vote is in. President Trump continues to maintain his lead of about 287,000 votes. 53.3 percent to 44.9 percent. 16 electoral votes in Michigan.
So, let's take a look at Michigan right now, John. As we look at Michigan, what, we still have 61 percent of the estimated vote is in. That means 39 percent of the estimated vote is still outstanding.
KING: Right. And so you look at this lead again, 287,400 and change there. You look at it, you go back to 2016, this was a 10,704 votes. 10,704 votes decided Michigan four years ago. So you look at this lead by the president you say, well, why haven't they called the state?
We haven't called the state because of what's missing. It's not what's in, it's what's missing. And so by missing I mean counting. And again, you look at Wayne County, it's Detroit, it's the suburbs around Detroit, absolutely essential for the Democrats.
We went through this four years ago. This was a major disappointment for the Clinton campaign. They did not get as many votes as they wanted out of Wayne County, as many votes as they need out of Wayne County.
There's Joe Biden at 206,000, right. Remember four years ago Hillary Clinton got 519,000 votes. It wasn't enough for her then. But that just tells you they haven't counted the votes.
And we know again, in-person early voting, mail-in voting, election day voting, election officials in all of these states are overwhelmed. They've decided how to sequence their count. The count is going slowly. And so we're waiting. We've got a lot -- there's clearly, clearly have a lot of votes still to be counted when you see those numbers so much lower than four years ago.
BLITZER: 37 percent of the vote in Wayne County reporting so far. Lots of votes outstanding.
Pamela Brown got some new information about Michigan. What are you learning, Pam?
PAMELA BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. That's right there in Wayne County in Detroit, 92,000 mail-in ballots still have not been counted yet.
So, we are expecting those ballots to be counted and have a better idea of what the total is by the morning. I know it's early morning right now, but a little bit later in the morning we expect to find out more about Detroit. Of course that is a Democratic stronghold.
And then you have Macomb County. This was a county that Trump flipped. We're told that 250,000 mail-in ballots are still outstanding to be counted. The number we're at Macomb right now, that is mainly the day of election day voting that you're seeing right there on the screen. And so with Macomb -- 250,000 are left to be counted there in Michigan.
Then you have Kent County as well. We're told a big chunk of what's remaining in Kent County is mail-in ballots. So this is certainly keeping us in suspense.
KING: Kent County is over here as well in the western part of the state with Grand Rapids in the suburbs. Again, you see the president ahead right now at 66 percent. This is an area where Joe Biden thought they could make a run. It's more conservative in the western part of the state.
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KING: But again, the Grand Rapids and the suburbs area of 2020, come back to 2016, it was close. It was close. And so one of the reasons the Democrats thought they would watch this across the country, the suburban revolt against the president. They thought they could do better here.
Let's see. A three point race four years ago. Again, the president winning Kent County with 148,000. You come over here he's at 130,000. So this one is not off as much if you will, but we do think turnout is higher. So we wait for these votes here.
To the point Pam made about coming back over here and when I pull this back up in the east we'll see the numbers stretch out again. We've got 92,000 votes, early votes to be counted.
If that's it -- if that's it in Wayne County that's trouble for the Democrats in the sense that if you look at the vote count there.
The question is, is that just the early votes or (INAUDIBLE) -- Wayne County is late a lot. If turnout's that much below 2016 that would raise serious questions. What happened there? So I think there's more to be heard about Wayne County and there's often more questions for Wayne County.
Let's come up here to Macomb County now, 250,000 votes in Macomb County. That's a big deal. The question is, this is a county, one of the places that Joe Biden said I'm a better nominee than Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump in Macomb County.
You pull it up here -- let's just bring it out so we can see it -- again, 47 percent of the vote in. If there's 250,000 votes still to be counted, well that's a lot because the president is right there, 65- 32. Now, the question is if they're all early votes how disproportionately Democratic are they because if you look now, 65 percent of the vote for the president but we have a lot of votes to count.
152,000 won this -- four years ago it took 224,000 to win this county. So if you've got 250,000 votes still to be counted here, again that's interesting. The Democrats hope to swing this back to blue. The president has a pretty healthy lead right now.
But you've got to count 250,000 votes, that's more than you have on the board right there. Got 220-something, close to 230 when you add it all up.
What does that tell you? Again, we need to count the votes. We need to get to the finish line and when we have a better sense of the total universe. So you have some here, some here, and some here. You need to find out what's the total universe. Once you know the total universe then you can figure out Joe Biden needs what percentage of the leftover votes.
BLITZER: We have another projection right now. CNN projects President Trump will win the state of Montana, beats Biden in Montana. Three electoral votes in Montana. Trump wins in Montana.
Let's take a look at the map right now. 270 needed to win. Biden right now has 220. We've projected Trump has 213. 270 once again the key number.
Let's get a key race alert, where things stand right now in Pennsylvania. 66 percent of the estimated vote is now in. Trump maintains a pretty significant lead, very impressive lead, almost 700,000 vote lead over Biden right now in Pennsylvania, 696,000 -- 56.6 percent for Trump, 42 percent for Biden. 20 electoral votes.
Pennsylvania, John, it's looking at least right now -- before we go to you -- Pamela Brown, you're getting some more information about Pennsylvania?
BROWN: Yes, we're finding out just how many outstanding mail-in ballots are left to be counted there in Pennsylvania. To give you an idea just on the southeast part of Pennsylvania, there are 600 -- at least 646,302 mail-in ballots. And that is not including all of what is left to count there in southeast Pennsylvania.
And Philadelphia I'm told, there's still around 300,000 ballots left to count there. Now, there is a press conference going on in Philadelphia. We hope to get an update soon.
But that is a large amount left to be counted there. That number has not changed since I was last told that. Of course it's a Democratic stronghold. That is where Democrats are focused on.
But overall in the state, I'm told by one official in the Pennsylvania it could be around a couple million mail-in ballots that they are still waiting to count.
We know nine counties are going to start counting until later on this morning and then, of course, these larger counties are just going to take a while to find out what the results are because of those mail-in ballots that they just started processing the morning of this election.
They just started opening up those ballots and it takes a while to process these mail-in ballots. There are several steps to it. And that is why we were having to wait. That is why we are left at the edge of our seats as we look at Pennsylvania.
BLITZER: Yes. That's an important point, you know John. 67 percent of the estimated vote is in. So, 67 percent -- so what 43 percent, you know, it's increasing. There's still a lot of votes out there.
KING: A lot of votes. And just a quick question for Pam. You say 646,302 in southeastern Pennsylvania. Does that include the 300,000 in Philadelphia or is that a plus?
BROWN: No, that does now. So this is what it includes. It's including Allegheny, Bucks, Chester County, Delaware County and Montgomery at least.
BLITZER: Still a lot of votes. 33 percent, I should say -- 33 percent of the estimated votes still outstanding in Pennsylvania. So, the Democrats cling on to some hope.
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BLITZER: We've got another key race alert. Take a look at Nevada right now with 74 percent of the estimated vote. Biden has now taken the lead in Nevada by 52,000 votes or so. Biden is ahead of Trump, 51.6 percent to 46.5 percent.
Once again 74 percent of the estimated vote in Nevada is in. Nevada has 6, John, 6 electoral votes.
KING: Six and if you look at Nevada, the key for Democrats are two places. Number one -- actually number one, number two, number three is Clark County -- that's Vegas. This is 72 percent of the vote, 73 percent of the vote. So this is the big one, you've got to win here.
75 percent in -- 54 to 44, a 10 point race there, 388,000 votes. You go back in time. It's about the same, 52. Joe Biden doing a little bit better there. You see the vote count. A little bit behind Hillary Clinton's total here. But we're only at 75 percent. So we'll see if more votes come in there.
That's the first thing you have to do in Nevada is run it up in Clark County and then you come up here in the northwest part of the state, Reno, Washoe County up here, 52 to 45. That one says its 80 percent plus.
Let's just go back and take a look at the vote total. Joe Biden at 111 and change, Hillary Clinton at 97 four years ago when she won it a little bit more narrowly.
So again, that's filling in. That's 2016. You come back to 2020. You expect the president to win the rural parts of the state here but that's going in as you would expect it too.
And again, the question is would there be any takeaways, right. Did Trump flip any Clinton state and Biden flip any Trump states? Right now. We have the congressional districts flip. We have the possibility Arizona, it looks like Nevada. We'll keep counting. I mean it looks like Nevada is going to stay. BLITZER: We've got another key race alert right now.
Look at this narrow, John, the Trump lead in Georgia. 91 percent of the estimated vote is in. 9 percent still outstanding. Trump's lead now has gone down a bit to 118,000 votes over Biden -- 50.6 percent to 48.1 percent. 16 electoral votes at play in George.
So let's take a look at George right now. Where's the outstanding votes in Georgia right now -- 91 percent of the vote in. That means 9 percent still outstanding.
KING: So you're looking at (INAUDIBLE) especially here. Most of the votes are up here. So we come to Dekalb County, 79 percent, 80. You know, look at the margin for Joe Biden, right. So you're missing some votes here. If you're Joe Biden you're encouraged. Depending -- you don't know what they are.
Are they election votes today? Are they early votes but the potential for Joe Biden to build here the biggest county of them all right here. This is very significant.
Again, if you're Democrats you don't have to give up hope. The math gets hard at some point but you don't have to give up hope right now because if you're at 72 percent at Fulton County and you see the margins, 72 percent of the vote in and you see the margins right there, Joe Biden at 289,000.
If we go back four years ago, you know, Hillary Clinton got 297,000. So Joe Biden is close to that. but that's the 100 percent. This is the key, the question. We anticipate turnout up. How much? How much?
Because if the Democrats were going to do it in Georgia, which was always a tough hill to climb, you have to do it right here. You have to beat that Hillary Clinton vote total by a significant amount.
If you're at 72 percent and you're Joe Biden you're in reach of that. So you're going to watch that play out.
Let's move over to Cobb County, 89 percent in here. This is a tighter county. It's a little bit more but the Democrats running it up so it's a possibility of more votes there, again, 210,000. You go back and look, Joe Biden well in excess of Hillary Clinton's total in this county now.
The question is can he build on it some more? So you keep looking around Metro Atlanta. You come down here, you're starting to move away a little bit. Douglas County up to 91 percent but potentially, the more votes there.
So then you pull out and you take a look. Let's just check the other Democratic areas. you come over here - -
BLITZER: Let me interrupt for a moment, John.
KING: Sure. BLITZER: Go to Georgia as a whole, statewide as a whole right now and let's say we take it down to 90 percent of the estimated vote reported right now and let's see where those outstanding votes remain.
KING: Let's see if we can figure out. We know most of them are in Metro Atlanta but let's see what we can see here with (INAUDIBLE). That's 87 percent reporting or less.
So, as you come back in here, you do it this way, just see -- run the math or you can come from this point as well. No, that's not going to do it for us.
So you see most of the votes that are missing are still in the Metro Atlanta region. I'm going to bring this over and blank it out. Doesn't want to go there. There we go. See now we've got the map. Let me come out of it.
Can't get that to turn off. Well we're going to have to wait to come back to that because it's stuck out in the program right now.
But you come of it and you come out. See, we're just going to have to wait. I have to reset this, Wolf.
BLITZER: Yes.
KING: You're going to have to wait a minute for me.
BLITZER: All right. Let's talk a quick break. As you fix that, we'll take a quick break.
Much more of our special coverage. We're watching these key battleground states. It's close. We'll be right back.
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BLITZER: Welcome back.
Let's take a close look at where the electoral college count stands right now. 270 needed to win the presidency. Right now Biden has 220. Trump has 213. We're watching this very, very closely.
Let's get a key race alert right now.
In Arizona right now, 80 percent of the estimated vote is now in. Biden maintains his lead of about 155,000 votes. He has 52.4 percent to 46.3 percent for Trump. 11 electoral votes in Arizona.
In Nevada right now, 75 percent of the estimated vote is in. Biden has the lead there by about 48,000 votes. He's at 51.4 to 46.8 percent for Trump. 6 electoral votes at stake in Nevada.
Let's go back to John King at the magic wall. John, you fixed that map for us. We're watching it closely.
This is still a nail biter for all practical purposes.
KING: And it's going to be I think through the night as we go. You just mentioned, you know, in Nevada Joe Biden has pulled ahead out there. We're waiting for the votes out there.
But you're looking for anything -- who's going to flip, right? Who's going to flip? This was Clinton state. It looks like we'll have to keep counting votes there. It looks like that one stays. The one flip on the map so far in terms of a state would be Arizona if we get this to the finish line. 52, I'm sorry, to 46 right there.
Again, this is Maricopa County and the suburbs embracing Joe Biden four years after Donald Trump Biden carried the county narrowly but carried the county, the biggest part of the state.
So you see that. That's a big deal because if you're Joe Biden you're trying to flip something on the map and you've been disappointed in Florida, disappointed in Texas, disappointed in Ohio, probably to be disappointed in North Carolina. That's one that you're looking for.
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KING: And again we have the congressional district in Nebraska. It's in here. You don't -- it doesn't show up on this map. You pull it out.
The congressional district here in terms of the electoral college -- that's one. You get to Joe Biden there as you're looking to pick it up.
So then you come back over here. This one is interesting. We were just talking about it when we had the little glitch. It is interesting because Donald Trump opened up an early lead and we said let's wait, especially because here, Atlanta and the suburbs, the blue ring. It's more blue now than it used to be in years past because Democrats are doing better in the suburbs.
But you also see it in other places as well. We come down here to Columbus, we're at 89 percent here. You see Joe Biden's lead here, so we are still counting some votes here.
If you're the Democrat you're thinking where my votes come in for us. Let's come over here to Savannah and see here. You're up to 80 percent here. So there could be a few more there but you're getting close as you go up.
The bulk of the votes in the state anyway, I'm going to check -- just check on Richmond County here, 86 percent. So there might be a few more but it's not a big numbers.
And so the bulk of the votes for Democrats away, the bulk of votes of the state are here, and you come to Fulton -- get rid of this so it's not distracting -- 72 percent. So that's more votes to be counted. More votes to be counted which means you want to be patient here. This is by far -- it's 10 percent of the vote state wide.
And then you just walk your way through the suburbs. DeKalb County, it's 80 percent so we have more votes to count. But again, look at the margin here, right. So if you're counting more votes and they anywhere close to this percentage, that is a chance for Joe Biden to run up votes in big numbers.
We move over here in Gwinnett County, up to 95 percent here so maybe a little bit more but not a lot of math here. You come back across, we checked on Fulton, we come to the west look at Cobb. Come down here and look at Douglas. These are places again Joe Biden is winning big here. It's not as big of a county but they're potentially -- potentially. So you're looking now 118,000 -- that looks like a big lead.
So let's count them. Let's be patient. It is a closer race. You come back, look at 2016. The Clinton campaign thought they could get this last time, she had 1.8 million votes at 46 percent here. But you come up here to 2020 and you see -- and we'll see how it plays out. And we will watch it go.
You watching the rest of the map -- again, waiting, waiting and waiting, move out here to the west, I just want to check on this again, still at 80 percent. Just waiting to see if the numbers come up more. Up to 77 percent in Nevada. It is close. It is close.
You want to look at Clark County here, 10 points here and change, 75 percent though. So you are looking at more votes here. The question is does Joe Biden keep that margin. If he does, if the rest of the votes come in, get anywhere close to that rate -- that should be a big enough push in there. But you have to wait to count them and see and check up here, 82 percent. So we're getting close up here.
It looks like that map is filling in in a way that the Democrats want to fill it in. You just need to wait to see if the margins hold.
And let's just check in the rural area -- 76 percent, just not as many votes. You come in here, you know, even if the president gets a few more votes out of these places, they are pretty small but we will keep counting them.
And then you come back -- let's just move back here to the east. Just check on a few places. North Carolina. This one has tightened some. It has tightened some but you're still looking at a 76,000 vote lead for the president there, 51 to 49.
And then you come back out and again, I just want to check to see if we've had any movement this last we were here -- there's not, 699,000 votes. What you're waiting for is to see the percentage jump up here. We're still at 48 percent.
And we went through this in 2016, in Philadelphia, in Detroit, in Milwaukee, right. The map was trending Trump's way late. Democrats were saying be patient, be patient, be patient. We will get our votes.
In 2016 they didn't get them. They didn't get them. Let's just be honest about that. But this is a different election in terms of a lot of votes will not be counted tonight. And so because of that we are going to have to be patient. We're waiting for votes here, we're waiting for a decent chunk of voters here in Montgomery County. You move down here in in Delaware County, we're waiting for a decent chunk about 40 percent of the vote here.
Let me just check down here -- I want to cross the line again, I like to do that. We'll go over the state line and let me just come right in here. At Delaware County.
Again, we've got some math to do. And again, a lot of it is here in the southeast. But as Pam Brown told us, we also have some to wait for in Allegheny County.
Again, so the question is, is it enough? Is it enough? Joe Biden is running it up here 55 percent to 43. So 12 point race out here.
You look at this, again, we're told turn out is up just about everywhere. He is at 251, almost 252,000. You come back. Hillary Clinton had a sizably bigger vote four years ago. Which tells you we don't' like to know but we've got to wait and watch them count. That's just the way it is.
BLITZER: All right. Stand by.
We are waiting once again for President Trump to speak. We expected he's speaking fairly soon. We are watching some of the nail biters going out in Arizona, in Georgia, some of the other states.
We'll be right back.
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BLITZER: Looking at live pictures coming in from inside the White House. We are anticipating the president of the United States is going to be making a statement, speaking from in there. It is approaching 2:00 a.m. here on the East Coast. We're standing by to hear from the president of the United States.
We are watching it very closely.
Right now the electoral count, the map right now. take a look at this. Trump has -- Biden, excuse me, has 220; Trump has 213. You need 270 electoral college votes to win the presidency. 220 to 213, Biden is slightly ahead in that all important count (ph).
Let's take a look at a key race alert right now.
Starting with Arizona and its 11 electoral votes, 80 percent of the vote in Arizona is now in. Biden maintains a lead of 155,000 votes. 52.4 percent to 46.3 percent. Biden is ahead in Arizona.
In Nevada, 78 percent of the vote is in. Biden is ahead there by nearly 30,000 votes. 50.4 percent to 47.7 percent. Six electoral votes in Nevada.
In Georgia right one, 91 percent of the vote is in. Trump maintains a lead but it is narrow, down to 118,000. A vote lead over Biden, 50.6 percent to 48.1 percent.
And as we are waiting to hear from President Trump, let's go back to Jake, Dana and Abby.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Thanks Wolf. Well, of course, this year has been fraught with so many developments that it makes sense that we don't have a decisive answer as to what exactly is happening on election day. It is already the day after election day.
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TAPPER: But we see in a number of important battleground states, it is way too close to call, they are still counting the votes.
DANA BASH, CNN HOST: Right. and these are states that include the so- called blue wall that Joe Biden.
