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Biden on Brink of Election, Pennsylvania, Georgia in Sight; Path to Re-Election Dwindles for Trump. Aired 7-7:30a ET

Aired November 06, 2020 - 07:00   ET

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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Vote is now in and Biden has a lead, a small lead, 1,096 votes over Trump.

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Look at this, 49.4 percent, 49.4 percent. There is still votes outstanding in Georgia. We're watching Georgia very closely.

In Pennsylvania right now, 95 percent of the estimated vote is in. About 5 percent remains outstanding. 20, 20 electoral votes in Pennsylvania, Trump has a lead, a narrow lead, it really has shrunk, 18,229. 49.5 percent for Trump, 49.2 percent for Biden. It's very, very close in Pennsylvania, John. These two states, Pennsylvania and Georgia, that could make the difference in who's the next president of the United States.

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And, already, the overnight trends have made a big difference on the map, Wolf, if anyone tried to get a little bit of sleep, I don't know why you would try to do that this week. Right there, Georgia was red. At midnight, it is blue, at sunrise this morning here on the east coast. And that tells you the changing dynamics of this race. Pennsylvania remains red. We'll take a closer look at the numbers now. By all indications, within perhaps even minutes but certainly within an hour or two, Pennsylvania expected to flip as well. Let's look at what we are talking about here.

Number one, let's start with Georgia, which is the big change of the night. Vice President Joe Biden, once down, as they counted the election date, votes first by more than 300,000 votes, now has a lead of 1,096. In Georgia, there are still 10,000, about, approximately, outstanding ballots to be counted. The president now must win about 56 percent, more than 55 percent of those ballots to eclipse that lead, about 10,000.

But we also know and we watched this play out yesterday if you were with us in a methodical fashion, those ballots are coming in, they're mail-in ballots, they're disproportionately, predominantly Democratic ballots. That's why Joe Biden caught the president, passed the president, and every indication is he will continue to build what is a very modest but still a very significant lead.

As you pull back out to the map here and look at Georgia, we'll do the other map in a minute, but if Georgia stays blue, the president of the United States cannot get to 270 electoral votes. The best he could do was 269. We'll get through that. That's unlikely, as well. But the president, if that state is blue, cannot get to 270 electoral votes. He would absolutely not even be able to get even close, not close enough, if Pennsylvania flips.

And look right there, again, the president right now has a lead of 18,229 votes in Pennsylvania. About 163,000 votes still to be counted. Most of them in Democratic strongholds, about 50,000 of them right here in the city of Philadelphia, where you can see at home, Joe Biden is winning more than 80 percent of the vote. And as these mail-in ballots are counted, he's winning an even higher percentage, because remember, Democrats voted disproportionately by mail, Republicans voted disproportionately on Election Day, if you pull this back out, that lead, once above 600,000 votes.

The president is crying foul. He's crying cheating. This is math. The Election Day votes were counted first. See all of these red areas in the state. The president did a fantastic job of turning out his vote. They were counted and he built a big lead. The mail-in ballots, state choice being counted last, they didn't want to be overwhelmed on Election Day, so they dealt with that first.

Now, they're counting the mail-in ballots. And, again, Wolf, just like in Georgia, this has just been methodical and steady and we have just watched the president's lead shrink. And, again, every expectation here is that when these come in, some of these other counties are out here, they are also nearly 40,000, about 36,000 ballots to be counted out here. Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, you can see Joe Biden winning nearly 60 percent of the votes that have been counted in Allegheny County, so far.

And, again, I don't want to be a broken record, but I just want to make sure people understand, in the mail-in ballots, as they count them, it's disproportionately higher than that even. It's 70 percent, often approaching 80 percent.

So, when you pull the map out now, you see Joe Biden leading in Georgia, Joe Biden coming closer and closer in Pennsylvania, we expect that to change, and Joe Biden still leading out in Nevada and Arizona. We're waiting for these two states out here in the southwest. We're waiting of them to keep counting. Joe Biden has leads as well.

We should note, to be fair, the president has closed this lead somewhat, Joe Biden's lead at 47,000. The trend in Georgia and Pennsylvania has been as they count the late ballots, Joe Biden has been eclipsing the president, closing in in Pennsylvania, passing him in Georgia. We need to watch Arizona. The president has narrowed that lead. And we should keep an eye on it.

But just again, if you left last night thinking, where are we? Nothing changed here yesterday in terms of there were no -- we had no states to project yesterday. So we remain at 253 for Joe Biden, 213 for the president of the United States. 270 gets you to the finish line.

Let's underscore the significance of where we are. If that one stays blue, Joe Biden gets to 269. Joe Biden is leading here and leading here. If he holds those leads, he is over the top. Well, watch. Again, the states out west will get more votes later throughout the day. If Joe Biden wins that, it is not only game over, it is game over with an exclamation point.

This was the biggest prize, when the president cracked the blue wall four years ago, Donald Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Wisconsin and Michigan are in Joe Biden's hands right now in 2020 and Pennsylvania, again, within a matter of minutes could well go blue.

The president is saying he is going to sue.

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He is alleging fraud. He has every right to make his case in court. We have seen zero evidence as yet on the public record that any of those allegations are true.

BLITZER: Let's check in what's going on in Pennsylvania, 20 electoral votes in Pennsylvania. If Biden were to win Pennsylvania, those 20, he would be elected president, even if he didn't win any other state.

Kate Bolduan is joining us from Philadelphia right now. So, Kate, what are you seeing on the ground? What are you hearing?

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the sun is coming up, Wolf, and we are told from sources inside, the folks in charge, that it has been a full-court press to get this done here in Philadelphia. The latest from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania is there are 163,000 outstanding ballots. 50,000 of those that are left to be counted are here, in Philadelphia, being processed, still in the convention center behind me by some 100-plus workers who are working in eight-hour shifts to get it done.

The updates overnight have been coming in, if I can call them, chunks of several thousand. And one of the city commissioners in charge has said that they expect an update to be loaded up in the next couple of minutes and we are definitely waiting for that.

Also, I do have an update on some of the other ballots coming in that could become key after -- as things will be wrapping up in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. They have now, they believe, between 15,000 and 20,000 provisional ballots here in Philadelphia. Those segregated ballots that arrived after Election Day here in Philadelphia, it's been a few hundred over the past couple of days. They do not describe it as a significant number.

They are shrink wrapped, I found out, Wolf, shrink wrapped, set aside, time stamped, date stamped when they were received in order to protect their security. Those segregated ballots have not been counted yet. But we should be expecting an update on the numbers in Philadelphia, the numbers of mail-in ballots counted, which will tell us how many are outstanding, which can tell us a lot about where this race stands and is headed this morning, Wolf.

BLITZER: Very quickly, Kate, if there are 50,000 outstanding ballots in Philadelphia, where you are, will they be released all 50,000 at the same time or will it be piecemeal?

BOLDUAN: I am told not to expect in this next update, to not expect the entire 50,000 to be uploaded in this coming update. The way it has gone overnight is an area of 5,000 votes being counted in one update, and something around that regard. So it would not surprise me if it's something in the area of several thousand to be uploaded. But I was definitely told not to expect that the entire universe of outstanding mail-in ballots here in Philadelphia, 50,000, not to expect that to be the next update.

BLITZER: All right. Kate, stand by.

John, if that 50,000 number is accurate, we believe it is accurate, if the whole thing were to be released at some point in the next hour or two hours or whenever, what would that do to the lead in Pennsylvania right now?

KING: And so let's start in on Philadelphia. And you see Joe Biden is getting 80 percent, more than 80 percent of the vote consistently. And, again, as they count the mail-in ballots, that percentage has actually been higher most of the time when we get those allocations of the mail-in ballots as they count them.

So if you think about that, he's getting 80 percent of the vote. The president has an 18,000 vote lead. If you put 18,000 votes into the system and Joe Biden is getting 80,000, well, then Joe Biden would be leading in Pennsylvania, just on the Philadelphia vote alone. 50,000 votes there, Kate said, That still leaves about 113,000 other votes coming in. And we just watched this play out yesterday.

We're going to watch these votes. We're going to count these votes. There are transparent eyes, Democrats, Republicans, reporters in all of these rooms. So if something changes in the president's favor, we will show it to you as quickly as it happens. But, methodically, throughout the day, as the mail-in ballots would come in, they're coming in, we just said Philadelphia, more came in overnight in Bucks County, you see what's happening.

And, again, in the mail-in ballots, Joe Biden is getting higher percentage than that in the mail-in ballots. That's the total vote including the president's vote. But we've seen growth there. We've seen growth here in Montgomery County. We've seen growth for Joe Biden as they've counted votes in Chester County, and we've seen votes for Joe Biden as they counted votes in Delaware County. The suburban collar around Philadelphia is vote-rich. It's critical to the Democrats, as they count the mail-in ballots. We've watched that happen.

But an important point yesterday, we were watching votes come in here, in Lehigh County, they're up to 93 percent right now. This was red when we began the day yesterday. President Trump was ahead in Lehigh County, which is Allentown. He was ahead when we started the day yesterday. As they counted the mail-in ballots, Joe Biden eclipsed him, so there are more ballots here. You see they're at 93 percent.

So, again, your eyes tell you and yesterday tells us that is likely to increase Joe Biden's vote count by enough to pass that. We'll watch and see if it continues to play out.

Another place up here, if you go from the southeast corner to the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, Erie, Erie County, this started the day yesterday, late into the night yesterday, this was still red. And you see it's still very close, 49.6 to 48.7.

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But, again, they still have some ballots outstanding to count here. Every update that came from Erie County yesterday was lopsided disproportionately Joe Biden, Democrats voted by mail.

The president got his vote on Election Day. He's getting a small percentage of these mail-in ballots, which is what he wanted. Remember, the president campaigned several rallies in Pennsylvania, told his people to swarm to the polls on Election Day, and they did. The president's overall vote totals in Pennsylvania, look at that now, 3.28 million, 2.9 million.

This is not a question of the president's vote not turning out. The president turned out a lot of voters. Those ballots were counted on Election Day. Joe Biden turned out a lot of voters. Those ballots are still being counted and, again, within moments, when we get Philadelphia.

But remember, it's not just Philadelphia. We have votes from Lehigh Valley to come in and we have votes out here in western part of the state, 36,000 more out here. They've been coming in lopsided for Joe Biden.

Simple math tells you the president's 18,000-vote lead is almost certain to be eclipsed in the hours ahead, perhaps in the minutes ahead as these votes come in. And, again, for the significance of it, absolutely no way the president cannot win re-election unless he carries both of these states. Georgia has turned blue. Pennsylvania is on a path to turn blue. That would put Joe Biden in command of this race.

The president reserves the right for legal challenges, recounts and the like but today is likely to be the most decisive day of this race.

BLITZER: Indeed it is. Alexandra Field is joining us from Pittsburgh right now, Allegheny County, Alexandra, where you are, another key county over there. What are you seeing? What are you hearing over there?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Wolf. A lot of uncounted vote in Pennsylvania is right here in Allegheny County. In fact, it's in the warehouse just behind me. The county is going to get to work today counting some 30,000, at least, outstanding ballots. These are mail-in ballots right here in Allegheny County, a blue spot in the western part of the state.

What we know about these ballots are that at least 6,800 of them were ballots that didn't initially go through the machines since Election Day, when the county began counting votes. That's because they couldn't include some errors, they could be damaged, they have to be reviewed by hand. Shortly, a return board will be sworn in. Their job in that factory today will be to manually inspect each of those 6,800 ballots.

But the big share of the ballots that are still outstanding, some 29,000, well, the county won't get to work counting those ballots until about 5:00 this afternoon. Those are ballots that were set aside, they were originally sent out incorrectly. There was an incorrect ballot that was sent out to some 29,000 people in Allegheny County. The county quickly reissued the ballots, but they agreed by court order to set those ballots aside, to wait until 5:00 today, Friday, to begin counting them.

So, we could get counts of as many as 35,000 ballots when you put those together. The county says they have also received several hundred ballots that were postmarked by Election Day that are able to arrive until today. They haven't counted those yet, so that could add to the total number here. And there are estimates that they could have as many as 15,000 provisional ballots still outstanding that they would need to count as well.

So, certainly, a large share of votes that are still to come from Allegheny County, these are votes that are expected to proportionately, of course, favor Biden because of all those demographic trends that John King has walked you through, again, the blue spot here in a red part of the state. Wolf?

BLITZER: Very important information. Alexandra, thanks very much.

So, 35,000 outstanding votes in Allegheny County, John, 50,000 outstanding votes in Philadelphia, that's 85,000 votes in those two areas right there and they're disproportionately in favor of Biden.

KING: They have been coming in 80 percent for Joe Biden. And, again, we will watch to see if that trend changes. We will certainly tell you if the president is doing anything, the president's vote count is doing anything that suggests the moment of the race has changed, but it has just been steady and consistent. You see 18,000 right there. That's the lead right now.

As you noted, 35,000 to 36,000 ballots out here, some of them to be counted soon, some of them likely by the end of the day, 50,000 ballots here in Philadelphia. More ballots in the suburban collar around it. Also some ballots up here in the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, Pennsylvania. I'm clicking through this. You can follow the numbers or you can follow your eyes. Everything I'm touching is blue and growing increasingly blue, Democratic, as they count the ballots. So, ballots here, ballots here, ballots here and ballots here.

And so you see in these blue areas, that's where we know the overwhelming majority of these 163,000 votes yet to be counted are. But I just also want to make this point and reinforce it, we were counting ballots yesterday in places like this, Luzerne County, they're up to the finish now. Even in places where the president is winning, here, it's 57 percent. There are other counties where the president is winning with 70 percent, Trump country, in Pennsylvania, and there's a lot of it. But when they're counting the mail-in ballots, even in these communities, we see Joe Biden is getting 47 percent of the vote. But in the ballots counted late, meaning the mail-in ballots, he's getting much higher than that.

So, even in the red counties that in the end will be overwhelmingly for President Trump in these late vote counts, the mail-in ballots, Joe Biden is racking up.

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When you get these -- if you get 500 votes from a place like this now, it's disproportionately Biden, because Democrats voted by mail.

The president's vote has largely been counted because that was the way he wanted it. He rallied. He said, don't vote by mail, I don't trust it. His people came out to his credit, again, that's a big vote, it's an excess of his votes four years ago. But Democrats also voted in huge numbers. And as we count those votes, again, an 18,000-vote lead, 163,000 out, we all watched how this played out yesterday.

The lead for the president here, once above 600,000, as they've counted the mail-in ballots, it shrunk. And when we get those from Philadelphia, certainly, it is likely to disappear and Joe Biden will take the lead and then we'll watch it to play out throughout the day.

And to reinforce the big picture as we go through 36,000 here, 50 here, thousands more spread across the state, you can do that math at home, the big picture is 20 electoral votes, the president cannot -- Joe Biden can win without Pennsylvania, President Trump cannot.

BLITZER: I'm curious, and we can do this, 95 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania is in. Where is Biden overperforming right now compared to Hillary Clinton four years ago?

KING: This is actually fascinating when you look at that. That's a great question. Because if you look at this state, not a lot changed from four years ago, people just turned out more votes.

So where is Joe Biden outperforming Hillary Clinton? You watch this play out. There are 67 counties in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 67. One, two, in tiny counties, carried overwhelmingly by President Trump. You see Montour County here, Joe Biden getting 38 percent of the vote. If you go back four years ago, Hillary Clinton got 33 percent of the vote.

So in a couple of these tiny counties, this was not an election where a whole lot actually changed. This was more people came out to vote and Democrats came out in the Democratic areas. If you look here, Cumberland County, this is important to the president, right? 54 percent to 43 percent for Joe Biden, about 2 percent of the population, 16th largest of the 67 counties. So you come back here to 2016, Hillary Clinton gets 38. So there are a couple of places just in, but only two, only two. Just remember, as you pull this out, you see one, two, all right?

Now, I'm going to come take this off and you come here. Look at all of this red. The president is very popular in Pennsylvania, especially in rural Pennsylvania. Joe Biden moved the needle a little bit in just two of those counties. This was not a, I took a lot of your votes away. Joe Biden did not take a ton of Trump votes away from Donald Trump nor did Donald Trump.

You can say, where did Donald Trump overperform? So, let's see where see over overperformed by more than 5 percent, again, almost nowhere and only in his community, right, small communities. This was not an election where Biden made deep inroads with the Trump vote or Trump made deep inroads into the Biden/Clinton vote. This was an election where both candidates turned out more people.

Right now, Donald Trump is narrowly ahead, as we come back to the map here, but we know we're still counting votes, 163,000 and Joe Biden is likely to pass him within minutes.

BLITZER: Where did Trump underperform?

KING: Sure. Let's take a look at that as we come through as well. Where did the president underperform by five points or more? And you see this is going to slide away. And the answer is going to be nowhere, as it slides away. Again, trying to reinforce this point, Joe Biden said, I'm going to make deep inroads.

This is his birth state, right? Joe Biden, Delaware now, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He said, I'm the guy who can make deep inroads with those white, rural, blue collar voters who switched to president and in places in Scranton and Allentown. He said he could do that. There's actually no evidence that Joe Biden switched a lot of votes, switched a lot of Trump voters. Actually, there's evidence that the president turned out more voters.

So when you look at this, it's just actually striking, this -- in Pennsylvania. There are other place we can look and see things that did pivot. But here in Pennsylvania, that's Trump, did he underperform? If you bring up Biden here, you turn this up, did he underperform anywhere for Hillary Clinton? Again, no.

This was a big turnout election in battleground Pennsylvania, which we knew could be the decisive state in this election. Both campaigns poured tons of resources in it. Both campaigns spent the final hours of the campaign focusing on this state. They both turned out more voters. When you come out of this and look, and you go back here, 3.2 million for Joe Biden right now, 3.2 million. Round that up. 3.3. That's going to soon be 3.3. If you go back in time here, 2.9, 2.9.

BLITZER: A lot more people showed up this time.

KING: The high intensity on both sides, both sides. Give the president credit. He went in and did his rallies. He turned out his people. Give the Democrats credit. Joe Biden spent a lot of time here, they spent a lot of resources here, they stressed the importance of these 20 electoral votes. It's one of the most competitive states in the United States. You can add Florida to that, you can add North Carolina to that. We're about to add Georgia to that.

But in this huge state where the president believes and proves he has a very deep and considerable base, right now, he's ahead by a little bit. Let's come back to the right here so people are seeing the right numbers here. He's ahead by 18,000.

But we have just seen over the last 24 hours, as they count the mail- in ballots, that Joe Biden has been catching up steadily, consistently. And when we get these next batches of vote from Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh, more from Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, it is just inevitable that Joe Biden is going to pass that number. And the question then becomes, by how much, as the president and his team make all of these allegations.

And, again, just one quick point as we begin a new day here, what could be a decisive day. We have made a point of saying what the president said at the podium yesterday was reprehensible.

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There's no public evidence, there's no evidence on the public record of any widespread fraud. So as we respected the count, the challenge now for the country is going to be to respect the president's right to challenge it, but to demand that he actually provide evidence, not just allegations.

BLITZER: What's so impressive in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, so many more people were voting this time as compared to four years ago in part because of the mail-in balloting that was available to them.

Let's take a look at Georgia right now. How many more votes do we anticipate? 99 percent of the estimated vote is in.

Well, you know what, let me check with Nick Valencia. He's on the ground for us in Georgia right now, Clayton County. What are you seeing, Nick?

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, what happened here overnight may have changed the course of this election. Clayton County had 4,355 mail-in votes to get through and said they were going to stay here until the job was done, and that's exactly what they did, 20 straight hours of counting.

But at 5:00 in the morning, just shortly after 5:00 in the morning, the last ballots were loaded into the machines here and Joe Biden had a 917-vote lead. That has since increased to 1,096 votes, as those tabulations are slowly trickling in.

We should mention though that these are unofficial tallies, because the secretary of state, they went home for the night and said that they would not be updating -- officially updating those numbers until later this morning.

As it stands right now, Georgia still has at least, by our tabulations, 10,000 mail-in votes to get through. That includes 4,800 in neighbors Gwinnett County. We have a crew on our way there -- on their way there, to see the county. They have 4,800 absentee mail-in ballots to get through, about a total of seven counties altogether, as of midnight still had absentee ballots to get through.

But if this pattern continues, Wolf, if this trend continues, Joe Biden will hold on to this lead and become the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the state in nearly 30 years.

We're expecting those tabulations in Gwinnett at around 8:00. We also have a press conference that we're waiting on -- rather, that we're expected to have at about 10:30 from the secretary of state. Wolf?

BLITZER: All right. Nick, stand by, we'll get back to you.

We're talking about Georgia, a traditionally red state and Biden is ahead now by 1,096. Gwinnett County, let's take a look at Gwinnett County for a second, 4,800 votes, mail-in votes, they're anticipating coming in fairly soon.

KING: Right. And, again, Nick is south of Atlanta in Clayton County. This is to the northeast of Atlanta, Gwinnett County. I'll just come back up for a second just so people can see it if you weren't with us yesterday through this count.

Fulton County is in the middle with Atlanta, the suburban collar, just like Philadelphia, in the suburbs that surround Philadelphia are the engine of Democratic votes in Pennsylvania. This is the engine of Democratic votes in Georgia. And, again, in a high-intensity election, the Democrats are turning out their vote. This has been a giant challenge. President Obama went there at the end. Joe Biden went to Warm Springs, Georgia, at the end. This, they knew, would be a battleground state.

And right now, again, 4,400 votes to come in from here. Your eyes can tell you right there, Joe Biden is getting nearly 60 percent of the vote, the total vote. That includes the Election Day vote and the president's 40 percent. We know we went through this yesterday.

Nick was just in Clayton County. Atlanta is here in Fulton County, In Gwinnett County, in DeKalb County, in Cobb County, when they count these mail-in ballots, Joe Biden is outpacing his overall total, because the mail-in ballots are overwhelmingly Democratic.

So, 4,400, 4,800 still to come from here. You can bet, it's going to be at least 58 percent. And, yes, if it holds true to what we saw yesterday, they come in around 80 percent for Joe Biden, because these are Democrats who voted by mail. That was the issue. So, you pull that back out, Joe Biden has a lead of 1,096 right now.

The key challenge here, he flipped this state overnight. I just want to bring in on the map so you see it. Georgia, blue, not since Bill Clinton. Not since the Bill Clinton days has Georgia been blue. So if that stays blue, the issue then becomes, what is that final number.

And, again, we have insisted, we should respect the count and count every vote. This will be hard for Democrats because of what the president says and very little of it is true of what he says in public about this process, watch where the final number is.

You know, they are re-canvassing. That just means they go back to check the machines. There are occasionally human errors. You're writing -- any way you're writing this down by hand, you're supposed to write 1,962, you write 1,692, you flip the numbers one way or the other, they go back. This happens in every election. And, occasionally, yes, there's human error and 12 votes move here or maybe 50 votes move here. We have to respect that process when states are this close, they'll go back through it.

But as we respect the process, we just have to understand the trajectory. Joe Biden has overtaken the president of the United States in what has long been ruby red Georgia. We come back out here and look at the map, 16 electoral votes here. Joe Biden still leading in Arizona and Nevada and we expect any moment now Pennsylvania as more votes come in, if that one changes.

Again, the president just cannot win, he cannot win without these two. He cannot get to 270 without those two. If Joe Biden can get those two and hold those two, he's on his way to 306 electoral votes. 270, of course, is the finish line.

BLITZER: Some 5 million people in Georgia, already, their votes -- we know what their votes are.

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We're standing by for votes for crucial Pennsylvania with ballot counting happening right now in Philadelphia. Will Joe Biden take the lead in Pennsylvania? We're back in a moment.

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JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, world, and welcome back to CNN's continuing coverage of election night. We're on day four and you're looking right now at live pictures from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Convention Center where the tabulation of ballots continues. There remain more than 100,000 outstanding.

And here are the margins right now in Georgia. Joe Biden, overnight, took a lead. He's now ahead by just over a thousand votes in Georgia. In Nevada, that vote remains at 11,438, that margin for Biden.

In Pennsylvania, Donald Trump remains in the lead, although that lead has been winnowed down to 18,000 with more than 100,000 ballots outstanding. And then in Arizona, 47,052 votes are the margin right now for Joe Biden.

Let's check in with our campaign reporters to see what the status is of the Biden and Trump campaigns.

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Let's start with Jeff Zeleny. He's in Wilmington, Delaware, for us right now with the Biden campaign. Jeff, tell us the latest. What is the strategy for the Biden team today?