It's Thursday, November 5th. I'm a Healy Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what a day where we are feeling cautiously optimistic

that our country may survive another year.

Yes, don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but a civil war two scenario is looking less and

less likely. Yeah, I still haven't fully exhaled yet, but you know, I'm close to doing that.

Yeah, just, you know, maybe let a little bit of that air out.

Just a puff.

On today's show, more election results and then some headlines.

Welcome back to another day of counting. Big picture. We still don't have a call on the

presidential race, which again, we expected to take some time. We're recording this at 830 p.m.

Pacific 1130 Eastern. And since our last episode, we now have calls in Michigan and Wisconsin

for Biden bringing him to 253 electoral votes compared to Trump's 214. But we're still waiting

on five key battleground states to be called, including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada,

North Carolina, and Arizona. A node on Arizona, the AP and Fox have called it for Biden,

but other outlets haven't seen enough yet. When it comes to the popular vote, according to the

New York Times, Biden now has nearly 72 million votes. The most of any presidential candidate in

history and that total is expected to grow. Trump currently has a little over 68 million votes.

But let's get into the status of the race and the vote counting in each battleground state.

So get in. Kick us off. Alrighty. So starting with those two calls, you mentioned in

Wisconsin and Michigan, both were called midday Wednesday as more mail ballots were counted overnight

and into the morning. And remember, these mail ballots typically skewed democratic. So that's

why we're seeing that shift in Wisconsin. Biden is leading by about 20,000 votes. And then in

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