Be Patient: Vote Counting Continues, Key States Remain Outstanding

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🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As election officials predicted, high numbers of mail-in ballots and state processing restrictions have drawn out the vote counting process. Florida and Ohio have been called for Donald Trump. Arizona has been called for Joe Biden. Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania all remain outstanding.

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With millions of votes still to be counted, neither candidate has been declared the winner. Despite that, Trump raised conspiracies about electoral fraud and falsely claimed victory. Joe Biden said he's feeling optimistic and looking forward to all of the votes being counted.

This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Braille from Esquite, Texas.
0:04.0	This is Alex in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida.
0:06.7	This is Lindsay in Lincoln, Nebraska.
0:08.2	Hello, this is Harper calling from San Francisco, California.
0:11.6	It's election day 2020.
0:13.6	And I am going on a morning walk to my polling station.
0:17.1	It's a couple hours before dawn and I'm getting in my car to head down to the precinct to
0:21.0	be a ballot judge for the first time today.
0:23.5	This podcast was recorded at 2.57 a.m. on Wednesday, November 4th.
0:29.2	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:31.4	All right, here's the show.
0:33.8	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:39.2	I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.
0:41.1	I'm Aisha Roscoe, I cover the White House.
0:43.2	I'm Asma Khaled, I cover the presidential campaign.
0:46.0	And I'm Dominic Almonton, our senior political editor and correspondent.
0:49.4	And as we long expected, it is taking some time to call the presidential race.
0:54.8	We had been warning people that this could drag out beyond election night and here we are.
0:59.9	The current electoral tally is 236 votes for Joe Biden to 213 votes for President Trump.
1:07.9	We're still awaiting critical results in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
1:13.8	Here's Joe Biden addressing supporters.
1:15.8	We feel good about where we are.
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