Welcome one and all to CNN 10. My name is Carl Nasus. It's always good to have

you watching. If you watched yesterday's show this map might look kind of

familiar. In the 20 U.S. presidential race

votes were still being counted Thursday evening and there were several states in

which CNN still had not projected a winner. Now that might have changed in the overnight hours and

CNN.com will have the latest but the candidates themselves were both saying

victory was within reach. Yesterday former Vice President Joe Biden said he had no doubt that when the count was

finished he'd be declared the winner. He asked people to stay calm while the process

plays out. Last night Republican incumbent President Donald Trump said he easily won the legal vote, but he suggested many votes were being counted illegally and that the issue would be taken up in court.

We don't know what the next steps are or how long this will

play out. As far as official state counts went last night, fewer than 100,000

votes separated the two candidates in five of the states that hadn't been called yet.

So very thin margins of victory either way and all of the remaining states have a

winner-take-all method of choosing electors. What that means is that even if a presidential candidate take all of the

of the electors. What that means is that even if a presidential candidate wins by one vote,

he or she still wins all of the state's votes in the electoral college.

So that gives you a sense of why these counts are so important and so closely watched when there's an election.

Also unknown were the outcomes of several races in the House of Representatives and the Senate,

but political analysts expected that though Democrats

would lose seats in the House, they'd still have the majority there and they

believed that though Republicans would lose at least one seat in the Senate,

they'd still have the majority there.

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