Joe Biden Takes the Lead

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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By the end of election night, the results in six key states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — were still to be called. On Wednesday, as mail-in ballots were totaled up, Joe Biden gained ground, taking Michigan and Wisconsin and placing him within striking distance of the Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. The count is still in progress in many places. Mr. Biden is leading by a decent margin in Arizona and slightly in Nevada, while President Trump’s advantage in Georgia and Pennsylvania has been narrowing. As the former vice president formed paths to victory, Mr. Trump continued to raise the specter of litigation and escalated his baseless attacks on the legitimacy of the vote. Guest: Alexander Burns, a national political correspondent, speaks to us about the latest on an unfinished election. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Mr. Biden may be closing in on victory, but the “blue wave” that some hoped would sweep the Democrats to shore never materialized.We have live updates on the progress of the count, and you can follow the election results here.

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0:00.0	The actual casting of ballots has ended, but the election is not over.
0:06.0	We never stop counting until all eligible votes are counted and added to the final, certified and audited results.
0:20.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is The Daily.
0:25.0	Today.
0:26.0	I urge everybody to remain patient. At this point, I ask for patience.
0:30.0	Please give some patience to our election officials.
0:34.0	So many Americans exhausted by this pandemic, exhausted by these polarized times, and now Americans across this country are being asked for their patience.
0:42.0	As every vote is counted and we knew in this pandemic, it could take time.
0:46.0	As votes continue to be counted.
0:48.0	116,000 and change absentee ballots that are still outstanding. There's still a million ballots that have yet to be counted.
0:56.0	What was left was early vote. How did early votes skew? Very heavily democratic.
1:02.0	Joe Biden's lead in the Electoral College expands.
1:06.0	Biden campaigned tonight very hopeful that if they can hold on to the states where they're currently leading right now, they believe that's their path to the White House.
1:12.0	The president's biggest battlegrounds, the courtrooms in the states that will decide the presidential race.
1:18.0	And President Trump files a series of lawsuits to try to block his path.
1:24.0	The president vowed to go to the Supreme Court to dispute the election count if it comes to that.
1:30.0	We turn, once again, to Alex Burns for the latest on an unfinished election.
1:37.0	We are still in the thick of a very heated contest.
1:43.0	It's Thursday, November 5th.
1:55.0	Alex, it felt for a moment tonight that America, all of us, potentially were going to have a full-fledged call of a projected winner of this election.
2:06.0	And then nothing.
2:10.0	Well, it certainly seemed like if some of the outstanding votes in the most closely divided states were to break for Joe Biden all at once, we would be in a position to say, yeah, this guy's going to be the next president.
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