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PBS News Hour - Segments

The early results from battlegrounds and key races we'll be watching

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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We'll be digging into data from some of the battlegrounds and key races of this election. Lisa Desjardins has a preview. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

All night we'll be digging into data from some of the battlegrounds and key races of this election.

0:05.0

For a deep dive into all of that, we're joined now by our Lisa Desjardin over at the PBS News Super Screen.

0:10.0

All right, Lisa, so let's start with the big state. Everyone is watching tonight.

0:13.0

Pennsylvania. What counties are you tracking?

0:15.0

I'm sad we have to pick just a couple to highlight, but it is election day, so it's all about choices. And let's start here in Philadelphia, the most important county for Democrats.

0:23.6

Let me show you what happened here between 2016 and 2020.

0:27.6

Hillary Clinton, 83%, but that actually went down for Joe Biden.

0:30.6

81%. That's great in any county, but when it's your biggest county,

0:34.6

this is a place where Kamala Harris needs to do more like Hillary Clinton than like Joe Biden.

0:40.3

Let's look at somewhere that the Trump campaign is paying attention to.

0:42.3

This is Berks County. What's there? Reading. This is where Donald Trump ended, had his last rally in Pennsylvania last night,

0:49.3

a place known in love by the Desjardin family. And I want to show you what's going on here, why the margins

0:54.5

in Berks County matter. Donald Trump actually had about the same margin between 2016 and 2020.

1:01.4

But look at this. Joe Biden gained percentage in this county. Also paying close attention to

1:06.3

Brooks County because its population, 25 percent Hispanic, including many Puerto Ricans. You want to see

1:12.4

there's any effect from those remarks from the Trump rally earlier a couple weeks ago.

1:17.5

Lisa, we know we could have a long night ahead. So what are some of the places you're tracking

1:21.9

that could give us some of the earliest look at what's to follow?

1:25.4

Georgia is one of the states we expect to hear from first, especially

1:28.7

these some of these counties around Atlanta. Let's talk about Gwinnett County. This is a place

1:33.3

that used to be read now has voted more blue. Also Cherokee County, this is somewhere we're

1:38.1

going to talk a lot about not just who wins these counties again, but the margins. This is

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