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This is the BBC World Service and this is America Decides, the five-day election. connection. One of my friends said a unicorn balloon floated into their backyard and they took it as an omen

that Biden was going to win the election. I mean people are just

grasping at straws at this point. The big story tonight is of course the huge

unprecedented turnout and of course the slow counting.

There are lots of pieces still on the table is what it amounts to at the moment.

I knew at that time the Florida was essentially secure for Trump.

Like every vote counts in this one you know every vote counts.

So far so good.

So much evidence so much proof and it's going to end up perhaps at the highest court in the land

We'll see I'm going to bed. Yeah, I'm going to bed. I'm going to bed and I'm'm going to try not think about it and maybe in the morning we'll know more.

And we do not have a winner.

It's been insane the last three days just because it has just taken forever to count.

Anxious and not sleeping well.

We're going to win this race with a clear majority

with the nation behind us.

And then everybody just shouted Biden won.

And maybe that's the cognitive dissonance setting in that I don't want to believe that Biden has won.

I'm shaking right now. I'm crying. I'm very emotional. I cannot believe we did it.

We've won with the most votes ever cast from presidential ticket in the history of the nation.

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