The race to 270

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🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Battleground states continue counting ballots in races that are too close to call. And how Democrats failed to capture Latino voters in Florida.

The presidential election is still too close to call. Aaron Blake lays out the states to watch in this quickly moving race, and explains each candidate’s potential path to victory.

President Trump took a decisive and early win in Florida on election night. National enterprise reporter Jose Del Real explains how Trump successfully mobilized the Latino vote in South Florida — a feat that shocked many Democrats.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jamm, Colleen from the Post.
0:09.0	I'm a president for PowerU.
0:11.0	Hi, it's Robert Given, at the Washington Post.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:19.0	It's the afternoon of Wednesday, November 4.
0:25.0	Today, counting continues in battleground states that are too close to call.
0:30.0	And how Democrats failed Latino voters in Florida.
0:37.0	So, Aaron Blake reported for the fix.
0:39.0	It is 1 p.m. on the day after election day.
0:44.0	Did you actually sleep at all last night?
0:48.0	I made a valiant effort to try and take a nighttime nap
0:53.0	between about 3 and 6 a.m.
0:56.0	And then I started to see that we were going to get more results from Wisconsin
1:00.0	and that just fell apart rather quickly.
1:02.0	So, I'm going on about a day and a half without sleep at this point.
1:06.0	Oh my gosh.
1:07.0	Well, so at this point right now, where do we stand with the count in the presidential race?
1:14.0	Well, ever since early to mid Wednesday morning, very early Wednesday morning,
1:20.0	things have been getting better for Joe Biden.
1:24.0	The counts in Wisconsin and Michigan have improved for him,
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