Hi, I'm Dan Pramak, host of Axios Recap, and welcome to another of our Axios Election 2020

Podcasts.

What we're watching right now is the southeastern states of Georgia and North Carolina, where President Trump is ahead, but it still

remains much too close to call.

And we're joined first by Greg Blustin, a political reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

When did you expect Georgia to be called?

And now when do you expect Georgia to be called?

Good question.

I always knew Georgia would be close because every poll leading up to

Tuesday's election showed Georgia if not neck and neck if not a statistical tie

very close to that and unlike so many other states it looks like our polls were pretty much on the

nose but I think there is a moment on Tuesday night I was in the Georgia Republican

parties bash at this

bucket district of Atlanta and Republicans were very joyous because Trump had a pretty big lead at that point and there was this kind of murmur through the crowd and I was wondering what was going on and a lot of them had alerts for the New York Times needle of all

things and the needle showed that it was kind of tilting towards Joe Biden and you

could kind of feel some of the air being sucked out of the room that's when

Republicans started to get a little bit nervous and know that hey you know being sucked out of the room. That's when Republicans

started to get a little bit nervous and know that, hey,

you know, DeKalb County, Foulton County, Gwinnett County,

Cobb County, these big metro Atlanta counties,

were still out.

So where are we now? The Georgia reporting has been kind of stuck in 93% or so for hours at this point.

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