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 Bluuestin, 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 was a moment on Tuesday night, I was in the Georgia Republican

parties bash at this fancy hotel at Buckhead 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, DeKalb County, Fulton 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 at

93% or so for hours at this point. There are something like

50 to 60,000 Fulton County absentee ballots out. There's still some DeKalb County absentee ballots out.

There's a few Guadette County absentee ballots out. But there's also smaller rural county

absentee ballots out. And what's interesting is, yes, some of them are tilting Republican,

but even in some of these deep red counties, Democrats are winning or at least cutting Republican

margins substantially in these counties because Democrats just so aggressively pushed Georgia voters

to vote by mail. So at this moment, you think it's still possible that Biden could pull out Georgia?

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