These Key Battleground States Are Still Counting Votes as White House Race Too Close to Call
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- Five states hold the key to victory
for the president and Joe Biden.
All eyes are on Georgia, North Carolina,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
So far the early talliesshow the president
holding the lead in all five,
but mail-in ballots could narrow his lead.
President Trump won thebig states of Florida,
Ohio, and Texas, but JoeBiden surprised the president
by winning the States ofArizona and Minnesota.
- We believe we're ontrack to win this election.
(crowd applauding)
We knew because of theunprecedented early vote
in the mailing vote,that's gonna take a while.
We're gonna have to be patient,
until we the hard work oftallying the votes is finished,
and it ain't over tillevery vote is counted.
- Late Tuesday night,
the president declared election victory,
and warned a valid tampering.
- This is a fraud on the American public.
This is an embarrassment to our country.
We were getting readyto win this election,
frankly, we did win this election.
- He pledged to take legal challenges
over a questionable vote counting,
all the way to the U S Supreme court.
Faith and freedom coalitionfounder and chairman,
Ralph Reed predicts thepresident will be re elected
and evangelical Christianvoters will make the difference.
- I believe we're gonnasee the largest turnout
of conservative Christianand evangelical voters
in American history, andI think they're gonna give
Donald Trump a higher level of support
than they did four years ago.
- National Hispanic Christianleadership conference
President Sam Rodriguezsays, pro-life Latino voters,
gave the president the margin of victory
he needed in Florida.
- Latinos have just emergedas America's firewall
against socialism.
Latinos just said no to socialism.
- Economist, Steven Mora agrees.
He says many votersrejected the extreme leftist
economic policies of the Democrats.
- How do you win Pennsylvania and Ohio
by promising to destroyhalf a million jobs there,
that are related to theoil and gas industry,
and the same thing in Texasin Oklahoma and so on,
so I think, you know, Bidenreally foolishly embraced
a very left wing Bernie Sanders agenda.
- Meanwhile initial votetallies for the U S Senate,
show Republicansmaintaining their majority.
In Kentucky, Senate majorityleader Mitch McConnell
won reelection and SouthCarolina Senator Lindsey Graham
defeated democraticchallenger Jamie Harrison.
In Alabama, Tommy Tubervilledefeated democratic incumbent
Doug Jones, and RepublicanThom Tillis is leading
in North Carolina,
but Republicans lost seatsin Colorado and Arizona.
As for the house of representatives,
so far Republicans havepicked up four seats,
including Florida District 27.
That's where Maria Elvira Salazar,
defeated Democrat incumbent Donna Shalala
in Miami-Dade County.
But they're expected tofall short of the 17 needed
to win a majority.
Baseball legend YogiBerra said it ain't over
until it's over, and that'sso true this election year.
As many congressional racesand the presidential race
are yet to be determinedbecause of those millions
of ballots cast by mail.
And some states thatcounting will continue
for several more days.
In North Carolina, countingwill officially end
until November 12th.
And legal challenges over ballot counting
means some final resultsmay remain unknown
possibly four weeks.
Gary Lane, CBN news.