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What to expect next in the 4 states that could decide the presidency

November 7, 2020 by admin

It’s four days after the election and the race for the White House is still too close to call.

Ballots are still being counted in several key states that will determined the outcome of the presidential race.

Those states are: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.

Here’s what to expect from those four states today:

Pennsylvania

There are 89,282 ballots left to count across the state, according to the state website.
This is about 3.39% of all mail-in ballots cast.
101,421 provisional ballots were issued on Election Day, according to data from 55 counties provided to the Pennsylvania secretary of state. They are working on getting data on this and segregated ballots from all 67 counties.
Philadelphia: Philadelphia election workers are still wading through the last 20,000 to 25,000 mail-in ballots, according to a city official. These ballots are the most difficult – a signature in the wrong place, or an envelope that has the wrong barcode scanned, mean they simply can’t go through them as quickly as the others. Workers prepped those ballots throughout the night and started counting them at 7 a.m. ET
Allegheny County: Election workers will resume at 9 a.m. ET. Today’s work will largely focus on the 29,000 ballots that were incorrectly issued. The return board needs to examine each of the ballots that may have been affected. They need to determine whether the original incorrect ballot was returned or whether the updated ballot was returned or if both were returned. The expectation is that only a small number of incorrect ballots were returned but they all still need to be verified. There is no update on how long the process could take and there is no decision on when the county will release new results when they return to work Saturday morning.

Georgia

There should be about 12,770 provisional ballots still outstanding statewide.
As of the last report from the secretary of state, there were also 8,400 military and overseas ballots that could have been received by the state by 5 p.m. ET Friday. But it’s not clear how many were returned.
Fulton County: Around 3 a.m. ET, Fulton County reported results, adding to Joe Biden’s margin.
Gwinnett County: A total of 535 absentee by mail ballots that required a signature cure and 3 military/overseas ballots will be counted today.

Arizona

173,000 ballots left to count statewide, according to the secretary of state.
That includes 47,000 provisional ballots which cannot be counted until Tuesday.
The next known releases of votes are today at 11 a.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET.

Nevada

Secretary of State Communications Director Jennifer Russell told CNN that there are 124,500 outstanding ballots in the state.
There are 60,000 provisional ballots.
90% of the ballots to be counted are in Clark County.
The next known releases are today at 12 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. ET.

Based on CNN projections, Joe Biden currently leads President Trump by 253 to 213 electoral votes.

Fox’s Arizona Call for Biden Flipped the Mood at Trump Headquarters

November 7, 2020 by admin

The Fox News decision left the president fuming, and his team complaining. Then he began casting aspersions on other states’ vote counts.

WASHINGTON — With Florida looking red early on Tuesday night, President Trump and his advisers thought they were witnessing a repeat of election night 2016, when a victory in Florida foreshadowed a victory over all.

Inside the East Room, the mood was upbeat as hundreds of people, including cabinet secretaries, ambassadors and former officials who have remained loyal to Mr. Trump, mingled and dined on sliders and French fries. Officials who had been pessimistic about the president’s re-election chances suddenly started to picture four more years in power.

That mirage of victory was pierced when Fox News called Arizona for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at 11:20 p.m., with just 73 percent of the state’s vote counted.

Mr. Trump and his advisers erupted at the news. If it was true that Arizona was lost, it would call into doubt on any claim of victory the president might be able to make.

What ensued for Mr. Trump was a night of angry calls to Republican governors and advice from campaign aides that he ignored, leading to a middle-of-the-night presidential briefing in which he made a reckless and unsubstantiated string of remarks about the democratic process. Standing in the East Room at 2:30 a.m., he dismissed the election as a “fraud” and claimed he wanted to stop the counting of votes and leave the results to the Supreme Court.

The Trump campaign knew Arizona could be up for grabs, but the Fox News call putting it in Mr. Biden’s column was symbolic, making it the first state that appeared to have flipped from the president’s 2016 batch of winning states. Gov. Doug Ducey, Republican of Arizona, had been on the phone all night with administration officials and campaign staff members, adamant that there were still Republican votes to be counted in his state.

Jason Miller, Mr. Trump’s political adviser, disputed the accuracy of the call on Twitter and frantically called Fox News, asking the network to retract it. He was unsuccessful. Instead of retracting it, the decision desk at Fox News doubled down on its call, putting Arnon Mishkin, the head of the desk, on air to defend the call. Several hours later, The Associated Press also called Arizona for Mr. Biden. (Other news organizations, including The New York Times and CNN, had not declared a victor by Wednesday afternoon because of absentee ballots that remained to be counted.)

Down In The Polls, Trump Seeks Familiar Embrace of Conservative Media

November 7, 2020 by admin

In the final stretch of a tough reelection campaign, a president who burst into public consciousness as a media sensation has returned to the warm embrace of conservative media outlets and their stars.

And they have been returning the favor: giving airtime to President Trump and broadcasting his rallies, and hammering Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, his family and his allies.

On Fox News’ Trump-friendly The Five, Greg Gutfeld, at once mischievous and wistful, asked, “Why don’t the Republicans start preemptive impeachment on Joe Biden, in case he wins?”

On the Trump-fanatical One America Network, White House correspondent Chanel Rion mixed metaphors like a bartender concocting drinks at happy hour: “The Biden-Harris campaign is facing down the barrel to an October surprise of nightmare proportions.”

Or take Kristine Frazao’s reporting for the Trump-sympathetic Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns or controls more than 190 local TV stations: “Some GOP lawmakers say time is running out to get to the bottom of what they call corruption at the highest levels of government.”

Her report gave strong play to the concerns of Republicans on Capitol Hill who were calling for a special prosecutor to investigate Biden and his son Hunter. Left unmentioned: The 11 lawmakers are among the most extreme and marginalized Republicans in Congress, including one, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who lost his primary and has been denounced by party leaders for racism, and another, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who has repeatedly promoted groundless conspiracy theories.

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Murdoch threw his weight and his media outlets behind the president early on, although his Wall Street Journal‘s news pages have also offered muscular investigative reporting on Trump. That alliance has served Murdoch well, giving him full and frequent access to Trump, as well as a presidential seal of approval on his sale of entertainment properties to Disney despite antitrust concerns.

The president considers many Fox News figures among his closest advisers, including Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and others. He has drawn from the ranks of Fox contributors to fill senior White House appointments and even considered stars for Cabinet positions. And they, in turn, have been ferocious in relaying the president’s baseless claims, winning his frequent appearances on their programs and stratospheric ratings in response.

Earlier this year, Fox News stars helped whip up protests in opposition to Covid-related shutdowns and orders to wear masks. Fox News stars stoked potential scandals involving Biden’s son, Hunter, based on unauthenticated reports from Murdoch’s New York Post – material Fox’s own reporters largely could not validate.

As one small sign of the ways in which Fox and Trump Republicans can orchestrate programming, on Friday evening NPR reviewed an internal GOP memo sent to top party officials to prepare Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel for her appearance on Hannity’s show that night. It set out in great specificity the entire intended flow of the show’s lengthy opening segment – including its guests, articles and subjects, and the primary point Hannity would make. The two jointly focused on stoking suspicions of voter fraud. (The RNC confirmed the memo’s authenticity but declined to comment on the collaboration.)

The network’s projection Tuesday night of a Biden win in Arizona meant any further determination of a win by Biden would lead to a designation of his victory on a national scale. The Trump campaign put out a statement trashing the head of Fox’s elections projection decision desk, Arnon Mishkin, who later appeared on air to acknowledge he had done work for Democrats in the past. One Republican senator, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, accused Fox of a cover-up in a radio interview and called on the network to fire Mishkin. “Fox News owes the American people an apology,” he said.

So far, the network has stood by its decision desk.

2020 Olympics Appear To Be Latest Sporting Event Affected By COVID-19 | NESN After Hours

April 20, 2020 by admin

The sports world has been massively affected by COVID-19.

First the NBA suspended operations, then the NHL, Major League Baseball, NCAA and high school athletics followed suit. And now the 2020 Olympics may be doing the same.

Dick Pound, a member of the Veteran International Olympic Committee (IOC) said he expects the summer games to be postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic.

For more on the Olympics and what to expect, check out the “Need to Know” video above from “NESN After Hours,” presented by People’s United Bank.

BBC to broadcast summer of sport nostalgia during coronavirus crisis | Sport

April 20, 2020 by admin

The BBC is preparing to unleash the power of nostalgia in a bid to help self-isolating fans through a summer of no sport.

In plans announced by the national broadcaster, some of the biggest hits in British sporting history are to be screened again on BBC One in the coming months, filling gaps where cancelled events would otherwise have been.

In July the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics is to be replayed alongside highlights from the rest of the London Games and Rio 2016, replacing coverage of the postponed Tokyo 2020.

Danny Boyle’s coup de theatre, Isles of Wonder, has subsequently acquired a totemic status amongst parts of British society and will not be shown in full as the entrance of many of the 204 competing nations will be edited out. But viewers can still expect to gorge on two and a half hours of highlights from the night of Friday 27 July 2012.

Instead of the Euro 2020 football tournament, which has also been pushed back by a year, the BBC will show matches from Euro 96 and other European championships as live, alongside highlight packages. There will also be classic Wimbledon contests on our screens during the July fortnight normally turned over to tennis.

All of this is being done in the hope that reliving great moments of old will not only help struggling BBC schedulers left with hundreds of empty hours to fill, but distract the rest of Britain from ongoing lockdown.

The BBC’s director of sport, Barbara Slater, said there was “something for everyone” in the package. “In these unprecedented and difficult times we are delighted to bring some of the most incredible sporting events from years gone by to our audiences over the next few months,” she said. “From glorious moments at the Olympics including the magic of London 2012, thrilling Euro 96 matches, wonderful Wimbledon moments and the best of World Championship snooker, there is something for everyone to enjoy.”

Alongside big replayed events, the BBC has other tricks up its sleeve. Match of the Day will become Match of their Day as pundits pick their favourite matches in Premier League history and analyse the highlights. In cricket, with England’s summer series against Sri Lanka postponed, Test Match Special is to curate 40 of the best “From the Boundary” features where celebrities discuss their relationship with the game. There will also be an expanded range of podcasts, including the venerable Question of Sport, which is to move to the radio for the first time, to be broadcast on Radio 5 Live.