Counting underway in Arizona and Georgia : Joe Biden appears to have made significant gains in Arizona, a state which Trump won in Georgia appeared at a standstill as officials in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta and its populous suburbs, said they would resume counting at resume at 8 a.
President Trump attempted to claim victory : Donald Trump called for a halt to legitimate vote counting that is underway around the country and sought to mislead his loyal supporters by conflating the legitimate counting of ballots with voting as he falsely claimed Democrats were trying to "steal the election.
Remember: electoral votes are needed to become president. Speaking to reporters, the former vice president urged them to "Keep the faith, guys. We're going to win this. And for a president to say we are going to disenfranchise those legally cast ballots — it really is extraordinary.
Democrats changed the rules to require only a simple majority to get votes on most nominees during the Obama administration. Republicans changed the rules for Supreme Court nominees during the Trump administration. Read more about the "nuclear option" here. The state, which was the cradle of the civil rights movement, was also the home of the late Rep. John Lewis, an icon of the movement for whom one of the current pieces of legislation aimed at shoring up voting rights is named.
Many of their students participated in the civil rights movement through si- ins and protests. Clark Atlanta was the first institution in the country to award graduate degrees to African Americans. King's alma mater. President Biden shares the frustration of voting rights advocates — some of whom are boycotting his speech in Atlanta on Tuesday — at an impasse on voting rights, the White House says.
A number of voting rights groups say they're skipping Biden's speech, claiming he's offering little more than empty promises. A number of different civil rights leaders and Democratic lawmakers are attending. Earlier today, Biden said he'd spoken with Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who is citing a scheduling conflict for not attending Biden's event. Psaki noted there was a "plane full" of Democratic lawmakers and other advocates for voting rights joining Biden for Tuesday's events.
More background: Schumer is expected to bring up voting legislation this week that Senate Republicans will again block. Senate Democrats are then expected to push a vote to change the filibuster rules, but there is no indication that would succeed either as Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have repeatedly made clear they are opposed to getting rid of the filibuster.
I assure you it would not be more efficient or more productive, I personally guarantee it. Do my colleagues understand how many times per day the Senate needs and gets unanimous consent for basic housekeeping? Do they understand how many times things would require roll call votes? What the nuclear option means: As Democrats push to pass voting rights legislation through Congress, there's been talk of using a process known as the "nuclear option.
Read more here. CNN's Zachary B. Wolf contributed reporting to this post. Live Coronavirus pandemic. Live Djokovic Australia visa decision. ET, January 11, Dozier also asked for patience from the American people, saying her office received just 3, absentee ballots in , compared to 30, this year.
Once the mail-in ballots have been counted, the only remaining uncounted votes from the county will be military ballots, which are due at 5 p. ET Friday. Dozier said she was unaware of how many military ballots officials may receive. Joe Biden currently has electoral votes, and President Trump has Even at this late hour, much of the Biden team is up monitoring the results coming in- especially those results from Pennsylvania, a source familiar tells CNN.
The feeling is Friday could be the day that Biden reaches Though it has been said before, the campaign reiterated that when all the votes are counted Biden will have a decisive win in the state. Why the state matters: There are 20 electoral votes at stake in Pennsylvania.
President Trump cannot be reelected if he doesn't win there, no matter how many other states he wins. Biden currently has electoral votes, and President Trump has As results from congressional races continue to filter in, here's how the balance of power in the Senate looks right now. Republicans have sharply cut Democrats' chances of taking back the Senate, winning a series of contests across the country on the coattails of President Trump.
Democrats currently have won 47 seats with one pickup in Colorado, while Republicans have won 47 seats with one pick up in Alabama. There are currently are four undecided races in the Senate. Harris called for two key voting rights bills to pass immediately, as a form of justice after a Supreme Court ruling that walked back provisions. Instead, let us tell them that we stood together as people of conscience and courage. President Biden went after "Republican legislators in several states" who "have already announced plans to escalate the onslaught" on voting this year by passing new laws in their states that restrict voting.
He said that the goal of former President Donald Trump and his allies is to "disenfranchise anyone who votes against them. President Biden, speaking about voting rights and election reform in Atlanta , called the insurrection at the US Capitol last January a "before and after" moment — and now Americans must "confront hard truths" and decide how to move on to preserve American democracy.
The Jan. Vice President Harris decried the growing slew of laws being passed across the country that restrict voting, saying that the nation should not be "deceived into thinking they are normal. Harris referenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There is nothing normal about a law that makes it illegal to pass out water or food to salespeople standing in long voting lines," Harris added. The vice president went on to speak about the voting law passed in Georgia, saying that she has heard the "outrage.
I have heard your outrage about the anti-voter law here, and how many voters will likely be kept from voting. And Georgia is not alone. Across our nation anti-voter laws could make it more difficult for as many as 55 million Americans to vote," she said.
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