Arnon Mishkin, Fox News Decision Desk director, weighs on in-person voting vs. early voting and gives his take on when remaining states will likely be called.
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Ainsley, I heard him say that so
far the numbers in Georgia
thanks so much Griff, fifty five for
Trump and fifty eight point three for Boyden, not
all the votes have been counted
so its a toss up
director of the Fox NEWS
decision desk, been on all the
shows and a wealth of
information when it comes to
these states.
Good morning to you, Arden good morning to you
good morning to you.
Thank you for having me Nevada
say they are going to be
counting more votes, starting at
900, a dot M local time, which is
roughly noon in the east.
I think that Wisconsin is also
going to be getting more vote
reported today.
I also think that Georgia,
particularly the suburban
counties around Atlanta, will be
getting additional vote reported
today
and so its possible
Brian lets start with Georgia.
What do you see
its with a one point? Five between them?
What should we know about whats
left and where
we know that some of the
outstanding vote is in the
Atlanta area, which tends to be
more the Atlanta suburbs sort of
the places in one of the
places in the country that swung
from Romney to Clinton
so its possible that former
vice president has an advantage
there
its also possible that some of
those suburban counties have
gone back to Trump since their
performance in twenty eighteen.
But the other thing that we
dont know- and this is the
mystery about this entire
election- is how many outstanding
early and mail in votes are to
be counted.
The most the unique thing
about this election is for
whatever reason Republicans
this year said I need to vote in
person on election day.
Democrats were much more adamant
or, as adamant saying I need to
vote early or by mail in this
election,
and what you saw was huge
differences between the way the
early mail in vote came in and
the way the election day vote
came in
so on election day. Yesterday,
President Trump may have won
every state on election day with
the exception, possibly of the
deep blue states of New York and
Connecticut.
On the other hand, if you just
look at the early and mail in
votes,
Joe Biden probably won almost
every stated, with the exception
of the Dakotas,
I mean he got more early
mail in votes in places like
Mississippi and Alabama place
that we knew from the get go
were going into trumps column,
Brian right
when we look at the votes,
thats the stuff that may be
remaining
thats, the stuff that the states
havent totally reported
Steve right.
Indeed,
im looking at the Foxnews dot com
interactive map,
it shows that the Dakotas to
your point, the president, is in
the 60s mid to upper 60s in
vote, totals
if why could put up Michigan for
just a moment?
I know that, according to
Foxnews dot com with eighty four percent of the
votes counted, the president is
ahead. Fifty one point, four to Joe Bidens:
there are the very latest
numbers right there,
whats interesting as I look at
the Senate race, an none. It
looks like John James. The
challenger to the Democrat, Gary
Peters, John James, actually is
outpolling the president.
Yes,
I think there is a lot of
indication that James was going
to outperform the president,
and so right now it looks like
he has a really good shot of
defeating the incumbent and
making that the second turnover
for the Republicans
of the evening
were going to have to wait and
sees a Michigan continues to
count the vote and particularly
as we find out how many really
outstanding mailing votes there
are before we can make a call in
that state
Brian. If I can ask you real
quick, why do you think John
James has a better chance to win
than the president?
I think? Is he outpolling the
president when you look at the
actual numbers,
Brian? What about the separation
separation?
I think the difference is a
little greater for James right
now,
but listen im not ready to
call either one of those races.
I want to see more vote in
Michigan
last night, it looked like the
president had a strong lead in
Wisconsin
right now. Wink has turned into a
toss up
same with Georgia,
which is clearly as Trump has a
slight advantage,
but its pretty clearly a
toss up really right now,.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-04.