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Speaker 1: Jump mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Well the weight. It's nearly over. After months of intense

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Speaker 2: campaigning across the United States, Americans will finally get their say.

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Speaker 2: Hugh Rimington has been on the ground criss crossing across

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Speaker 2: the states leading up to the election. Front and Senator

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Speaker 2: today with an update for US Hugh Rymington.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello to you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Hugh, I've never had any less envy for you.

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Speaker 3: Right now, it feels to me that America is probably

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Speaker 3: the least safe place to be in. You've go not

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Speaker 3: only just got coronavirus, You've got to deal with You've

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Speaker 3: got to deal with angry hordes of people loaded with

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Speaker 3: AR fifteen machine guns.

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Speaker 2: How are you enjoying it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, there's nowhere else actually that you'd really want

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Speaker 1: to be. We're going to see history in the next

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Speaker 1: the next few hours and quite possibly spitting out over

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Speaker 1: the next few days and possibly weeks while we try

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Speaker 1: to resolve what happens with this election. You know, it

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Speaker 1: is an extraordinary scene. You know, Americans say they've never

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Speaker 1: seen their country like this at the moment, the sense

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Speaker 1: of you know, distrusting, tension and agitation and nervousness, and

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Speaker 1: that's just the political side. This COVID, of course as well,

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Speaker 1: playing in a way over here that it hasn't done

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Speaker 1: in Australia, rising up to a quarter of a million

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Speaker 1: people dead, one hundred thousand, almost one hundred thousand new

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Speaker 1: infections every day every day. You know, the whole place

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Speaker 1: is a little bit you feel as if it's bursting.

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Speaker 1: But at the seams, I.

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Speaker 2: Know a lot of Americans have said they don't recognize

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Speaker 2: their own country at the moment. There's the White House,

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Speaker 2: the center of democracy, with huge barriers built all the

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Speaker 2: way around it, shops boarded up. It's as if they're

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Speaker 2: expecting some kind of hurricane. Do you get the feeling that,

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Speaker 2: no matter what the result, there'll be violence.

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Speaker 1: Well, there was certainly a huge potential for it, and

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Speaker 1: in fact, last night, in the small hours of the

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Speaker 1: morning Washington time, they were actually extending those barriers further

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Speaker 1: and further around the White House. So you know, there

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Speaker 1: are streets around the White House obviously with other blocks

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Speaker 1: and other government buildings and so on, ending those barriers

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Speaker 1: further and further away. Trump was going to spend election

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Speaker 1: night at his own hotel, having a big party for

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Speaker 1: Republican supporters, and donors and staff and so on in Washington,

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Speaker 1: but he canceled that he's going to be inside the

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Speaker 1: White House. You almost have an image of the sort

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Speaker 1: of medieval king in the castle, with the barriers being

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Speaker 1: put up on the outside, the moat being dug deeper,

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Speaker 1: you know, and the people outside, you know, in an

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Speaker 1: absolutely fevered state on both sides. And that's really before

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Speaker 1: we have an idea of what the outcome of the

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Speaker 1: vote is.

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Speaker 3: And to grant of us, are you masking up? Do

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Speaker 3: you go to a Trump rally and not wear a

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Speaker 3: mask and then you go to a Biden one and

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Speaker 3: wear a mask.

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Speaker 1: Now, I'll try to wear a mask wherever I can.

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Speaker 1: I did go to one Trump rally and I didn't

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Speaker 1: but it was outdoors and so you could keep some

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Speaker 1: social distancing around what was going on. But certainly you

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Speaker 1: need to be cautious about it. I mean, the White

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Speaker 1: House Chief of Staff said in recent day that the

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Speaker 1: administration had given up on trying to control the virus.

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Speaker 1: They tried to walk that back in the coming days,

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Speaker 1: but that's the scene that you get across the country,

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Speaker 1: is that they're waiting for a vaccine to come and

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Speaker 1: make like the cavalry coming over the hill, and in

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Speaker 1: the meantime, people can do what they like. And Trump

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Speaker 1: at every rally goes in there and says he addresses

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Speaker 1: the governors, essentially the premiers of each of these states

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Speaker 1: in the rallies, they are come on, open up the state,

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Speaker 1: Come on, everyone wants normal life, as if as if

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Speaker 1: restrictions on behavior is some kind of offense against you know,

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Speaker 1: the people living there when you've got this extraordinary high

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Speaker 1: infection and death rate and rising.

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Speaker 2: It seemed that early on Joe Biden had the momentum.

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Speaker 2: We hear now that maybe Trump has some momentum. I know,

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Speaker 2: your colleague Peter van Austlin, I think he's he's picked

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Speaker 2: a Trump win.

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 1: Feeling, Peter pvo picking a Trump with is having a

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Speaker 1: joke with himself with everyone because he famously said that

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Speaker 1: Scott Morrison couldn't possibly win the last election. So he

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Speaker 1: sees himself as the jinxer.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, so we're saying it in the right in

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Speaker 2: the right way.

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Speaker 1: So you'd want to be if you're a political leader,

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Speaker 1: you'd want to be where Biden is rather than where

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Speaker 1: Trump is. He is way ahead on the popular vote overall,

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Speaker 1: but in some of these critical states it is so

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Speaker 1: totally within the margin of era that you know, it's

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Speaker 1: very hard to call it. There is a chance that

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Speaker 1: Trump could stitch together a win. He won't win the

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Speaker 1: popular vote, that's almost certain. He didn't win it against

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. He's if anything, less likely to win it

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Speaker 1: this time. But there are ways within the American system

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Speaker 1: by which you can pick up states here and there

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Speaker 1: and win the election if you win the right ones

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Speaker 1: in the right places by even small margins. That's what

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Speaker 1: he did in twenty sixteen. Having said that, I think

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Speaker 1: the probability is that Biden will win. To questions, will

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Speaker 1: it be a big win? Secondly, will we know that

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Speaker 1: he's won in the next day or might it take

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Speaker 1: many days or longer? And they will all be subject

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Speaker 1: We know because the President's told us it will be

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Speaker 1: subject to legal challenges going all the way up to

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. So the final signing off of this

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Speaker 1: could potentially be as it was in two thousand weeks away.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's the last thing.

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Speaker 2: Wow, we're all just breathing into paper bags and the

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Speaker 2: best Well.

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Speaker 3: Thank god you're over there. Can you bring us back something,

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Speaker 3: bring us back a treat like a mega hat or something.

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Speaker 1: Oh please no, because you can still buy them.

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Speaker 2: Well if you extraordinary times. Will speak to you again

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Speaker 2: in the next couple of days.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Stay safe, Absolutely good to talk

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Speaker 3: to you about.

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Speaker 2: Thanks you, With and Amanda