As President Trump waits for the results out of Pennsylvania and Georgia, where he has the slimmest of leads over Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, two of his advisers say they are not confident in his chances of winning.
"Math is not on our side," one adviser told CNN. "We need an act of God to alter the course." As of 10:15 p.m. ET, Trump is ahead of Biden by just 1,797 votes in Georgia, with 99 percent of estimated ballots received reported. In Pennsylvania, Trump's margin is down to 42,000, with at least 208,000 ballots left to count. "It's not good," the second Trump adviser told CNN.
Earlier Thursday, Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, complained on Twitter that there weren't enough high-profile Republican politicians rallying for their father, and they should have been loudly endorsing him ahead of the election. One lawmaker was quick to publicly make a show of supporting Trump: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who told Fox News host Sean Hannity he was donating $500,000 to Trump's legal defense fund.
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The Trump brothers "can't hide their emotions," one of the advisers said. "That's normal."
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