GettyThe clearest message of this week’s complicated election results is that the trench is deepening between red and blue America.Late vote counts in Michigan and Wisconsin put Joe Biden in position to oust Donald Trump so long as the Democrat holds his leads in Nevada and Arizona, which he appears likely but not guaranteed to do.
The Trump campaign says it’s filing lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.GETTYThe presidential contest isn’t resolved. But the 2020 election has already proved revealing. Keep reading for three things we’ve gleaned from the results so far.1. This country remains deeply divided.
When Republican Senator Mike Lee tweeted last month that “We’re not a democracy,” he wasn’t kidding. He later expanded the thought, saying that it was not “the prerogative of government to reflexively carry out the will of the majority of its citizens” and that “power is not found in mere majorities, but in carefully balanced power.
President Trump has prematurely declared victory and falsely accused Democrats of “major fraud,” even as millions of ballots continue to be counted across the United States amid an unprecedented wave of mail-in ballots widely believed to favor Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
I don’t want to seem like I’m overreacting, but it felt like verbal abuse.
Parenting advice on family vacation fights, eco-friendly toys, and single parenting.
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
“You have to know if it’s mean or just obvious.
Slate Money talks the Trump economy, dual interest rates, and Chewy.
The rational thing to do is to shut down—and bail out—the restaurants and bars.
Spiking infections have seized the headlines — and it could get much worse.
The sign-up season begins amid an intensifying pandemic and shortly before the Supreme Court will weigh Obamacare’s fate.
Nearly every region of the country is reporting an uptick in infections and hospitalizations.
“I’ve personally seen people working on their resumes inside the office,” a senior official added. “It’s no secret.
Trump got a great economic report to use on the campaign trail. But behind the surface, giant risks are looming.
The new Open Storefronts program — modeled on the city’s popular outdoor dining initiative — will allow 40,000 businesses to set up open air operations.
The selling in U.S. markets followed broad declines in Europe.
Joe Biden has won Arizona, a state last won by a Democrat in 1996 and heavily targeted by Democrats for a 2020 flip. Arizona adds 11 electoral votes to Biden’s tally.
Democratic candidate and retired astronaut Mark Kelly has defeated incumbent Sen. Martha McSally in the Arizona Senate race.
Election night is ending without a clear winner in the presidential race—an outcome we’d hoped to avoid, but knew was a strong possibility. The massive increase in mail ballots combined with laws in some states that prevented those mail ballots being processed ahead of time means that some key states are—as predicted—still counting, and may be counting for days.
Arizona’s vote counting has slowed to a crawl.
Joe Biden spoke briefly at a drive-in rally in Delaware shortly before 1 AM ET, offering an optimistic message but one that emphasized that the vote-counting is ongoing and there’s a lot we don’t know. “We feel good about where we are, we really do. I’m here to tell you tonight we believe we’re on track to win this election,” he said.
Stick with us as we continue following the presidential results live, and check in with Daily Kos Elections as they follow the downballot races.
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The Daily Kos Elections guide to every key presidential swing state in 2020.
The Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2020 poll closing times map.
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Barbara Morrill
Calling it a night.
Updated at 2:36 a.m. ET on November 4, 2020.The 2020 election has been the most anticipated in generations—and for now the result of the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will have to go on being anticipated a little longer.With most polls closed around the nation, it is clear that Democratic dreams of a quick and decisive Biden victory were just as much an illusion as the president’s hope for a clear-cut win.
Late at night on November 4, 1995, while leaving a huge rally in Tel Aviv, moments after leading the crowd in singing the “Song of Peace”—“Don’t say the day will come; bring the day!”—Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot by a young Israeli bitterly opposed to the peace process with the Palestinians.Although Rabin and I worked together for less than three years, we built a close working relationship and a deep friendship.
The 30-year-old, who beat Republican Steve Washington in Delaware, said she hopes her win shows LGBTQ kids “that our democracy is big enough for them.
But for some reason a lot to do with whales?
The Senate majority leader will serve a seventh term in Washington after fending off yet another well-funded challenge from Democrats desperate to end his career.
