I decided to hang it up early on my blog last night and check in on the election results. I got very little sleep, but I took the day off from work today. It goes without saying the election should never have been this close to begin with. Hell, Trump never should have been taken seriously as a presidential candidate in the first place.
It appears Joseph R. Biden will be the 46th president of the United States, and Senator Kamala Harris will be the first woman vice president. The election was a nail biter for the reason that so many of the ballots were mail-ins, and those mail-in ballots in the "battleground states" were from heavily blue, heavily urban areas. Literally millions of those ballots had to be counted, and they are still being counted. Today Wisconsin and Michigan were called for Biden, and there is little doubt Nevada will go his way as well, which will put him at 270 electoral votes. Biden was making huge gains in Pennsylvania and in Georgia, with both states very possibly going in his column. Ditto for Arizona and the uncounted votes mostly in heavily Democratic Maricopa County (Phoenix). I believe the only question mark is North Carolina, but it will be days before the final results will be known.
Trump made all kinds of legal threats, but he decided not to contest the Wisconsin results, and therefore he is mostly showboating for his still-fervent followers. He probably has some other plans after he leaves the White House, perhaps a business he can create or buy and run it into bankruptcy. That is the one thing he is truly qualified to do. He also has to contend with trying to stay out of jail.
Sad, as he would say.
He also "blew it," as Keith Olbermann noted this afternoon:
Incredible scenes outside the Maricopa County Elections Dept in Arizona pic.twitter.com/cUcboOxnYS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 5, 2020
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