President Trump’s upset win over Hillary Clinton was clear around midnight on Election Day 2016 as drunk college students climbed trees and sang “Sweet Caroline” outside the White House. But this year, with businesses in DC, New York and elsewhere boarding up and expecting riots, results may be unknown for days.
News organizations that typically declare winners with limited official results are urging patience due to the counting of millions of mail-in ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Exit polling, meanwhile, is using a novel and imprecise new formula.
If the results are known on Tuesday night, it’s likely because Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden in important swing states that voted for him in 2016, such as Florida, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina and Ohio, which begin opening and counting mail-in ballots before Election Day.
But if Trump wins those states and GOP strongholds such as Texas, attention will shift to Rust Belt battlegrounds where most tabulation work begins Nov. 3, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which narrowly broke for Trump in 2016.
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