USA Today reports: Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These are the remaining key states that have not yet been called for President Donald Trump or Former Vice President Joe Biden as of Wednesday morning. The outcome will hinge on securing the states above, although the results may take a while to filter in because of processing times for …
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CNN Projects That Joe Biden Will Win Wisconsin
CNN reports: Joe Biden will win Wisconsin, CNN projects. There are 10 electoral votes at stake in Wisconsin. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the 2020 presidential election. Who won in 2016: President Trump carried the state and won the general election. The Trump campaign says it will “immediately” request a recount in the battleground of Wisconsin. But under …
Read More »Associated Press Projects Biden Will Win Minnesota
Bloomberg News reports: Democratic challenger Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in Minnesota, the Associated Press projected, as voters rejected the incumbent’s law-and-order pitch that was a counter to Black Lives Matter protests. Trump’s campaign had targeted the traditionally Democratic state, where George Floyd was killed by police in May. Minnesota accounts for 10 Electoral College votes. Nationwide, 270 votes …
Read More »CNN Projects That Joe Biden Will Win Virginia
CNN reports: CNN projects Joe Biden will notch a win in Virginia. In 13 of the 14 presidential elections before 2008, Virginia went for the Republican nominee. But Barack Obama’s arrival coincided with a shift in the commonwealth’s electorate, powered by suburban voters with college degrees. Not quite liberal, Virginia has become increasingly Democratic – in the 2018 midterms, Reps. …
Read More »Fox News Projects That Joe Biden Will Win Arizona
Fox News reports: FOX News is projecting that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will win Arizona’s electoral votes. According to numbers as of 11:20 p.m., Biden has 54% of the vote, compared to 45% by President Donald Trump. However, only 36% of precincts are reporting. As a bona fide swing state for the first time in memory, Arizona has been …
Read More »Joe Biden Begins Election Day With Morning Mass
Bloomberg News reports: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden kicked off Election Day by heading to morning mass at his family’s church in Delaware. Biden, his wife Jill and their granddaughters Finnegan and Natalie were spotted by reporters entering St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington just after 7 a.m. Afterward, the former vice president will travel to Pennsylvania in a …
Read More »Final Quinnipiac Poll: Biden +5 In FL, Biden +4 In OH
Just in from Quinninpiac Polling: On the eve of Election Day 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden has narrow leads over President Donald Trump in Florida and Ohio, according to the final Quinnipiac University polls conducted before the election. In a national poll, Biden holds an 11-point lead over Trump among likely voters, largely unchanged from the 10-point leads he …
Read More »Handicapper’s Final Map: Biden 321, Trump 217
The Hill reports: Sabato’s Crystal Ball predicts that former Vice President Joe Biden will win a commanding victory in the Electoral College on Tuesday, picking up the battleground states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, among others. The nonpartisan election analyst blog published by the University of Virginia Center for Politics released its final projection for the 2020 election …
Read More »Biden +10 Over Trump In Final WSJ/NBC National Poll
The Wall Street Journal reports: President Trump trails by 10 percentage points among voters nationally in the final days of his re-election campaign, facing substantial public anxiety over the coronavirus pandemic but with broad approval of his management of the economy, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Mr. Trump, 52% to 42%, …
Read More »Biden +7 Over Trump In Final Pennsylvania Poll
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: A new Monmouth University poll has former Vice President Joe Biden with a 5-point to 7-point lead over President Donald Trump among likely voters in Pennsylvania. The findings of the poll show that Joe Biden has found backing from young voters and people of color that is helping him to offset the gains of President Trump …
Read More »POLL: Biden +6 In AZ, +3 In FL, +6 In PA. +11 In WI
The New York Times reports: Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a clear advantage over President Trump across four of the most important presidential swing states, a new poll shows, bolstered by the support of voters who did not participate in the 2016 election and who now appear to be turning out in large numbers to cast their ballots, mainly for …
Read More »Biden: “Who Let All These People Into My Basement?”
The Hill reports: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday poked fun at Republicans mocking his lack of campaign rallies due to the coronavirus while highlighting his efforts to safely turn out supporters. Biden shared an image of supporters at one of his “drive-in” rallies, aimed at stemming the spread of the virus with social distancing measures. In August, Trump’s …
Read More »Biden Cheers Soccer Star’s Engagement: Love Wins
NBC News reports: Athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have found a winning combo. The couple announced their engagement Friday night on Bird’s Instagram with a photo of Rapinoe kneeling and putting a ring on Bird’s left land. Bird, a guard for the Seattle Storm, and Rapinoe, a leader on the U.S. women’s national soccer team, met at the 2016 …
Read More »FiveThirtyEight Gives Biden 90% Chance Of Winning
Mediaite reports: Noted polling site FiveThirtyEight has updated their odds on winning the general election and now is giving former Vice President Joe Biden a 90 percent chance of defeating President Donald Trump. These predictions are not just pulled out of a hat. FiveThirtyEight has a formulaic process that simulates the election outcome 40,000 times based on average polling data …
Read More »Biden +8 Over Trump In Final Fox News National Poll
Fox News reports: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump has narrowed a touch to 8 points from a 10-point advantage in early October, according to a Fox News national survey of likely voters. Biden is ahead by a 52-44 percent margin. It was 53-43 percent three weeks ago. His lead is outside the poll’s margin of sampling …
Read More »Huge Majority Of Polled Europeans Would Vote Biden
Yahoo News reports: Joe Biden would hammer Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election if it were Europeans heading to the ballot box, a poll showed Friday, underscoring the incumbent’s unpopularity across the Atlantic. Among five countries surveyed by pollsters BVA — Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain — the Germans were the most enthusiastic Biden supporters, with 66 …
Read More »New York AG Letitia James Readying “Long List” Of Trump Orders For Biden Administration To Reverse
NBC News reports: New York Attorney General Letitia James says her office is preparing a substantial list of legal actions for a potential Biden administration to begin quickly reversing Trump administration initiatives, she told NBC News in an interview. “We’re preparing a list. And the list is long,” she said Thursday. “We’ll have a team of individuals, again, working on …
Read More »Politico: Warren Wants To Be Biden’s Treasury Secretary
Politico reports: Elizabeth Warren wants to be Joe Biden’s Treasury secretary and will make her case for it if he wins next week, according to three Democratic officials who have spoken with her inner circle. “She wants it,” two of them said matter-of-factly. Warren’s moves could set up the marquee fight between the party’s left and its center over what …
Read More »Reuters: Pollsters Have Improved Methods Since 2016
Reuters reports: Whenever President Donald Trump is confronted with polls he does not like, especially the torrent of national data showing him trailing Democratic challenger Joe Biden in public support, the president’s response is usually the same: Fake news. But opinion poll experts say there are good reasons to trust this year’s polls more than those of 2016. Many pollsters …
Read More »Joe Biden +4 In Final NBC News/Marist Florida Poll
NBC News reports: Joe Biden holds a slight 4-point lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground of Florida, fueled by his standing among seniors and independents, according to the final NBC News/Marist poll of the state before Tuesday’s presidential election. Biden is supported by 51 percent of likely voters, while Trump gets 47 percent. Just a combined 2 percent …
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