Tag Archives: 2020 elections

Kanye West Earned Just 57,000 Votes Across 12 States

The Daily Beast reports: The math was never on West’s side—no combination of votes in those states would get him to the 270 electoral votes needed to take the Oval Office. The most recent polling on West’s campaign forecast he’d capture 0.0 percent of the vote. By the time California polls closed, that more or less looked true. The rapper …

Read More »

Associated Press Projects Trump Will Win Texas

The Dallas Morning News reports: Donald Trump survived a scare in Texas, though Election Day ended without a verdict on whether his tumultuous presidency will continue for another term – or of the huge blue wave that Joe Biden’s supporters had hoped for. The former vice president held a substantial lead in national polls before the polls opened but that …

Read More »

Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst Projected To Hold Seat

The Iowa Gazette reports: Republican Joni Ernst, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in Iowa, on Tuesday became the first woman reelected to that federal post after surviving a scare by edging out Democrat Theresa Greenfield in a hard-fought and expensive 2020 political slugfest. With 86 percent of 1,661 precincts reporting, Ernst, 50, a retired soldier who previously …

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 »

Multiple Outlets Project That Trump Will Win Ohio

Cleveland’s ABC News affiliate reports: It’s official. Ohio is staying red. President Donald Trump has claimed Ohio in the 2020 election against Democratic candidate Joe Biden. It’s the second time Ohio has voted in favor of President Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in the Buckeye State back in 2016. In the weeks leading up to the election, President Trump …

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 »

Arizona Voters Approve Legal Weed Initiative

Arizona Central reports: Arizona’s ballot measure to legalize marijuana passed Tuesday with voters deciding to join 11 other states that have done so despite a conflict with federal law, according to The Associated Press. Proposition 207 would legalize possession of as much as an ounce of marijuana for adults 21 and older and set up a licensing system for retail …

Read More »

Fox News Projects Mark Kelly Has Unseated McSally

Fox News reports: We have a major race call to announce: The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former Vice President Joe Biden will win the state of Arizona, dramatically narrowing the president’s pathway to reelection. It is the first state of the night where Trump loses a state he won in 2016. Also in Arizona, Fox can …

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 »

Fox News Projects That Trump Has Won Florida

Fox News reports: President Donald Trump has won Florida and its 29 electoral college votes, FOX News projects. With 91 percent of the vote counted, the president had 51.29 percent of the state’s vote to Joe Biden’s 47.81 percent. That’s a difference of 381,887 votes. The largest group of uncounted votes is in Osceola County, where an internet outage is …

Read More »

New Jersey Voters Approve Legal Weed Initiative

Insider New Jersey reports: New Jersey voters have approved a constitutional ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and over and establish a framework for marijuana regulation in the Garden State. New Jersey becomes the 12th state to enact a legalization law. “This is a great day for New Jersey. After years of political inaction, voters have definitively approved …

Read More »

OPEN THREAD: Early 2020 Election Results

The New York Times reports: The first polls will close at 6 p.m. Eastern time in parts of Indiana and Kentucky. Then there will be a steady stream of poll closings, every hour and sometimes every 30 minutes, until the last polls in Alaska shut down at 1 a.m. Eastern time. In a normal year, results would start flowing in …

Read More »

OPEN THREAD: Tell Us About Your Voting Experience

Nearly 100 million Americans had cast their ballots by the time polls opened this morning for in-person voting. If you’re voting in person today, tell us how things went. If you hear about issues in places other than your own polling station, tell us about that too. We’ll have another open thread this afternoon and likely several tonight after the …

Read More »

Michael Cohen Tweets His Vote For Biden And Harris

The New York Daily News reports: Michael Cohen is trying to say sorry with his ballot. The former Trump fixer posted a photo of himself Tuesday after voting against his ex-boss near his home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Cohen also used the hashtag #meaculpa and #disloyal, presumably to express his regret for once supporting the president. The disgraced lawyer, …

Read More »

Top PA Official: We Alone Will Declare Our Winner

The Associated Press reports: Pennsylvania’s top election official, in an apparent response to President Trump, told reporters Tuesday that the Department of State will determine when the election is over. “Vote counting is never finished on Election Day,” said Secretary Kathy Boockvar, noting that overseas and military ballots can arrive up to a week after the election. “We are the …

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 »

10M Gets Robocalls Urging Them To “Stay At Home”

The Washington Post reports: An unidentified robocaller has placed an estimated 10 million calls in the past several weeks warning people to “stay safe and stay home,” spooking some Americans who said they saw it as an attempt to scare them away from the polls on Election Day. The barrage of calls all feature the same short, recorded message: A …

Read More »

Four Former Top RNC Officials Vote Against Trump

The Hill reports: Four former communications directors at the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted against President Trump this year, they said Monday. In a tweet posted Monday, Ryan Mahoney, who ran communications for the party apparatus during President Trump’s first two years in office, showed his ballot filled out for former Vice President Joe Biden. Doug Heye, who directed communications …

Read More »

DOJ To Send “Voting Rights Monitors” To 18 States

Via press release from the Justice Department: The Justice Department today announced its plans for voting rights monitoring in jurisdictions around the country for the Nov. 3, 2020 general election. The Justice Department historically has monitored in jurisdictions in the field on election day, and is again doing so this year. The department will also take complaints from the public …

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 »