Last night’s declaration that Trump was winning beyond the margin of fraud may have been optimistic.
Somehow, in the middle of the night, election officials in the Democratic stronghold of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, managed to find over 100,000 absentee votes that flipped the state from Trump to Biden, where Biden is now some 20,000 votes ahead.
Time stamped photos. what happened between 4:30am and 4:40am EST? pic.twitter.com/lyWa5wehgc
— The Red-Headed libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) November 4, 2020
— The Red-Headed libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) November 4, 2020
— Mobius1 (@realmobius01) November 4, 2020
Similarly, a large number of Michigan ballots have also narrowed Trump’s lead to a razor thin margin of just over 9,000 votes. It may all come down to Trump holding Michigan.
This year’s polls seemed even more off than they were in 2016.
Polling was off by almost 6 points nationally according to RCP
— Real American Politics (@RealAPolitics) November 4, 2020
Trump still has something like a 600,000 vote lead in Pennsylvania, a 70,000 vote lead in North Carolina (with 99%+ of the votes in there), and over a 100,000 vote lead in Georgia (also with 99%+ of the vote in there).
Nevada was also called for Biden, but Trump is less than 8,000 votes behind there.
It looks like Republicans are going to hold the Senate, right now losing a net of one seat (Democrats pick up Colorado and Arizona, Republicans pick up Alabama), but if John James wins in Michigan, the mostly likely outcome is the exact same partisan split as today. Republican Susan Collins retained her senate seat in Maine.
Republicans are currently netting small gains in the House, but it looks like Democrats will maintain control. In Texas, Republican incumbent John Cornyn easily defeated M. J. Hegar, marking the second election in a row Hegar has lost.
Democrats did not pick up a single U.S. House seat in Texas. Republican Tony Gonzalez held Texas 23rd congressional district, defeating Gina Ortiz Jones. Republican incumbent Chip Roy beat Wendy Davis, despite national attention and fundraising for Davis. That’s two high profile races Davis has managed to lose.
Republican’s retain control of both Texas House and Senate.
Some tweets:
I thought a more multiracial conservatism could succeed despite Trump. I didn't understand it could happen because of him.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) November 4, 2020
Not normal. 100% of the ballots went to Biden. Not even 1 vote for Trump. https://t.co/ZBDfCoPBwU
— 🇺🇸 AGenZConservative 🇺🇸 (@APunchableGuy) November 4, 2020
Lindsey Graham, w the quote of the night:
“To all the pollsters out there: You have no idea what you're doing. And to all the liberals in California and New York, you wasted a lot of money.” https://t.co/KcHxUdb09u
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 4, 2020
More later.
Update: Shit. While I was eating breakfast, Decision Desk flipped Michigan to Biden.
Tags: 2020 Election, 2020 Presidential Race, 2020 Texas Senate Race, Chip Roy, Democrats, Elections, John Cornyn, John James, M. J. Hegar, Republicans, Susan Collins, Wendy Davis
Those “found” votes need to be audited. Mail-in voting was *made* for fraud, and all such votes must be treated as fraudulent until proven otherwise.
I wish I could be confident that such an audit will happen, but I’m not.
What the heck is the deal with Williamson County? Williamson County use to be the conservative country to Travis County’s liberalism. Same thing with Hays County.
Now like Travis County, they are just blue boils on Texas’s butt
Williamson is trending purple, but is not yet blue. John Carter and Dee Hobbs both won. Chody went down because of the indictment.
OK so Williamson County is trending purple. I guess that is the inevitable result from liberals spilling out of Austin in to the suburbs. I’m guessing also Hays County is going to suffer the same fate. What a disgrace those two counties have now become to the State of Texas.
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