Here’s where we are on Saturday morning with the presidential race in the key states remaining:
- In Georgia, Joe Biden has a 7000+ vote lead
- In Pennsylvania, Biden’s lead has increased to over 28,000
- Biden’s lead in Nevada is now more than 22,000 votes
- In Arizona, Biden’s lead has shrunk to just under 30,000 votes
The major newspapers, networks and the Associated Press have yet to call the race. Could today be the day? The electoral map hasn’t changed since Wednesday night.
The reason? States are still counting. Pennsylvania is still counting thousands of mail-in ballots, mostly from democratic-leaning areas. Georgia had until last night to return overseas and active military ballots. The state was still counting ballots from GOP-leaning counties on Friday.
But still, the numbers seem very close to being outside the margin of error. Recounts have shown that tabulations might be off by a few dozen to maybe a few hundred votes, not thousands.
Brian Stelter of CNN writes:
“A Democratic official called me on Friday night, sounding downright apoplectic about the reluctance of the network decision desks to call any states. This person’s argument was valid: ‘Every one of the networks knows that they’re going to call this race for Biden,’ so the delay just allows Trump to sow doubt and spread disinformation about voter fraud, the official said. Maybe, but the decision desks at the networks and The AP are guided by mathematical models.”
>> Stelter adds: “Democrats wanted the call to happen on Friday so that they could begin transition planning in earnest. In private, Biden reps butted heads with network reps, but the decision desks did not waver. And that’s how it is supposed to work, even though it’s messy and frustrating…”
