[Rayne and Marcy tag-teaming here: around 4:25 AM ET, Clayton County, GA, home of John Lewis, put Biden in the lead in the New Deep South of Georgia and with it the likely winner of GA and the race.]
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The wait is finally over. We have a new president-elect.
Congratulations, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris!
Share your sentiments in comments.
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UPDATE-1: Just before 9:00 AM, Biden went up over 5,000 in PA, with the expectation that he will get a disproportionate number of what’s left. It’s done. He won, and still may match Trump’s 306 EVs from 2016.
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UPDATE-2 — 2:45 PM ET —
— Signs and portents —
— The FAA established a No-Fly Zone above Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware as of mid-afternoon on November 4; this appears to be normal procedure for presidential candidates for a limited period of time. Today the Secret Service ramped up its level of protective detail around Biden, though Biden does not yet have the same level as president-elect or the president.
— People are dancing in the streets in Philadelphia; they’ve been at it since very early this morning.
— A lot of the punditry are complaining about the media’s restraint, refusing to call Pennsylvania for Biden. The threshold appears to be 35,000 votes or 0.05% of the vote, though, when an automatic recount would be triggered. If the vote count for Biden clears that benchmark then the media will move to call PA and the entire race. (I am not certain about the threshold number or percentage — if you see confirmation somewhere, please share in comments. Thanks.)
— Rick Santorum pleaded for liberals to go easy on the right-wing…
Lol. @RickSantorum on @CNN said that Democrats need to give Trump/GOP “time” to “work through their feelings.”
If I may. pic.twitter.com/3Du5yaRts6
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) November 6, 2020
Yeah, no.
— Lindsey Graham is already back on his shit as is McConnell. They must have passed around a memo inside the GOP Senate caucus that austerity is where its at now that they’ve wrecked the future with their goddamned massive tax cut.
— Georgia’s secretary of state (yes, he’s a Republican) has already said a recount will be launched. Except there’s no automatic recount; the candidate has to request one. And the deadline for curing ballots isn’t until this evening. What a partisan crock of shit. This is exactly the crap Stacey Abrams had to face.
— Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania:
Biden 3,311,673 49.5%
Trump 3,298,011 49.3
~drumming fingers~
The wait goes on.