Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

There’s still some court drama over the U.S. Postal Service as Election Day draws to a close. As I mentioned earlier on the live blog, a federal judge ordered the USPS to canvass processing facilities in a number of key states, giving them until midafternoon to conduct the checks. But just before 5 p.m., federal government attorneys representing the USPS submitted a filing saying they would not abide by the order because they were unable to accelerate the schedule of the daily review process that already happens. The NAACP, which brought the lawsuit, has asked the judge for an emergency hearing to discuss the schedules. We’ll keep you posted if there are developments.

You should always take exit polls with a grain of salt. But a pandemic and the increase in mail-in voting have made exit polls even less reliable this year. Here, podcast host Galen Druke chats with quantitative editor Laura Bronner and elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich about how the exit polls will be done this year and what to make of them.

In case people are wondering what the Trump campaign is saying right now … they’re saying they’re more confident than they were in 2016! Which could well be true. In 2016, it was reported that the Trump campaign didn’t really expect to win at all. While this is certainly spin, I also find it pretty believable that many on the Trump team are in a different mindset this election night: They know that it’s going to be a high-turnout election, they know that there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the ultimate fate of some mail-in ballots in some states, etc. While Trump is clearly the underdog in this race, it makes sense that the Trump operation’s self-conception has evolved over the course of four years.