Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.
In other news, the Associated Press has now projected that Georgia’s regular Senate election will go to a runoff between Republican David Perdue (who is at 49.8 percent) and Democrat Jon Ossoff (47.9 percent). That would set up two runoff Senate elections in the Peach State on Jan. 5 that would together determine which party controls the Senate.
Hillary Clinton made huge strides in Maricopa County
How Maricopa County voted compared with the rest of Arizona in the last five presidential elections
| Election | Maricopa County | Rest of Arizona | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | R+10 | EVEN | R+10 |
| 2004 | R+15 | R+4 | R+10 |
| 2008 | R+11 | R+6 | R+5 |
| 2012 | R+11 | R+7 | R+4 |
| 2016 | R+3 | R+5 | D+2 |
Biden’s lead now up to 0.4 percentage points, or 27,000 votes, after a (as expected) very favorable batch of ballot drops for him in Allegheny County. There was some notion that the race might get called if Biden hit a 0.5 percentage point statewide margin, meaning he’d be above the recount threshold. Could we get there tonight? It wasn’t looking like it, but now, well … maybe?