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

That’s right, Micah and I actually want to reiterate something you said earlier on the live blog, on election night — yes, we’ve been live blogging for three days now — but one part of Trump’s reelection strategy has been actively trying to delegitimize the result for weeks, months now (even dating back to 2016, when he won). The outcome of the 2020 presidential election is not yet known, and it won’t become clear until we have results in Pennsylvania and Arizona, but since Trump made it clear that he would take this route, we talked over how we would handle things in the FiveThirtyEight newsroom.

Here’s where we landed: If Trump falsely or prematurely declares victory or tries to delegitimize the result … our priorities would be (i) don’t let Trump’s false/premature claim dominate our coverage or alter our framing of the night, while (ii) still making clear to readers why the claim is false/premature and carries no legal power.

Those continue to be our guiding principles.