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

Even before Nov. 3, we expected vote counts to shift toward one part or the other depending on whether Election Day votes were counted first or early and absentee votes were counted first, a process that differed by state. In states where early and absentee votes were counted first, such as Ohio and Kansas, there was a “red shift” as Election Day ballots were added to the total, while in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, where early and absentee votes were not counted in advance, there was a “blue shift” once those votes were added to the tallies of Election Day ballots. Trump’s claim that the blue shift in these states is evidence of fraud or malfeasance is completely baseless. The fact that Republicans were more likely to vote on Election Day, while Democrats were more likely to vote early or absentee, combined with the differences in when these votes were counted, is what causes these shifts.