Daily Digest for November 2, 2020 Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson |
Good morning, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have one last chance to make their case to voters in critical battleground states on Monday, the final full day of a campaign that has laid bare their dramatically different visions for tackling the nation's pressing problems and for the office of the presidency itself.
The candidates are seeking to lead a nation at a crossroads, gripped by a historic pandemic that is raging anew in nearly every corner of the country and a reckoning over race. More than 93 million people have already voted and each campaign insists it has a pathway to victory, though Biden's options for picking up the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win are more plentiful. Trump is banking on a surge of enthusiasm from his most loyal supporters.
Minnesota had a surprisingly tight finish four years ago, with Democrat Hillary Clinton edging Republican Donald Trump by about 45,000 votes of the 3 million cast.
It’s given Republicans hope of snapping Minnesota’s long Democratic win streak at 11 consecutive presidential contests in the blue column.
MPR News reporter Brian Bakst checks in with voters with one day left.
Fact check: Trump falsely claims that votes shouldn't be counted after Election Day For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.
Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.
Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election's results and none fall on Election Day itself.
Delaware, in fact, is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.
Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.
As NPR's Domenico Montanaro notes, The Associated Press didn't call the 2016 presidential race until 2:30 a.m. ET the day after Election Day, and at that time, Trump was still leading in the popular vote. Hillary Clinton went on to win the popular vote by about 3 million.
Video of Minnesota event altered to make it look like Biden greeted wrong state The manipulated video was shared by some prominent Minnesota Republicans, including party Chair Jennifer Carnahan and state House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt.
State DFL Party Chair Ken Martin criticized them for doing so, calling the sharing of a doctored video “the height of irresponsibility.”
Carnahan later removed the video from her Twitter feed, saying she had not known it was fake when she retweeted it.
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