As election night drags on, Donald Trump’s victory is imminent, and Kamala Harris’ path to one has vanished. The New York Times’ election “needle” shows Trump with a greater than 95 percent chance of winning. It all comes down to some of the so-called “blue wall” states Trump carried in 2016 — and he leads in them again. Corporate media are finally starting to acknowledge Trump’s Pennsylvania win, Fox News has put Wisconsin into Trump’s column, and Alaska hasn’t been called yet, meaning the race is over.
So why are so many voters still afraid to go to bed?
Democrat media won’t call the blue wall states of Wisconsin and Michigan, and they won’t call the race. Even though they know Trump will reach more than 270 votes they won’t concede official defeat.
But Americans are old enough to remember the last presidential election, which came down to the exact same states. In 2020, voters went to bed on election night or early Wednesday morning without final results but with Trump leading by comfortable margins in the key battleground states. Corporate networks wouldn’t call the race because of some outstanding ballots, but Republicans rested confidently, and for good reason.
In the middle of the night, however, things changed. In Wisconsin and Michigan, dead-of-night vote dumps went 100 percent for Joe Biden and zero percent — not a single ballot — for Trump, as my colleague John Daniel Davidson wrote at the time. In Michigan, ballot tickers brazenly posted 138,339 magic
