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The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/
I wouldn't bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.
It took about a week for Biden to be declared the winner last time IIRC.
What I'm really dreading is another Bush v. Gore, which would almost certainly result the same as it did the first time around.
In that case there's 100% chance Trump would be the president.
You just have so much more faith in the Integrity of the Supreme Court than I do. I have no faith whatsoever. I've been following their movements the last few years way too closely to have any respect at all for their discretion or good judgment. They've shown time and time again that they have no sense of reality no sense of consistency and no sense of justice. Evidence is made up and ignored at will. Precedent is enforced or ignored by their whims. The narrative history of our entire nation is up to how Samuel Alito feels on that particular day. There's no doubt in my mind that if in any way whatsoever the Supreme Court gets a hold of this thing they will find in favor of Trump no matter the circumstances or evidence.
The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the people's votes was shameful.
Al Gore and Hillary should have won.
Huh? First of all the Electoral College has never not been the basis for presidential elections, and second of all that election had nothing to do with the Electoral College. It had to do with hanging chads, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and the Supreme Court.