Roller coaster count
Nov 06, 2020
4 minutes
BY ABBY VESOULIS
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With reporting by
MARIAH ESPADA
and
OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP COMmanded an early lead in Michigan on Nov. 3, only for Joe Biden to gain the advantage the next morning. The opposite was true in Ohio: Biden appeared ahead right after the polls closed on Election Night, only for Trump to overtake his lead around 10 p.m. What gives?
While the President raged about the disparities on Twitter, baselessly insinuating that the whiplash was the result of fraud or malfeasance, the real answer is simple: mail-in ballots are counted at different times, and at different rates, in different states. In
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