Post by account_disabled on Feb 19, 2024 9:15:16 GMT
Given the wait and confusion since Election Day, news consumers might be legitimately perplexed by the fact that some media outlets declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election this Friday, while others have not yet. they have done. Business Insider and our partners at Decision Desk HQ—one of the country's leading electoral data analysis services—have declared victory for Joe Biden while the majority of media outlets in the United States (and Spain) have not done so yet . Drew McCoy, president of Decision Desk HQ and a veteran in electoral analysis, has explained why the firm has felt comfortable declaring Joe Biden the winner in Pennsylvania and, therefore, projecting his victory before anyone else in the race to the White House.
Since the 2012 elections in which Barack Obama was re-elected, Decision Desk HQ has participated in all types of electoral processes, from national to regional or local campaigns. The firm gained a national reputation in 2014 when it was the first service of its kind to declare the defeat of Eric Cantor, then leader of the Republican majority in the House of Europe Cell Phone Number List Representatives, in his re-election bid. Joe Biden defeats Trump in a close election and will be president of the United States Specifically, what has triggered the declaration of Joe Biden as the winner of these elections has been the state of Pennsylvania, upon understanding that Donald Trump could not win the delegate votes of that state (20, three more than he had left for reach the 270 that mark the victory) in the face of the votes that remained to be counted from the city of Philadelphia and other counties in the state.
What is the reason for Biden's declaration of victory? "The data has led us to this," says McCoy. "We've obviously known for a while that Philadelphia was counting the votes. We knew what they had," he continues. "The homework we've done has brought us to a decisive point. We weren't going to declare victory simply if, you know, Joe Biden had a 20-vote lead or something like that. It had to be a substantial lead that met certain parameters." . Even though there are still votes to be counted in Pennsylvania right now, McCoy explains that a lot of votes counted this Friday led Biden to tip the balance. "That lot means more than half of Philadelphia's votes," he explains. There Biden "took more than 80%" of the votes, she adds, "which means that there will not be a similar margin for Trump in what remains to be counted." "There are also tens of thousands of ballots in Allegheny County that have been strongly favorable to Biden.
Since the 2012 elections in which Barack Obama was re-elected, Decision Desk HQ has participated in all types of electoral processes, from national to regional or local campaigns. The firm gained a national reputation in 2014 when it was the first service of its kind to declare the defeat of Eric Cantor, then leader of the Republican majority in the House of Europe Cell Phone Number List Representatives, in his re-election bid. Joe Biden defeats Trump in a close election and will be president of the United States Specifically, what has triggered the declaration of Joe Biden as the winner of these elections has been the state of Pennsylvania, upon understanding that Donald Trump could not win the delegate votes of that state (20, three more than he had left for reach the 270 that mark the victory) in the face of the votes that remained to be counted from the city of Philadelphia and other counties in the state.
What is the reason for Biden's declaration of victory? "The data has led us to this," says McCoy. "We've obviously known for a while that Philadelphia was counting the votes. We knew what they had," he continues. "The homework we've done has brought us to a decisive point. We weren't going to declare victory simply if, you know, Joe Biden had a 20-vote lead or something like that. It had to be a substantial lead that met certain parameters." . Even though there are still votes to be counted in Pennsylvania right now, McCoy explains that a lot of votes counted this Friday led Biden to tip the balance. "That lot means more than half of Philadelphia's votes," he explains. There Biden "took more than 80%" of the votes, she adds, "which means that there will not be a similar margin for Trump in what remains to be counted." "There are also tens of thousands of ballots in Allegheny County that have been strongly favorable to Biden.