by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
This is an experiment. It’s and effort to distance myself from what might happen today by seeing it as a story to cover, rather than a life or death situation as it might be. (Ugh.) So, I can’t promise you that I will do a very good job, but I am going to do my best until I get distracted.
(I realize this makes more sense if I post things the opposite way I have been posting them.)
8:43 p.m.
Things are beginning to not look so great for Harris. So, I think I will end this liveblog for the night and just post individual posts instead. Even if he doesn’t win, this election is far closer than I could have possibly have imagine.
3:10 p.m.
Apparently, Steve Bannon has told Trump to just declare victory early in the night. If that happens, my fear is, of course, that MAGA will rush polling stations to stop the vote and then…oh boy.
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10:40 a.m.
The quiet before the storm. I’ve been keeping an eye on Twitter the last few hours and nothing much is going on. In fact, the thing I have noticed is how little is going on with Twitter. We’re all just treading water at the moment it seems. Though I must note that Steve fucking Bannon apparently — according to Twitter — has setup a new “War Room” in an undemocratic effort to overturn the election…again.
11:07 a.m.
11:19 a.m.
Jonah Goldberg’s punt:
11:29 a.m.
There seems to be some debate as to how many people have voted in the NOVA region of Virginia. MAGA is claiming no one is showing up, not taking into account how many liberals probably already voted early.
11:48 a.m
I have no idea what is going on. I am beginning to believe this election is going to be a lot closer than we might otherwise think. To the point that SCOTUS might get involved and, by definition, Trump wins. And I had such hope. Ugh.
12:14
Well, this is not cool. I continue to worry that election day is just the beginning of long, drawn out process between now and January 20th. Today could be just the beginning, rather than the end of how we figure out who the next POTUS is going to be.