Welcome to Day 3 of Slate’s election live blog.
Where We Stand With the Electoral CollegeBiden 264 (Arizona 11, California 55, Colorado 9, Connecticut 7, Delaware 3, District of Columbia 3, Hawaii 4, Illinois 20, Maine 2, Maine (1) 1, Maryland 10, Massachusetts 11, Michigan 16, Minnesota 10, Nebraska (2) 1, New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 14, New Mexico 5, New York 29, Oregon 7, Rhode Island 4, Vermont 3, Virginia 13, Washington 12, Wisconsin 10) vs. Trump 214 (Alabama 9, Arkansas 6, Florida 29, Idaho 4, Indiana 11, Iowa 6, Kansas 6, Kentucky 8, Louisiana 8, Maine (2) 1, Mississippi 6, Missouri 10, Montana 3, Nebraska 2, Nebraska (1) 1, Nebraska (3) 1, North Dakota 3, Ohio 18, Oklahoma 7, South Carolina 9, South Dakota 3, Tennessee 11, Texas 38, Utah 6, West Virginia 5, Wyoming 3). And 60 outstanding. Alaska 3, Georgia 16, Nevada 6, North Carolina 15, Pennsylvania 20 (Calls by the Associated Press.)
8:14 p.m.: “An Obese Turtle… Flailing in the Hot Sun”President Donald Trump made more baseless claims of widespread election fraud in an address on Thursday evening. Breaking his 36-hour silence since his premature claim to victory on election night, Trump accused Democrats, without evidence, of suspiciously producing loads of new ballots that favor Biden over the past two days. The ballots he’s talking about are mail-in ballots, which election officials were not legally allowed to begin counting until Election Day in some states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
“If you count the legal votes, I easily win,” Trump said. “If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.”
Speaking from the White House briefing room, the president sounded uncharacteristically subdued even as he claimed a vast conspiracy was trying to steal the election from him in the states that are still counting voters’ ballots. Trump smeared Detroit and Philadelphia—whose heavily Democratic electorates were crucial to Biden’s performance in Michigan and Pennsylvania, respectively—as cities of corruption. Trump claimed to know Philadelphia well because he attended college there.
The president also falsely claimed to have “won” Michigan and Wisconsin. He expressed indignation that his lead was “whittled away” in several states by legitimate votes he does not want to be counted.
After Trump’s speech, CNN’s anchors and reporters seemed shaken. Dana Bash said she was “having a hard time keeping it together” even though she’s “not an emotional person.” Jake Tapper called the speech a “feast of falsehoods” and urged Republicans to “find a spine” and convince Trump to back down.
Anderson Cooper, calling the address “sad and truly pathetic,” left viewers with an even more memorable image:
—Christina Cauterucci
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