Election 2020 Live Updates: Biden and Trump Claim Early Wins, With No Big Prizes Awarded Yet - The New York Times
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Nov. 4, 2020, 1:34 a.m. ET
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Florida is the eighth state to enact a minimum wage of $15, but the first of them that Donald Trump carried in the 2016 presidential election.Credit...Saul Martinez for The New York Times
Voters in Florida on Tuesday approved a ballot measure that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.
Florida becomes the eighth state in the country to enact a minimum wage of $15, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, but the first of them that Donald Trump carried in the 2016 presidential election. The District of Columbia has also enacted a $15 minimum wage.
Florida’s measure, known as Amendment 2, earned a place on Tuesday’s ballot in December and needed at least 60 percent of the vote to pass. With 99 percent of the vote counted, the measure had slightly more than 61 percent.
Under the measure, the state minimum wage would rise from its current hourly rate of $8.56 to $10 in September, and then increase by $1 every September through 2026. After that, annual increases would be tied to inflation.
A study by the Florida Policy Institute, a think tank backing the increase, found that the higher wage would directly benefit 2.5 million workers in the state.
A number ofstudies have found that moderate increases in the minimum wage have not led to significant job losses. But economists caution that the effects on employment depend on the size of the increase relative to a city or state’s wage scale.
That could make a $15 minimum wage more costly in a state like Florida, where wages tend to be substantially lower than wages in other states that have enacted a $15 minimum wage.
Nov. 4, 2020, 1:34 a.m. ET
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Stephanie Bice at her campaign’s election night watch party in Edmond, Okla.Credit...Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman, via Associated Press
Representative Kendra Horn, the lone Democrat in Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, conceded to her Republican challenger, Stephanie Bice, early Wednesday morning, offering a bright spot for Republicans who had braced for losses in the House.
“Oklahoma’s Fifth District doesn’t belong to a party, it belongs to the people,” Ms. Horn said in a statement, reflecting on her surprise victory two years earlier. While The Associated Press has not yet called the race, if Ms. Horn comes up short, she would be the third Democratic freshman to lose out on a second term.
“We changed minds and built a movement of support in a district that pundits thought was unwinnable,” Ms. Horn added. “When many voters in this district had lost faith that their vote counted for something, we gave them hope.”
The victory of Ms. Bice, 46, returned the Fifth District to Republicans, who had held it for more than 40 years before Ms. Horn’s stunning upset in 2018. Republicans had singled out Ms. Horn’s seat, which represents Oklahoma City, as a likely opportunity to counter Democratic gains anticipated in other parts of the country.
Seen as a rising star in the State Legislature, Ms. Bice will bolster the ranks of Republican women in the House, whose numbers have shrunk even as Democrats have made history with the racial and gender diversity of their members. She overcame a tough primary and runoff race by framing herself as more moderate than her opponents, though she later highlighted her conservative credentials and an endorsement from the National Rifle Association.
Thomas Kaplan in Wilmington, Del.
After giving brief remarks, Biden has returned home and his campaign has called a lid, meaning he is not expected to make any further in-person appearances tonight.
Emily Cochrane in Bangor, Maine
Representative Kendra Horn, the lone Democrat in the Oklahoma delegation, has conceded to Stephanie Bice, her Republican challenger.
Biden’s win in Minnesota secured another state the Trump campaign had hoped to flip. Trump has long fixated on the state as one that got away in 2016, when he lost by only 1.5 points.
Katie Glueck in Wilmington, Del.
Biden issued a warning shot on Twitter: “It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare the winner of this election. It’s the voters’ place.”
Nov. 4, 2020, 1:13 a.m. ET
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Sara Gideon, the Speaker of the Maine Statehouse, took questions from reporters in Portland.Credit...Sarah Rice for The New York Times
Sara Gideon, the Democratic challenger to Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said on Wednesday that she would not be making a statement imminently and that she planned to wait for all votes to be counted, acknowledging that the tight race would likely not be called before morning.
“It’s clear this race will not be called tonight and we are prepared to see it through to the finish,” Amy Mesner, Ms. Gideon’s campaign manager, said in a statement. “Over the coming days, we will make sure that every Mainer has their voice heard in this election.”
Ms. Gideon had mounted a fierce challenge to Ms. Collins, framing her as a Washington insider who has lost her ability to serve as a moderate voice for Maine. She sought to capitalize on liberal anger against Ms. Collins and her key votes to approve the Republican tax plan in 2017 and confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Democrats have long targeted the race as a top target on their path to the majority. But with just over half of the votes counted, Ms. Collins maintained not just an overall lead, but held more than 50 percent of the vote.
Annie Karni in Washington
Twitter placed a warning label on Trump’s tweet that claimed without evidence that Democrats were trying to steal the election, noting that the tweet contained misleading information.
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Trump officials publicly criticized Fox News for its call of Arizona for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., calling the network a “complete outlier” and warning that “other media outlets should not follow suit.” But the network — whose conservative prime-time stars are beloved by the president — stood by its call.
The skirmish started as Jason Miller, the Trump campaign’s chief strategist, said on Twitter that there were still more than one million votes waiting to be counted in Arizona and that Fox News was trying to “invalidate their votes.” A second campaign official accused Fox News of combining exit polling with results and called the decision to call the race for Mr. Biden — which would represent the first flip of the night — “insane.” The network is the only major news outlet to call Arizona so far.
But far from caving to the public and behind-the-scenes pressure from the campaign, the Fox News decision desk, which is highly respected in the world of political polling, doubled down on its early call. Arnon Mishkin, the leader of the desk, appeared on Fox News shortly after 12:30 a.m. and said the Trump campaign’s insistence that it would pick up enough votes to secure a win was wrong.
“That’s not true,” Mr. Mishkin said. “I’m sorry, the president is not going to be able to take over and win enough votes.”
He added: “We’re not wrong in this particular case.”
With almost 80 percent of the Arizona vote counted late Tuesday, Mr. Biden was leading Mr. Trump by more than six percentage points.
Mr. Mishkin faced skepticism from some pro-Trump Fox News colleagues, as well. The conservative pundit Katie Pavlich, a native Arizonan, told viewers she was doubtful about the network’s call, and the host Tucker Carlson said on air that Trump officials were deeply skeptical that Mr. Biden had won the state.
In 2012, Mr. Mishkin appeared on-air to explain to Fox News viewers why he had called Ohio for Barack Obama, a projection that one of the network’s analysts, Karl Rove, had doubted. Mr. Obama ultimately won the state.
Emily Cochrane in Bangor, Maine
Sara Gideon’s team has told reporters she will not be making a speech tonight. Instead, the campaign said in a statement, “It’s clear the race will not be called tonight.”
Pedro R. Pierluisi, who leads the race for governor in Puerto Rico, voted at a school in San Juan.Credit...Carlos Giusti/Associated Press
MIAMI — Pedro R. Pierluisi leads Carlos Delgado Altieri, who is known as Charlie, in the close Puerto Rico governor’s race. The candidates are separated by about 1 percentage point, or less than 10,000 votes.
Mr. Pierluisi, a former resident commissioner representing Puerto Rico in Washington, celebrated with his supporters late on Tuesday night.
But Mr. Delgado, the mayor of the town of Isabela, said he would not concede until all the votes had been counted. Enough votes were still outstanding that Mr. Pierluisi could lose his lead, or it could be narrowed further and trigger a recount, Mr. Delgado said.
Third-party candidates received an unusually large share of the vote — 36 percent — a reflection of Puerto Ricans’ growing dissatisfaction with the two dominant political parties.
A victory by Mr. Pierluisi would keep the governorship in the hands of the New Progressive Party, which supports statehood for Puerto Rico. But unlike his predecessor, Wanda Vázquez, who is a Republican, Mr. Pierluisi is a Democrat. Mr. Pierluisi served briefly as governor last year, after the resignation of former Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló.
Political parties on the island do not match up with those on the mainland. Mr. Delgado's Popular Party supports keeping Puerto Rico’s current status as a U.S. territory.
Puerto Ricans also voted on Tuesday on a nonbinding referendum that asked, “Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the union as a state?”
Statehood was leading with about 52 percent of the vote.
Nate Cohn in New York
Another reason the Needle has Biden edging ahead in Georgia: For a while, it was taking cues from trends in N.C. and Florida. Now we've seen enough vote in the Atlanta area.
DES MOINES — Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, won re-election on Tuesday, overcoming a serious and well-financed Democratic challenge and deep discontent with President Trump to score a victory that bolstered her party’s efforts to save its Senate majority.
Ms. Ernst, 50, the only woman on Senator Mitch McConnell’s leadership team, defeated Theresa Greenfield, 57, a businesswoman, in one of the most expensive Senate races in American history, according to The Associated Press.
Democrats are now looking to North Carolina, Maine, Montana and Arizona as their last significant possibilities to pick up the four seats they need to secure the Senate majority, in addition to a runoff race in Georgia in January.
Nov. 4, 2020, 12:51 a.m. ET
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A progressive party in New York appears poised to retain its automatic ballot line, overcoming new barriers backed by the state’s Democratic governor, Andrew M. Cuomo.
According to late Tuesday night voter tallies, at least 283,000 New Yorkers voted for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris on the Working Families Party line, amounting to 4.5 percent of all votes cast in the presidential election.
Those numbers far exceed the state’s new thresholds for third-party ballot access. According to the new rules, a third party must garner 130,000 votes in a presidential election, or 2 percent of the total vote — whichever is higher — if that party wants to retain its ballot line.
The previous threshold was 50,000 votes in a race for governor.
The Working Families Party has sparred with Mr. Cuomo in recent years. The new rules posed such a risk to the party’s electoral influence that it directed significant financial resources away from competitive races and toward preserving its ballot line.
“Working people and Black and brown communities are historically challenged when we grow in power — and the threat to our ballot line is no different,” Sochie Nnaemeka, the Working Families Party’s state director for New York, said in a statement Tuesday night. “What’s clear, though, is our campaign to protect the ballot line has only resulted in a stronger, more united progressive movement in New York State.”
Nate Cohn in New York
Why did the Needle turn blue in Georgia? We got enough vote out of the Atlanta area to realize it was going to be really good for Biden. And there's a ton of vote left there.
Trump’s first tweet of the night came as Biden made his remarks, a sign he was glued to his TV. “We are up BIG,” he said, while continuing to cast doubt, without evidence, on the election results.
Biden, speaking on Tuesday to a crowd of his supporters in Wilmington, Delaware, said he felt confident about the election results and projections thus far and stressed the importance of counting every vote.CreditCredit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. declared early Wednesday morning that he was “on track to win this election,” but urged patience while votes are tallied.
“It ain’t over till every vote is counted, every ballot is counted,” Mr. Biden said at a drive-in event in a parking lot in Wilmington adjacent to an event center. “But we’re feeling good. We’re feeling good about where we are.”
Mr. Biden spoke around 12:45 a.m. with his wife, Jill, at his side, projecting confidence about how he was faring in several critical battleground states.
“We’re feeling real good about Wisconsin and Michigan,” he said, naming two critical states in the Upper Midwest that President Trump is defending. He offered an unequivocal statement about another key state that Mr. Trump won: “We’re going to win Pennsylvania.”
Noting that it would take time to count the votes, he said: “It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who’s won this election. That’s the decision of the American people. But I’m optimistic about this outcome.”
Projecting confidence, Mr. Biden concluded: “Keep the faith, guys! We’re going to win this.”
Katie Glueck in Wilmington, Del.
Applause and car honking in Wilmington amid an NBC News announcement that Minnesota leans Biden. Then quiet in the parking lot when NBC calls Florida for Trump.
Trump supporters at a Republican watch party event on Tuesday evening in West Palm Beach, Fla.Credit...Saul Martinez for The New York Times
MIAMI — In the end, it was all about Miami-Dade County.
President Trump’s big win in Florida — by about three percentage points, a landslide in a state known for its one-point margins — was cemented in the state’s most populous county, where his message against socialism and for law and order resonated heavily with Cuban-Americans.
Mr. Trump lost Miami-Dade, but only by about 7 points, a tiny margin in a county where Democrats had been growing their double-digit leads in each previous presidential election. He performed better in Miami-Dade than any Republican presidential candidate since President George W. Bush in 2004; Mr. Bush lost by 6 points.
That allowed Mr. Trump to build a vote cushion in case he lost support elsewhere. He campaigned here on Sunday, holding a massive rally at midnight.
Mr. Trump’s support for law enforcement proved popular among Hispanics who in many cases fled lawless regimes in the Caribbean and Central and South America, said Nelson Diaz, the chairman of the Miami-Dade Republican Party.
And the party seized on the notion that Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Democrats were on a “slippery slope” toward socialism, he said. Democrats dismissed the attack as ridiculous, but it did not help that, during some of the summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, a Christopher Columbus statue was defaced by graffiti of a Soviet-style sickle and hammer.
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“The reality is that the Democratic Party is very far left, and a lot of our people in Miami fled that kind of policy,” Mr. Diaz said.
Exit polls conducted for the National Election Poll showed that most Hispanic voters in Miami-Dade had broken for Mr. Trump.
Statewide, he won a decisive majority of Cuban-American voters, while Mr. Biden won by an equally sizable margin among the rest of the state’s Hispanic electorate. Mr. Biden was unable to match Hillary Clinton’s support from 2016, when she carried two-thirds of Florida Latinos; the exit poll showed him falling short of 60 percent statewide with Hispanic voters.
The energy for Mr. Trump began to build on the streets of Miami-Dade about three months ago, when huge car caravans paraded around on weekends. Around that time, Fernand R. Amandi, a longtime Democratic pollster and strategist in Miami, started sounding the alarm about Mr. Biden’s weak Hispanic support. Some within his party derided him as a “fear-monger,” he said.
Mr. Biden won handily among Hispanic voters who said they had known all along for whom they would vote, according to exit polls — but Mr. Trump outperformed him with those who said they had made up their minds in the past month, indicating that Mr. Biden had lost the 11th-hour persuasion game.
“Unfortunately for Florida Democrats, they’re reliving the same nightmare that they’ve been reliving every two years, it seems like, in spite of problems that are resolvable way down the horizon,” Mr. Amandi said. “They wait until the last minute to engage, as opposed to doing what the Republicans are doing, which is engaging years before the election — not weeks before the election.”
Nov. 4, 2020, 12:40 a.m. ET
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Mark Kelly, a Democratic Senate candidate, in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
PHOENIX — When the first wave of Arizona results came in, Representative Ruben Gallego was immediately jubilant: “Arizona might have just saved this country,” he said, adding an expletive.
With three-fourths of the Arizona vote counted late Tuesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. was leading President Trump by more than eight percentage points. The Democratic Senate candidate, Mark Kelly, had a similar lead over the Republican incumbent, Senator Martha McSally. Mr. Gallego, who represents the state’s Seventh Congressional District, was elected to his fourth term.
The mood was upbeat for most of the night in Mr. Gallego’s backyard in Phoenix, where several local Democrats gathered to watch returns on a large screen set up in his backyard, a traditional campaign buffet not far away.
Maricopa County, home to the state capital and about 60 percent of Arizona’s population, has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1948. But the demographics and political attitudes have changed rapidly here, with Latinos, suburban women and more liberal older voters shifting toward Mr. Biden and Mr. Kelly.
Nov. 4, 2020, 12:38 a.m. ET
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The Mississippi electorate voted on a new state flag, seen in the ballot above.Credit...Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press
Mississippi voters on Tuesday approved a new state flag with a magnolia flower and red, yellow and blue stripes, replacing the one from 1894 that featured the Confederate battle emblem and was decommissioned by lawmakers in June.
The previous flag had weathered decades of protests and the toppling of Confederate relics across the South. But as protests erupted across the country in the weeks after George Floyd died in the custody of the Minneapolis police, the drive to change the flag swiftly gained new vigor as Confederate monuments were vandalized and removed throughout the region.
Although it was still embraced by many white Mississippians as a proud display of Old South heritage, the flag with the Confederate symbol increasingly came to evoke segregation, racial violence and a war that had a central aim of preserving slavery.
BANGOR, Maine — Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, danced in the parking lot outside the Hilton Garden Inn where her campaign was watching results, jubilant that she was ahead in her tough race with more than half of the votes counted.
“It’s still going to be a long night — and this is by no means over, but I have to tell you, I am so encouraged by the results,” Ms. Collins told her supporters after midnight, ticking off a list of areas where she was ahead as supporters cheered and waved red “Thank You Susan” signs.
With 32 percent of votes reported as of 12:30 a.m., The New York Times shows Ms. Collins more than 14 points ahead of Sara Gideon, her Democratic opponent, and far ahead of the 50 percent threshold to avoid invoking the state’s ranked choice voting system.
“We’re doing really well, but I know it’s not over till it’s over,” she told the crowd, even as she profusely thanked her family, supporters, staff and volunteers over and over again. To a round of applause, she joined her supporters in the center of the snowy parking lot, standing in the middle of a circle and dancing to Orleans’ “Still the One.”
Nov. 4, 2020, 12:32 a.m. ET
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OAKLAND, Calif. — The march to decriminalize drugs moved further across the nation on Tuesday despite continued federal prohibition.
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize small amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs, and it also legalized psilocybin, known as magic mushrooms, for people 21 and older. In New Jersey and Arizona, voters decisively passed laws legalizing recreational marijuana.
“This is incredible,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the advocacy group Drug Policy Alliance. “This is like taking a sledgehammer to the cornerstone of the drug war.”
Cannabis is now legal across a large bloc of states in the West — from Washington down to the Mexican border — and well beyond. It was also on the ballot in Montana, Mississippi and South Dakota; if all of the measures pass, cannabis will be legal for medical use in three dozen states and recreational use will be allowed in 15.
The Oregon measure would make possession of small amounts of what have long been considered harder drugs a violation, similar to a traffic ticket, and no longer punishable by jail time. The law would also fund drug addiction treatment from marijuana sales taxes.
Proponents of legalizing psilocybin said the move would allow the drug to be used to treat depression, anxiety and other conditions.
Nov. 4, 2020, 12:19 a.m. ET
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With most polls now closed and the frenzy of Election Day dying down, it is time for polling sites and party locations to be cleaned and for votes to continue being counted.
Nov. 4, 2020, 12:13 a.m. ET
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Cori Bush, a Democrat who won a House seat in Missouri, will become the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.CreditCredit...Lawrence Bryant/Reuters
After Cori Bush on Tuesday became the first Black woman sent to Congress by Missouri, she stood in front of a Black Lives Matter flag surrounded by family members and recounted a journey that began with her activism in Ferguson after the police killing of Michael Brown in 2014.
“As the first Black woman and also the first nurse and single mother to have the honor to represent Missouri in the United States Congress, let me say this: To the Black women, the Black girls, the nurses, the essential workers, the single mothers — this is our moment,” Ms. Bush said.
Ms. Bush unseated Representative William Lacy Clay, a 10-term Democratic incumbent, during her primary in Missouri’s First District, joining a wave of progressives ousting members of the Democratic establishment that began during the 2018 midterms. She was all but certain to win the very blue St. Louis district.
Her win marks the growing embrace by some Democratic voters of progressive policies like the Green New Deal and “Medicare for all.” It is also another win for Justice Democrats, a group dedicated to grooming progressive candidates and unseating incumbents.
In 2018, the group helped secure wins for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Representative Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts. Ms. Bush was the first candidate the group recruited in 2018, and they backed her again this year.
Nov. 3, 2020, 11:39 p.m. ET
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North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, won re-election on Tuesday.Credit...Travis Dove for The New York Times
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, claimed victory in his re-election bid Tuesday evening, and then urged patience as vote counting continued in the closely watched presidential and Senate contests.
“For months, the nation has focused on North Carolina, and it’s come down to counting the votes,” he said, while standing with his wife, Kristin, in front of the colonnaded state headquarters of the Democratic Party in downtown Raleigh.
With 95 percent of the vote reported by 11:30 p.m., President Trump had a lead over Joseph R. Biden Jr. of 50.1 percent to 48.7 percent. In the state’s closely watched Senate race, Thom Tillis, the Republican incumbent, led Cal Cunningham, a Democrat and former state Senator, 48.7 percent to 47 percent.
“I know there are a lot of important races that are still too close to call,” Mr. Cooper said. “We must let the process work to be sure that all the legal votes are counted.”
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