All posts by Rick Hasen

NYT: “Trump Tells Supporters He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ the White House; Donald J. Trump, who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election, also joked that he didn’t mind if reporters were shot.”

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NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump told supporters on Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House at the end of his term during an end-of-campaign rally where he vented angrily about a spate of new public polls showing… Continue reading

“What’s a ‘red’ and ‘blue mirage,’ and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win” (And watch for a potential North Carolina RED shift)

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Very helpful analysis by Stephen Pettigrew, Andrew Arenge and John Lapinski of NBC News of the complicated patterns we can expect to see of reported vote totals. Some specifics: North Carolina: Most of the mail ballots will likely be reported first,… Continue reading