On this edition of Your Call, we're getting an update on the election results. While Joe Biden has broken the record for the most votes ever received by a presidential candidate: more than 72 million and counting, many wonder how Donald Trump managed to get more than 68 million votes, more than he got in 2016.
Biden is still winning the popular vote by more than three million and needs less than two dozen electoral votes to win. We are still waiting on results from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
Guests:
Kira Lerner, Managing Editor at Votebeat, a pop-up nonprofit newsroom covering local election administration and voting
Ian Haney Lopez, Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley and author of several books, including Dog Whistle Politics and Merge Left
Web Resources:
The New York Times: Presidential Election Results
The New York Times: Biden Appears to Hold Edge in the Key Votes Left to Be Counted
The AP, Mark Sherman: Trump sues in Pennsylvania, Michigan; asks for Wis. recount
Slate, Kira Lerner: Elections officials are being thwarted by political interference all over the country.
The Intercept, Aida Chavez & Ryan Grim: Democrats Underperformed Among Voters of Color — Except in Arizona. Here's why
The Washington Post: Black voters could save Biden's campaign once again
