Regardless of media projections (and we know how accurate projections have been the last few years), it's simply not true that Biden has won.
No one has yet won. No one will have won the election until states certify their counts. It'd be nice if the counts, and recounts, were already completed. (Florida, of the "hanging chad" debacle, actually finished its count within hours in this election. Why did these less populous states move so quickly, and then slow down so much, once it became apparent who was winning? Scroll down on this page: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/... to see the timeline in the battleground states)
No state (out of all 50) has yet certified their count, and certainly no battleground states have certified their counts. In fact, many of them have still not even finished counting the votes.
To assert otherwise, over a weekend when none of the recounts or court cases are resolved, is literally spreading misinformation that many of the same media outlets are claiming to be stopping. Instead, they're shaping the narrative and rushing to crown a victor so that it becomes a fait accompli.
That has also been true of every election in the past that has been called by the media before the election has been formally certified. In a typical election, the media would call it, the loser would offer up a concession speech, and only then the winner would declare victory. Even Hillary did that back in 2016, it probably won’t happen like that in 2020 for the first time in recent history for reasons.
Ballots take weeks and in some cases months to count. We’re all familiar with projecting/crowning a winner with the understanding that it could change. But the way we use won in almost all competitive contexts involve a high likelihood estimation. Including ‘winning’ a contract/deal, winning a race, etc. New information can affect outcomes.
> We’re all familiar with projecting/crowning a winner with the understanding that it could change.
But the title is "Biden wins", not "Biden is projected to win".
It's obviously an incredibly close race, so there is a both a moral and legal onus for an even closer examination of the results. That has not happened.
For example, per the NYT, Arizona has 3% votes outstanding (estimated), but the margin of victory that has been called for Biden is less than half that.
The polls have just not been accurate at all this cycle (or the last), so using them to project victory is fraught with peril.
No one has yet won. No one will have won the election until states certify their counts. It'd be nice if the counts, and recounts, were already completed. (Florida, of the "hanging chad" debacle, actually finished its count within hours in this election. Why did these less populous states move so quickly, and then slow down so much, once it became apparent who was winning? Scroll down on this page: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/... to see the timeline in the battleground states)
No state (out of all 50) has yet certified their count, and certainly no battleground states have certified their counts. In fact, many of them have still not even finished counting the votes.
To assert otherwise, over a weekend when none of the recounts or court cases are resolved, is literally spreading misinformation that many of the same media outlets are claiming to be stopping. Instead, they're shaping the narrative and rushing to crown a victor so that it becomes a fait accompli.