Liberals lamented the New York Times election needle, which predicted a victory for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.
The needle is intended to predict what will happen in the election based on the partial results available as they arrive on election night.
‘Our forecast for election night shows an extremely close race. “Almost all votes counted so far point to a very close election, as expected,” the paper’s chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, wrote Tuesday.
However, readers of the Democratic-leaning paper began to bemoan the numbers, as they showed Trump would likely win North Carolina, Georgia and the election.
‘Does anyone have a timelapse of the NYT needle from the last election? Because looking at it in its current state makes me NERVOUS as shit,” wrote one social media user.
Liberals lamented the New York Times election needle, which is currently predicting a victory for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald noted at the time that Trump has a 77% chance of winning Georgia, with a 65% chance of winning North Carolina.
Those results would make the Midwestern ‘blue wall’ states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan Harris’ only path to the White House.
Liberals have gone even more into overdrive since the needle’s mere existence.
Another added: ‘Seriously, screw the NY Times needle. It’s just bait for hysterical election supporters.
One California voter cited a possible “red mirage” by stating, “That’s why I won’t look at the stupid NYT needle.” The only thing it does is increase anxiety in all areas.”
‘Oh, for God’s sake, the NYT election needle is back. NO ONE WANTS THIS,’ Rachel Sklar posted.
“The advice I gave to my comrades abroad: exit polls are meaningless, they are fake news, ignore them, ignore the stupid NYT needle, no one has ever known anything about the result and no one knows anything now” .
The needle was thought to be in danger due to a strike by the newspaper’s technical workers.
The needle was thought to be in danger due to a strike by the newspaper’s technical workers.
Despite the concerns, the Needle was working early on election night.
As its name suggests, the Needle is a graph that uses voting results and other calculations to indicate the probability of either presidential candidate winning.
Trump leads Kamala Harris in Georgia with 75% of the votes counted.
Donald Trump has 52.1% of the votes compared to Kamala Harris who has 47.3%.
Most liberal-leaning counties around Atlanta report more than 70% of their results.
However, the areas surrounding Savannah, which also tend to be bluer than the state, have not yet reported many votes.
As things stand, Trump has a lead of nearly 200,000 votes, 2,103,900 to 1,899,561 in the key battleground state.
The state’s critical 16 electoral votes are considered necessary in most scenarios for either candidate to secure a victory.
Harris’ campaign still feels there are paths for her to retake the crucial states of Georgia and North Carolina.
In Georgia, rural turnout is largely in line with what the campaign expected, while early vote counts in the suburbs were above what Harris’s camp anticipated.
In North Carolina, there were long lines at two large universities, UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Wilmington, and late-arriving mail-in ballots were standing in the way of the vice president.
Donald Trump has hit an all-time high in betting markets with a 72 percent chance of winning as the former president takes the lead in the crucial swing state of Georgia.
Trump has so far scored victories in Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Arkansas.
While Kamala Harris has won Vermont, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey and New York.