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Eleven Three Twenty: Where the Electoral College Stands 14 Days Out
October 20, 2020
As I’ve mentioned over and over in these columns, we’re not really two weeks away from election day — we’re actually halfway through election month. For as Michael McDonald of the United States Election Project reported this afternoon, over 35.5 million Americans already have cast their 2020 ballots. (That’s over 25% of the total votes cast in 2016!) And McDonald estimates almost 85 million votes will have been cast by November 3.
As I’ve also consistently mentioned, 41 of the 50 states basically are already locked in as either Democratic Blue or Republican Red. Therefore, I’m going to once again focus just on the states that ultimately will decide who is the next President of the United States — “The Necessary Nine.”
“The Necessary Nine” as of October 20, 2020
Two weeks before Election Day, there is not a single state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 in which Donald Trump currently leads or is considered a “Toss Up” by either The Cook Political Report or FiveThirtyEight.com — two of the two most highly respected, non-partisan electoral college/election tracking sites. That means there is little chance the President will increase his electoral numbers from 2016.
