How a 4-year-old startup will call the winners on election night
From mail-in ballots to disinformation to a president talking about a rigged election, a bevy of factors make calling races in 2020 a high-anxiety game.
The most dramatic moment on election night usually comes when news organizations “call” the race for the winning candidate. This often happens way before all the vote counts have been reported, like the electric moment in Grant Park in Chicago in 2008 when CNN called the race for America’s first Black president, Barack Obama. Or the very different moment when the Associated Press called the race for Donald Trump at 2:29 a.m. Eastern on November 9, 2016.