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Election Day is finally here. Now all that is left after months of speeches and campaigning is for the electorate to cast a ballot for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, and for the respective states to count those ballots. So, who’s the likely winner? At this point, remarkably, it is still anybody’s guess. Even a veteran political commentator like National Review Editor-in-Chief Rich Lowry thinks it’s too close to predict. Lowry appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program to say the unusually stagnant polls have him asking the same question as his readers: who’s going to win?
“I don’t know,” Lowry simply told Berman and Riedel. “All year long I’ve said Trump; now that the event’s upon us, I’m less certain that ever. Yesterday on our podcast at National Review, I said Trump 287. I gave him Pennsylvania, which is obviously kind of the big enchilada, but North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, that gets him to 287. But I have very little confidence in that prediction. I think anything can happen. I still think the likeliest scenario for Kamala is just holding the blue wall- Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin- and getting to 270 electoral votes over Trump, but it wouldn’t shock me if Trump sweeps every swing state. It would surprise me a little more, but also it wouldn’t shock me if she swept every swing state.”
As to whether the race will be decided tonight, Lowry feels that Pennsylvania’s archaic law to not even start processing early ballots until the morning of Election Day will drag out the time until Trump or Harris officially wins the Keystone State. “There’s a huge amount of labor involved, so what other states do, like Florida, [is] they process them as they get them, which means take them out of the envelopes, make sure everything’s correct, get them ready to be counted, and then you hit a button when the polls close tonight and the early votes are instantly counted- you got it all, and then you’re down and dusted by 9pm. But Pennsylvania… will be dragging out for a day or two, at least. It’s one thing if this happens in North Dakota, but Pennsylvania could be the whole election!”
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