THE CURRENT → 2020 ELECTION SPECIAL Issue 834 · November 4, 2020

Too Close to Call

We’re not the only ones in suspense after the election that isn’t over and may not be over until what Americans call “the weekend” at the earliest

Too Close to Call

Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab, Kuvien Images

W

e wish we could have declared a winner in the presidential sweepstakes by press time, as we have in the previous two elections.

Alas, to ensure that all of our readers worldwide receive their magazines before Shabbos, we were forced to close this supplement before conclusive results were available.

We’re not the only ones in suspense on Wednesday, the morning after the election that isn’t over and may not be over until what Americans call “the weekend” at the earliest.

At press time, Joe Biden was leading President Trump by 2-million votes in the basically meaningless popular vote. Fox News, who works in tandem with the Associated Press, had the Democratic challenger ahead of the incumbent Trump by 238 to 213 electoral votes. CNN had Biden ahead by a smaller margin, 220 to 213.

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