Jen O’Malley Dillon emailed staff and said she still hopes for a blue wall

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Jen O’Malley DillonVice Presidential Campaign Manager Kamala Harrisemailed a memo to employees late Tuesday, urging them to get some sleep and expressing optimism about yet-to-be-named Blue Wall states.

When the polls closed on Election Day and results began to be announced, the red states, as expected, called for the former president. Donald Trump and predictably blue states were drafted for the vice presidency Kamala Harris. Decision Desk HQ called both Georgia And North Carolina in favor of Trump, but several other media outlets refrained from making their predictions.

New York Times The live election needle went live shortly after 8:00 pm ET. projection Trump’s likely victory. Other forecasters also leaned toward Trump, including Nate Silver. However, a number of key conditions remain uncertain and similar models appeared in recent elections, with vote counting having to continue overnight and possibly for several days.

That’s the message O’Malley Dillon sought to emphasize in her email to all staff, according to multiple media reports about its contents.

Text of the letter:

Topic: What we see at the moment

Team, as polling places close across the country, I wanted to give everyone an update on what we’re seeing. As we knew from the very beginning, this is a very subtle race. Thanks to this amazing team, we saw an incredible turnout in the battlegrounds, and the closeness of the race is exactly what we prepared for.

While we continue to see a flood of data from the Sun Belt states, we knew all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes was through the Blue Wall states. And we are pleased with what we see.

• In Pennsylvania, we exceeded turnout expectations in Philadelphia and exceeded our early voting expectations in Bucks County. We don’t have Election Day results in Philadelphia, but we do know that we exceeded turnout expectations there and saw particularly high turnout in places with large populations of color and student populations. We expect to see higher turnout in Philadelphia than in 2020. Outside of Philadelphia, we currently have limited data on turnout and support, but what we do have is consistent with our expectations. We’re waiting for more results (like everyone else!) and hope to have more details in the coming hours.

• In Michigan, we expect a significant number of votes to come in. The city of Detroit won’t report until around midnight, but we saw strong turnout there throughout early voting and Election Day. Other results in Michigan are more difficult to analyze because results are coming in more piecemeal than elsewhere.

• We know Wisconsin has significant votes remaining in Dane and Milwaukee counties, and we are seeing signs of good results in the WOW counties for which we have partial data. We don’t expect full results from Wisconsin until tomorrow morning, between 3 and 5 am.

Polling has just closed in Nevada and Arizona, so as expected, it will be a while before we get more information from both.
states.

We’ve been saying for weeks that this race might not be called tonight. As those of you who were around in 2020 know well, it takes time for all the votes to be counted—and all the votes will be counted. This is how our system works. What we do know is that this race won’t come into focus until the early hours of the morning.

We will continue to keep you updated as we receive more information. This is what we were made for, so let’s finish what we have to do tonight, get some sleep, and get ready for a good end to tomorrow.

Iodine

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