NY Times quotes commentators on the election
| “The vote-counting happening now is…. exactly what we knew and reported would happen. This is legitimate vote-counting, of ballots that were returned before or on Election Day.†— Scott Detrow, NPR |
| “This is an extremely flammable situation and the president just threw a match into it,†Chris Wallace said on Fox News, after Trump’s remarks. “He hasn’t won these states. |
| “Donald Trump called it a ‘fraud’ to continue to count votes. This does not sound like a democracy.†— Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine |
| “What Trump did tonight is shocking, even though he’s been telegraphing this for some time. He’s primed his supporters to believe any result that doesn’t involve him winning is fraud.†— Rosie Gray, BuzzFeed News |
| “Trump may indeed win. But he certainly hasn’t yet. And, he doesn’t get to say that your vote shouldn’t be counted.†— S.E. Cupp, CNN |
| “Every single serious analysis I read of this election said that it would be long and drawn out, and that Trump would try to steal the election by trying to discount late-arriving Biden votes. And now that it’s happening…everyone seems shocked.†— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic |
| “Incredible how competitive Trump is with 230K+ covid deaths and kids being locked in cages and everything else. Even if Biden wins he will have to govern in a Trump country. This is who America is.†— Gabriel Sherman, Vanity Fair |
| “In any normal presidential democracy, this would not be a close election right now. It is only close because of our strange Electoral College.†— Lee Drutman, New America think tank |
| “A key question moving forward is whether public opinion polling is irreparably broken or if polling is just broken in elections with Trump on the ballot.†— Nathan Gonzales of Inside Elections. |
| “Biden POTUS with GOP Senate is a recipe for a horrifically nasty politics next year.†— Matt Glassman, Georgetown political scientist |
| “Democrats had hoped for a massive, unequivocal repudiation of Donald Trump for his mishandling of the pandemic, his raging White House incompetence, and his disdain for the rule of law. Instead, there was the sobering message that Trump’s support in key states like Florida was, in truth, greater than the polls had predicted.†— Walter Shapiro of The New Republic. |