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With President Trump holding onto good leads in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio (with strong numbers in the rest of the rust belt), months of media reports about the death of the Trump presidency may have been greatly exaggerated. So much so that shortly before the 10 o’clock hour, CNN started hedging their bets by suggesting pundit predictions of a Democratic landslide were “always a pipe dream.”
“We're looking at the race having tightened up quite a bit from what some pundits were projecting. And right now, it really does look like President Trump has narrowed or even broken even in Florida and North Carolina and Georgia,” announced Jake Tapper after some numbers updates from Wolf Blitzer and John King.
According to Tapper, “really it is all coming down to what we said months and months ago, the blue wall of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, the states that Hillary Clinton thought she had in the bag that Donald Trump tore down. Joe Biden trying to build it back up.”
In the run-up to the election, CNN and the rest of the liberal media were fantasizing about Democratic nominee Joe Biden picking off multiple reliably red states, but now they were settling for flipping just Arizona. And lamenting Biden was not expanding the map as much as they predicted.
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