Two days after many broadcast and print news outlets called the presidential election for Joe Biden, Real Clear Politics – which terms itself an independent, nonpartisan political news site and polling data aggregator, and whose polls are cited by many of the same broadcast and print news outlets – has neither Biden nor President Donald Trump at the required 270 Electoral votes to win the election.
It’s not the only such outlet to hold off a coronation, either.
So, what gives?
Is Real Clear Politics waiting for recounts or for official designations by Georgia and Pennsylvania (which states, along with Arizona and North Carolina, it has not called)? Or has it given more credence to the reports of fraud springing up from various states and pushed by the Trump campaign?
We don’t know, but we do wonder whether the fraud the president’s team alleges is scattered or widespread.