Vote counting in several key states continued late Thursday night into Friday morning leaving the results of the November 3rd Presidential race up in the air for the third day in row. In the middle of the night, votes that had been cast in the Democratic strongholds of Philadelphia and Atlanta flipped President Donald Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia respectively, giving Joe Biden the edge. Those densely populated cities where communities of color organized massive voter registration efforts had large backlogs of votes to count and turned the tide against Trump as many had predicted. Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced, “With a margin that small, there will be a recount in Georgia. Interest in our election obviously goes far beyond Georgia’s borders. The final tally in Georgia at this point has huge implications for the entire country.” Georgia’s state legislature is dominated by Republicans. In Arizona, where Biden took an early lead, the race appears to be tightening but the Democratic nominee maintains his lead. 

Many blame Republican state lawmakers for this week’s vote counting delays in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania where it was known that densely populated districts that leaned heavily Democratic would vote early and/or by mail. Lawmakers in those states insisted that there could be no counting of votes until election day, thereby setting up nail-biting finishes where President Donald Trump could cast doubts on vote tallies and challenge results in court. Trump has lost challenges in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada. On Thursday late afternoon Trump gave a low-energy press briefing at the White House where he spewed so many lies that most networks simply cut away from carrying it live. He began by saying, “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.” Later, on Twitter, where the social media platform has flagged many of his posts, Trump said out loud what he has planned for weeks: that the Supreme Court should intervene in the election. The campaign lawyers that are petitioning the court apparently have ties to Trump-appoin...