AP: TOMMY TUBERVILLE WINS U.S. ALABAMA SENATE RACE.

Related: “Fox News: 90% chance Republicans hold the Senate.”

THE PJ MEDIA ELECTION DAY LIVE BLOG HAS BEGUN: All day and all of the night — if necessary.

This one is a group effort, but speaking just for myself there will be cocktails.

FROM THE LIVEBLOG:

LINDSEY GRAHAM FENDS OFF CHALLENGE TO RETAIN SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE SEAT. “The powerful, three-term incumbent unofficially held off Jaime Harrison, who broke congressional fund-raising records by hauling in $57 million during the final quarter of his hotly contested race against Graham.”

HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS: From a very informed source, not affiliated with either party–Trump wins Ohio, election comes down to Pennsylvania and Arizona.

ARCHITECT OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ “1619 PROJECT” UNHAPPY WITH RESULTS OF FIDEL CASTRO’S 1959 PROJECT:

UPDATE: “‘We must have gotten obliterated by Hispanics…. defund the police killed us,’ says top Miami Dem, citing a BLM backlash. Waving Che Guevara flags, even though it was by just a few, gets lots of attention in a community that sees him as a symbol of totalitarian butchery,” Marc Caputo of Politico tweets.

(Updated and bumped.)

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Che Guevara is a symbol of totalitarian butchery, because he was a totalitarian butcher.

WELL: Police Say Biden Staffer Vehicle May Have Been at Fault in Texas Trump Truck Incident.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Trump is leading the popular vote. I know the Dems will respect that.”

TO BE FAIR, THIS IS THE UNIFIED MESSAGE OF NEARLY EVERY MEDIA OUTLET:

SPACE: What does the 2020 presidential election mean for space exploration? I have hopes that a Biden Administration space policy would be pretty similar to what we’ve seen under Trump and Obama, where there has been more of a continuous policy arc than you’d expect. But who knows?

I EAGERLY AWAIT PAUL KRUGMAN’S STERN CONDEMNATION OF TREVOR NOAH’S ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC:

AP PROJECTS NEW YORK TIMES OWNER TOM COTTON (R-AR) WINS REELECTION.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “I haven’t watched cable news since election night 2016. My god, these commercials are terrible.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. John Ellis in the WSJ: Woke Universities Lead America to a Primitive State: Higher education now stands for mob rule, civic ignorance and contempt for truth and free inquiry.

NATE COHN CALLS FLORIDA FOR TRUMP and gives DJT an 85% chance of winning Georgia based on current data. So it looks like it’s going to be a lot tighter than the pundits were generally predicting. However, from what I can tell early results from the Midwest are not looking that promising for the Republicans.

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WHAT COULD GO WRONG? CDC: Sure, You Can Go Vote Today if You Have COVID-19.

COCAINE MITCH PLAYS FOR KEEPS: Sen. Mitch McConnell To Win Seventh Senate Term, NBC’s Kentucky Affiliate Projects.

Opponent Amy McGrath’s war chest was “over $84 million, nearly $30 million more than McConnell’s $53.6 million” in “The Most Expensive Race in Kentucky History.”

BILL WHITTLE: No matter what happens, there will always be an America. ALWAYS.

OPEN THREAD: Starting it early tonight.

IN RETROSPECT, TRUMP PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE STOPPED FLIGHTS FROM EUROPE AT THE SAME TIME HE STOPPED FLIGHTS FROM CHINA: Europe was central in the global spread of the coronavirus, says new research. But of course, once China allowed international flights to continue out of Wuhan, global spread was baked-in.

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SHENANIGANS: Poll Watcher Denied Entry Into Philadelphia Polling Station: Trump Campaign.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK:

The uniforms around him should have network logos.

GRAY LADY GETS COCKY; DELETES TWEET:

Related: “If news organizations declare Joe Biden the mathematical president-elect, he plans to address the nation as its new leader, even if President Trump continues to fight in court, advisers tell Axios.”

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