Hello and welcome to the 530 Politics Podcast. I'm Gailen Druk, and it is 1.20 in the morning on the East Coast, and we're just sitting down to record our late-night reaction edition of the

2020 for election. As we sit down, the Senate was just projected for Republicans. Georgia and

North Carolina were already projected for Trump. As of this very moment, we don't have any projections

in the northern battleground states, but it's looking quite good for Trump

in Pennsylvania. And he may well end up sweeping those northern battleground states. In general,

you may have more information by the time you're listening to this. In fact, you may have a

projection for the presidency overall, but we wanted to sit down now before the night slips away from us so we can get

in your feeds. Whether this is the podcast that you wanted to be listening to this morning or not,

we're going to try to do what we always do on the 538 politics podcast, which is provide

context for what happened, what is happening, and why it all happened, you know,

why it looks like Trump is on path to win the presidency yet again. And here with me to do that

are my trusted colleagues, senior researcher, Mary Radcliffe, welcome to the podcast, Mary.

Good morning, Gaylan. Good morning, Mary. It's good to see you in person.

I know.

We're meeting here for the first time in real life.

Folks may not actually be able to believe this because we have such good chemistry from afar,

but this is actually our first time meeting in person to cover this election together.

It is truly a pleasure.

We are actually all in a

conference room together in New York. Also here with us is Elliot Morris, director of data analytics.

Welcome to the podcast, Elliot. Hey, thanks for having me, Galen. And also here with us is senior

elections analyst Nathaniel Rakeets. Welcome Nathaniel. Hey, Galen, it is great to be here in person

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