With no major news outlets having declare a winner yet, I almost wonder if they've been asked not to for national security reasons. It's very clearly over and has been for a while, but the only news organization I've heard to have declared a winner is vox, and I wouldn't really call them major, or large enough to be of concern.
There has been violence, threats of it, poll workers going into hiding. And this is before the election has even been called, once it's called, that could ignite more of it.
Sometimes the news media gets information and is asked not to report it for security reasons, and typically speaking the media respects those requests. I wonder if one of the national security organizations requested that the major news organizations refrain from declaring a winner, in the interest of keeping the violence down.
This is clearly over, and has been for some time. But without declaring a winner, it's gives the proper authorities time to investigate and anticipate potential threats to be prepared for when they do make a declaration. It also creates the potential for some of these extremists to exhaust themselves trying to stop the election from being called, rather than just exploding over the fact that Trump most definitely lost.
I mean, we'll probably never know either way, but it's something I wonder about.
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Originally Posted by eskimo
