So everyone. Yes, Biden has won, but not because the AP or any other news outlet said so.
#BREAKING: Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States, according to an AP race call. https://t.co/Ktba34KmMQ pic.twitter.com/hKxFGM7Vch
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) November 7, 2020
He won because he has insurmountable leads in enough states to give him more than 270 electoral votes.
No election will be certified for at least a week or two.Counties and states certify elections, not the media. And those certifications won’t happen until a lengthy series of legally mandated events take place.
It is great to get reliable analysis acknowledging the results of the election from multiple solid news outlets, but their announcements don’t make anything so. It’s the vote that matters.