President Donald Trump held Florida and Ohio, which quickly reported their mail-in results on election night. "If they would've just given us 48 hours to open envelopes and stack absentee ballots, we would've delivered a result on election night -- easy," Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. The networks projected both states for Trump on election night. Projecting a winnerNearly 57 million Americans watched the results pouring in on election night, according to Nielsen ratings, and there was record-breaking engagement on many news websites. The truth was that many of those Biden votes were among the earliest to have been cast, yet were among the last to get counted.

Source: CNN November 14, 2020 17:03 UTC