[355] Biden’s Path to Victory in Real-Time: 03-07 November 2020

Completion Date: 21 October 2020
Medium: Paint & ink on acid-free mount-board
Dimensions: 30 x 40 inches

I recorded the main news headlines in real-time from 05h00 Pacific Time on 03 November 2020 until 08h24 on 07 November 2020.

All components are painted on acid-free mount-board, and then glued onto acid-free mount-board. Two coats of matte acrylic varnish are then applied.

* 03 Nov 2020 *

05h00
Polls open in America

16h15
Looks like highest turnout in a century

16h36
Biden wins Vermont. Trump wins Kentucky & W-Virginia

16:38
Florida’s early numbers are in and the results are mixed

17h02
Biden wins Rhode Island, NJ, Delaware

17h05
Trump wins Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi

17h06
Biden wins Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois & Massachusetts

17h25
Mitch McConnell wins a seventh Senate term

17h43
Tight battle in Florida

18h01
Trump wins Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, N-dakota

18h02
Biden wins New Mexico & NY

18h04
Trump wins S-Dakota, Wyoming & Nebraska

18h37
Twitter begins labelling premature calls

18h39
Biden wins DC & Colorado

19h00
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s win in Georgia brings QAnon into Congress and the G.O.P.

19h11
No Big Prizes Awarded Yet

20h03
Biden wins California, Oregon & Washington State

20h04
Trump wins Kansas , Missouri, Idaho

20h15
Lindsay Graham hangs onto S-Carolina seat

21h11
Biden wins New Hampshire, Hawaii

21h23
Trump wins Ohio, Montana, Iowa

21h38
Trump wins Florida

21h49
Trump tweets “We are up BIG”

22h03
Biden wins Minnesota

22h32
Trump wins Texas

22h39
Nail-biter election is down to the wire

22h40
Trump & Biden both predict win

22h42
Twitter & FB label posts from Trump, but only Twitter moves to limit their spread

23h30
Trump falsely asserts that he has won

* 04 Nov *

00h51
Biden wins Maine

05h53
‘The Squad’ all win re-election.

08h54
Nation braces for a long wait

11h36
Biden wins Wisconsin

13h14
Democrats hoped for big gains in Iowa – bruising losses instead.

14h13
Biden flips Michigan, closing in on 270

15h44
Twitter flags Trump tweets prematurely claiming victory

17h18
Awkward silence abroad as the US presidential election remains in limbo

18h00
Trump campaign files lawsuit to stop vote counting in Georgia

* 05 Nov *

08h15
Still too close to call

10h08
US reports the most single day cases since pandemic’s start

10h46
Trump’s 1st Georgia lawsuit dismissed

11h23
Trump files multiple lawsuits

17h55
Trump: “If you count the legal votes, I easily win”

18h12
Fox News meets Trump’s fraud claims with skepticism

18h14
Biden urges patience; Trump lies about count

* 06 Nov *

01h58
Biden takes the lead in Georgia

03h22
The race tightens and tightens and tightens

08h45
Biden leads in Pennsylvania; Win there would be decisive

10h25
Excruciating – still too close to call

* 07 Nov *

08h24
Biden wins