Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Every four years on the second Wednesday of November Americans wake up with a new president

elect, except in times when things aren't clear. We are in those times. We talk about

what to look out for as vote counting continues, examine how the economist's election model

has performed so far and check in with our correspondence in America to see how their

evenings went.

After a long slog of an election campaign, the results are still coming in.

Your patience is commendable. We knew this was going to go wrong.

Winning is easy. Losing is never easy. Not for me, it's not.

There was always the chance that America's election night would end without a clear winner,

that the tallies in a few key states would swing it with those votes still to be counted.

Voter turnout, both in person and by mail, has increased massively. The sunstates haven't

even begun to count postal votes yet. That could take days.

Both candidates addressed their supporters with Joe Biden making it clear the fight was

far from over.

We knew because of the unprecedented early vote in the mail and vote that was going to take

a while.

President Donald Trump did what many had predicted, hinting that he believed he'd already won.

But he went further, suggesting that the vote should be halted.

This is a major fraud in our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So

we'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We will win this.

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