It's Axios Election 2020 special coverage. I'm Naila Boodoo. And here's what we're asking right now.

What is the early narrative that's forming with the election? With me are Axios's White House and

politics editor Margaret Talib in Washington, D.C. And in New York, Jacob Weisberg, co-founder of Pushkin Industries and former

editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. Okay, you guys, I wonder, first, I feel like we should

just acknowledge that the pace of this, things are moving slowly. And with that in mind,

I wonder what you all think is the early narrative that you're seeing here. So the early narrative that

we thought we might see, one of the options was that there would be some kind of decisive blowout

where it would be a repudiation of President Trump, a random on the pandemic, and a decisive answer.

And one thing we know for sure is that is not what's going to happen. That is not where we are at this point.

We are probably not going to have an idea of who is going to win this race when we try to close our eyes for a couple hours and get some sleep.

It may be a matter of days. It could be several days. And it could still be court battles before we know the answer to this question.

Jacob?

Yes. And good morning, Naila.

It's sort of an anti-narrative because it's the live-with-in certainty indefinitely narrative.

And, you know, it's a storyline.

We don't know how it's going.

There are other mini-narratives.

There's the collapse of the polling profession narrative. Polling seems to have been

just radically off, and at the very least, pollsters have a lot of explaining to do, but I think

more plausibly, we're in a condition now where polling isn't working anymore, maybe too soon to say

that.

But I think the master narrative is we're going to have to count votes and we're going to be counting votes and battling about which votes are counted probably for at least a few days and

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