If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try

to steal the election from us.

I'm Ryan Grimm and this is deconstructed. At the time that we're sending this episode

out to the podcast machines, the presidential election appears all but over. With enough votes

outstanding in Atlanta and Philadelphia to give Biden both Georgia and Pennsylvania, which

is more than he needs to win now that Michigan and Wisconsin have already been called for him.

Trump isn't happy.

Admittingly, this might be how the Trump presidency ends, at least the first one.

But it opens a new era of uncertainty. As of now, Mitch McConnell is well positioned

to hold on to the Senate, though Democrats will still have a chance to snatch it in January

thanks to runoffs in Georgia. Still, the pollsters and the polling aggregators expected

they'd already be in control of the upper chamber and also predicted Democrats would pick

up a bunch of seats in the House of Representatives. Instead, they're on track to lose seats.

On Thursday, Nancy Pelosi huddled with her Democratic colleagues on a three-hour conference

call that steadily leaked to the press while it was still going on. Centris attacked

both the party leadership for the failure and also the leftist members of the caucus,

saying that their calls to defund the police and ban fracking cost them big time. The squad

pushed back, saying that they're only representing the demands of their communities, and

had a deeper look at what went wrong as needed.

Coming into this election, I had the disorienting feeling of having no idea how it would turn out.

Now, that's not to say that I'm always right or I always know how things will go, quite

the opposite. But I always have some idea of what I think is going to happen, and I have

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