We almost certainly won't know the results on election night itself. It's important to get things right. The baby-brain in the White House with the attention span of a gnat throwing a little fit about it doesn't change how this works.

Could be a day. Or a week. Or more?

Read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/2020-election-results-delay.html

Trump crossed the 270 electoral vote threshold at 3:04am the next day in 2016: https://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/ElectionNight2016/pe2016elecnighttime.php

2012: 11:14pm ET on election night https://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/ElectionNight2012/pe2012elecnighttime.php

2008: 11pm https://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/ElectionNight2008/pe2008elecnighttime.php

2004: 11:30am the next day https://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/ElectionNight2004/pe2004elecnighttime.php

2000: more than a month later! https://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ARTICLES/pe2000timeline.php

Anyway, you get the idea, right? It's actually kind of rare for an election to actually be called *on* election night. Sure, we might have a pretty good idea where things are headed, but GTFOH with this "we MUST know on election night" bullshit

And anyone pushing it, whether it's the president or a right-wing media toady list Byron York, is just doing it for opportunistic reasons.