The needle is meant to predict what will happen in elections based on the partial results available as they arrive on election night.
‘Our election night forecast shows an extremely close race. Almost all of the vote counted so far points toward a very close election, as anticipated,’ wrote the paper’s chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, earlier Tuesday.
However, the paper’s Democrat-leaning readership began to bemoan the numbers as it showed Trump as likely to take North Carolina, Georgia and the election.
‘Anyone got a timelapse of the NYT needle from the last election? Because looking at it in its current state has me NERVOUS AS F***,’ wrote one social media user.
Liberals bemoaned the New York Times’ election needle, which is currently predicted a win for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris
Journalist Glenn Greenwald noted at the time that Trump has a 77% chance of taking Georgia, with a 65% chance of winning North Carolina.
Those results would make the ‘blue wall’ midwestern states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan Harris’ only path to the White House.
Liberals have gone into further overdrive from the needle’s very existence.
Another added: ‘Seriously F*** The NY Times needle. It’s just clickbait for hysterical election followers.’
A California-based voter cited a possible ‘red mirage’ stating: ‘This is why I won’t look at the stupid NYT needle. All it does is increase anxiety across-the-board.’
‘Oh for f**k’s sake the NYT election needle is back. NOBODY WANTS THIS,’ posted Rachel Sklar.
‘Advice I gave to comrades abroad: Exit polls are meaningless, they are fake news, ignore them, ignore the stupid NYT needle, no one has ever known anything about the outcome and no one knows anything now.’
The needle was thought was endangered by a strike by technical workers at the newspaper.
The needle was thought was endangered by a strike by technical workers at the newspaper
Despite the concerns, the Needle was working early on election night.
As its name suggests, the Needle is a graphic that uses voting results and other calculations to point toward the likelihood of either presidential candidate winning.
Trump is leading Kamala Harris in Georgia with 75% of the votes there counted.
Donald Trump has 52.1% of the vote compared to Kamala Harris who has 47.3%.
Most counties around liberal-leaning Atlanta have above 70% of their results reported.
However, the areas surrounding Savannah which also tend to be more blue than the state have not reported many votes yet.
As it stands, Trump holds a nearly 200,000 vote lead, 2,103,900 to 1,899,561 in the key battleground state.
The state’s critical 16 electoral votes are seen as necessary in most scenarios for either candidate to secure a victory.
The Harris campaign still feels like there are pathways for her to pick up crucial battleground states Georgia and North Carolina.
In Georgia, rural turnout largely matches what the campaign expected, while the suburban early vote count was above what the Harris camp anticipated.
In North Carolina, there were long lines at two large colleges – UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Wilmington – and late-arriving mail-in ballots were breaking the vice president’s way.
Donald Trump has soared to an all-time high in the betting markets with a 72 per cent chance of winning as the former president takes the lead in the crucial swing state of Georgia.
Trump has picked up victories so far in Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Arkansas.
While Kamala Harris has won Vermont, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Illinois, New Jersey and New York.
