One question will be asked over and over on election night: Who won? The Associated Press will answer that question for nearly 5,000 contested races across the United States and up and down the ...
Discover how AP calls races on election night and the detailed process we follow to say with certainty who has won an election. In the 2020 U.S. general election, AP declared winners in more ...
Interestingly enough, most outlets will wait for AP to call the election before they run their own stories. But why is that? Here is a quick explanation of why the AP calls races for most media ...
No federal agency or election commission provides updates to the public in the meantime about what's happening with their votes. “That's a gap in the Constitution left by the founders that AP ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election night in the United States is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, except that only one piece appears at a time, and you don’t get to look at the picture on the box. As ...