Bold Predictions for November

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- Joe Biden selects Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate and makes the announcement around mid-July in the battleground state of Arizona.

- During Joe Biden’s DNC acceptance speech, he pledges to make some of his democratic rivals part of a Biden/Harris administration. Stacey Abrams goes on to stay she wants to serve in the administration but makes it clear she wanted to be selected as vice president.

- Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg donates $100 million to the Biden/Harris campaign in September after some polls showing the Trump/Pence ticket with small leads in battleground states.

- On Election Day, the Biden/Harris ticket wins 297 electoral votes whereas the Trump/Pence ticket wins 241 electoral votes, much like the Carter/Mondale win of 1976.

- The Biden/Harris ticket win battleground states AZ, OH, CO, NV, NH, MI, PA. AZ and OH are very narrow wins (around .5%) but MI, CO, NV, NH and PA are surprisingly comfortable wins with more than 5% over the Trump/Pence ticket.

- The Trump/Pence ticket barely wins WI with .5% and they also hold ME D2, FL, GA and NC.

- The Democrats win senate seats in AZ, CO and surprisingly MT, where Gov. Steve Bullock narrowly wins. Sen. Susan Collins of ME and Sen. Tom Tillis of NC barely win re-election. AL Sen. Doug Jones is crushed in his race. The GOP narrowly hold control of the senate.

- The Democrats hold the House of Representatives.

- President Donald Trump refuses to concede to President-elect Joe Biden on Election Night, however, Trump does concede a few days later during a special TV broadcast to the nation. He states he will step down to allow the new president to come in but rants on about how the election was stolen from him and that Joe Biden will be a fake president.

- Late November and throughout December and into January, President-elect Joe Biden announces some cabinet (and other high level) nominees and staff, including Susan Rice as Secretary of State, outgoing Sen. Doug Jones as Attorney General, Sen. Michael Bennet as Secretary of Education, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as Secretary of Defense, former mayor Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Homeland Security, Sylvia Mathews Burwell as Secretary for Health and Human Services, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke as Secretary of the Interior, Stacey Abrams as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Ron Klain as Chief of Staff.

- CA Governor Gavin Newsom announces Congressman Eric Swalwell will replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate. CO Governor Jared Polis appoints CO Lt. Governor Dianne Primavera to the U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Sen. Michael Bennet. NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo appoints Congresswoman Kathleen Rice to fill outgoing Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s seat.