<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: A Dispatch From Election Purgatory

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Time froze. States stopped being called.

For days, Joe Biden seemed perma-stuck on the precipice of victory. And the sitting president seemed to know it, delivering extraordinary and baseless claims about election fraud. Fox News faced a choice, and it chose Donald Trump—and his followers—over democracy.

Americans scrolled and scrolled and scrolled, but the answers they sought remained out of reach.

These are the dispatches from this strange election purgatory. This newsletter does not reach your inbox with the closure you seek. But perhaps it can help you make sense of this moment.

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