It’s accompanied by a “blue shift,” where the count sways toward Democrats as provisional, absentee and mail-in ballots are tallied in the following days. The trend notably occurred in 2020 ...

and then the blue shift when those ballots are introduced to add to the totals. That could be in the middle of the night. It ...

What’s more, typical voting patterns between Democratic and Republican voters can mean that trends shift throughout election day. That phenomenon is referred to as the red mirage and the blue ...