Time - USA (2020-11-16)

14 Time November 16, 2020

‘Our

fellow

citizens

are not our

enemies.’

MITCH MCCONNELL,

Senate majority leader, on

Nov. 3, declaring victory over

challenger Amy McGrath to

win a seventh term

‘Today, we take this fight for

Black Lives from the streets

of Ferguson to the halls of

Congress. We will get justice.’

CORI BUSH,

who is set to be the first Black woman to represent

Missouri in Congress, on Nov. 3; Bush defeated incumbent

William Lacy Clay Jr. in an August Democratic primary

‘I AM

VOTING

FOR THE

FIRST TIME

IN MY LIFE

FOR THE

PRESIDENT

OF THE

UNITED

STAT E S ,

AND

IT’S FOR

SOMEONE

I TRULY

TRUST ...

M E .’

KANYE WEST,

musician and independent

2020 candidate, on Nov. 3;

across 12 states, West

received about 60,000 votes

‘IT’S NOT

THE SUPER

BOWL.

NOBODY’S

GOING TO

HOIST A

TROPHY ON

ELECTION

NIGHT.’

MARYBETH KUZNIK,

the sole election official of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania,

in a pre-election interview with the New York Times, on

counting votes in the hours after polls close on Nov. 3

‘Our

sisterhood

is resilient.’

ILHAN OMAR,

Minnesota Congresswoman,

on Nov. 3. All four progressive

Democrats known as

the Squad were projected to

win re-election

$

BILLION

Approximate total spending

for the 2020 election, a

new record, according

to estimates from the

nonpartisan Center for

Responsive Politics; adjusted

for inflation, the 2016 race

cost $7 billion

22

Number of presidential

elections in which

Ruth Graham Ray of

Jacksonville, Fla., has voted;

Ray celebrated her 108th

birthday by casting an early

ballot on Oct. 

65.2 MILLION

Number of mail-in ballots received as of Nov. 3; in total, more

than 101 million people voted early in the 2020 general

election—equivalent to 73% of the total turnout in 2016

FOR THE RECORD

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: AP, CNBC, WTLV, U.S. ELECTIONS PROJECT