The rule for declaring a winner is simple: “We call the race when there is no way that the trailing candidate can catch up,” ...

In 2020, news outlets declared Joe Biden the winner over Trump on Saturday after election day. The AP expects to make calls this year in 6,832 individual races, from the president down to local ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press will have thousands of people on hand this week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press will have thousands of people on hand this week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848.