After a long summer filled with social distancing, civil protests, fanless baseball and acrimonious political attacks, we finally arrive at the moment of national choosing. Polls will open in the Election of 2020 in less than 48 hours as both sides appear confident in the outcome. Although final polling shows Biden maintaining a steady 5% national lead, the swing states that will decide the election remain difficult to determine.

After an excruciating campaign season, the 2020 Election gets underway today. The monumental election is likely to play out as a referendum on the controversies and capabilities of the 45th President. In the polarized nation, nearly half of the country has been counting the days until the end of Trump’s presidency; the other half hope it never ends. The country is politically, economically and emotionally strained as the polls open.

AP is reporting Joseph R. Biden Jr. will become the 46th President of the United States after his home state of Pennsylvania has made him the oldest ever President-elect. Kamala Harris will be the first female executive, shattering a glass ceiling that remained in place for far too long.

Late last night, results from the three remaining undecided states were submitted. President-elect Biden took Wisconsin, Georgia and Florida by razor thin margins winning the Electoral College by a score of 334-204 and 52% of the popular vote. When President Trump tweeted at 3:00am that he would be addressing the nation at noon, America expected a concession. That did not happen.

Sizable demonstrations have erupted in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay after the Wisconsin state Supreme Court overturned the Badger state’s Presidential election results. The recounts in Florida and Georgia are a swamp of lawsuits and grinding litigation. And the Supreme Court is poised to intervene in Pennsylvania.

Long serving liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was rushed to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and is suffering from medical complications from a possible stroke. Reports are suggesting that the 89-year-old Ginsburg is unlikely to return to the bench. Ginsburg’s incapacitation comes on the heels of Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the Supreme Court will reluctantly hear President Trump’s case regarding the recount in Pennsylvania.

Earlier this week, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral added yet another layer of darkness to the shadow hanging over the nation. The longest serving female justice succumbed to her medical complications and was laid to rest in a dignified procession that saw an outpouring of support from politicians, academics and the American people at large. Unfortunately, the unity in mourning was brief and fleeting. Against a cacophony of protests from the Democrats, President Trump moved with voracity to announce the nomination of DC Circuit Judge Neomi Rao to the Supreme Court.

Senate Republicans are using the fleeting hours of their lame duck authority and to go against the will of the people to attempt to appoint hardline conservative Neomi Rao to the Supreme Court. If partisanship prevails, there is no recourse for the Democrats to prevent Rao’s expedited ascension to the Supreme Court for the purpose of adjudicating Trump’s election case.

The country is in a state of apoplexy as Donald Trump has declared an extension of his presidency through 2022 by Executive Order. In true dystopian fashion, Trump took to the airwaves to announce his decision to effectively nullify the 2020 Presidential Election. In a terrifying realization of past warnings, Trump said it would be impossible to determine the legitimate outcome of the election due to “extensive mail-in fraud committed by the [indiscernible] and deranged Democrats”. Joe Biden, from an undisclosed location, made it clear he will be taking the oath of office and moving into the White House on January 20th despite Trump’s assertion of extended authority.