What about all the people who voted early?
Every election the mainstream media does this. They declare a winner before the in-person election day polls are even closed. People are still voting, and the ballots cast before election day haven't even been processed yet, but they're going to tell us who the winner is. Remember 2020. They declared Trump the winner that year, too. Then the ballots actually got counted. Is this a new thing? Has the media gotten it wrong before?