On Wednesday morning, November 4, 2020, as the presidential election results hung in the balance, Brian Sims, who was significantly leading in his race for a fifth term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, tweeted out a missive aimed at calming those distraught over the vision of a scarlet red Pennsylvania.“MORNING COUNTS,” he wrote. “We called it a Red Mirage because we knew the lack of mail-in ballot counts would make Election Day skew to the Right.
Now votes are getting counted & Pennsylvania, Michigan & Wisconsin, are coming into focus. #Biden will keep pulling ahead today. #CountEveryVote”Sure enough, hours later, the state slowly appeared to be trending blue as mail-in votes were, one by one, counted.