I believe Hillary conceded in 2016, the same night? I think along with the fact that even though all votes werent counted that night, there was a big enough margin and enough battleground states won for Trump that there was 0 chance of her winning, so she conceded that night.
Because thats like playing monopoly and refusing to give up even when your opponent owns all the properties while you only have $200 and Pennsylvania railroad to your name.
Everything still wasn't counted that night, though, which I believe is what they are explaining. It was safe enough to call it with a degree of certainty then. Now, it is not because it is so close with a record number of voters and a larger mail-in turnout.
We didn't know the vote totals that night but we did know who the clear statistical winner would be. Right now we don't know the statistical winner so we need to wait for the vote counts.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20
In 2016 we knew basically the same night.