Writing by Ben Terris

Jill Stein declared victory at around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, well before much of the country had finished counting ballots for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

“It feels to me like we have won,” Stein, the Green Party’s nominee for president, told a room of supporters seated for dinner beneath crystal chandeliers at an intimate and thoroughly strange election night party in a state where, after much ado about spoilers, Stein’s share of the vote appeared to be inconsequential as of Wednesday morning.

It was a watch party, only people weren’t watching the election. This brightly lit banquet hall was a black box of information. There were no televisions broadcasting the returns. The speakers offered no news updates. And why would they?

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