The 2020 political campaign ended Tuesday with no clear winners yet.

46,000 of 202,000 registered Lexington County voters cast absentee ballots as of last week, reported Elections Director Mary Brack.

That’s 17,000 more county ballots than were cast absentee in 2016, although this year anyone registered could vote early.

The latest turnout Monday, the final day for absentee voting, equaled 60% of all votes cast in 2016.

Nearly 1.3 million South Carolinians had voted absentee Monday – more than twice the record for absentee voting set in 2016.

Although returns were not in at press time Tuesday evening, we will post them on our web site Lexington-Chronicle.com. This free site is available to you.

At press time Tuesday, here’s what we knew:

• President Trump and former VP Joe Biden have spent more than $1 billion in just 13 states.

Democrat Biden’s campaign has spent more than $600 million. Republican Trump’s campaign spent more than $400 million.

$882 million is concentrated in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Arizona.

• South Carolina is considered a safe bet for the President, but neighboring Georgia and North Carolina are far less certain.

• 87% of Democrats say they expect Biden to win and 84% of Republicans expect Trump to win.

• Before any election day votes were counted, 95 million US ballots were already cast, 60 million by mail.

This massive turnout could delay the results as states such as Pennsylvania can continue counting votes days after the election.

• In SC, Democrat challenger Jaime Harrison raised $131 million – mostly from big tech, Hollywood and other wealthy donors – compared to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s $78 million, a US Senate race record.

• In Lexington County, many incumbents ran without opposition.

Congressman Joe Wilson of Springdale faced a challenge from Democrat attorney Adair Ford Boroughs.

Senate Minority Leader Nikki Setzler of West Columbia faced a challenge from Chris Smith of Cayce.

Both incumbents were favored to win.

For the latest returns, see LexingtonChronicle.com.