A DAY LATE, BUT SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS AHEAD: Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline. “Jill Stein has everything she needs to launch a presidential recount. She’s got the cash, the grassroots fervor and the spotlight of an adoring media. But there’s one thing she needs to overturn Trump’s victory: a calendar. Stein missed Pennsylvania’s deadline to file for a voter-initiated recount. That blown deadline is a huge blow for Democrats who have pinned their hopes on recounts in the Keystone State, Michigan and Wisconsin.”

New theory: Stein’s actually working for Trump — or Putin! — to suck lots of Democratic cash into something that will be hugely demoralizing to the grassroots and that will leave the Democrats weakened for the next election cycle.

UPDATE: More support for that theory: NPR Tweet on Costly, ‘Big, Pointless Hole in The Ground’ Turns into Mocking of Stein Recount Efforts.