Well, we'll see about that. If Trump loses, no matter by how much, he'll likely claim he won, make up some bullshit about voter fraud and gum up the system with legal challenges like he did in 2020. And if I recall correctly, they didn't officially say Biden won until the Saturday after the election due to the large number of mail in votes.
Yeah. We might know by the end of next week, but we might not.
The GOP has done a
lot of work to make it impossible to count votes quickly, since they intend to use that to complain how the vote is being stolen.
So even in a "there is a clear and obvious winner by the vote count" situation, it probably will be several days.
If it is at all close, the GOP will extend it as long as possible with legal challenges, outright non-certification shenanigans, and so on.
(I'm not particularly expecting violence, but that's obviously on the table if they think it would help them.)