1. Make no mistake. A very impressive win on multiple levels. Defeating a sitting president is very, very hard in American system, especially if that president's party has only served 1 term. Only Carter defeat in 1980 in the last century is comparable. https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/1327333875190738945 …
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3. Votes aren't all counted but when they are, it looks like Biden will have won by about 7 million votes & nearly 5%. Biden's vote share will be larger than Reagan in 1980. The scale of the rejection of Trump is massive (moreso than embrace of Dems).
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4. On a party level, regaining the former Blue wall while expanding the sunbelt gives the Dems some breathing space to navigating demographic shifts of next decade or more.
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5. One other way Biden's victory impressive. Only precedent is Carter. Carter in 1980 hurt by internal divisions (Kennedy's strong primary challenge) and 3rd party vote (Anderson). Also Fed Reserve's brutal rate hikes. In 2020 Fed Reserve's easy money helped Trump.
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This makes it more clear why the move to unseat W in 2004 was so difficult.
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Also, at the risk of parroting Yglesias, it makes you look at John Kerry in a bit of a different light.
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One suspects that Carter will be remembered more favorably than Trump by history.
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There's really only one way to read the results of the 2020 election: a complete, utter rejection of Donald Trump.
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Also, significant 3rd party interference in the case of both Bush & Carter.
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