For almost 50 years in public meetings and during the president's lifetime, John Biden took over the White House.
This campaign was not what anyone had predicted. It coincided with a century of epidemics and unprecedented social unrest. He was running against an unconventional, precedent-ignorer. But in his third attempt at the presidency, Biden and his team found a way to explore the political impasse and claim a landslide victory in the election college rally, ahead of Trump's total national millions of votes. Expect a holiday.
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Why Donald Trump lost
Here are five reasons why the son of a Delaware car salesman eventually won the presidency.
1. Covid, covid, covid
Perhaps the biggest reason Biden won the presidency was out of his control.
Coronavirus epidemics, as well as claiming the lives of more than 230,000 people, changed American life and politics in 2020. And in the final days of the general election campaign, Donald Trump himself admitted this.
"With fake news, everything is covid, covid, covid, covid," the president said at a rally in Wisconsin last week, where cases have increased in recent times.
The media's attention to Kovid was a reflection, rather than a driver, of the people's concern about the epidemic - which turned into an unfavorable vote for the president to handle the crisis. A poll conducted by Pew Research last month, suggesting that Biden convinced Trump that he would have a covid eruption, gave him a 17 percentage point lead.
The epidemic and subsequent economic downturn shattered Trump's message of his priority campaign of growth and prosperity. It also highlighted the concerns of many Americans about their president, his inconsistency of focus, his questioning of science, his haphazard management of policies large and small, and his partisan priorities. The epidemic was the main weight on Trump’s approval ratings, which, according to Gallup, dropped to 38% at one point in the summer - which was exploited by the Biden campaign.
2. Low-key campaign
Throughout his political career, Biden made good money to get himself into trouble. His campaign for Gaffs derailed his first presidential campaign in 1987, and helped ensure he never had a shot when he ran again in 2007.
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In the third attempt for the Oval Office fee, Biden had his share of verbal stumbling blocks, but they were so short-lived that they never became more than a short-term issue.
Part of the explanation, of course, is that the President himself was a relentless source of news. Another factor was that there were big stories - the coronavirus epidemic, protests after George Floyd's death, and economic disruption - dominating national attention.
But at least a little credit should be given to a joint strategy to limit their candidate's contact, to limit their candidate's contact, to keep a measured pace in the campaign, and to reduce the likelihood that fatigue or negligence could cause trouble.
Perhaps in the general election, when most Americans were not worried about limiting their exposure to the virus, this strategy would have backfired. Maybe then Trump's troublemaker "Hidden 'Biden" would have taken over.
Stay out of the way in this campaign and let Trump, whose mouth betrayed him - and, in the end, pay it off.
3. Anyone except Trump
One week before election day, Biden's campaign unveiled his final television commercial with a message similar to the one given in his campaign kick-in last year, and his nomination acceptance speech at the nomination gust.
He said the election was a "battle for the soul of America" and an opportunity for the nation to portray it as the past four years of chaos and chaos.
Below that formula, however, was a simple calculation. Biden argued over his political fortunes that Trump was too polar and too irritating, and that what the American people wanted was a calm, stable leadership.
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