Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

OK, mayyybe this feels like a little bit of an anticlimax if you’re in the news business, in which case the outcome has been clear for perhaps 36 hours now. But it’s not going to feel that way to everyday people, as we’re seeing lots of reports of simultaneous celebrating in New York and other blue cities.

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Trump becomes the 10th president in U.S. history to lose reelection, after John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.

Now that we have a projected result, the questions about whether this was a mandate will be everywhere. Biden started building up this narrative Friday evening. He suggested that “the people spoke … loudly for our ticket,” and he listed the issues that his administration would focus on. This resembled the kinds of mandate claims that Bill Clinton made after winning the 1992 election — he said in his 1993 inaugural that the voters had raised their voices “in an unmistakable chorus.” This is different from Obama’s approach — he tended to speak about the 2008 election as a rejection of Republican ideas.