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

Something you’d mentioned earlier, Julia, was whether Biden’s appeals to bipartisanship or red states and blue states would ring hollow. It’s hard to tell in the moment here, of course, but it is something I wonder about. Is someone who voted for Trump even watching this? Can politics go back to “normal’? I’m not so sure.

Right, Micah, and I think there’s a good chance that the economy will be in even worse shape by January, when Biden takes office, unless a stimulus bill somehow passes by then. But on the other hand, Biden does have a number of fairly obvious moves he can make via executive action, which he can do as soon as he becomes president — reinstating DACA, for example.

I think Biden is defining his mandate here, and I’m impressed he included rooting out systemic racism in his mandate. That’s a strong move for him.